Dr. Seuss Can Help You Succeed in Network Marketing

Here is a great quote from Theodor Seuss Geisel, popularly known as Dr. Seuss:  "You have brains in your head.  You have feet in your shoes.  You can steer yourself any direction you choose.  You're on your own, and you know what you know.  And you are the one who'll decide where you'll go." Take that quote and apply it to the 4 basics of achieving your goal in network marketing: Vision, Drive, Focus and Direction. 

If you have ever had a mentor, they have asked you first to set a goal.  But it needs to be a passionate goal; this is your Vision.  And there needs to be a strong "Why." This goal needs to be specific, written down in the present tense, with a target date, and measurable.  This is not some mere "It would be nice to be rich" kind of thing.  From here we will break down this big goal and make intermediate goals, and then short term goals.

After that we need to have Drive.  Drive is the motivation to pursue that vision through all kinds of diversions and difficulties.  We can only have that drive if we are truly passionate about where we want to go and why we want to go there.  A good example of this is wanting to help your ailing parent or be able to send your kids to the college of their dreams IF this is more important to you than your comfort at the time.  The Vision has to motivate you to do things that are outside your comfort zone, even when you are tired.

Third, we need to have Focus.  Focus is the ability to look at what we want and sort out a very specific portion of the general plan into which we will direct our efforts.  Let's take an example of using social networks to build a list of friends and contacts.  You can go out there and sign up on 10 or 20 different networks and build lists of thousands of contacts or "friends."  But the value in social networking is in actually developing relationships with people.  How can you possibly focus on that diverse a group?  Choose a couple places that look like a good fit and focus your efforts there.  The same concept could apply to how many companies you try to represent.  Your time will be a lot more productive if you focus your efforts in one area.

The last area is Direction.  Direction can be provided by your upline, your company training, and mentors outside your company as well.  We all need feedback about what we are doing. We need to make our plans, go for it, look at the results, and then adjust.   The adjustments we will make are based on our results and the feedback of mentors and upline.  This is a business where we can wander around lost for a long time if we don't take advice from folks who have been around a lot longer.

Dr. Seuss lets us know that we have everything we need to succeed in network marketing.  We have the brains, heart and determination to succeed.  Our success will depend on our own work ethic.  But, please be sure that you allow others with successful track records and experience to help you with the learning process.

Debby Riddick

http://DRiddick.bigmlmtruths.com

How are your goals coming? Check in with your subconscious mind!

 This is something that gave me a lot of trouble for a long time.  I resisted the idea that “thoughts are things” and the implications that had for me.  I have always been a positive person.  I never dwelt on the negative.  I was not interested in watching TV or listening to radio, especially talk radio.  Perhaps that is why I was not a negative person.  But in order for me to accept responsibility for my own circumstances I had to learn about quantum mechanics.

Dr. Rhine of Duke University and his associates did extensive testing that showed the validity of telepathy and clairvoyance.  But what are these really?  Screens, walls and distances seem to have no effect on the ability of two people to communicate.  The more awake and alert the participants are the better the results.  The United States government and Stanford University were very active in studying remote viewing and mind influence during World War II and thereafter.  The amount of money put into pursuing this by the government seems to give a certain amount of credibility to it.

Lynne McTaggart has written two books in which she chronicles the history of research around the world studying how our minds connect to each other. There are studies showing the ability of our mind even to influence a machine.  Jesus told us that “where two or more are gathered in my name” praying in agreement, the prayer would be answered.   Napoleon Hill says this is the power of the mastermind group:  A few like minded folks sitting down together and focusing on a problem at hand will not only draw ideas out of each other, but also out of the mind of God.

But there is more to it than this.  Masaru Emoto relays the story of a monk and a group of 350 folks praying over Lake Biwa, the largest lake in Japan. The lake was horribly polluted.  The newspaper reported the next month that the putrid algae, which appeared each year and caused an unbearable stench, had failed to show up.  The stories go on and on and on.

Our subconscious minds connect to the Infinite through our creative imagination.  We are able to gain access to sources of knowledge completely outside our own experience.  This makes me think of how often a couple of people around the world are working on something in the area of health or science and a breakthrough is achieved simultaneously, even though they have never heard of the work of the other person.  The knowledge of mankind is at the point for that breakthrough to occur and the scientists are tapping into it. 

But how does this apply to us achieving our goals?  First of all, we have the power and inspiration available to us achieve anything which we truly want.  We need to make the definite decision to go for it, get together a mastermind group, and purposefully connect  with each other in a mind alliance asking our subconscious minds to bring to our creative minds the ideas to reach our goals.  Then make a plan based on those ideas and get started !

Debby Riddick

http://DRiddick.bigmlmtruths.com

Decision Making - What is The Real Need ?

Last time, from Spencer Johnson’s book Yes or No, we learned that we need to use both our head and our heart to make the best decisions. We use our head by asking the first question: “Am I meeting the real need, informing myself of options and thinking it through?” We must answer either “yes” or “no” to the question. No “maybes.”

If the answer is “no” we keep going. We ask: “Is this something I merely want?” or “Is this something I really need?” We may want a Ferrari, but what we really need is a car to get to work. We have to make the decision based on the real need. We can go back and work on what we want later.

We need to focus on the results in such detail that we can actually see ourselves at the point where we have achieved them. This focus helps us say no to everything else until it is achieved. Once we have made this decision, the daily choices are easy. Does this action help me achieve my goal, my real need, or not? If the answer is no, then we don’t do it.

Spencer Johnson gives us a great way to separate the needs and wants: To see what we merely want, we ask “What do I wish I could do?” To see what we really need we ask “What would I like to have done?” looking back on it from the future.

Once we have done that, we need to be sure that we are looking at all the options. When we think we don’t have any options we need to remember that we just aren’t aware of them right now. We need to gather information, but only what is actually needed to make the decision. It is too easy to get buried in facts that don’t focus on the need. They just distract us. We need to gather information and then validate it for ourselves.

When we feel frozen with fear we need to just get started. Ask “If I don’t have the information, who does?” “What is the best way to get it?” “Have I verified it myself?” That will lead to more information and so on. Pretty soon we are able to see that there are choices we weren’t even aware of.

The last step in this part of the process is thinking it through. We can start by looking at our past decisions and learning from them. When we got bad results what had we done wrong in making the decision? When we got good results what had we done right in making the decision?

We can improve our future results by asking “then what? … then what? … then what?” for each of the options we are looking at. We often make the mistake of assuming that it is only a short-term decision, but quite often there are long-term repercussions. So carry each option out to the future.


Stay tuned for the next installment, Feelings.

Debby Riddick

http://DRiddick.bigmlmtruths.com