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One thing for sure, if your baby offers you his pacifier, that’s your signal to stop whining.  Leaders tend to complain with followers don’t meet expectations.  I used to run to my upline asking them to fix this and take care of that…until I figured out that my upline won’t fix what they know I should handle…Revelation! Here’s what I had to learn: 1.  A leader must be encouraging.   This requires discipline because our natural tendency is to point out the negative.  It is always easier to... Read Full Story

Barry Bowden, a college friend gave me some good advice about what to look for in a leader.  He used the acronym “FAT” to explain what he meant. The letter “F” - Faithful to the task.   Look for people that can “lock on” to completing a task.  They stay in action until it’s completely done.  So often, the excitement of “the beginning” attracts potential leadership, but once the newness of the challenge fades, only the real leaders will be in the trenches still battling.  Look for the... Read Full Story

With all the fuss about social media and web 2.0, one would think that building your network marketing group would take on a completely different hi-tech look and feel. Not true.  If you want to use the Social Media websites correctly, then you’ll resist the temptation to run into the cyber prospect flock waving, screaming, and yelling about how great your company is and how awesome your comp plan appears.  Instead, focus on building a relationship with like minded people and then let the... Read Full Story

If we insist on being right all the time, then we will stagnate our organization and limit our growth.  When we must be right, then we are applying the brakes and our ability to move forward ends.  We learn this type of “correct” belief when we are in school.  When we get the right answer, we get good grades and positive attention from our teachers and our parents.  When we get answers incorrect, our grades suffer, our teacher is disappointed, and our parents are usually upset with us... Read Full Story

This is an immutable, unshakable, universal law… You cannot change your thoughts without changing your life.  You cannot change your life without changing the way you think.  Fortunately, you have the power to choose how you think…therefore you are the master of your life. Program your mind with victimhood and you will be a victim.  Program your mind with empowerment and you can accomplish anything you put your mind to. You never attract what you want…you only attract what you are... Read Full Story

The biggest mistake most people make when prospecting and contacting potential team members is to approach the entire process with an attitude of what “they” want instead of what the prospect might want. Your prospect could care less about whether you do or do not sponsor someone into your organization.  They don’t really give a rip if you qualify for the next promotion level or not. What they do care about is whether they are going to be able to pay their rent and make their car payment... Read Full Story

A true leader ecourages people in the organization to have belief in themselves - not belief in the leader.  By doing so, leaders actually raise up leadership within the organization; and often times, that leadership is more effective and more influential at growing the group. Successful minded team members can identify leadership in the upline quite easily.  They simply look for the upline team member that has a growing business and is willing to help them.  The challenge comes about when... Read Full Story

As it looks now, our government is going to continue to bailout big business leaving the small business owner out in the pond treading water without any kind of life preserver.  Not that small business needs help, they just don’t need to be forced to handle the burden of paying for the mistakes of big business. The more money we pass out, the less our dollar will buy.  Pretty soon those of us that must work for money will not be able to buy anything because inflation will outrun our pay... Read Full Story

Most entrepreneurs have already figured this out; but it does bear repeating again since this is the first of the new year. In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want.  You cannot hit something if you cannot see it…clearly. Be willing to dream bigger than you currently imagine.  Big dreams inspire you to act - small dreams will only elicit yawns - boring. Set goals that stretch you.  A goal that you can easily reach won’t help you accomplish anything. Serve... Read Full Story

Author: Eric Worre The Network Marketing industry is better positioned than ever! Ladies and gentlemen, people simply MUST come up with a plan and, if they don’t choose Network Marketing where do they go? -  Professional sales in this economy? -  Service oriented professions in this economy? -  Traditional small business ownership in this economy? -  Corporate work in this economy? October U.S. home sales… the lowest in 50 years, and 45% of all sales during the month were foreclosures... Read Full Story