Number 1

Every idea that I ever had started with one. A thought is not a group thing it's a one thing. What makes one beautiful is that the moment that one is willing to share what you've learned, your thought, and your idea with someone else then that thought becomes a better thought.  We often thought that one is too small of a number to achieve greatness. In other words, you can't do it by yourself but it starts with one. Advice that was given by one of mentors is that "people like us are very valuable, very unique, and very important". So when we have an idea, thought, a dream it starts from you but don't let it end with you, because if it ends with you it really won't be a great accomplishment.  If your in a place where you want to help others, make a difference you will understand you can't do it by yourself. One of the things I understood about the number one is that you start small but you don't stay small.

There is a saying in south africa, "If you want to go fast go by yourself, but if you want to go far go with others."

How much of a impact do you make

Many times we think that we have to do something great or do something big to make an impact on people. What we have to understand is that we start small. A mentor of mine told me that "if you want to make a great impact on someone, start on making a small impact on them." In other words, don't try to wait on the day you win the lottery, don't try to wait on the day you get so big that you will  be able to do something thats amazing. Quit trying to do amazing things, do ordinary things today with great heart. See impact is more heart then anything else and when people see your heart and they realize that you care for them then even a small deed begins to make small impact upon them. Have you ever have someone do wonderful things for you but didn't do it with their heart? Even though you appreciated what they gave you but honestly did it make a impact on you. But then you have those who gave you their valuable possession. Themselves! So making an impact on others begins by caring, sharing, and having a heart for others.

If you give your heart first then whatever else you do it will make an impact on people.

Legacy beats Money

Everyone  knows the importance of money, but do you know how more important a legacy is.

Ask yourself what's your purpose on earth?

Do you use systems in your life?

Today, I had listened to a small video that was given by one my mentors and he mentioned that "anybody who knows me, knows that because I want to get things accompolished  as quickly as possible my life is filled with systems." What does this mean? Systems is refered as for example, an expressway, you can get on it and get to where you want to go which probably be much quicker. So to have a system in your life rather it's a way of travel, or even going to a restaurant. A person who has a system in life they become consistent in it and almost always they become better at it which it will allow them to get it done quicker.

Your not alone

I wanted to share with you an email  that I received from one of my mentors:

You Are Not Alone Marina and I just returned from Hawaii where we conducted a 3-day leadership training for a company incentive trip so no video today but I still have a message for you. You are not alone. I know it feels that way sometimes in our business.  It can be a lonely effort sometimes.  For the most part, you are calling on your own, meeting prospects on your own, driving to meetings on your own, etc. etc. But in your quest to fulfill your dreams in Network Marketing, you are NOT alone.  First, there are people in your company who are invested in your future.  Second, there are millions of people around the world doing exactly what you're doing right now.  And third, I'm your biggest fan and I KNOW you're going to make it to the top. I believe it, even if you don't right now. So if you're doubting yourself, borrow a little of that belief. You've got this.  It's going to take some work and some time, but it will all be worth it. I hope that helps and make it a GREAT week! Your friend & partner, Do you get these type of emails from the people you associate yourself with?

Pressure

Pressure is something you and I feel everyday isn't it? It's nothing like feeling stressed,  having a lot of things to do, a lot of places to go, a lot of responsibilities, a little bit of over whelmed. During this stage we are asking ourselves, "How are we going to get it done?" Psychiatrist studies shows that stress is life  and that every human has to get use to it. We'll there is a truth about that. There is a certain amount of stress or pressure that you and I are going to feel everyday. Now, what I have determined is that many times it's not what happens to me, it's what happens in me. For example, you have two people who are in the same situation, same pressure,  same circumstance and ones tends do better then the other. That's because that person would understand it's not the outward pressure it's inward response. One of my older mentors  told me that "he determined a long time ago that he cannot always choose whats going to happen to me, but he can choose what is going to happen in me."

