How to be More Productive by Not Letting Anything Get to You

Little stuff used to slow me down all the time. I see people get robbed of precious hours, weeks, even years of their life by letting stuff get to them. You are working hard and then you stub your toe or someone lets you down and then your day is ruined. This blog will help you be more productive by not getting hung up on the little stuff.

Increase your speed of forgiveness…

One of my all-time favorite quotes is from Michael Beckwith – “Forgiveness is giving up on the fact that past could have been any different.” Mmm, isn’t that just a yummy concept? And, so true. Most of the times we are upset at our unmet expectations of others or our environment. Let me give you some examples to test your ability to let little crap go.

1. You are at the mall on Christmas eve, needless to say, it is packed. It’s a total zoo. You meant to get presents weeks ago but now your procrastination has come back to bite you. After driving through three entire lots and not finding one spot, you finally locate one! You put on your turn signal, commence the turn and VROOOOM! From out of nowhere a little red porsche zips in your spot while the driver is talking on their cellphone.

2. You are making calls to people you know about your home business. You talk to one of your closest friends from high school and they tell you that they can’t believe you are trying to rip off your friends and that you have sunk that low.

3. You are excited about your new network marketing business. You talk to your brother, who, is also your financial planner. He is someone you respect, look up to and really hope he decides to do the business. You have also brought him a lot of business so you sorta figure he owes you. You don’t hear from him and then 2 days later you find out that he did join your company, but, with someone else, in another state, that he doesn’t even know.

Angry yet? So What…

People will let things such as the above 3 scenarios ruin their day. Most people let little things take them out of their momentum. At every moment of every day, you are either going toward your goals or away from them. Nothing in nature stands still. Now, you can capture and utilize anger to “show someone” but most people do not use this very effectively.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned. - Buddha

At no time can you change what happened in the past, either long ago or immediately. If you stay focused, embrace the fact that little crap is going to happen, but keep your eyes on the prize, you will attain your desires. Meditation will help you get to a calmer mind. I meditate every single day and very little bothers me anymore. I cannot do anything if a family member or friend says something rude to me, I do not have the desire to prove myself right.

Choose to Be Happy or Be Right

Work to loosen your grip on your need to be right and your addiction to outcomes. People are never always going to react to your business or even you the way you want them to, SO WHAT. I used to care when people would write me nasty emails or give me nasty comments, now I know that they are going through their own struggle and they chose to pick me to lash out to, it’s really nothing personal and, even if it was, you can’t do anything about it anyway. When you learn to let the little stuff go, you will produce more and, it sure beats arguing with idiots

Action steps borrowed from Brian Tracy, one of the world’s best…

Action Steps to Get More Sales from Your Home based Business

1. See yourself as the president of your own personal sales corporation, being completely responsible for all sales and results. This is the attitude of the highest paid salespeople. Most network marketers are confused and overwhelmed and don’t take this type of responsibility. Make it happen like it all rests on you and your results will skyrocket.

2. Set clear income goals for each month and write them down.

3. Decide how many sales YOU need to make to hit your income goals.

4. Determine how many prospects you will have to talk to each day to make the amount of sales required to hit those income goals above. Very few marketers do this but if they did, they would realize they have NOT been talking to enough people. If it takes you an average of 10 people to get one sales, calculate that in. If you do not know how many people it takes to get one sales, well, figure it out by talking to people and tracking your results.

5. Dedicate yourself to self improvement every day.  Make sure you have a set schedule each day to personally improve yourself in the ways you need to hit those goals.

6. Spend the majority of your time, either by phone or face to face, with people that may be open to buying your product or joining your MLM company. Your time management will dictate the velocity of your success. Spend more time prospecting than studying and you will build a network marketing empire.

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Many times we get with an MLM company and don’t produce, but we stick with it.  We know that only 3% of people in the company are making money, but it still does not matter.  Here are 10 reasons to take a closer look at your company and possibly make a move.

Number 10.

Your company is so old that Moses was it’s first rep, the market is saturated and it is impossible for new reps to make any money.

Number 9.

While you were being recruited, your up line made you feel like a 5 star recruit.  Now that you have joined, they act like they are on the 10 most wanted list and you are the FBI

Number 8.

You wait a month, to get an auto ship product that you could have driven to the corner store in 5 minutes and gotten for half the price.

Number 7.

