“I don’t have enough people to talk to!” AARRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

LOL, this sounds like me most of the time.  We as network marketers have got to get into a more positive frame of mind.  We want to succeed but we have to make steps if we really want that brass ring.  One of my fellow distributors posted this on our forum, hopes it helps you.  It truly got me thinking :).

If this is you then chances are you don’t have a Plan.

I hear this sometimes from other distributors and it instantly tells me, “Ok, time to sit down together and hash out a very specific PLAN.”
It has been statistically shown that most businesses fail for lack of a Plan. If you were to start a Franchise or Traditional business, the first step is to WRITE a business plan.
Well why in Network Marketing when the profits are higher do we sign people up and say ok, go talk to everyone you know then we’ll train and then we’ll create your business plan.That’s called setting up for frustration and failure!  It just doesn’t work that way! A really wise businessman, Jimmy Smith, always says “Plan your work, and work your plan.”  He’s an 80 year old retired butcher who has become a millionaire in the network marketing industry. I tend to listen to what he has to say…! What’s YOUR plan?Here are some first steps you can take toward creating a clear action plan for building a successful and thriving business.

1) How am I Marketing daily? I am just working by default hoping I will run into people everyday?

2) When I recruit someone who wants to build a team and create a steady stream of residual income what do I do with them? The same thing goes for new members who want to build with retail or fundraisers.
How are you going to help that new person get into Profit Mode in their first few weeks?

3) How do I coach my team? How do I determine who is serious and wants to work with me, and who wants to be babysat?

Here is a good test taught by Big Al Shretier, a multi-millionaire in Networking.  TEST!  Give your team-mate a test. For example: I need you to listen to this call within the next 24 to 48 hours and give me your feedback.
If that person does not respond in 48 hours, do you want to take time away from your family and business to continue with that person? NO! You go find New teammates. Your time is your most important asset and you must be selfish with your time.

A New Day

Well I’ve been away from my blog for too long. Time to get back into things. I’d like to start off by sharing a poem that was written by a very good friend of mine. I know that’s it’s past the 4th of July, but this was written from the heart and it reminds us of what is truly important. Hope you guys enjoy it:

Happy 4th

To

The men and women

Who’ve come and gone

To those that make this country strong

To freedoms, not perfect

But

More than most

A tasty stew of ethnicity

A melting pot made up of you and of me

A place those bound come to be free

So as we struggle to keep these ways

Let us not forget the latter days

The day to come when freedom is lost

When all taken for granted comes at a cost

Liberty is not given without a fight,

privilege rarely handed as a right

Therefore, before we think others are wrong,

Let us look at home

And

Remember

How this United States became so strong

Those who fought but were not known

Of those who never made it home

Remember on this special day

Why it is called

Land of the free

And

The Home of the Brave

Sometimes we forget why we celebrate with the fireworks, sparklers, and gatherings. Sometimes we forget that those things we amuse ourselves with on this day represent guns and bombs and loss of life… just thought I would share my poem with ya’ll, just so we can remember why this day is honored.

~Sheila ~

Thanks Shelia and God bless.

THERE IS ALWAYS A GOOD SIDE

Everything depends on the way you look at things.
View every problem you encounter as an opportunity.
There is always a good side to every situation.

The optimist sees an opportunity in every misfortune.
The pessimist sees misfortune in every opportunity.
The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole.

You can develop success from every failure.
Discouragement and failure are two stepping stones to success.
No other elements can do so much for you
if you’re willing to study them and make them work for you.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Copyright 2007 www.yourdailymotivation.com Reproduce freely but maintain Copyright notice.

WANTING TO WIN IS EVERYTHING

Success is connected with continuous action.
It’s largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

You’re not finished when you’re defeated,
you’re only finished when you quit.
In fact, there’s only one way you can fail,
and that’s to stop trying.

Continuous effort, persistence and determination
will be necessary for you to succeed.
The odds are in your favor if you keep trying.

You can have a fresh start any time you choose,
for “failure” is not in the falling down, but in the staying down.
It’s not over until it’s over.

If you’ve got the courage to stick it out,
you’ll attain your goal.
Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to, is.

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.

Copyright 2007 www.yourdailymotivation.com Reproduce freely but maintain Copyright notice.

YOU’LL SUCCEED IF YOU EXPECT TO SUCCEED

When you feel in your innermost being
that you will achieve what you set out to do,
you open the way for miracles.
The dreams you choose to believe in come to be.

Choose to believe something good can happen.
Expecting it to happen energizes your goal
and actually gives it momentum.
What you expect to happen, happens.

Life responds to your outlook.
If you want to succeed beyond your wildest expectations,
begin with some wild expectations.

Copyright 2007 http://www.yourdailymotivation.com Reproduce freely but maintain Copyright notice .

THE QUALITY OF YOUR LIFE BEGINS IN YOUR MIND

It’s not what you have, but what you enjoy
that constitutes your abundance.
Your real riches are riches in your head and heart.

Wealth without enjoyment is little consolation.
True satisfaction comes from appreciating what you have.

There are two ways of being happy:
you must either diminish your wants or augment your means.
It’s always better to appreciate things you cannot have
than to have the things you cannot appreciate.

Your riches will always lie within you,
not in your material possessions.

Copyright 2007 http://www.yourdailymotivation.com Reproduce freely but maintain Copyright notice.

YOU CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING

You can have anything on earth that you want,
once you mentally accept the fact that you can have it.

If you want to be successful,
begin thinking of yourself as successful.
The feeling of being successful has to come first.
If you have a deep inner conviction
that you will always have all that you need,
if you actually feel prosperous, it will be so.

The only thing that stands between you
and what you want from life
is simply the will to pursue it
and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Only your mind sets your limits.

Copyright 2007 www.yourdailymotivation.com Reproduce freely but maintain Copyright notice.