Self Control

There is a lot of things in life I can't control like your behavior, I can't control what life does to me today, which is a lot of things that you go through in life that you just hope every thing turns out well. For certainly you or I don't have control over it. But, I do have control over my self. The decisions I make, the thoughts I think they are mine. What is wonderful is almost all of success doesn't determine by things I can't control but it is determine by the things I can. So quite worrying about what you can't do, what you can't control and start worrying about the things you can control. The little things that are going to turn out big in your life like your decisions, attitudes, and values which is those things that make a difference.

Self control is a good word and it basically says we can't be and should be responsible for our selves.

Transportation

Transportation can mean a lot for a person who does a lot of it. For instance when delta tells you that you have flown over 4 million miles on them, and america airlines says you have flown over 2 million miles on them and so forth with other carriers then you know you have done a lot of transportation. But  isn't it amazing what it does for us. The fact that we can go to one place to another with such ease. Now can you imagine such barriers between transformation 100 or 200 years ago. The time that it took  things that we never  experienced because transportation was never fast nor easy. So today it means exposure, it means we can get exposed to things that one time people was not exposed too. We get to experience things that one time people was not able to experience. Here is a question for you! Forget the plane ride, the train ride, and the car ride. How about you! Are you taking people on a journey to where they need to be, or should be? Are you transporting people to a new level of living? I hope you are! Because here is what I learned by successful people that they don't take the journey alone they take someone with them.

So who are you taking with you on your journey that is going to make a difference in their life?

Getting Unstuck

We as humans are always stuck in situations.  So how do we get UNSTUCK? Now, this is difficult because you always get unstuck at the place where you get stuck. So when people want to get unstuck we tend to see them run a lot of times from the place they had got stuck. And I want to stop them and say they don't understand you got to go back to the place where you got stuck and ask yourself. What happen? And not to punish yourself or beat up yourself and realize what my mistake was and how do I get out of that mistake. See most of the problems we have in life within them hold the answers, but we are too impatient to pill back the problem to find the answer. We look at the problem in such a negative way that we don't even want to talk about it, think about it, and not even be near it and off we run. But just some advice, if you really want to get unstuck go to the place where you was stuck.

Do you have curiosity syndrome?

A person who has curiosity syndrome is when that persons life is always exciting and they are creative. This syndrome will allow that person to realize that there is a relationship between being curious and being creative. I'm pretty sure we all know these type of people that have that "been there, done that attitude." When a person is like that you mines well put their name in the obituary column. They are gone, finished just burnt out. Curious people they are going to live until they die and they are going to enjoy their life. They are not going to go through life trying to figure what happen to me, they are going to be looking everyday what is happening and making things happen.  

Curious people are creative and it's good to courage yourself  to develop that trait in your life , which is a choice. But do understand that you don't have to be boring, be curious and out of that become a creative individual.

Risk Taker

What does a risk taker do in their life? They are encouraging,  helping people to take steps that they had never taken before. Now why does a risk taker do that? We do that because we know the only way we can increase the capacity of growth is to get them where they never gone and to do what they have never done. You and I have heard of the definition INSANITY! Statements like " If I always do what I always done", "I always get what has already been gotten".  Whole bunch of people live this lifestyle everyday. Then they wonder why they are not getting more out of life, well they are not getting any more out of life because they are not giving more to life. See if you watching a baseball game you cannot steal second base by keeping one foot on first base , it's to far of a stretch. You always have to let go of something to get something better.

Which is what a Risk Taker do!

Overcome

There are two kinds of people in this world:

1. The one who makes it happen
2. The one who asks what happened

If your going to overcome you got to get off the WHAT HAPPEN PAGE to the LETS MAKE IT HAPPEN one.

