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Being The Most of Your Ability

I enjoy some of the comments I get from leaders on Facebook.  When I find great messages that I think you will appreciate, I pass them on to you. This one came from Darnell Curtis that he sent a message to the members of http://www.facebook.com/l/06c34;YourNight.com.

To Your Night, Thought of the day Do not base your abilities on someone elses results, YOU MAY BE BETTER THAN THEM….

We need to be wise about our expectations and set goals according to accurate thinking* (I will cover this topic more at another time.) Remember that YOU are unique. There is no one like you.That is why you must only demand from yourself the things you have the power to affect, change, or control. Doing otherwise will frustrate you and those with whom you associate or do business.

Use the following guidelines when setting goals according to your aibilities:

• Use Accurate Thinking. As you make plans for your future and set goals, do not buy into the hype that is often associated with Network Marketing or try to be like others you believe are successful.
• Practice good work ethics, doing what you say you will do and follow through with the plans you’ve made.
• Choose who you listen to: Listen to only people more interested in your success than in their own.
• Keep your perspective in check. This mean you don’t try to run faster than you should and then fail because your perspective was out of whack.
• Stay in balance. Examine your priorities to make sure you are in alignment with God and Success Principles in order to be successful in life and business.
• Keep your priorities straight. Do only what you and your spouse have agreed upon as being important and will protect harmony in your life and home.
• Do NOT chase after people. Allow them to come to you because they know you, you have what they want, and they want to do business with you. To do this, your mind needs to be thinking right, your priorities need to be in alignment, and you need to be balanced. When people feel that they are on your radar, they will run in the opposite direction. People need to know that you are there for them but they won’t believe it if you chase them.
• Do NOT pretend to be successful or try to convince someone that you are a leader. True leaders just lead and don’t have to talk about being a leader. In other words, your actions speak louder than words. Doing what leaders do makes you a leader just as doing what successful people do leads to success. If you are not doing those things leaders and successful people do, then YOU ARE NOT a leader and you will not be successful.
• Be yourself, unless you are not the type of person with whom you would want to do business or to be on the other side of a discussion or an invite. You would not be impressed with someone who talks too much, doesn’t look or act professional, or is pushy.
• Take an inventory of your strengths and weaknesses. Work on improving yourself in the weak areas through positive motivation and then decide how to take advantages of your strengths.
• Use your abilities to help those with whom you associate. When appropriate, offer to help someone FOR FREE and without strings attached or taking advantage of them. The more you share your abilities with people, the sharper your abilities become.
• Make a difference in someone’s life; doing so builds self-worth. Notice that I said it builds self-worth and not self-esteem. Self-esteem is the result of how others interact with you and how they make you feel. On the other hand, self-worth is how you feel about yourself when you understand how you have added value to someone’s life.
• Be true to yourself and the commitments you’ve made to yourself. You cannot allow people to steal your dreams, to keep you in a box or do things to prevent you have achieving the goals you’ve set for yourself. You need to love them for the value they contribute to your life and accept them for who they are, but you have to set healthy boundaries for them. Let them know you value their judgment and ask that they trust your judgment as well. If it’s a mistake then that’s the end result but you need to do it and see how far it takes you.

Being the most of your abilities means you fulfill the measure of your creation and strive to reach your full potential. What can be more satisfying than this?

*Note: I wrote about accurate thinking in my book “The Treasure Box Series, Volume I: Peace, Joy, and Happiness”, copyright dated November 2005 and published by BookSurge.

Thinking About These Comments

I have received several comments on my blog posting about generating leads.  In responding back to them, I realized that I needed to do a follow-up on this subject.

Below you will see comments from readers that apply to the posting on gathering leads. After the comments is my response to the request to do a follow-up. I’ve included a link to the sites of the commenter so you can see what products/services they offer and can suggest that site to others.

Please feel free to leave comments. I enjoy reading what you have to say about this subject. Those who wanted to comment but have not yet, please know that your privacy is protected and I will not spam you. If you do not want your name or blog site mentioned, make that notation so I will not mentioned your name or site if I use your comment and my comment back.

