LET IT REALLY SINK IN…… THEN CHOOSE

John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say.  When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply,  If I were any better, I would be twins!

He was a natural motivator.  If an employee was having a bad day,  John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.  Seeing this style really made me curious,  so one day I went up and asked him,  I don’t get it!  You can’t be a positive person all of the time.  How do you do it? He replied,  ‘Each morning I wake up and say to myself,  you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or…you can choose to be in a bad mood.  I choose to be in a good mood.  Each time something bad happens,  I can choose to be a victim or… I can choose to learn from it.  I choose to learn from it.  Every time someone comes to me complaining,  I can choose to accept their complaining or… I can point out the positive side of life.   I choose the positive side of life.

Yeah,  right,  it’s not that easy, I protested. Yes,  it is,  he said.  Life is all about choices.  When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice.  You choose how you react to situations.  You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood.  The bottom line:  It’s your choice how you live your life.  I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter,  I left the Tower Industry to start my own business.   We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later,  I heard that he was involved in a serious accident,  falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.  After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care,  he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.  I saw him about six months after the accident.  When I asked him how he was,  he replied,  If I were any better, I’d be twins… Want to see my scars? I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place. ‘The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be born daughter,  he replied.  Then,  as I lay on the ground,  I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or… I could choose to die.  I choose to live.

Weren’t you scared?  Did you lose consciousness?  I asked.  He continued, …the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses,  I got really scared.  In their eyes, I read ‘he’s a dead man. I knew I needed to take action.  What did you do?  I asked.  Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,  said John.  She asked if I was allergic to anything, yes,  I replied.  The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply…I took a deep breath and yelled, “Gravity”

Over their laughter,  I told them, I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.  He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors,  but also because of  his amazing attitude…I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.  Attitude, after all, is everything.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow,  for tomorrow will worry about itself.   Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:34.

After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

by Mike Virgil on MySpace Blogs

I am a network marketer and absolutely love the opportunity it allows me to attain the things I desire and achieve the goals I set for myself. I have no boss, no daily commute or stress. I am grateful for my fortune, working from home and meeting great people. It is an exceptional online business opportunity. The products I market focus on Health, Wealth & Wisdom. A great combination of attributes for these times of economic uncertainties. All of which are attainable if one so desires.

Exactly my POINT! My business requires an individual to submit an application that has a small fee, 100% refundable if not accepted, or, if the person doesn’t feel this internet business is right for them. I engage with opportunity seekers on a daily basis and am amazed at the number of people who will not move forward because of this small investment.  It’s an opportunity to discover the vehicle that could change their lives, achieve their dreams and passions.

Now that I think about it…. Quite frankly, if you are unwilling to take a step to learn something of benefit for you and your family, “without risk”, why are you looking? Why bother…

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THE MOST IMPORTANT ADVICE OF ALL

So you want to start your own online networking business? The most important advice I can give to you is:

Showing Up!! That’s the crucial thing. What do I mean? Do The Work! After all, it’s your business and your livelihood. When you are working full time for an employer you do the work and earn what they think you are worth. When you do the work for yourself you determine how much you want to pay you. The secret is to develop the habit of showing up and doing something every single day. Some days it will feel like you haven’t achieved anything. You need a specific time every day where you sit down and practice the craft of internet marketing. Yes, it’s a craft.  Sit down and do the work – typing for those 60 minutes, or producing the videos or doing the market research – all the vital elements to build a thriving business. Acquiring new skills and knowledge, this is absolutely imperative, but, should be done at another time*, not during productive output time. Make this time a habit, a process!

What is your motivation for starting up your business? You really must Have A Burning Desire** to make it happen. You must know there is a market out there or you wouldn’t be doing this. Possibly you want to show people that you know something that works and could actually make money. Maybe it is about leadership and building a team of entrepreneurs. Maybe you want to educate your team on all the facets of internet marketing and building a home based business. What’s the one piece of advice that you can give people just starting out now? What’s the one thing they should watch out for? Do you need to teach them how to create product, how to produce content, writing articles, filming video’s, recording podcasts, transposing PDF files, presentations, keynotes, holding webinars/teleconferences, ways to reach their audience, social media like Twitter, Facebook,Youtube and the like. How do they all fit together? It’s A Full Time Occupation.

You Have To  Commit To The Challenge! As you learn you will have many successes but the fact is you will try many marketing schemes that don’t work. For every winner there is a half a dozen losers. At the same time you need to have fun with all the things you are doing. Who said that you can’t have fun? Fun is the glue that keeps you striving because at times things can become really disheartening. Maybe it is something that’s going to help in your market research, possibly something that will help you get more traffic, or something to help you convert by getting more people to get what you’d like them to do. Possibly to help you create a more engaging/compelling product.

