Audio training is genius, period

I have listened to hours and hours of it. Audio training has the ability to turn the most benign work into some of the most valuable hours you can have. It really gives the opportunity to always be learning.

Anyway…

I have just been trawling through the back office of MLSP checking out the ‘System Campaigns’ and came across an oral kick in the ass that I have not listened to in a while. More about why I was trawling in a sec.

The audio training that I rediscovered is really good, check it out

I will admit to having used it as a bit of a ‘work decongestant’ in the past.

Anyway, why was I trawling through the system campaigns? Because I saw something pretty cool that an awesome marketer I know has been doing and needed some pre-setup funnels to dissect.

Check out the video below to find out what this guy has been up to -

I took a couple of hours off a couple of nights ago and sat back and watched a film.  I have kinda, in my head, refused to watch this film for quite a few years now, simply because of the title. I’m not the greatest wordsmith but I do try to do my best when it comes to spelling, and this has slowly driven me nuts…

The Pursuit of Happyness

There, I did it… That one little y has had a surprising effect for just one letter, simply in a word. There I have been thinking… In fact, I don’t know what I have been thinking because it is one of the themes of the film.

I did feel a bit of a dick yeah… when I realised…

Anyway, back to the point…

I have been chatting to quite a few people recently about their networking business efforts online. There seems to be quite a bit of negativity out there, people are getting disillusioned and there is an air of ‘quit’ about, which deeply saddens me, and I am going to tell you why… and hopefully it will have an effect on the way that you view what it is that are doing.

This is my call to arms

Can you remember back to the day that you ‘got’ your compensation plan. Not everyone sees it the same way that some do, I know this for a fact because not everyone signs up there and then. What was it that was going through your head?

If you were anything like me, I was like a teenager again on the inside… Ofcourse, trying to be sensible on the outside… You know, show my professionalism and all that, but the truth is we all see a glimpse of who we will become… and it is an amazing feeling. You feel light, dynamic, energetic.

People join their respective companies for a plethora of different reasons, the array of personal motivators is vast, but there is a common thread to them all, the thread of accomplishment, success, strength and the feeling that anything is possible.

I suppose the saying what goes up must come down is a fair assessment of what happens next.

The big problem that I see in network marketing is that the excitement puts the blinkers on reality. Don’t get me wrong, to a certain extent it’s great. Most people at their first network marketing presentation are there because they know that they need some magic and positivety in their life, and also some real income (that or they are a sucker for sales and prospecting technique). For most to be able to put up with much of their working conditions, day in and day out in a JOB, they should really be considered incredibly humble, persevering and patient. But never-the-less, when people begin to realise that their visions of grandeur are going to take a little more effort than they originally thought to accomplish, suddenly all hell breaks loose.

People deflate pretty quickly.

The sad part is that not everyone’s career survives past this point. As I have said before this is really quite tragic due to the fact that that generally means they have given up on their dreams, albeit often temporarily. Truth is, the reward is so magnanimous that if it really was that easy then everyone would succeed all the time.

Rumour has it that it takes 10,000 hours of study to change one’s career path and become professionally competent in a new one. Then it is surely fair to say that it will take 20,000 hours for someone to succeed in a network marketing career that is only half paying attention. I’m not trying to say that I am saintly and always at 100% because I know for a fact that I am often distracted and have a penchant for procrastinating, but I am also not so shy as to forget to factor that in on my perceived success rate.

Try this, everytime you think about quitting, raise your game. Get angry about failure and channel it into your success… You do that and there is no way that you will not get there in the end, it’ll probably be sooner rather than later.

We are in this for some of the biggest and most noble reasons known to man. To help people, provide a better and more ethical existence for all our fellow human beings. We are in this to create lives of abundance for everyone around us, not just for the few. We are in this to grow and help others grow and learn how to extract the best from ourselves. To create more meaning in all that we do.

To become better human beings. For ourselves, for our families and for every other human being.

Just look at what Chris Gardner went through to achieve his dream.

Let’s get to work!

So here it is, the end of 2011

Now watch this video… ;p

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So, it is the end of 2011 and if you were to believe everything that you hear, that would mean that there is less than a year before doomsday. Awesome thought that…

I wanted to take this opportunity to ask you how your 2011 has been. Often it is this time of year where we all reflect on ‘how we did’ in the last 360 odd days. I kinda like to liken it to the end of level score that you get when playing computer games.

I remember when I was about 13 we used to have an old Amstrad computer and I used to play more computer games than I should have (if you have never heard of an Amstrad, think Spectrum but just a little better, which in today’s market is… well rubbish to be honest). All games at the time were 2D, generally platform games and you usually figured out how to complete stuff by failing at the same point over and over again.

Can you see where I am going here with this?…

There’s a bit of a ‘take away’ from old skool 2D computer games in that the only way to succeed, unless you were really flukey (old skool playground language there for those in the know ;p), is to fail loads but gain more knowledge about how to get around your hurdle each time.

The more you failed… The better you ended up doing.

Add all of this to the fact that it took up to 30 minutes to load a game onto your computer, you needed the patience of a saint as much as the perseverance of someone really perseverant.

… And who said that playing computer games couldn’t teach one of the greatest life lessons to learn, especially for a budding entrepreneur?

Now, I don’t know how your 2011 has been. I hope that you have achieved all that you wanted to achieve but fear that you may be this far down this post because you haven’t. Truth is, the more goals you achieve, the more new ones you often set, so reading this far down may not be a bad thing. What I want to do is give you as much of a leg-up as possible to spur you into a stellar start of 2012. (Keep listening to the end of the audio because there is a really uplifting recording at the end)

If your 2011 was not quite as you envisaged, don’t despair and certainly don’t give up…

2012 is going to rock! If you disagree please let me know why in the comments below. If you agree, please also let me know why in the comments below ;p

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