Definately an eye opener. Thanks. Do you have any plans to follow up on this post. I hope that others will see this and contributeas well. Any time I come accross quality information like this I like give credit where it is due. I’ve already bookmarked this so I don’t have to wade through all the other sites. Believe me I’ve been at this for a week  http://felixgreenpct.insanejournal.com/

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I’ve been in network marketing since 1977, and I’ve seen successes and failures; it seems to be “the nature

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of the beast” for network marketing.

I’ve also seen a lot of so-called experts who don’t really understand the important principles to being successful. The problem is they may succeed in gathering names but that’s it! They don’t have people skills, especially when their goal is to make money and they could care less about what the people want when they contact them.

There are too many people like this out in the field of Network Marketing. I will NOT do business this way. Using this approach may be successful to a point but it is only short-lived. I appreciate the comment that sparked my thoughts for this posting. Thank you for all of your comments.

Gathering leads is a subject most MLMs are interested in learning more about. I suggest you get yourself on wordpress and set up your own blog or contact me and let me give you some advice about a better way to do it; seriously, call me.

Write some articles that represent your business and your honest feelings about why you are doing it. Tell people you would appreciate them giving you their contact address so you can send them information about your business. Pledge that you will NOT spam them and that you will respect their privacy. Some people still won’t trust you but some will, especially if they are connecting with you through your blog.

The important thing to remember is that being sincere and honest in everything that represents you is extremely important. People will begin to trust you when they know that you do what you say you will do. Now that I’ve said this and you do write an article, give me the link and I will promote you.

Keep up the comments and tell me about your experiences and the areas you’ve done well in and the areas that need help.  Thanks again for being so forthright in your comments. It’s okay if you don’t agree with me, I want to hear that too and why you don’t agree.

Upline in network marketing often put a lot of pressure on downline to perform, especially when someone stops producing or begins to give excuses. Because a person seems uncommitted or confused about what he or she really wants, an upline will often drop working with him or her all together because it isn’t worth the time. It’s just “The Nature of the Beast” for most Network Marketers. It’s a sad story, but one I hear over and over again.

The problem here is that many upline do not take the time to understand why people quit producing. In fact, they view excuses as non-committal or lazy. Let’s talk about why someone may stop producing in a Network Marketing business.

• They do not have the same work ethics as their upline.
• They do not have a reason to do the work. In other words, they have no “WOW”.
• They need more personal time to work on their fears with an upline who understands their issues.
• They see holes in the plan or they do not understand the plan well enough.
• They have heard negativity from family and friends and so they are losing faith in the system.
• They have big egos and think success should happen quickly, and so they won’t wait for it.
• They focus on their sales skills instead of what their prospects want and help them at that level.
• They make mistakes so they are too embarrassed to go forward and quit.
• They do not believe they can be successful.
• Lack of money to support their businesses, limiting their ability to work the business effectively.
• They have run out of names on their list.
• They lose the vision of why they started the business in the first place.
• They won’t accept trainning and try to go off on their own. They learn just enough to be dangerous to themselves and the people they talk to.

Do any of these reasons sound familiar to you? If so, you need to discuss it with your upline. Tell your sponsor how you feel and ask for their help. Upline cannot help you if they do not know your problem.

Another issue might be that you do not trust your sponsor to teach you what you need to know. You look upline for someone you feel comfortable to work with and deal with your problems. This can cause friction between you and your sponsor as well as your upline and sponsor.

May I suggest that you not bypass your sponsor, especially when you think you are too important to work with him or her and think you need to work with someone more impressive. Yes, people really do think like this all the time in Network Marketing.

You may be tempted to go upline because you like the success you see higher up and think it is better to work with them instead of someone who is almost as new as you. Keep in mind that the people you want to work with upline instead of your sponsor did not bring the opportunity to you. The one who thought of you deserves your respect. If you want to work with your upline, be sure that your sponsor is included in any meetings you have with them. Any upline that’s worth taking advice from will understand this principle and support it.

If you cannot find answers you want from your upline, feel free to contact me with your questions. Please do not contact me until you have tried to work out things with your upline and then let them help you.

