Couple news stories to consider this afternoon. Perhaps not necessarily front page news, but interesting nonetheless:

Cell phone in man’s chest pocket stops bullet; http://apnews.myway.com//article/20081120/D94ITTMO1.html

Detective handcuffed to Oswald can’t escape photo; http://apnews.myway.com//article/20081120/D94IVFGG0.html

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Someone pretty smart once told me this phrase: There is no perfect MLM company.

That is something we will all deal with at some point in our business.

One of the reasons why people switch companies a lot is because they feel that “The Grass will be greener on the other side”.

They encounter a problem in their company which frustrates them. Then they go looking for a new company because it must be better than their current company. However that’s almost never true!

Just because you switched to a new company doesn’t mean it’s going to be any better than the company you are with now? You might find a better company or you might get there to find that they have just as many problems or more!

If you do decide to take a look at a second company make sure you do so with integrity? Don’t burn your bridges with your existing company. Don’t make a big deal out of your leaving your company to join the new one. Don’t target your downline. Those are things that can get you in trouble and can come back to haunt you.

Whenever I have has challenges with the company I was involved with I would become upset. My initial knee-jerk reaction was, I’ll go find another company. After thinking about it however I realized you know this is a pretty darn good company and a few “hiccups” are bound to happen. I can either choose to be part of the problem or part of the solution.

I could have taken the tactic of going somewhere else but there’s no guarantee it’d be any better. Why not stick with it and help my company get through these hiccups. I’d rather be known as the guy who helped fix things than the guy who abandons ship! Wouldn’t you?

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-Network Marketing Is A Contact Sport-
Jon Clayton
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E-mail: thegetteam (at) gmail (dot) com

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When you are first starting out you may have an idea or two of what you want to sell, but you might not have thought of the changes in the seasons and other important factors that can affect your sales, and ultimately the success of your business. Hence, it is important to consider whether or not you can really consider your business an all-season business or not.

One good example of a business that may struggle throughout the year except for one month is a costume store. During October and around Halloween, these businesses can make huge profits, but during the other eleven months, they may struggle just to keep the doors open. On the other hand, an example of a year-round business is an interior design business. People are always looking for new ways to decorate their homes, especially as the seasons change, so if you have the skills needed, this could really be the best decision you’ve ever made.

To decide whether or not your business can be considered year-round, think about the different activities, services, and products you partake of throughout the year. If your business idea falls into only one or two seasons or months, it is time to expand your plan, or modify it. For instance, if you wanted to open a business selling skateboarding gear, you should know that it is useless to try to sell skateboards while there is snow covering the ground. However, you could always expand your business plan to include both skateboarding and snowboarding gear so you are covering the entire year.

Once you have an idea of what it will take to market your business throughout the year, you can start to create a better plan for operating your business. Having all of your ideas set out from the beginning, it is a lot easier to plan ahead for possible downfalls and scenarios, and adjust for them accordingly. This will save you a ton of trouble when you otherwise might have realized at the last minute. It is much better to be prepared than to be caught blind and grasping for strategies to keep you above water.

In the end, knowing what it will take to keep your business productive through all twelve months is one major key to starting a successful business. If you have a plan ahead of time, and you budget for the costs of integrating all of your business plans into one, you will be much more successful during the months that your primary product may not be bringing in the dough. Make sure you think about all of the factors that can affect your sales throughout the year, not just the change in seasons, and make sure you have a plan to counteract their harmful effects on the productivity and growth of your new business.

Click here to download your free E-book, The 10 Steps To Success

-Network Marketing Is A Contact Sport-
Jon Clayton
Phone: 860-265-3655
E-mail: thegetteam (at) gmail (dot) com

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We learn facts, we learn how to study, we learn how to take tests, we learn how to perform tasks, we learn what to say, we learn how to act, we learn what to think, we learn reactions, we learn emotions, we learn to dance, we learn to teach. Or at least we attempt to learn these things. One thing that is rarely taught us is how to learn. So let’s take a look at learning, and at how you can enhance the learning in your own life.

Life is about learning. To move forward, a person must be committed to constant learning. Your ability to learn brings an abundance of wonderful things. Learning can prevent you from repeating past mistakes. It allows you to improve your performance over time. It enables you to benefit from the experience of countless others. Learning is one of the most valuable ways you can spend your time.

When you hear the word learning you probably think of school, books, teachers and tests. Yet only a fraction of learning takes place in school. You were learning long before you ever set foot in school, and it is vital that you continue learning all your life.

The world is changing so quickly that anyone who is not committed to continual learning will be left behind. Learning is an essential ingredient for success in today’s information-driven world. The good news is that learning is available to anyone. You don’t need to have a college degree hanging on your wall to be able to learn.

Everything is a learning experience. Learning gives a positive aspect to everything that happens. Even when you lose, you win by learning from the experience. So learning is a key strategy for living positively on a continuing basis.

Learning is a wonderful way to leverage your time and effort. The things you learn stay with you always. No person, no circumstance can take them away from you. Knowledge has real value, and there is no danger of anyone stealing that value away from you. In fact, the more you share it with others the more valuable it becomes to you.