Circumstances

It's what happens to us, it's life. Everyday positively or negatively it comes to us. What I have learned is that, it's two kinds of people. There is that type of person that excepts their life, they get up everyday no matter what their circumstances are they just say "thats what it is". And they continue to go through their day just excepting whats happening to them. Similar to a temperature they are up and down which leaving their circumstances to control them, because they think they can't control their circumstances. Then there is another kind of person that gets up everyday not excepting life, they lead their life. They determine their priorities and choices. Now! Does negatively circumstances happen to them? Yes of course. I honestly don't think cause you lead your life you have less negatively happening to you then a person that excepts their life. The difference is not how life treats you, it's how you respond to life. So the circumstances that comes to life, the things that are negative or positive just life itself. Very uncertain perhaps out of our control but we can control our attitude, how we think about those circumstances.

I believe circumstances don't make you, we make our selves and then your circumstances will get better.

Alignment

My mother not to long ago and spoken to me about getting her body aligned and I used to look at her with a confused face expression. She sat me down and told me why she want that done. She mentioned that it is something that is kind of wonderful to her, but it's kind of new to me. In other words she  was getting rolfing on her body, which is something that I knew nothing about a few months ago. Basically, a person who has been trained in aligning the body correctly like a chiropractor who aligns our spines, but rolfing is a total physical body alignment. What I know just after  her few sessions she felt so much better physically which even made her walk better. I was amazed of what many sessions had done for her. If it's amazing what a few sessions would do for her physically as you align your physical body, then what would happen if we align ourselves spiritually, mentally with the people are around us?

Catching your fish

This past week I had went to my families vacation home in virginia. They have a home that is literally walking distance next to a beautiful lake that can lead you into north carolina. My wife's family love the outdoors in fact they had in betted in me that it's a must to be a fisher. Now, where I come from we eat fish but as far as catching them thats not our forte. But I was also taught to try something new that wouldn't hurt me. I ended up using my father in law's  fisher pole and while he was setting me up he told me some key factors that i needed to know.

1. Be patient
2. Relax and enjoy your surroundings
3. Once you get it, hold on to it and teach others

After I was told these three things I was up and ready to catch my fish. We first used worms which was allowing the fish to bite at it but I wasn't catching nothing. Then we had switched to live bait which was when I had experienced a feeling that I couldn't explain, I HAD CAUGHT MY FIRST FISH!. It was like a rush like as if I won a championship game, or being told I'm having another baby boy. Whoa! I had realized I was to happy, but then the feeling made me realize something. It made me realize that I have to transfer this same idea to my every day life, to my network profession. If I become patient and enjoy being around others that want to catch that success and hold on to it and help others then that time will come. After, I caught my first fish, the next 4 of them were coming easy. When I was sitting out on that lake I really had time to think.

How many of us really go fishing?

What To Do When You Get Shut Down

A great business mentor of mine had told me a story that one day he went on a trip to florida with a group of masterminded people. They were a group of people that was looking to take their business to the next level. He then mentioned that, while they were hanging out they were talking about how each one of them had an experience that had shut them down. What caught his attention the most was when a lady had had told her experience in her first month of network marketing. How it was so traumatizing that it shut her down. But since then she had a big break through. Kody Batemen calls this "break down" in his book MLM blueprint. These type of shut down happens in different types of opportunities which we all experienced. Some shut downs can drain all your energy and some can just get you mad. As we know any type of car needs fuel in order for it to go. This concept goes the same for us network marketers. Use that madness for motivation, let that become your fuel to drive you to things you should be doing. So some of you have had shut downs that had happened in your business which had caused you to be more timid, cautious,  anxious to make you go less then your full potential. Look at these situations and realize that they are not real it's just illusion and they are robbing you of your future. As professionals when faced with the shut down situation you will decide to gobble  that negative experience, rejection,  and that important person in your life that doesn't qwite support you the way you would like to be supported. It's amazing what can happened when you make that change. We are used to keeping that trailer with us, when all we have to do is pull out that pin and let it go.

So what to do when you get shut down?


Use it as fuel!