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Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will have a joy in overcoming obstacles—a delight in climbing rugged paths which you would perhaps never know if you did not sometimes slip backward, if the road were always smooth and pleasant. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. ~ Helen Keller.

Kevin Curtis left this message  for his facebook friends. I want to share this message with you because I see too many people rest on past laurels and think that will bring them successes in their businesses today.

“People park when they sit back and rest on past laurels; the mistake being that they allow over-confidence and past successes to cloud future rewards. This situation makes people lazy in their business dealings. They become board with their lives and fall victim to complacency.” ~ Judith Sherman

We cheat ourselves and our downline when we become complacent. There is little growth going on in our businesses and that’s a recipe for failure or for dropping out. Then, since our downline duplicate us, those we have sponsored will become complacent and possibly drop out as well.

To keep this from becoming a problem, we must learn to do something every day that keeps us motivated and hungry enough to grow our businesses. This is what I have done and why I was able to overcome tremendous hardship to succeed in publishing my book. I believe this situation is represented well in the story “Tortoise and the Hare”.

The tortoise is slow moving and takes a long time to get anywhere. On the other hand, the hare is very speedy. One day the tortoise and the hare were challenge to a race. The hare is expected to win because he is fast and the tortoise is so slow.

The hare ran fast and became tired, so he decided to lay down for a rest. At other times he would stop to play a little. The hare knew that, because he runs so fast, he can make up time and still win the race.

Although the tortoise may not be very fast, he just keeps trudging along. He does not stop to play or to rest because he takes the race seriously. He just keeps going, putting one foot in front of the other. The tortoise is slow, but nevertheless he won the race.

Do you see this same activity going on in your business?  Do you see some associates working their businesses at full speed and then tire so they take a break? Once they lose momentum, it is difficult to get it back and it takes more effort to regain the momentum lost.

Then there is the slow starting associate that doesn’t appear to be doing as much as you would like, but they always seem to reach their goals. They always seem to make sales and sponsor new associates every single month. This is the same principle demonstrated in the tortoise and the hare story. Putting one foot in front of the other every day, doing something meaningful in your business every day, reaps the rewards that come with success.

Working smart instead of working hard uses the same principle as the tortoise and the hare. Making contact with people in a friendly manner with no expectations will gain their trust and they know you will not bomb out on them. They will watch you for awhile to make sure you are serious about your business and the relationship you develop with them. If they do not like what they see, they won’t give you the time of day. Then, once they see that you are trustworthy, they will be loyal to you as long as you are in business.

If you want to be like the hare, you need to be doing something else as well to help you keep up the momentum and not tire easily. Otherwise, you WILL lose faith when things don’t happen as quickly as you expect.  Also, you will grow tired and weary from the pace and need to take a rest. As the hare discovered, rest breaks can cause you to lose. Someone else will come by and pick up where you left off, and you will have no one but YOU to blame.

My advice is to pace yourself with a steady application of effort and working smart, improving your skills through education, and taking time for relaxation. Allow people to know you better and to develop a good relationship with them. It takes time to develop healthy relationships and to earn loyalty. People need to know that their relationship with you is worth more to you than money or what you can earn from their business.

I would like to build a relationship with you as well through my postings. But that relationship has to go two ways. So this means I welcome your stories regarding the principles discussed in this article or about anything else you would like to share or ask me. You may leave a comment in the box below.

You may email me at Judith@JudithSherman.com

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LACK OF PLANNING FOR WHAT’S NEXT

It took me a long time to figure out why people die in their businesses or why they fail in life when they seemed to be at the pinnacle of success in their professions. In almost every instance, parking was the reason; they did not plan for what to do next once success was attained.

Unfortunately, people often spend too much time and energy building their future and then forget how to build a good life in the present or how to maintain good relationships. In so doing, they often take people for granted and do not see the blessings in their lives. This happen when people see success as a destination instead of a wonderful journey through life.

The problem with people treating success as a destination is that, once they’ve arrived, they don’t think about what to do next. They often forget to set additional goals after reaching their specified level. Life has a tendency to become routine, mundane, dull, and unexciting when people no longer dream or set goals. Indeed, their lives seem empty when they have not planned for “What’s next.”