You couldn’t explain the comp plan if your life depended on it.

Number 6.

You have spent so much on your business that you realize you could have bought a small used car, but you haven’t made a dime.

Number 5.

People can get your product on any street corner, but you think they will buy yours because of some ‘secret ingredient’.

Number 4.

You are selling health products, but you aren’t healthy.

Number 3.

You have more of your products in your home than what you have sold.

Number 2.

Your company is making money off of  you and thousands of others who are paying a monthly fee for a website when what the company pays can be covered by only 1 person paying it.

…and the number one reason to take a long look at your MLM company…

It took you 6 months to save up the start up fee and you don’t know anyone who even has that much money in the bank, much less that much that they can spare to join your business.

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Google Voice

I’m not sure how long Google voice has been around, but I just recently started using it and I love it.  I’m sure that there are some who would say different, but for the price (free), I am sold.

I run several home businesses and I wanted a way to have people call me and get my business message as opposed to my personal message.  At the same time, I did not want people from my job calling and getting my business message.  Google Voice solved that problem for me and many more.

First, you can get new numbers without getting a new phone or new service.  My business cards have my Google voice number on them, not my real number, although both numbers ring the same phone.  You can program the Google voice number with a special message and if you know the numbers that will be calling, you can program each individual one to get a different message.

The messages can also be translated to text so that you can get them while you are busy, in a meeting, a movie or whatever. I intentionally do not answer so that my prospects will get to hear the voice mail message that I have prepared for them.  If you have a website, there is a widget that allows people to call you directly from your website.

The set up is very easy and it is all very well documented.  To find out more go to google.com/voice.

In a lot of marketing circles today, there is a debate going on as to whether or not you can survive only marketing online. After years of trial and error, I am of the thought that it is extremely difficult, especially for people new to marketing online.

There are many challenges and there is tons of competition. To stand out from the crowd as a beginner can hurt the ego of many. Even the most experienced online marketers do not abandon their offline efforts.

With that said, although, I consider myself to be an online marketer, this technique is an off line technique. Now think about this, one of your goals is to get your message in front of as many people as you possibly can. So what I do is to meet them where they will be.

I mainly use this technique on the weekend, but it works during the week also. During the week, people are working and un happy and on the weekends, they just want to get away and relax.  So, where will they be doing that at? Wherever that is, that is where you need to be and get there before the crowd does.

My main place is at parks and lakes.  I get up with the sun, business cards in hand and a little scotch tape and I leave my mark all over the place.  I leave  them on the bathroom doors, on the benches, on the trash cans, and anywhere else that I think all of those people might see it.

My hope is that the people who are not interested will leave them alone and the ones who are will call.  Most of the time, cards will stay there and I do not have to try and hit the same places over and over a lot. I have software that allows me to design my own business cards and I send them off to get printed at gotprint.com and depending on how many I buy, they usually end up costing me around a penny a piece.  That’s not bad at all, so it doesn’t hurt dropping them and not knowing if that particular card will ever be seen.

Happy prospecting and get those phones to ringing.

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For an author, one of the best reasons to become a part of the TBA lounge is that you get to interact with others in your field who are experiencing the same things that you are.  Those who have the same questions and concerns and are growing with you. One of the benefits is access to Mr. Brown that others don’t have.

You can watch the short video below to find out more.

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This is some wisdom that I received from one of my mentors that really enspired me. He was sharing some things that he had learned over the last 10 years or so in growing personally and in business. The concepts are general in nautre, but you can relate them to your business and to your development also to see where you stack up.

The first key to wealth is your attitude. It’s not just having a positive attitude, but your overall mindset and how you approach life.  Having control of your thoughts, behaviors and actions are extremely important. One recommened  resource is Jim Rhon’s ‘Success Principals’.  This resource was a life changer. The idea is to listen to the message over and over to literally burn the message of success into your mind.  It’s like with a professional athlete, they will do the same motions over and over and their muscles will begin to remember how to act in certain situations and they can almost perform in their sleep.

A lot of us don’t have the luxury of being around some one who has become successful. So  for us, this is the next best thing.  Here is a man who has done it and knows what it takes, so if you listen to him enough, then you start to think like he does. You start to act like he does and you start to do things that create wealth like he does.

