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Motivation

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article · October 2005

Hard Optimism

Get the book and read it anyway. Because it's only $6.95 per and it's a great little read and an even greater more-or-less cost-effective give-away to important prospects on your "drip list" and leading team members.

article · November 2005

You ARE the Postcard!

If you are marketing health products, you ARE the postcard. What does your postcard say?

article · November 2005

What You Need To Know

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article · December 2005

Fear or faith

What about you? What fear, hidden or known, is affecting your behavior and keeping you from living your dreams?

article · December 2005

Let's dance

If it's worth seeing or hearing or doing, I want to see and hear and do it now.

article · March 2006

The New Millennium and You

First, let me say that life is about constant, predictable patterns of change.

feature · May 2006

Wave Four

It was the Chinese people's reaction, just last April, to a government ban on Network Marketing and all other forms of direct selling.

feature · July 2006

WOO — Your compelling WHY!

With such compelling purpose they found an often untapped source of energy that more than any other has the power to lift us closest to our true potential.

feature · July 2006

A Magnificent Obsession!

All of us are on a quest to make a life for ourselves that has meaning and purpose.

feature · July 2006

The Power of Why

When you know why you’re doing something and you attach that why to an emotion, you have just harnessed what I call the greatest power within.

feature · July 2006

Make your life a Masterpiece

My life today is so positive and full of joy because I CHOOSE to be positive and full of joy. I have decided that this is how I am going to live and be.

article · July 2006

Angela Wills

How could I show him that if I wasn't doing it myself?

article · July 2006

Donnie Kelly

That day changed my life forever, in more ways than one!

article · August 2006

Asking the RIGHT QUESTIONS

Asking properly framed questions is truly the key skill which leads to effortless high performance- and ultimately nearly every other desired outcome on the list as well.

article · October 2006

My journey to America

For many years, I started dreaming about starting my life in a country where I would have the choice to pursue my passions.

article · October 2006

Get Motivated!

When you're talking about your product or service creating your own Memorable Moment will guarantee an impression.

feature · January 2007

Are you in the "AMAZING RACE" of LIFE?

The media is full of dire warnings about Medicare and "Social Security" plans failing down the road. On the other hand, the media is full of good news about a new reality for many healthy baby boomers... 60 is the new 40!

article · January 2007

Mind of Steel or Man of Steel

This is a key element in your life and something you need to consciously choose to look at clearly.

article · February 2007

Overcoming Barriers and Obstacles

However, the day you encounter a barrier or obstacle that is bigger than your desire, you will be stopped.

article · February 2007

Saving and Savoring the world

Purpose is the anchor that secures us to life, which anchors us during crisis, which keeps us going when nothing else does.

article · February 2007

The Pursuit of Happyness?

Anyone ever hear the phrase "without your own life map, you'll end up part of someone else's life plan"?

article · March 2007

The Pursuit of Happyness - Part 2

I now believe that it is more important to think and reflect on what we want to create, than to be a person who is "action-oriented".

article · September 2007

Dare to be Extraordinary!

Bottom line is that if we want to be successful and create lives that are outside of the realm of what most people consider to be normal and comfortable, we have to constantly become extra-ordinary in all that we do.

feature · November 2007

The Power of Appreciation

One illustration of 'winning friends' and having a positive influence over others is the chosen habit of showing gratitude and appreciation.

feature · December 2007

You can't cross the sea

You have got to participate in order to win!

article · December 2007

How to Become a Millionaire

"If you want to achieve something you have never had before, you must become someone you've never been before."

feature · May 2008

Noah St. John - Afformations

Today we're going to explore the keys to success as well as what would stop us from using those keys to success.

article · May 2008

A Sense of Urgency

We've all heard many, many formulas and they all will work if we will.

article · June 2008

Persuasion - The Key to Success

I believe all successful persuaders are a result of having been successfully persuaded at some time in their lives.

feature · September 2008

Building the Dream with your Team

You need the dream because that causes you to find the hours. You need the ten to 15 hours a week, because that’s how much time the business really takes to start.

article · September 2008

Action vs. Self-Delusion

You see - affirmations without action can be the beginnings of self-delusion. And for your well-being there is little worse than self-delusion.

article · October 2008

Children Learn What They Live

An ancient Chinese proverb tells us, "A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark."

article · November 2008

"Karate for the Head or Heart?"