A key strategy for learning is to appreciate the value of learning. Unfortunately, learning can too often be forced on you by your own decisions or by other people, rendering the effort largely ineffective. Yet learning can be a natural, enjoyable, productive activity when you approach it with the right attitude.

It’s vitally important that you find a reason to learn. If you can develop a strong enough reason why you want to learn, you’ll find a way to learn whatever you need to know. Each day is filled with opportunities to learn. When you are motivated to learn, all sorts of teachers appear at every turn. The main reason people do not learn is that they don’t avail themselves of all the opportunities. When you understand why you need to learn something, when the desire is strong enough and personally meaningful, you will learn. Think of the goals you have set for yourself. In order to achieve these goals, you’ll need to learn many new things. Make a meaningful connection in your mind between the things you want to achieve and the things you’ll need to learn in order to achieve them. Find within yourself a personally compelling reason to learn.

Admit your ignorance. In order to learn something, you must first admit that you do not know it. This may seem obvious, yet there are many things we avoid learning because we’re afraid that asking questions will make us look foolish. But there is no shame in ignorance. You’re not born with a wealth of knowledge. To learn, you must ask. Pretending to know something that you don’t will make you look much more foolish than sincerely and honestly asking questions. If there’s something you don’t know, admit it. Then you can proceed to learn it.

Click here to download your free E-book, The 10 Steps To Success

-Network Marketing Is A Contact Sport-
Jon Clayton
Phone: 860-265-3655
E-mail: thegetteam (at) gmail (dot) com

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The Law of Sowing and Reaping by Jim Rohn

Now, here’s the second law that changed my life forever in network marketing. I learned the law of sowing and reaping. And in the law of sowing and reaping is also the story of the law of averages.

Jot this down…the story of the sower. It comes from the Bible. I am an amateur on the Bible, but this is such a useful story. Here’s what the story says, and take notes, because the drama’s in the details.

The sower was ambitious. Evidently, he was ambitious. When you read the whole story you’ll conclude yes, this was an ambitious sower.

Here was number two. He had excellent seed. The sower who sowed the seed had excellent seed. And the excellent seed could be an excellent opportunity, an excellent product, an excellent story.

So we’ve got an ambitious sower with excellent seed. But now here are the rest of the details of the story. For your information, for the drama of your life, so you can understand things better, learning some of this is how I got rich by age 31.

The sower goes out to sow the seed, but the first part of the seed falls by the wayside and the birds get it.

So jot this down. The birds are going to get some of the seed. The birds are going to get some of the seed.

Now you say, "Mr. Rohn, what does that mean?"

Well, I invited John to come to a meeting. He said he’d be there Tuesday night. Tuesday night I show up. John isn’t there. I say, "I wonder why John didn’t make it."

Now I know the answer. The birds! The birds! John had this great idea of coming to the meeting to look at an opportunity, and somebody stole it and said, "You’re not going to go see network marketing." And he says, "Well, maybe not."

So have you jotted that down now? The birds are going to get some.

Now when the birds get some, you’ve got two options. Number one is to chase birds. You say, "Well, let me get hold of the person who talked him out of coming to the meeting. I’ll tear him a new page." I wouldn’t do this.

Here’s what happens if you go chasing birds. You leave the field. If you go chasing birds now, you leave the field. Which is going to distract from your future, not add? So you can’t chase birds and try to straighten this stuff out.

Here’s what it is. It’s just one of those things, and here’s the best comment when things are a little disappointing. "Isn’t that interesting?"

You just have to say, "I thought sure he would be there. He promised me. He promised me! But I know it was the birds." And you just have to say, "Isn’t that interesting?"

Now here’s the rest of the story.

The sower kept on sowing. See, that was the secret to his success. He kept on sowing. And if you keep sowing, you can sow more than the birds can get because there aren’t enough birds. If you keep sowing, there are some birds but there’s not enough, because the Law of Averages will work for you.

My mentor taught me, "You know, Mr. Rohn, there are only nine or ten real nasty, miserable people in the whole world. Now you know they move around a lot and you’re liable to bump into one once in awhile, but when you bump into one you say’ ‘There’s only 9 more like you–I can handle that–in the whole world?’"

Now here’s what else it says. The sower now keeps sowing the seed. Now the seed falls, the story says, on rocky ground where the soil is shallow. And the rocky ground where the soil is shallow is not of your making, because you had excellent seed and you were an ambitious sower.

So the rocky ground where the soil is shallow is not of your making. But here what it says happened. This time, the little seed that falls in the ground starts to grow and the little plant starts to grow. But the first hot day, it withers and dies. Not an easy thing to watch.

I finally get John started. Sure enough, three or four days later somebody says "Boo!" and he’s gone–doesn’t show up at the second meeting. And I say, "I thought sure John would last a week."

What happened? Jot this down. The hot weather is going to get some. And this is not of your making. Here’s what you must say when that happens. "Isn’t that interesting?" What can you do? The answer is nothing.

You say, "Well, I’m going to try to change this!" I wouldn’t take that class. You know, the sun comes up in the east and somebody says, "Why is that?" I wouldn’t spend much time on that. Just let that happen.

