Get ready … get set … Go…Oh…No wait.

You just signed up a few new distributors. They are excited and ready to GO…..Well, Almost.Is that the mantra of your struggling distributors?

Here are a few quick ways to change this:

1. Get them hot, local leads so they have to talk to someone right away.

2. Ask them when they are going to talk to someone and start building their business. Or are they just too busy helping their boss build a big house for his retirement?

3. Build their confidence with an inspirational CD.

4. Reduce their fear of rejection by teaching them the proper rejection-free scripts for approaching prospects.

5. Reduce their fear of rejection by positioning them as messengers of hope, and remind them that they should only talk to the prospects that volunteer and want more hope in their life.

6. Motivate their spouse.

7. Create a vision by using one of the “Big Al” skills.

8. Work with your new distributor to jointly set the first few appointments.

These are just a few ways to jumpstart your new distributor into action.

If we don’t intervene, many distributors have such low self-esteem and confidence that they become professional “javelin catchers.”

One of our jobs as a leader is to develop a new distributor to the point where he can lead himself.

It takes a team to become successful and your team members are your jewels. Treasure them.

 

What is keeping our dreams from coming true

Most of us never see our  dreams come true. Instead of soaring through the clouds, our dreams languish  like a broken-down airplane confined to its hangar. A great leader in our time John Maxwell share his thoughts.  Through life, I have come  to identify five common reasons why dreams don’t take flight.

1. We Have  Been Discouraged from Dreaming by Others
We have to pilot our own  dreams; we cannot entrust them to anyone else. People who aren’t following  their own dreams resent us pursuing ours. Such people feel inadequate when we  succeed, so they try to pull us down.

If we listen to others, then we allow our dreams to fall in the hands of dream killer.  At some point, other people  will place limitations on us by doubting our abilities. When surrounded by the  turbulence of criticism, we have to grasp the controls tightly to keep from  being knocked off course.

2. We Are  Hindered by Past Disappointments and Hurts                                                                                                                                                         Many of us  live with the memory of failure embedded in our psyche. Perhaps a business we  started went broke, or we were fired from a position of leadership.  Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality, and all  of us have encountered that gap. Failure is a necessary and natural part of  life, but if we’re going to attain our dreams, then we have to  summon the courage to deal with past hurts.

3. We Fall  into the Habit of Settling for Average
Average is the norm for a  reason. Being exceptional demands extra effort, sustained inspiration, and  uncommon discipline. When we attempt to give flight to our dreams, we have to  overcome the weight of opposition. Like gravity, life’s circumstances  constantly pull on our dreams, tugging us down to mediocrity.

Most of us don’t pay the  price to overcome the opposition to our dreams. We may start out inspired, but  through time we fatigue. Although never intending to abandon our dreams, we  begin to make concessions here and there. Through time, our lives become  mundane, and our dreams slip away.

4. We Lack  the Confidence Needed to Pursue Our Dreams
Dreams are fragile. They  will be buffeted by assaults from all sides. As such, they must be supplied  with the extra strength of self-confidence.

5. We Lack the  Imagination to Dream
For thousands of years,  mankind traveled along the ground: by foot, by horse-and-buggy, by locomotive,  and eventually by automobile. Thanks to the dreams of Orville and Wilbur  Wright, we now hop across oceans in a matter of hours. The imaginative brothers  overcame ridicule and doubt to pioneer human flight, and the world has never  been the same.

Many of us play small  because we do not allow ourselves to dream. We trap ourselves in reality and  never dare to go beyond what we can see with our eyes. Imagination lifts us  beyond average by giving us a vision of life that surpasses what we are  experiencing currently. Dreams infuse our spirit with energy and spur us on to  greatness.

 

Thoughts are things

In the thought world, a thought (the cause) creates a feeling (the effect). Feelings can eventually materialize in the physical world because they create actions or behavior. These actions cause results or outcomes, and thus our life goes.

When we say a person “looks worried,” what has taken place? A negative thought of some kind (the cause) triggered a feeling of worry (the effect) that materialized in the physical world through the person’s facial actions. Those feelings may also materialize in other ways. For instance, by increased blood pressure or nausea. All of these “effects” originated from the original cause, which was a thought.

Dr. Wayne Dyer writes that “all of our behavior results from the thoughts that preceded it… so the thing to work on is not your behavior but the thing that caused your behavior, your thoughts.”

That was so liberating to me because I was so frustrated in trying to change the behaviors that I knew were causing the pain in my life. But I had been working on the wrong thing.

We cannot change anything in our life without first changing the originating cause. And everything in our life originates in our thoughts.

As Jim Rohn says: “If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labor, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make. But while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause.”

And that’s worth thinking about.

Thoughts are things! Think it, Feel it, Desire it, Work it, Do whatever it takes to get it, then eventually, Hold it. Amazing!

 

The best secret in the last 20 years.

When Tom speaks people listen. Here is his secret.

In 1997, my friend was frustrated! No one wanted to come to opportunity meetings, no one wanted to give him an appointment for a presentation. His business wasn’t growing and his distributors were having the same problem.

The prospects all said, “We are too busy!”

Sound familiar?

So my friend and I decided to fix this problem. We set out to create a presentation that would last only one minute. Then, no one could tell us that they were too busy to listen.

We gave hundreds of one-minute presentations. And no one joined. 

After a few months, we discovered the secret. Prospects only needed the answers to three basic questions, and then they could make an immediate decision. Our problem was that we were not answering those three questions clearly.