Mark's heartfelt desire to earn a black belt was a Core Desire for him, and he went after it wholeheartedly. He was willing to do whatever it took to make it happen.

feature · December 2008

The Secret of Leadership

A GOOD leader inspires other people with confidence in the leader... a GREAT leader inspires them with confidence in themselves. The job of a powerful leader is to inspire others to see their own greatness.

article · December 2008

Dividing the Financial Pie

Because we have all agreed to live as a society, and for that society to function properly, there are some things we cannot do for ourselves alone.

feature · January 2009

5 Success Habits from the Inner Child

This energy feels no boundaries or fears. It’s a place where dreams are made and the keys to success are abundant. This room is filled with tools that engage the mind of the entrepreneurial spirit.

article · January 2009

What Constitutes a Good Life?

Here's the ultimate expression of life in my opinion, and that is living a good life.

article · February 2009

The Safari Called Life

I view life as a way of traveling on a mysterious, ever-challenging safari, where the trail is blazed by our daily choices, actions and responses.

feature · February 2009

The "You" Factor

"A factor is a multiplier in math, right? That is what you are as a manager. You multiply the productivity in your department."

article · February 2009

5 Proven Ways to Reinvent Yourself

Asking empowering questions causes your mind to search for why you are, in fact, rich. And by The Law of Attraction, what you focus on grows.

feature · February 2009

The One Thing You Need to Sell Firstl

Whether the potential customer is a friend, neighbor, relative, co-worker or a total stranger, they want to be sold on you before they buy a product or join a program.

article · February 2009

Discover How to Follow Your Heart

Core Desires create emotions that originate from your heart. These are the emotions of intrinsic motivation, the power within. I refer to this as your heart-set-or simply what your heart is set on having, being, seeing, feeling, achieving, and experiencing.

article · February 2009

It's Your Time to Shine in 2009

More than ever, I realize for anyone to be successful in any type of Network Marketing business, they have got to Work on Themselves More Than They Do on Their Respective Businesses!

article · March 2009

Discover How to Identify Your Core Desire

The Conquering Force is the only force strong enough to sustain the persistent effort and focus necessary to realize your Core Desires.

article · April 2009

No Pain, No Gain

Challenging times can be a gift if we have a full perspective.

article · April 2009

As Tall as You Want to Be

Here was something fun at which he could excel, where height and weight weren’t important.

feature · May 2009

Sales: Are You Making These 5 Bone-Headed Sales Mistakes?

The biggest surprise in our research was that most people who’ve tried to increase sales have actually succeeded at one point. So the real problem isn’t increasing sales; the real problem is keeping them up.

article · May 2009

Rising to the Occasion

It was a moment that the tide turned and we instantly shifted from defeat and discouragement to confidence and certainty.

article · May 2009

Creating Opportunity

To be enterprising is to keep your eyes open and your mind active. It's to be skilled enough, confident enough, creative enough and disciplined enough to seize opportunities that present themselves... regardless of the economy.

feature · June 2009

The Lighthouse Campaign

If they are not in massive action... they are still just a prospect.

feature · June 2009

Humor opens hearts

We need to be good news merchants. Happy attracts. It’s magnetic. People love to be around cheerful people. Humor is uplifting. It’s an instant vacation.

feature · July 2009

Using the Whole Brain to Reach Your Goals

If we choose to use our whole brain to accomplish the goals we set out to achieve, there is reason to believe that we will be more successful.

feature · August 2009

Who Said The Glass is Half Empty?

I guess it’s about your view, sort of like do you feel that you’ve got enough in your life... or is there never enough?

article · October 2009

Finding Your Way Home

To achieve any goal or dream requires a burning desire. A strong desire is to have a strong why.

feature · October 2009

Success Attitude Formula

Success at anything is an inside job, which manifests itself in actions and results.

article · February 2010

Live

The central secret of good communication is bringing the other person over to your side by satisfying one of every person’s most fundamental emotional needs: Make him or her feel valued.

feature · February 2010

The Power is In the WANTING

WANTING is huge! There's awesome power in WANTING. Infinite power in WANTING.

article · March 2010

Are You an Optimist or a Pessimist?