Don’t go for this why, why, why stuff. I’m giving you the answers here. The answer is in the structure and in the consequences and is in the deal. The answer is in the deal. Anything beyond that is not worth studying.

You say, "Well, how come some just last a little while?" I wouldn’t sign up for that class. Here’s the answer: Some don’t stay. You just have to jot that down. And when some leave you say, "That’s one of those that don’t stay."

Now, you know what category to put them in, and you can’t solve this now. It’s like rearranging the seasons. You can’t fool with that. All you can do is cooperate with the way things are set up. I didn’t set it up.

You say, "Well, it shouldn’t be this way." Well, when you get your own planet you can rearrange this whole deal, but on this planet you’re a guest. You’ve got to take it as it comes.

Now, here is the secret to the ambitious sower with good seed. It said he kept on sowing.

Now, here’s what he had to do to keep on sowing. He had to discipline his disappointment. This is a key phrase now to use for the rest of your life. You must learn to discipline your disappointment. Because you didn’t set up the set up, and some are not going to stay, and that is not of your making.

Now, if you made gross errors and you ran them off, see that’d be different. Now you’re responsible for that. But if it’s in the normal course of things, this is the way things are.

Now, here’s what it says. The sower keeps on sowing. Now it says the seed falls on thorny ground. And somebody says, "Well, how much of this do you have to go through?"

Well, hang on. It’s not the end of the story now. Now the little seed falls on thorny ground and now the little plant starts to grow again but as the little plant starts to grow, the thorns choke it to death and it dies.

So jot this down. The thorns are going to get some. And that’s not of your making.

And what are these thorns? The story even called these little thorns little cares, little distractions, little something’s. Who knows what all they are.

I said, "John, we had a meeting last night. You weren’t here." And John says, "Well, I can’t make every meeting."

I say, "Why not? You’re part-time."

He said, "Well, the screen door came off the hinges and you can’t just let your house fall apart. You’ve got to take some time and fix things up."

And I can hear the thorns growing. He said, "Some extra trash had piled up in the garage. You can’t let mountains of trash take over. You’ve got to keep your trash hauled out."

People who let little things cheat them out of big opportunities. People who let little things cheat them out of big opportunities, and you feel almost helpless. What could I do about that? And that’s nothing. And you say, "Well, why is this?"

I’m asking you not to sign up for that class. Don’t sign up for these, "Why is this?" classes. It’s just the way it is–like winter following fall and spring following winter.

So have you got that? The thorns are going to get some.

But now here’s the good news. Let’s read the rest of the story now quickly. The sower now keeps on sowing the seed. Keeps on sharing the story. Keeps on giving an invitation. Yes the invitation can be more powerful for me as it was one year later than it was the first month, because now I’m saying I’m making twice as much money part time as I’m making on my full-time job.

Yes, the story can be more powerful, but the Law of Averages is still going to work. But now here’s what the story says. Finally the seed falls on good ground. Now put this in parentheses. It always will, if you keep sowing. If you share a good idea long enough, it will fall on good people.

But now here’s the rest of that story. Some of the good ground did 30%. And some of the good ground did 60%. And some of the good ground did 100%.

You say, "Well, why the difference in numbers?" I wouldn’t sign up for that class! Have I said that often enough now? Don’t register for that class. It’s just the way it is.

Now I tried to get the 30’s to do 60. Found out it was more than I could handle. I used to say, "I’ll make them successful if it kills me." I almost died. No, you can’t do that.

Here’s what you do. Let the 30’s do 30 to the best of their ability and keep doing 30, because that’s how they build their lifestyle and get what they want out of life. And let the 60’s do 60. And let the 100’s do 100.

Now how can you get some to do a 100%? You’ve got to go through all these experiences and you’ve got to talk to all these people.

To Your Success,
Jim Rohn

Has social media lost its newness? Perhaps! Many would say about time too. According to and article on WebProNews, 58% of respondents in a recent survey did not recognize the term social networking.

Social networking as a fad had to come to an end at some time. Along the way many people have enjoyed using the services and met many new friends, however, as is becoming apparent, many sites are now becoming rigid in how you use those services.

If you accept that the largest demographic to use social media is in the under 35’s, finding a haven away from the rules of society has been one of the biggest attractions. As soon as societies rules start to affect their online experience, they want nothing to do with that site. Social networking is not a young persons terms. They don’t go online to network, they go online to meet friends and do what ever young people do.

They play games, they chat, they gossip, they even wind each other up. Start to put restrictions on these actions and it is no longer fun. It is more of home, school, work and society - the very fabric of our society that they are trying to escape. Of course they don’t recognize social networking. Social networking and social marketing are two business terms. They are certainly not in the every day language of the majority of users.

Social media will not be lost, at least, not in the short term. As the younger generation move on, the over 35’s are moving in. The old joke of a parent signing in to Facebook or Myspace to talk to their child is no longer a joke. It is real, and the kids don’t like the rules they are bringing with them!

Click here to download your free E-book, The 10 Steps To Success

-Network Marketing Is A Contact Sport-
Jon Clayton
Phone: 860-265-3655
E-mail: thegetteam (at) gmail (dot) com

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