A woman I once knew named Anne found herself in this situation. She described herself as feeling depressed. She asked herself, “Why do I feel this way? All I want to do is cry. I should be happy. I have everything I could ever want and life is so good to me.”

Anne’s best friend suggested that perhaps what she was experiencing was just a let-down after coming off the high she had been on during that period of time. She had been successful in her business and also had just married a wonderful man. It had been such a whirlwind leading up to the wedding that, when it was all over, she did not know what to do next. In other words, because she had been busily working hard for the event of a lifetime (which she had been praying for a long time), a big hole was left inside of her when it was all over. The problem was she had nothing in place to substitute the energy high she had been on for the past several months.

My point is that you should not only plan to succeed, but you should also plan for what happens after you reach the level of success for which you had planned. You should make plans for what comes next by setting new goals. Think about the following questions:

What motivates you to move ahead in life and to reach for another goal?

What worthy project would you like to be involved with next?

What will you do with your time and energy once you have gotten to where you want to be?

How do you see yourself in the future and decide what you want to see there?

Who will be there with you, who will not be there, and what will you be doing or not doing?

What kind of person will you be, spoiled or humbled?

How will you spend your time, energy, and money?

Will you be wasteful with those assets or continue to use them wisely and charitably?

How much time or money will you be giving to charity, and to what organizations?

These are questions you need to answer so that you have a realistic plan in place to keep you motivated and growing each time you reach a new goal. Also, you need to be adding new lifeblood to everything you set out to accomplish. Old blood gets sluggish and thick when there’s nothing to give it boost once in a while. This means you need to bring new people and new ideas into your circle on a regular basis.

I welcome comments about this subject. Do you believe that planning for what’s next and following through with what you had planned is important?

I suggest you refer to a blog I found interesting. I do not know the author but the material is interesting. Use this link.

PARKING AT A LEVEL OF SUCCESS KILLS A BUSINESS

I’ve discovered that one of the greatest enemies to success is reaching a certain level and then parking.  Success becomes stagnate when people park themselves and stay there instead of setting new goals and continuing to grow.

People park when they sit back and rest on past laurels; the mistake being that they allow over-confidence and past successes to cloud future rewards. This situation makes people lazy in their business dealings. Inevitably, they become board with their lives and fall victim to complacency.

Another problem with parking is it sets up people for a nose-dive when the tide changes, as it often does. As such, it behooves successfull people to continue setting goals to keep them feeling alive and staying active. Staying active doesn’t have to mean making more money or reaching a higher level of completion. Staying active means setting goals that make your life mean something more than just making money.

A stagnant situation happens in business when people stop dreaming, stop reaching for goals, and stop growing in their businesses! This is NOT good! I’ve been around a number of success- oriented people over the past thirty years, and I’ve seen this situation happen frequently. Lack of planning for “what’s next” is the main reason people park.

Another reason people park is they do not want to become too big of a business and make too much money. They have various reasons for feeling this way and that is okay. Not everyone wants to become mega-successful and receive mega-income from it. As long as their reasons do NOT include they are complacent and have stopped dreaming, it is okay to not reach for higher levels. However, to maintain a healthy business and downline, people must never stop dreaming and growing their businesses.

To have a healthy organization, there must be a constant flow of new blood coming into the business. New people make a healthy organization because they come in full of belief and excitement. This motivates downline and keeps upline busy and excited so their businesses keep growing as well. Any business doing otherwise become stagnant and will stop growing.

You cheat your own business and your organization when you do not have new people coming into your business and when you stop dreaming. Your downline will duplicate you. So when you stop growing, so will they.

I suggest you read the article “What’s Next” in order to protect your business. I welcome your comments on this subject and would love to hear your stories.

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What Is Peace

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My friend, Judy MacEachran, sent me this email yesterday. I thought this would be a good topic to discuss with you today.

“Sooner or later you’ll experience a crisis in your life, and how you meet it will determine your

future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, everyone has been called upon to meet such a crisis.

A closer look will show you that most “crisis situations” are opportunities to either advance or stay where you are. In fact, most changes in your life will take place out of either “inspiration” or “desperation.”

Whatever comes your way, give it meaning and transform it into something of value. Your personal growth is the process of responding positively to change.