What is optimism? It is a belief that things in our past were good for us, even if that means they were hard and taught us lessons. It is also the belief that things will be better in the future.

feature · March 2010

Looking for Leaders... in All the Places

Leaders make everything happen in our business. They do not individually produce the most volume but they bring with them dozens – even hundreds – of followers that in aggregate do produce the volume.

feature · March 2010

The Truth on OPPORTUNITY

“When faced with a choice between SECURITY and OPPORTUNITY; ALWAYS CHOOSE OPPORTUNITY!” —Conrad Hilton

article · October 2010

Dream Torture

None of us really has a time-management problem. We really have a dream- and goal-focus problem.

article · November 2010

As We Sow, So Shall We Harvest

There are two primary choices in our lives: to accept conditions as they exist or to accept the responsibility for changing them. To attain emotional security, each of us must learn to develop two critical capabilities: the ability to live with uncertainty, and the ability to…

article · December 2010

Your Date With Destiny

Your destiny is the dream that lies within you of your desired and preferred future. And the things that we choose each day are what lead us to that destiny:

feature · December 2010

The Art and Power of Persuasion vs. Manipulation

Network marketing, direct sales and all sales relationships are exactly that: a relationship-building process. Both persuasion and manipulation leave out a key ingredient in sales, which is service.

feature · January 2011

Have You Decided To Become a Millionaire?

Now get this, less than two months after the DECISION was made , an opportunity came to me that allowed me to earn in excess of 10 million dollars over the next 5 years. The question I will always wonder about... Would the opportunity have come if I had never consciously made…

feature · January 2011

How To Make 2011 Your Best Year Ever!

Because nothing is stronger than a dream that pulls you right into the future. And what's the best way to add that absolute feeling to your dreams? You guessed it. Actual photographs, with you taking center stage.

article · January 2011

Let The Seeds Grow

This is incredible because that means that the seeds for great things are right there in the soil of our minds and hearts.

feature · January 2011

A Blank Canvas and Paints of Many Colors

Before life begins to happen for you in 2011 I encourage you to take some time for reflection so you can image your year exactly as you want it to be and truly become the author of 2011.

feature · January 2011

Learn From the Past and Craft a Vision

There are many different ways that we get from where we are to where we want to be. We are in a transformational business.

feature · February 2011

Commitment, It's all or nothing!

No wonder people are frightened of commitment, the “C” word, as it has connotations of absolute finality, a death of sorts.

feature · February 2011

COMMIT or Buy Lottery Tickets instead of a Distributor Kit!

What is discouraging to me is to see people jumping from company to company expecting the company to make them successful. YOU make you successful. Those with the right skill sets and mindsets make it long term network marketing.

article · March 2011

Motivation from Within

If you’re really committed to peak performance and leadership, you must motivate yourself from within. Studies of achievers show that inner drives for excellence and independence are far more powerful than desire for wealth, status or recognition.

article · April 2011

A Compelling WHY!

What is the difference between these two situations? It all comes down to why . If the why is big enough; the how is usually not a problem. This compelling why is connected to your personal objectives, mission statement, or magnificent obsessions. It is the basis of your motiv…

feature · August 2011

Promotion or Persuasion... Which Works For You?

If what you’re promoting is important, or something you feel good about, it’s fun. It’s effortless. It gives you a burst of energy when you do it. And it’s usually very persuasive.

feature · October 2011

Belief VS Technique

When belief and technique are pitted against each other - belief always wins.

article · November 2011

Get a New Attitude

Now the biggest key will be what your attitude is toward what your actions have brought to you.

article · December 2011

Give Bad Habits the Boot!

Would you rather everyone talk behind your back? Get up the courage and ask. Ask somebody who loves you and has your best interest in mind. Be gracious and don't defend your self. Just accept it and work on it.

feature · January 2012

Is Your Marketing Personality Driven?

The fact is that its due time that you stop hiding behind your computer… and start injecting your personality into your business.

article · January 2012

What Motivates the Motivator?

Give yourself a budget to spend on materials that will make you into a motivated animal! Above all, as you listen, apply the truths to your life in your head and they will become what you live!

article · February 2012

Using Failure to Further Your Future

The truth is, however, that people will actually respect you for trying. The only thing I have found that people think poorly about you is if you handle yourself badly when you fail. Sore losers get the bad press, not people who attempt great things!

article · February 2012

Taking Ownership of Your Life

Empowerment comes from the acceptance of who you are along with self control and strong desire.

article · March 2012

The “Best” Test

That is, what are the characteristics of those who become the "best" at what they do?

article · March 2012

Who puts out your flame?

