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NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION ARE MADE TO BE ________!

Celebrity Speaker and Top MLM trainer explain Why New Year’s Resolutions Are a Joke and what it Really takes to obtain your Core Desires in 2023….and beyond!

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Celebrity Speaker and Top MLM trainer explain Why New Year’s Resolutions Are a Joke and what it Really takes to obtain your Core Desires in 2023….and beyond!

The dream of having the income to do what you want when you want is available to everyone if they follow the laws that govern success. This applies to your network marketing business too. Far too often people simply do not have the right information available to them to make the correct decisions so they can take the right actions, which determines whether they succeed or fail.

The year 2023 is a perfect chance for you to start over; let go of the past; to make the upcoming year better than the last.

It’s a chance to start anew with determination and resolve to be better, to do better. At least that’s the theory.

It’s a great plan and feels good and it should work….but for most people (97%) it doesn’t.

New years resolutions are made to be __________. Everyone knows what goes in the blank. Why? It’s because they have experienced and continue to experience it year after year. New Year's resolutions are made and almost never attained. time and time again. It’s interesting that the same thing happens with 90% of other goal-setting as well.

The word resolution implies that we are “resolute” about something. Some synonyms for the word resolute are: determined…. adamant…resolved….immutable. A decision was made and a resolution was committed to. If a resolution is made and then broken, that simply means we weren’t resolute, determined, or committed to making it happen. If we only think we are resolute about achieving something but really aren’t, we will start on the path to making it happen but it will only be a matter of time before we give up and quit. That is what happens with most goals (and downline) in general.

Our dreams and aspirations will be achieved but only if a certain, vital ingredient is there. If it is not there the dreams and aspirations are destined to wither and die and failure is all that is left. For anyone who dreams of achieving a more satisfying life, a very simple method exists.

It is a method that identifies the true cause of all achievement in all areas of life.

Even though it is the real cause of all success and achievement -- is regularly disregarded. Yet it is so critical that if it is overlooked, mediocrity or failure is the automatic result. Every person, including you, who has achieved any level of success in any area of his or her life automatically has this ingredient and has used this method.

This ingredient and this method are NOT based on what countless experts and gurus teach. ..

They all pretty much serve up the same old philosophies based on goal setting, reading self-help books, doing daily affirmations and visualization, PMA, NLP, listening to motivational speakers and subliminal messages, breaking boards, walking on hot coals, etc., etc.

These so-called “keys” to success have all been taught since the 1940s. In the hope of finding happiness and success, billions of dollars and millions of hours have been spent on seminars and books and seminars only to find they don’t work. You’d think that with all that money and time being spent on a vast array of self-help techniques and methodologies many more people would be achieving their dreams. But they aren’t.

To blindly trust and accept the much-ballyhooed secrets of success will invariably lead to wrong decisions and, in far too many cases, wasted time and money.

What the “success gurus” are teaching, even though they mean well, is stunting or permanently destroying your chance to be successful.

There is a better, simpler way.

What is your answer to these questions: 1) Are you smart enough to learn what someone is willing to teach you? 2) Do you believe the information already exists that you need to know to achieve the success you want? Do you know it can be found in a book, a class, a course, or a recording?

If you answered yes to both 1 and 2 then to achieve at the highest level you want in any area of life all you have to do is find the catalyst, which you provide from within yourself, that puts those two things together. Is top performance and success really that simple? Absolutely. And you will see why in a moment.

Goal Setting is the reigning king of all success techniques ever taught.

Everyone is taught that if you will write down your goals and read them daily somehow they happen. That’s just not true. My research shows that 7 or 8 out of 10 things a person writes on a goal list will never happen. Everyone has goals they didn’t finish and many they didn’t even start on.

When a person buys into the idea of goal setting and observes week after week, month after month, or year after year, that they are not achieving those goals they almost always draw negative conclusions about themselves like: “I must not have what it takes” or “I am a failure”. Any negative conclusions are just not true.

