Have this ever happened to you: you’re talking to someone, perhaps sharing a matter of deep concern, when you notice they have a far-off look in their eye. When you finish talking the person responds with an odd-sounding anecdote that doesn’t make sense until you realize a slight connection with something you said very early in your remarks. Or worse yet, have you ever been listening to someone when they say something that causes your mind to immediately think of…
Have you ever thought about why you’re in network marketing? What is it that most keeps you going toward your goal? I’ve been giving that a lot of thought recently. I’ve been trying to strip away all the peripheral reasons to get to my core desires. All this has forced me to ask myself a lot of question. Some of them were tough questions. Some were downright scary. For example, I’ve thought about what I want to be said at…
Recently I’ve been giving a lot of thought to my story. After a while, it occurred to me that I was thinking almost entirely about my past. I decided that it would be better to look instead at the future. I’ve thought about what my “future story” will be. For me, it turned out that my future story is strongly influenced by my successes and failures in the past. My aim is to emphasize the strengths and downplay the weaknesses….
To achieve what you want in network marketing, you must be a leader. To be a leader, you must have followers. For you to lead, somebody has to follow you. For someone to follow you, they must see you as a leader. Others have to picture you as the person who can lead them out of the morass they are in. And why would anyone follow YOU, you ask? That’s easy. They follow you because you believe in something. You…
In my MLM career, I’ve worked with some folks who I thought were great networkers. I’ve been trained by some who I considered to be the best in the business. I’d go to their seminars with this thought in mind, “Please just tell me what to do, and I’ll do it.” They’d tell me what to do. I’d do it. It didn’t work. They were great ideas. At least they sounded like great ideas. But they didn’t work. I’d listen…
Do you remember when you first saw the potential of network marketing, when you realized the possibilities of MLM? I can. I remember thinking to myself, “This really evens the playing field.” I could see that the old adage that “you have to have money to make money,” was no longer valid. You remember, too, don’t you? All of a sudden you thought about providing everything your family never had. You reclaimed those early dreams of spending more time with…
I just listened to a a great training call featuring one of my friends and mentors, Richard Dennis. He focused on the power of making decisions. Richard pointed out that the speed of your action determines your success. It’s not whether you’re right or wrong. It’s whether or not you act. The call reminded me of something Napoleon Hill said in his book, “Think and Grow Rich.” Hill analyzed several hundred millionaires. He found that everyone of them had the…
Over the years, I’ve been to dozens and dozens of MLM training seminars or workshops. Each time, I’d go hoping that it would be the time I would learn the secret that would propel me to success. Numerous times, I left the meeting thinking that I’d found the answer. Usually it was some sales method or closing technique. Often I’d say to myself, “This has got to work. All I have to do is what they told me to do.”…
I’ve been involved in multi-level marketing (MLM) for more than 15 years. I’ve been in five companies. A couple of the companies aren’t around anymore, but I’m still here. On several occasions I was what I like to call “quasi-successful.” That basically means I built downlines, but they pretty much only existed on paper. I couldn’t get anyone to do what I was doing. I was doing what I was trained to do, but it wasn’t working for me. I…
Desire is an important part of getting what you want in life and in business. In multi-level marketing, it’s even more important. In “Think and Grow Rich,” Napoleon Hill talks about the importance of knowing what you want. This desire needs to be definite. You must seek out the specifics of the great desire that is within you. Search deep within your soul for those deep core desires. No one can discover those desires for you. Only you know the…