3 simple steps, and as my mentor would say to me, if it's simple to do, its also simple not to do. Do it anyway!

article · March 2012

Making the Right Choices

I look back at some of my friends and I can now see why they as adults act the way they do and have poor self images and low self esteem.

article · April 2012

Surefire Ways to Develop a Thankful Attitude

We know this, but we don't often spend time pondering it. Doing so will shape and mold your attitude and develop healthy thought patterns that will make you more thankful all of the time.

feature · April 2012

Going Cheap Keeps You From Riches

Here is the question, will it really cost you more to have the fundamental understanding of the 1 or 2 things you are really wanting to discover? The answer to that is No!

article · April 2012

Uncovering Buried Dreams

Today is a new day and you can claim it as the first day of the rest of your life. Expect outrageous results and claim them as yours and the opportunities you have been looking for will come.

feature · May 2012

Top Skills of Extraordinary Leaders

So focus on speaking and writing more clearly, and with the passion that you have for the vision you have. Use different ways of communicating, including different ways verbally and non-verbally. Above all, communicate often!

feature · May 2012

How is a Light like Leadership

Leadership also knows no difference, it comes to those that are looking, and those that are not, its what you use it for that makes it leadership or simply a bother.

article · May 2012

Dream Building and Goal Setting

It’s hard to recognize those roads signs if you don’t know what to be watching for. But if you’ve got a map, a personalized plan for where you want to go, you’ll be looking in the right direction and you’ll be looking for the right signs and won’t be led off course.

article · June 2012

Positive and Negative Influences in Your Life

Our goal is to replace those negative thoughts that are caused by distorted thinking with thoughts that lead to comforting, encouraging and empowering thoughts.

article · June 2012

Desperation is the mother of Inspiration

Desperation makes us stop and readjust to the now. It makes us take inventory of our life and often puts our life back into balance. It forces us to examine our actions.

article · September 2012

Leadership is Recovery, So Get a Grip

Many people who move into leadership positions have a tough time in recovery because they can’t let go of past challenges that have caused them failure.

feature · September 2012

How Should a Mentor Treat YOU?

If you are willing to truly be Mentored, then you must be ready to experience things that you have not experienced before, to have the things that you have not had before.

feature · January 2013

When I heard that Zig Ziglar had died

“Our actions and deeds affect other people, many of whom we will never know.” I keep that quote in mind every day as I try and do my best knowing that everything I do affects other people.

article · January 2013

Without a Dream You Have No Drive

It is the journey towards the Dream not the destination that moves men and women to great achievement.

article · January 2013

The Power in Praising People

And one of the key ways to grow successful in our relationships is to be "life-giving" people to others.

article · January 2013

Doing a Good Thing Daily

I try to be available as much as I can to help people – but at the end of the day, if a person can learn how to grab the tools they need when they need it most they are much better off. I want to accelerate success, not hold it back!

feature · January 2013

Ziglar

That’s the gift he gave to us all... his presence, sincerity and timeless message as he pumps his pump and tells us how we must work that pump handle fast and hard at first “like launching a new business enterprise or a new growth/life chapter in personal growth”.

feature · January 2013

Experience Zig Ziglar

Zig Ziglar showed me in no uncertain terms what it looked like to be scattered, to demonstrate stress, to not be present in your own life, much less, being present for others or for duties!

feature · January 2013

My Lunch With Zig Ziglar

It's rare that you will hear any personal development speaker share their information without quoting Zig at least once or twice.

article · February 2013

Who Motivates The Motivator?

The leader’s primary purpose is to keep the energy flowing and the dreams growing while at the same time showing up every day complete with a smiling face and an endless supply of new ideas and solutions for the day-to-day challenges.

article · March 2013

From Motivation to Motive-Action

Today, in the knowledge-based world, where change is the rule, a set of personal strategies is essential for success, even survival.

article · April 2013

Keeping Your Mind Tuned to Success

As our minds stay tuned to "success" our bodies will then carry out our success and we will begin to experience abundance!

article · April 2013

How Big Is Your Dream and What Are You Worth

“What you dream about is intertwined with what you feel you are worth and what you feel you are worth is intertwined with the size of your dream.”

technology · April 2013

A Pinch of Delusion

It’s part of the recipe that gives me fuel to drive forward. It’s 1/3 of my mantra: a pinch of delusion, a dash of audacity and a shot of courage.

article · April 2013

ATTITUDE

You must cultivate a POSITIVE ATTITUDE in Life and Network Marketing or in anything you do.   So the first step toward success is ATTITUDE.

article · May 2013

A 100% Day

Don’t crowd your limited minutes and hours with non-essentials.

article · May 2013

Courage That Changes Your Life

So what is courage? It is simply acting on what we want to do, regardless of any fear we may have.

feature · June 2013

Islands In The Streams

One thing I have learned about running a business is that you have to give it 100% effort, time, commitment and most of all passion and enthusiasm.

article · June 2013

Hypnosis and Network Marketing Success

What if we’re all hypnotized, stuck behind invisible walls that exist only in our minds? Suppose our discomfort with prospecting, recruiting and presenting were actually the result of hypnotic programming.

article · June 2013

Become Your Own Superhero

The key is top stop an unproductive belief in it’s tracks? How do you do that? You challenge it!

article · June 2013

Confidence: You only sell You!