A precious stone cannot be polished without friction, nor humanity perfected without trials.”

To Your Success
Judy MacEachran

Her message is completely true, especially in today’s economy. It’s not the challenge that we should be concerned with, it’s how we deal with it that says a lot about who we are and how much trauma we will endure.

We can face our situations with a cheerful attitude or we can be nasty and angry all the time. If we choose to be nasty, our business will be affected in numerous ways. People will withdraw from someone who is unpleasant and difficult to be around. However, people love to associate with cheerful and pleasant people when they are facing difficulties.

Let me tell you a little story about a situation we faced in 1990. It shows how creative I was in dealing with our challenge and how we turned a situation that could have been very stressful into an enjoyable experience that we all still remember with fondness today.

We lived in the Sierra Foothills of California at an altitude of 2,800 feet. During the winter, the usual snowstorms would come through and drop 1 to 6 inches of snow at a time. Then in early February of 1990, a major storm dumped over three feet of snow in a three-day period. The majority of snow fell in the first 24 hours and at least two counties were declared disaster areas.

Trees and power lines went down everywhere, and it looked as if a bomb had detonated! As a result, our family spent three weeks (others longer) without power and the normal necessities. Of course, this meant there was no electricity to run the TV, games, lights, little wall heaters, or the water pump, oven, stove, washer, dryer, and phone, or the luxury of running water to cook, drink, clean, do laundry, and take baths or showers. For awhile, the road was washed out so we could not replenish supplies. But, even if we had wanted to, we did not need to get out because we had adequately prepared for such a scenario.

This experience actually turned out to be a lot of fun for the family. We had already stored the needed supplies of food, water, kerosene, lanterns, wicks, and cut wood to survive the supposed ordeal. That meant the whole thing really was more of an adventure than a case of endurance.

We put twin and queen mattress tops on the floor next to the wood-burning stove to stay all warm and snuggly. The children had a great idea too. They suggested that we put rocks on the top of the stove so when they were hot, we could put them under our blankets to keep warm. Hot rocks are great for warming cold feet in the winter!

The children and I played board games by lantern, and used flashlights to go between rooms or outdoors for wood. The wood-burning stove provided heat for the home, and it dried wet clothes from the kids playing in the snow. To top it all off, I learned to cook creatively on the top of that old stove (even though it wasn’t really meant for cooking on) so meals were quite interesting.

I kept a pot of heated water on the stove at all times to wash the cooking utensils and to make hot drinks. We used plastic utensils and paper products for drinking and eating, and then burned all the paper products in the stove for heat. I did try heating snow on the stove one time to make soup. Although I found it interesting, it required so much snow to get just a little bit of melted water that I decided it was too much work to make soup. Besides, I had stored plenty of extra water and food so there was no need to worry about melting water for soup anyway. Making soup was really more of an experiment than a necessity.

We used the top of our snow-covered car to double as a refrigerator; as you can imagine, that was an interesting sight. Of course, the kids were disappointed that ice cream would not keep; that was the only thing they didn’t like about losing the power! After two weeks, the electric company brought water in for people who were unable to get out, but that still left us at least another week without power.

We sparingly used several five-gallon containers of stored water to flush toilets, so we only flushed when it was absolutely necessary! We tried carrying water from the creek to fill the tanks to flush toilets, but that was too difficult. So we tried snow in the tanks and bowels to keep from using up too much water, but that didn’t work well either. As you might guess, the whole toilet thing was quite an experience. The toilet issue is the last thing on your mind when you prepare for emergencies, but it is truly one of the most important things to prepare for in your planning—trust me on this!

This experience happened more than 20 years ago, but we still remember it with fondness! At the time, my husband worked away from home for most of the time the power was off. He thought we were silly when he came home and saw how we were living, especially since we all seemed to enjoy it and no one was complaining.

We are living in trying times. We should recognize that being prepared helps us overcome the harshness of an experience.

My own experience shows that, in spite of hardship, being prepared can turn an ordeal into a fun adventure! In other words, we overcome hard times with judicious planning, using our creativity, having a cheerful heart and cooperative spirit, and by sporting smiling faces.

