Attitude & Mindset

DESIRE – the starting point of all achievement

July 5, 2010

If you are like most network marketers, you will be familiar with Napoleon Hill’s classic book, ‘Think and grow Rich’. In chapter 2 he tells the story of the penniless Edwin C. Barnes and his determination to become a business partner of the great inventor Thomas Edison: “He saw himself standing in Edison’s presence. He [...]

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MLM Home Business – building blocks to your success

July 3, 2010

Generating leads; finding the right people to talk to; developing communication and sponsoring skills; these are certainly important. You won’t get far if you can’t build a team. But I knew someone who was good at all these things. Their team grew; lots of new distributors and enthusiasm and then attrition set in and it [...]

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True Wealth and Success – pt 4, blood, sweat and tears?

June 23, 2010

No gain without pain – when I was young, we knew what hard work was – blah, blah. Of course it takes hard work to build a profitable MLM business. But you need to work smart and not be sucked into all those clichés you have probably heard from your parents and everyone else in [...]

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True Wealth and Success – pt 3, give to others first

June 21, 2010

We talk in network marketing about the fact that it is a people business. It is about helping others to be successful. How often people quote Zig Ziglar, ‘If you help enough other people to have whatever they want, you will have everything you want’ But let me ask you to look honestly at yourself. [...]

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True Wealth and Success – pt 2, find your rock

June 19, 2010

In this second article I am going to look at Deepak Chopra’s ideas about affluence and how to find out what is right for you. This latter is not so easy but till we find what is really right for us – not the many things imposed on us – there is no chance of [...]

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True Wealth and Success – pt 1, more than the money

June 10, 2010

Most of you reading this are probably developing a business. Of course you want to make money and with network marketing you have the potential to earn a lot. However I would like to suggest that true wealth and success are way more than just money. Indeed if that is your primary focus, you may [...]

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Team MLM – is it so important?

June 7, 2010

Sometimes people see the typical entrepreneur as someone out there working away on his own. Is ‘team MLM’ really so important? A lot of folk say that ‘if it is to be, it’s up to me’. Does that rule out being a good team player? Let me tell you how it was for me back [...]

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A True MLM Leader – part 4, being the leader

June 1, 2010

In this final part of the series, I am going to share some key characteristics that define you as an MLM leader. I am sure you will have others in mind but the following are very important. Take full responsibility – for absolutely everything that happens in your life. Most people spend a huge amount [...]

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A True MLM Leader – part 3, developing your inner strength

May 30, 2010

Great leaders and inspirers of men are not arrogant and unapproachable – they have no need to be like that. That is the domain of petty tyrants and small minded wannabe leaders. Leaders have no need to prove themselves to anyone else. Why is that? When I was young and rebellious I wanted to feel [...]

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A True MLM Leader – part 2, who do you work with?

May 27, 2010

This industry is about helping people to realise their dreams. So you are new in the business and you want to save the world and make sure everyone who joins you is super successful. Well that doesn’t work, even if you are a yellow personality! It is sad but true that 80% of your business [...]

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