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Who's in Charge Here?
If you read my personal note
above it won't surprise you my thoughts this month revolve
around time… and how we spend it.
I've dealt with more death
this year than ever before… death of those close to me and
it certainly brought home the question:
How am I
living my life?
This is not a moral question
- Are you being good, doing what you "should."
It is a question of perception. How are you living your
life?
Are you just getting though
the day? Are you beating time until something else happens?
Are you waiting for something to change things for you? Are
you doing things you don't really like today, so you can
have more tomorrow?
Or
Are you enjoying your day?
Are you enjoying all the things you do throughout your day…
every minute of it?
Do you have a plan for your
life - Is it written down? Is everything you do each day
allowing that plan to unfold? Are you enjoying each step of
your plan so you are Living Your Plan today? Or have
you put your life "on hold" while you finish
everything you think is necessary in order to "get
there?" (And good heavens where do you need to
"get?" Isn't your life right here, right now with
you?)
If I have a "Pet
Peeve" around network marketing it is hearing this:
"You need to
sacrifice now in order to get what you want later."
Ugh!
There are at least two things
wrong with that statement.
- You can have a wonderful,
full life right now just starting out in your MLM
business. Yes you can! Your life can have a qualitative
change immediately for the better and you need not put
anything on hold for it to continue to get better.
- Who says you'll be around
later to reap the rewards of this life you put on hold?
Anybody guaranteeing that for you? I thought not.
Look folks this is the deal.
How you think about something is exactly how it is going to
feel and look to you. Timothy Leary is right, your thoughts,
your words they do create your reality. If you think you
can't have a good, rich, thoughtful, interesting life
right now… you're right.
But if you think you can
have a good rich thoughtful interesting life right now, you're
right… All it takes is to get your head on straight.
My family could spend the end
of this year spiraling down a nasty ladder because of my Dad's
death. I miss him and he's gone. I'll not hug him again, I'll
not hear his voice again, I'll not talk with him again and
there are so many things left to say.
But… I can change my
thoughts and remember all that he gave me and celebrate the
memories and work to keep my head full of Dad's gifts. Oh, I
talk about him with tears but laughter too and lots of it.
I know John McBride had
bigger personal plans than he was able to accomplish in his
all too short life. But I also know that John lived a rich
full life while he was expanding it. He loved to sail and
took his love of sailing to kids who might otherwise never
have had the opportunity to learn. As John continued to
accomplish more of his plan he may have done more of that but
he did some of it now… John lived his life now and
continually expanded it to his ever growing plan.
How about you? What kind of
choices are you making? Are you letting life's circumstances get
in your way? Are you letting your past create your future?
My Dad was a five year
prisoner of war during WWII. Not a nice time. Over the years,
I heard stories that made me cry. But that's not what my Dad
focused on. I grew up hearing about the things these young
guys (my Dad was only 19 when he was captured) used to do as
prisoners to get more out life. Dad could have been bitter he
certainly had a right to be. But how would that have served
him?
If there is ever a time to
take responsibility for your life, it is right now. Why is it
so important right now? Because you simply don't know how much
more time you have. None of us do. But you do have right now.
Are you living your life to
its fullest? What kind of choices are you making? Be sure to
watch The Choice
Movie to give you something to help you think about this.
What does all of this have to
do with your business?
It's the end of the year.
Time to take stock. How did you do? Did you grow personally?
Did your business grow? Did you have a good concrete plan in
place for that growth?
What's happening for next
year? Are you thinking it through? Are you taking stock of
your choices and deciding what your next steps are?
Is everything you do
each day integrated into your overall plan?
What! You don't have an over
all plan? ;-(
Hey if that's true… who is
running your life anyway? Cause without a plan it's not
you.
Let me give you a quick
example of exactly what I mean if you "think"
differently and have a plan. Let's go back to my (well one of
them) pet peeve - Sacrifice today for tomorrow.
Here is a
practical example for reason number one above. This is how you can
have a wonderful, full life right now even if you've just
started your MLM business… and haven't made a cent… that's
right not a red cent.
Let's say you take your new
business to someone (usually on your warm list) and ask them
to take a look at this great business you've found. They get
this really smug smile on their face, typically cross their
arms and then ask you, "How much money have you
made?"
If you really believe that
before your business can make your life better you need to
make money - you are stopped dead in your tracks. You have no
answer for this person.
But… If you have an overall
plan and see just how your new business fits into it, then
you're coming from a completely different place. You think
differently because you feel differently. Everything is not
tied to money - it's tied to your actions and how you think and
feel.
So now instead of being
speechless, your answer to this dream crusher goes like this:
| Well you know Mr.
Scrooge, I haven’t made any money yet because I just
got started. But
let me tell you what has already changed for me and my
family.
Since we decided
this was the right business for us to achieve a richer
life there is real magic at home.
When I leave my job now, I go home to grow my
own business. This
is for us - not for someone else.
For the first time
we have a light at the end of the tunnel and it’s
not a freight train.
Would you like to see if it’s a light at the
end of the tunnel for you too? |
The trick
to bringing this kind of thinking and growth into your life is
to take charge of your life.
If you don’t know how to do that and you like what
you just read check out our Year
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I only do
this once a year… if you’re ready to stop getting in your
way and are ready to “catch your truck” see you on the Year
In Gear.
But if you
don’t join us for heaven’s sake do something.
The one thing we all know for sure, this life is not a
dress rehearsal. Make
every minute count because each one of those minutes is
precious and as they tick off they’re gone … forever.
How
will you spend your minutes in 2007?
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My Mom and Dad
were best friends and lovers for sixty years. As the year
draws to a close I'm watching my Mom get more and more
emotionally fragile. To make things even tougher, it is also
my Dad's birthday on the 20th of December. Death changes
everything in some ways and the changes are forever. I could
see my family, particularly Mom, was beginning to
"dread" the idea of Dad's birthday without him.