If you have heard a motivational speaker in the last year or two answer this question: How long did you stay motivated? Most people say two days, `till I got out of the parking lot, two weeks. The conclusion we must draw from that feedback from audiences all over the world is that, no matter how good, no matter how interesting, motivational speakers have no lasting effect.

Self-help books are plentiful. How many do you have in your library? 5? 20? 100? How many does it take? Have you read the book Think and Grow Rich? Most say yes. Are you rich? Most say, “No”. You got the “think” part down but the “grow rich” part didn’t happen. Why not? The book must be faulty or you are too dense to get it? Right? No! Remember, you answered the two questions with a yes!

If, after reading all the books you have bought you still aren’t achieving at the level you want should we draw the conclusion that either you just couldn’t grasp the concepts being taught in them or the books you read were full of misinformation? Of course, neither of those is true. You are not dense nor is the information wrong. Something is missing, that’s all. It’s the ingredient alluded to at the beginning of this article. So how many books does it take? The answer is zero.

Do you like people to lie to you?

Of course not. Then don’t buy into the concept that lying to yourself is acceptable and will make you successful. That’s what the concept of daily affirmations suggests you do. Lie. “I weigh 125 pounds.” I Drive a Mercedes.” “I am out of debt”, I own my home free and clear”. If those things aren’t the truth then what are they? Lies.

Supposedly your subconscious mind doesn’t know the difference between the truth and a lie. Even if that is true, your conscious mind sure does. Stating thousands of times that you are rich you are thin or have increased your sales by any amount of dollars or driving a Mercedes will not make it happen. Don’t do daily affirmations anymore. They are merely an exercise in futility. You may feel good that you are supposedly “programming your mind” but that is simply not the case.

It has been said that your mind is like a computer…garbage in garbage out – good stuff in good stuff out. That’s just not true. Your mind is not like a computer.

Your mind is vastly different from a computer because you have a choice.

You don’t have to spew out garbage just because it was put in. Conversely, good information put into your mind does not mean that good information will come out. Whether it does or doesn’t is a matter of choice on your part.

There are many more self-help concepts that exist that have similar flaws in them making them inoperable in your life. Yet millions of people keep on doing them. Why? Because we have been told this is how to succeed and we want success so badly we blindly accept that information. Even when they aren’t succeeding, people will either try the same thing with renewed vigor or throw more money into the next seminar or book. The definition of insanity and been stated this way. “Doing what you’ve been doing expecting different results”.

There is a better, simpler way.

For nearly a century we have been taught that we have the power within us to do, have or become whatever we want. That his power is God-given or innate. It’s true we do have that power. But where is the switch? “Within!” comes the quick answer. That’s true. Trouble is…..until I came along, no one is able to describe how to go “within” and flip on the switch to that power.

It’s been taught that you need self-motivation, enthusiasm, discipline, and persistence to succeed. Can those teaching this basic and commonsensical information tell you where to get these things if you don’t have them? No. They can’t. Unless they say “within” again.

What is this vital ingredient that must be present for peak performance and success? Where is the switch to our God-given power to do, have or become whatever we want? Where does one get enthusiasm and discipline? Where is the source of inner strength and self-motivation that keeps one hanging in there, persisting, constantly learning truths, and being, not only willing but determined to make the necessary character and personality changes required for the level of success they want? Where does the inner drive and strength come from to do that which is unpleasant, hard, or way out of our comfort zone? What is the driving force that gives some the ability to pick themselves up after a painful failure?

The answer is uncomplicated and easy to understand.

Discovering your Core Desires. That’s the answer. A Core Desire is something you want so badly it pierces you to the core of your heart. When you identify a Core Desire it automatically unleashes what I call the Conquering Force that is within everyone.

I combined the dictionary’s definition of Conquering and Force to get this definition of Conquering Force: It is “….to be act effectively in getting what one seeks by overcoming all obstacles in their way through physical, mental or moral force.” In other words, you are completely willing to do whatever it takes to achieve your Core Desire. Both Core Desires and the Conquering Force do, indeed, come from “ within ”.