Once we started answering those three basic questions clearly, almost everyone joined.

And it took about one minute.

You can do this for your business too. And everything will change in your business.

1. Your prospects will be excited that they can get the whole story in one minute.

2. You will have more time, since your presentation is only one minute.

3. Prospects join because they believe they can do the business also . . . in just one minute.

It’s magic. It’s rejection-free. It’s empowering. And it will make your business so enjoyable.

 

The Universe is working for you not against you

The universe isn’t trying to keep you down.  But it does send you messages and give you lessons.

And when you don’t learn the lesson, the universe sends it to you again.  And again.

So you can doubt and fight against this.  Or understand and accept it, and use it to your own growth and development.

You have problems getting people to accept your invitations?  That means you need better inviting skills or need to work on your passion, intensity and urgency.

Do you get people coming to your presentations, but they are not signing up?  That means your presentation isn’t powerful enough or you’re not following up effectively afterward.  Or that you’re making it about you instead of them.

Do you have a lot of people dropping out or going to other opportunities?  Perhaps you’re not supporting them enough, or haven’t created a team atmosphere. After all, Network Marketing is all about building a team.

There is no accident or by chance.  Things happen because of causes.  So when the University of the Universe is sending you a lesson – make sure you’re a willing student.

So are you saying things like, “the products are too expensive, my sponsor is a bum, the economy is bad, people are conservative” or any others excuses – or are  you looking in the mirror and asking how you can get better?

Let the Universe be a teacher and when the student is ready the teacher does appear. Humble yourself and be a ready student.

 

My MLM program just isn’t working out….

I had the privilege of spending some quality time with my good friend and mentor Tom Big Al Schreiter.

Tom is a tremendous story teller and has a way of making his point clear with word pictures.

When I ask him why does people join and leave their MLM program? This is what he said: ” people that leave one program to join another because they see their success is outside themselves so they will keep changing the program to find the one that they think will give them success.

Here is a story he told me.

“My MLM program just isn’t working out. They don’t have this, and this, and this and the company doesn’t do this, this, and this. Can you recommend a good MLM opportunity for me to join?”

I get a lot of phone calls and conversations like this.

I normally recommend that the callers get a government job where everything is perfect. They shouldn’t be wasting their time with an imperfect MLM company.

There is no such thing as a perfect job or a perfect MLM company. Too many distributors think that if they join the right, perfect, momentum stage, ground floor, stable, 30-year-old, visionary company, then that company will make them rich and successful.

Dream on.

Companies don’t make distributors rich.

Sponsors don’t make distributors rich.

Only distributors can make themselves rich.

The reason many distributors are unsuccessful is because they constantly look for flaws and reasons why their opportunity won’t work.

The reason many leaders are successful is because they constantly look for reasons why their opportunity will work.

So, if you call to complain that outside influences (like your company, sponsor, spouse, lawyer, dog, weather conditions, etc.) are holding you back from success, I’ll listen. I need the stress for my aerobic conditioning.

But remember, after you blame everyone else, don’t go out looking for yet another MLM opportunity. It doesn’t matter which MLM opportunity you choose not to work. Success will only come where you decide to work.

Brilliant isn’t it? It is “Your decision” that will bring the the result you are looking for.

Have a fun and prosperous day

 

Live a life of gratitude

Every day is a gift of God. We are all given 24 hours, yet some have make their day meaningful while others going through the day with misery.

I am always encouraged to read inspirational quotes or pictures that stirs my emotion and imagination. I pray that as I share what I received it will make a difference in someone’s life no matter how small that is. Little becomes much when it is shared.

Here is a  quotes from Alfred D Souza. “For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business,time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”

I invite you take a look at this perspective of life I received from Daily Kindness:

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way, so treasure every moment that you have. And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time…and remember that time waits for no one.

So stop waiting until you finish school, until you go back to school, until you lose ten pounds, until you gain ten pounds, until you have kids,until your kids leave the house, until you start work, until you retire, until you get married, until Friday night,until Sunday morning, until you get a new car or home, until your car or home is paid off, until spring, until summer, until fall, until winter,until you are off welfare, until the first or fifteenth, until your song comes on, until you’ve had a drink,until you’ve sobered up,until you die, until you are born again to decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy…

Happiness is a journey, not a destination. So, Work like you don’t need money.

Love like you’ve never been hurt and Dance Like no one’s watching.

Remember today is a gift. It is up to you how you going to receive it.

I bless you

Your friend for life

Anna

 

Wildlife adventure

This film gives me a sense of encouragement. There are times in our lives we are facing a giant like a wild cougar, we run for our lives and struggle to keep afloat in running river, the cougar is still near us watching, waiting for a chance to capture us. Finally we are face to face to the cougar and we fight with everything we have and we roar and stay up to our predator.

To our amazement, the cougar walked away in fear. As we turn to look it is the mother that came to rescue, with the power of love, she stands up and show the cougar: Do Not mess with my child. As the mother bear tenderly and lovingly licks away the blood, soothe the pain and attend to the cut of the curb. It is such a picture of comfort and safety.

I know my redeemer lives and there is  assurance  of the divine protection from my creator God that will always be there in any circumstance I may face. I look forward to the challenges life can bring my way because I will grow and strengthen by it.

God bless you all and enjoy this short film

A mentor with a servant heart

Anna

A bear cub gets himself into an adventure with a cougar. From the Oscar nominated nature film “The Bear” (1988).

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