I hope you take the situations that we live in right now seriously.  You don’t have to ignore the news in order to stay positive.  Indeed, you MUST stay informed with what’s going on around you in order to respond appropriately to a foreseeable crisis and to make preparations that meet the possibility of it.  Then you go on with your daily activities and carry on business as usual.

I am interested in your thoughts on this subject. Please feel free to leave a comment in the box below.

I often follow Mike Dillard’s teaching, a very successful author and Network Marketer. Mike Dillard is the author of “Magnetic Sponsoring”, a very successful teaching program that has helped tens of thousands of people.

One principle Mike Dillard teaches is that there are Alpha and Beta type of people.

• An Alpha person goes out and makes opportunities for their future.
• A Beta person sits inside his or her cave and hopes things will get better.
• The question is “Are you an Alpha or a Beta type of person?”
• In other words, Do you have a strong desire to change your situation and then go out and do what Beta’s are reluctant to do?
• Once you’ve made the decision to be an Alpha, do you know how to go about being an Alpha person?
• If you have a basic idea about how to be an Alpha but would like to know more, you should keep in touch with my postings.

Also, I invite you to join me at http://ILDAssociate.Com for more information on this topic and other business leadership training.

ILD Global is an organization that not only teaches how to be a leader and happy in life’s successes and failures, but also how to develop the characteristics that successful people need to be happy.

My experience and expertise are based on the leadership training I received from ILD experts in the Network Marketing field. They are great examples of being a good leader, a good spouse and parent, and a good person in society. How many training sessions have you been to where they teach these traits? I doubt that there have been many, if any training such as I just described.

The focus of ILD Associated is on teaching people how to develop personal character and integrity in their business dealings. These qualities develop lasting relationships with associates and clients that generate loyalty and quality friendships.

When we understand the principles that make us happy and feel joy in our souls, then we can live a quality and satisfied life–whether we succeed or fail in the business ventures that we choose.

We will all fail, at one point or another, before we learn what works. This is all part of maturing and growing emotionally and spiritually. However, what really matters is how we handle our failures and successes. This is what makes us who we are, and contributes to being satisfied with who we are! I am pleased with the person I have become. Can you say the same?

The best advice I can give you about prospering in these times is to refer you to an article I read by Mike Dillard. I highly respect this man’s advice because he practices what he preaches.

I include  a copy of the email Mike Dillard just sent me; you might find it helpful as well.  

Hey Subscriber, last week I asked you if you wanted information and my resources when it comes to the economy.

You voted “YES” 8 to 1.

So here you go… This is arguably the most important email I’ve ever sent in the last 5 years. Please make good use of it.

Read it here:

http://www.magneticsponsoring.com/marketing/collapse-and-prosper.html

Also, below is part of a report from Mike Dillard. You see that report when you click on the above link.  I strongly urge you to use that link and read the rest of this report. Mike Dillard suggests books on the economy that I believe you will find helpful as well.

Jan 18, 2010                                                                                 marketing

We’ll I’ve got a pretty special post for you today… In fact, it may be the single most important message I’ve ever produced, so please stop what you’re doing and read this.

Last week, I took a little survey and asked if you’d like to hear about some of my economic insights and resources, in addition to the usual marketing strategies.

This wasn’t an easy decision, because I’m probably breaking every rule in the book right now when it comes to marketing…

Well at least every rule but one, which is the rule I’ve built my entire business upon… “Be willing to give without want, and you will get”.

And the bottom line is that you voted 8 to 1 in favor of getting this information, so I’m here to deliver for you today…

Now before we begin, I have a favor to ask of you…

If you haven’t taken a moment to reflect on what’s happening in Haiti and make a charitable donation, please stop and do that now through the Red Cross. (Thank you!)

Alright, On To The Economy…

So as I mentioned last week, I’ve been a voracious student of what’s been going on financially since the beginning of 2008, which gave me a few months of “heads-up” time before the crash of Lehman Brothers on Sept 15th, 2008.

For the last two years, I’ve literally spent 95% of my free time reading and researching what’s happening, and why its happening, in order to position myself to prosper in the future. <<MORE>>