The second thing is knowledge. This one reminds me of the saying that I had on my high school class ring. “Knowlegde is Power”.  How does this relate to building wealth though?  Well, first you have to know yourself.  You need to understand what your talents and your strengths are.  I look at Sharon and I like Jack Sprat and his wife from the old childhood fairly tale.  He could eat no fat and his wife could eat no lean and together, they licked the plate clean.

You may night have a partner in business with you, but still it is important to know what you are good at and what you are not good at.  If you are good at it, keep doing it.  If not, find someone who is good at it and let them do it.  You should always try and develop yourself, make yourself better and learn new skills, but don’t try to be someone else.  Be yourself, know yourself and do what you do best, while always continuing to learn new skills. As you gain skills, you become more valuable and therefore worth more to others.

The third and last thing is opportunity.  This refers to the vehicle that you are going to use to create wealth. There are many kids out there who are creating apps for our iphones and androids who are making a killing!  This is the vehicle that they have chosen to obtain their wealth.  Many of us use network marketing as our vehicle. It’s just a matter of exchanging your information,  talents and value for money.

A lot of people see opportunity and are afraid to take a chance because the idea is foreign to them.  They fear change and risk, so they miss out.  That happens a lot because people get in their minds, what they think and what they want and so when what they really needs flashes them in the face, they miss out.  Don’t let that be you. Put these 3 principles together and start building your path to wealth.

Probably the biggest challenge for any business is to get exposure. Sometimes that exposure comes at a price.  As a matter of fact most of the time it does. When you get a chance to get free exposure, you need to jump on it. Here is an idea that we stumbled upon and we want to share it.

First of all, we have the car sign.  It is not the typical car sign, but because we drive a jeep it is a tire cover sign. I have always felt like more people can see a sign if they are behind you than the ones on side of you, so we had this one custom made. Custom made for us is still not very much.  The tire cover came from Wal-mart and the art work was done in the local mall by a t-shirt artist. I can’t remember, but both together were under $100.

Now as for this new and neat little idea that we stumbled upon. There are always events happening, this one just happened to be a rodeo parade. I’m sure that you can find something in your town that will be similar.  Why did I choose a rodeo parade?  Because it was there.  I have not been to a rodeo in over 30 years and I did not go to this one either.

The entry fee to the parade was a whooping $20.00. What were the additional costs? Decorations… We had 3 poster boards that were about 30 cent each, again from our favorite store. Markers, glitter and some of that float paper we just happened to have around the house because Sharon loves crafts.  Our second biggest expense was the candy that we threw out during the parade. Over 1,000 pieces from Sam’s, less than $20.00.

It did not take a lot of time to get ready either.  As a matter of fact, we started on our car signs during the week, got to the parade site a few hours early and slapped them on the car. We were even working on the signs the morning of.  To us, it was not important to have the best decorated car, but just to get the publicity.  The candy got the kids attention and giving the candy to the kids got the parents attention.

There were TV cameras there and many people snapping theirown photos and taking their own movies.  I’d say for less than 50 bucks, it was well worth it!

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Is Team Fam the company for you

Family is an acronym that stands for Faithful Alliance of Motivated Individuals Loving You.  Yes, that’s a bit different than most network marketing companies that I have ever heard of.   I have never heard of a company that is based upon a family concept.  The founder, David Ashby has established several weekly calls that are based upon the family concept and prayer.  Again, that is unique and seperates Team Fam from a lot of others.  In the crowded Network marketing arena, companies need to be able to set themselves apart.

It’s a well known fact that most people (at least 97%) do not even make their money back in network marketing.  That other 3% is generally those charasmatic people that the rest of us look up to, admire and secretly want to be like. Those of us who really do need the money are generally chasing dreams that we will never catch and lining the pockets of those who do not need it.

Mr Ashby has Team Fam up to be different.  This company is set up so that the average man or woman can succeed.  Have you ever tried to explain a comp plan to someone that had PVs, CVs, DVDs, PVCs and all of that other stuff? Honestly you probably did not understand it yourself. With Team Fam, you pay $25 and 5 people get $5 each.  How simple is that?

Explaining the products and finding people who have an extra $25 that could turn into thousands per month is just as easy.  Not only that, but you can also make money with the TBA lounge and Live Green properties. I think Mr. Ashby has a hit with Team Fam.

I would never suggest that anyone quit a venture that they enjoy, but sometimes you need a little help to get you to where you want to be. If you need to supplement your current income or change altogether, team famis an excellent choice.

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