There is a bit of a problem though -- and it is why most don’t succeed like they’d like to. Many years ago Mark Twain said, “I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.”

The world-famous Earl Nightingale observed a very similar thing. He said, “ Today in America people can become whatever they want. Trouble is, most don’t know what they want.”

I echo both of those men’s observations. Most people don’t know how to identify their Core Desires and that leaves their Conquering Force unavailable to help them overcome obstacles. That’s why I created my seminars, retreats, and 8-cassette audiotape program. They are both designed specifically to help people learn how to find their Core Desires, which will unleash their Conquering Force and cause them to achieve at the highest levels possible.

Abraham Lincoln, who suffered many defeats in his distinguished political career, said this: “Always bear in mind that your own resolution (Core Desire) to succeed is more important than any other thing .” That’s still true today.

Try having enthusiasm about that which you don’t like doing. You can’t and no amount of goal-setting or daily affirmations will change that.

That’s why it’s critical to identify your Core Desires. Doing what you love to do always brings with it enthusiasm.

Try to get the discipline to do something if you don’t really want to. You can’t -- and all the visualization and reading about it in how-to books will not give you discipline. Discipline comes from the root word disciple. A disciple is someone who willingly follows someone or some system. If you willingly follow someone or some system the discipline is automatic. The operative word is willingly . If you are not willing, forget it. You won’t do what it takes no matter who says you should, including yourself.

Everything we want in this life can be measured on a scale from 1 to 100.

A 1 is something we would never do in a million years. A 50 is halfway there. But half-hearted doesn’t cut it – in anything.

Core Desires are the100s.

There are always obstacles between where we are and where we want to be. If the desire for the end result is a 70 on the scale we’ll get 70% of the way there. Any obstacle at 71 or higher will stop us permanently just like a dam does water. If the desire is a 90 on the scale we will get 90% of the way there. If it is not a Core Desire we’ll spend money and time and energy on it for a while but will fall short because, at some point, you will run into an obstacle at 71 or 95 or higher which, like a dam, will stop you permanently.

An old Welsh Proverb says, “The hand will not reach for what the heart does not long for.”

There are no barriers at 100 on the scale that will stop you.

They exist but you will be able to go over them, around them, or through them! Nothing can stop a Core Desire. Eric Hoffer said this: “It seems that intense desire creates not only its opportunities but its own talents.” William Hazlitt confirms this viewpoint. He says, “A strong desire for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.”

Anyone who succeeds at anything does so because it is a Core Desire, at 100 on the scale.

To identify a Core Desire ask yourself this simple question: What do I want with ALL my heart that I am not getting? As soon as you know the answer then ask this question: If I had that what would it give me that I’m not getting? Keep asking “and what would that give me that I’m not getting” and when you get to the “Core Desire” you will always have some kind of emotional experience. You may feel joy. You may feel tremendous assurance and have total confidence that you have hit the proverbial nail on the head. You may even start to tear up or cry. You may just breathe a deep sigh signifying that “Yes that’s what I really want”. You’ll just know when you get there.

Once you discover a 100 on a scale of 1 to 100 you are then motivated from within to learn whatever you need to learn. The easy part is finding the source of knowledge and wisdom specific to your Core Desire. You will spend your money and time far more wisely because you will only buy the book or tape program or go to the seminar that is specific to helping you reach your Core Desire.

This last truth will eliminate any negative labeling of yourself if you are not achieving some “goal” you have set. If you are not doing what it takes to achieve a goal it is an indication that is not a 100 on the scale. It has nothing to do with your ability or intellect. You simply didn’t want it badly enough.

If goal setting, positive thinking, affirmations, self-talk, listening to motivational speakers, dream building, reading self-help books, visualization, chanting, fire walking, and every other technique that self-help guru's teaching actually works......then why are they NOT working for you?

Launch the New Year with this new understanding of what it really takes to be successful and you will be amazed at how much happiness and success (and cash flow in your business) will be yours in the year 2023…..and beyond.

Jack M. Zufelt

“Mentor to Millions”

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