Who you are shouts so loudly that people either can’t hear, don’t want to hear, or listen carefully to what you are saying.

article · June 2013

Abundance

Approach today with abundance thinking. There’s plenty for you to have, experience, earn and give away again.

feature · July 2013

Is Success Really That Hard?

You simply get better at whatever you do through education and repetition of the right actions.

article · August 2013

The Power of The Tongue

Only say things that will create in you positive emotions, thoughts, feelings, and ultimately, actions.

article · October 2013

Never Give Up!

Continue to grow yourself personally, professionally, shut out all the noise and never look back on those who say you cannot do something!

feature · November 2013

Finding the Right Way to Motivate Your Employees

Zig Ziglar says that there are three main ways to motivate people in general and employees specifically. They are fear, incentives and growth. Let's take a look at each one.

article · December 2013

Elements of Change

In order to move forward, we must change.

article · January 2014

Motivation Is Not An Evil Word

To achieve a certain amount of success, it takes motivation and discipline to reach the mountainous peak.

feature · January 2014

Happy RE-NEWING Year (What are You Thinking?)

Notice I said learned “about” because you can’t LEARN personal development. It’s about LEARNING and APPLYING and that’s an ongoing thing.

article · February 2014

Just Don't Do It

Those who succeed are those who get back up and forge ahead.

article · April 2014

The Finer, and Finest, Things in Life

While pursuing the finer things in life, we often become so ingrained, so focused in the pursuit, that we do not experience the finest things in life.

article · April 2014

Do You Ever Feel Like Quitting? This Video Kept Me In The Game

The truth is, most business models can be learned by average people if they want it bad enough. It doesn't take God given talents or above average intelligence to become a successful entrepreneur it just takes the willingness to learn and take action.

article · May 2014

Trust The Lord and Go to The Hole

The confusion for so many people is what responsibility to put in God's hands and what responsibility to take ourselves.

article · June 2014

Books are My Favorite Mentors

From now on when you read a book, make the author your mentor and always read with your pen in your hand.

article · July 2014

Women in network marketing

If we knew what kept people in even when they’re not making much yet, wouldn’t that be useful information?

article · July 2014

A Compelling 'Why'

Most people would respond to that scenario by saying that they would leave right now. Wouldn't you?

article · July 2014

AFFORMATIONS: Better than Affirmations?

you create your reality in two ways: by the statements you say to yourself and others, and by the questions you ask yourself and others.

article · September 2007

Power from Empowerment

A good way to think of leadership is the process of freeing your team members to do the best work they possibly can.

article · October 2014

Doing Beats Talking Every Time

"We believed it could be done, but you, Dick and Jeana, proved it and doing beats talking every time."

feature · January 2015

Forging Your Character

Personal success is built on the foundation of character, and character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you may make that gradually turn who you are at any given moment into who you want to be. If that decision-making process is not present, you'll still be s…

feature · January 2015

Words to Live

If you want to feel rich, just count all the things money can't buy. If you removed the rocks, the brook would lose its song. There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks all of them. One thing you can give and still keep is your word. We're all faced with…

feature · January 2016

2016 - Excuses or Excellence, Your Choice

 Excuse #1: "I got busy. I had to do this or that," versus "I chose to do something else instead of building my business. This something else is more important to me… even more important than the commitment or promise I made to you and my future."

article · September 2016

Top Six Ways to Stay Motivated

I receive many emails from people that basically ask the same question: How can I keep myself motivated long term? This seems to be quite a common dilemma for many people so I want to address it because it can be done! Here are my tips for staying motivated:

article · December 2016

Ability, Motivation, and Attitude

“ The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.” Booker T. Washington

feature · February 2017

The Power of Emotion

Leadership in any industry begins by demonstrating the importance of learning how to simply tap into our emotions after a disappointment. Teach them to ride that “emotional rollercoaster” with transparent sharing along the way.

feature · February 2017

Eliminating Negativity

When you cultivate the qualities of a positive mind; optimism, clarity, enthusiasm, etc. you’re in a much better position to influence and lead others.

technology · April 2017

This is the Power of Online Video

Online Video are very Powerful because it is working on your behalf, it is working for you 24/7 365 days a year!