This has lead me to what is most important to a successful enterprise. Sure, you need to be contributing into your market, understanding the market, leading the market but the one thing you have to do is create revenue. You need to practice making money just as you would practice for a marathon. Diligently! If you don’t you and your cash flows will have a very limited future, there is no magic pill; you need to be contributing into your market. Do The Work!

Being an entrepreneur isn’t a walk in the park. It is not easy. You will be asking yourself to learn new stuff, cultivate new skills, develop a new mind-set and then, when you think you have mastered all there is to master, you’ll get to start all over again because a new game is in town. You have to set your mind right. With hard work, great mentors and persistence you will succeed.

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The next time you run into some familiar blockage or begin to feel unsuited to face some new and difficult personal challenge, don’t do what you’ve always done before. Don’t try to think your way around it. You no longer want a way around your troubles because what goes around, comes around! What you want is to grow beyond the level of that disturbance. And to do that, you must not act from it.

So don’t allow yourself to be pulled down into any anxious concern or confusion over not knowing what to do about your present condition. What you really want is an insight into your situation, not a fight with it. The two have nothing in common. So make it clear to yourself once and for all: nothing that hounds you can help you.

Draw yourself back from your usual thinking. Quietly observe it race around looking for the shelter of a conclusion it can recognize. Have nothing to do with its frantic motion.

You’ve gone as far as you can go with what you know. Now it’s time to know that, so that you can let what you know go, and let something unthinkable occur to you. Just relax.

Pressuring yourself to come up with a happy ending to a sad or shaky situation only goes to show you still believe that you can resolve these troubles. But if you could have, you would have by now. Besides, your lower nature wants you to confuse these feelings of pressure for being some kind of proof of personal progress. It’s done its job well. After all these years you’re afraid to live without this feeling of habitually prodding yourself, for fear that without it, you might get stuck! The solution here is to see that, in fact, you are stuck! This powerful insight releases you from the pressure of wanting anything from yourself.

Now you’ve done what you can do. You’ve prepared the stage, your own mind, for the arrival of a higher nature and a new kind of freedom. But learn to expect it in the unexpected. To paraphrase the New Testament: be ever watchful for you don’t know when — or how — something higher will make itself known to you.

There may come a flash of insight, a clear glimpse into some self-created cause of your own continuing inner captivity. Or, perhaps, a sudden and sweet deep sense of wholeness will sweep through you, a quiet but profound intuition, wherein you know yourself, for that moment, to be one with all of that life pulsating around and within you.

However that Light breaks into the darkened room of self, consider each brief illumination as an appointed messenger, a heavenly herald sent in advance of a greater freedom to come. Learn to embrace each appearance, for regardless of what may be revealed — to you or about you — these insights are not unlike the sound of the shouts of liberation heard always just before the arrival of the liberating forces. A new freedom always follows. Now, follow it.

– Guy Finley

If you’re trying to be a leader and be a success, don’t lose your fire and your desire to continue. When you have these things you have the winning spirit that you need to move forward, even when things seem difficult. If you lose them, though, you really have nothing, even if you’re making money. Not having a passion for what you do will kill a business, so you have to do something that matters to you if you really want success.

Leadership isn’t about telling people what to do. The main principle of leadership is to be a quality person who doesn’t need to tell people what to do – those people simply follow you because they see your value and they want what you have. If you can be that kind of person (and it can be learned) you can be a good leader and show the world what you have to offer. Adhering to that will bring you success.

There are many ways to be successful. The people who are successful the fastest (and with the smallest amount of effort) do three things. They are passionate about what they are doing. They are committed to completing their task no matter what kinds of problems and challenges they might encounter. They make others want to follow them without coercion or demands. When you honestly have these things, you have what you need to be successful.

The human brain is amazing. It does so much that we don’t understand, and among those things is the way that people become what they think about the most. You need the right mindset if you’re going to be successful, and that means you have to think about being successful. If you always think defeat and doom and gloom your brain will become fixated on that and your mannerisms will match. You won’t get anywhere.

When you try to do something, like start up a new business, it doesn’t always go well. If that’s the case, and you can’t get anywhere, don’t simply give up. Take another street, another path, or another road to get you to where you want to be. That might mean a different style of business, or just a different take on the business that you’re planning on starting up. The options really are endless.

Even if you weren’t a leader when you were younger, that doesn’t mean that you can’t be one now. You don’t have to be ‘born to be a leader,’ because no one really is. People learn to be leaders through their life experiences, the kinds of work that they do, and how they are treated by family, friends, and society in general. If you want to be a leader you can learn to do it right, even if you weren’t taught to do it when you were younger.