We all need help sometimes. My car has been in the shop more than two weeks, so my family of five, including two teenagers, had to get along with one vehicle. We were managing, but it was challenging. Over the weekend, a friend insisted that we borrow her car. Her family had a truck and a van they could use and she wouldn’t take no for an answer. So for the last couple of days, I’ve been driving a red…
The other day, I was driving my wife’s van (my car’s in the shop but that’s another story) when an indicator light on the dash told me that a brake light was out. A day or two later I went to an auto parts store and got a replacement lamp. How hard can it be to change a brake light, I thought to myself. Wrong. When I finally got a chance to make the change, it was a freezing cold…
I recently bought a car. My old car got totaled in a wreck several weeks back. The car I bought is a smooth riding Oldsmobile Aurora. It’s got a number of bells and whistles my old car didn’t have. Among them is a gadget on the dashboard called an information center. The information center tells me all kinds of things about the car, including how much oil life is left and how the battery is doing. The thing that intrigues…
Recently, I did something I haven’t done it years – I shaved my entire face. Since then, nearly everyone who sees the “new” me, asks me why. I can explain in one quick sentence: I was tired of looking old. You the hair on the top of my head remains mostly black. My moustache and beard, however, were gray. I once had a friend who hadn’t seen me in a while ask me if I was coloring my hair. I…
I recently heard an excellent presentation about making the most of our talents. It included this old proverb: “If you want to know what you’re doing in the future, tell me what you’re doing right now.” As I thought about it, the wisdom of the statement stuck with me. So often we go through life hoping things will get better. But if we want our lives to change for the better, we have to change for the better. I’ve also…
The other day, I was listening to a college football game while I was driving home. One of the announcers pointed out that the statistics were pretty even, but one team was winning because its players had made athletic plays at the right times. It occurred to me that the same idea applies to business in general and network marketing in particular. Many people work hard at MLM, but never seem to get ahead. They’re as busy as people who…
Persistence is vital to success. In network marketing, once we’ve found a system that works, we only have to keep doing the right things until success is ours. It’s a great moment when we realize that our goals are achievable. That they’re not in some far-off never, never land. If we persist, one day we’ll realize that we’re growing, and we’ll sense that success is within reach. In his classic book, “Think and Grow Rich,” Napoleon Hill says, “Sometimes it…
Every once in a while you run across someone who says they have the secret to success. The person may very well have something that will help you succeed, but in truth there is no one secret. There’s not a single thing that by itself will automatically grant you instant success. Instead there are many reasons for success. Here’s a few. • Do what you love. One of the most best things you can do for yourself and for your…
I’ve written a couple of posts about my recent trip to Belize. I’ve talked about running through the rainforest and swimming with the stingrays. I thought you might like to see some of the images from the trip so I uploaded them to flickr. You can see them by clicking here. Enjoy. Steve DeVane
When I was in college, I used to get really anxious before a test. Sometimes just as the professor was handing out the exams, this terrible thought would pop into my head — “What if I studied the wrong material?” Fortunately, that never happened. And despite my anxiety, I usually did pretty well on tests. Unfortunately, many people in network marketing make the mistake I feared — they study the wrong thing. They get into network marketing with the plan…