A Continuation Making Sure Your Ladder Is Against The Right Wall

This is a continuation of the previous blog titled: 'Make Sure Your Ladder Is Leaning Against The Right Wall.' The fourth step is building a team: The key focus here is to attract and build a team of people whose gifts, insights, and strengths are different but synergistic to yours. They should add what you can't provide, and have experience different to yours. Choose people who will challenge and expand your thinking. Team members don't need to be employees. In fact, it's often better to develop a strategic alliance of independent team members, each of whom can contribute their own expertise, and bring new perspectives. Remember too that a fully aligned team takes time to form. Teamwork develops best when people feel they are valued, are willing participants, and operate within a supportive environment. Seek every opportunity to develop open communication. And most importantly build mutual trust. The process of building an effective team will lead you to engage in self-examination and ask yourself critical questions. Particularly to identify how you can become a better leader. Its one skill to lead a team of employees, it is leadership of a higher order to lead a collaborative team of independent people. The key here is to work harder on self-development than you do on business development. The fifth step is creating synergy: Synergy is where 'magic' happens. Most businesses fail to achieve their full potential. Often it's because the person who owns the business is skilled at their technical work but doesn't truly know how to build a business that works with or without him or her. The key is to work 'on' the business where possible; not 'in' the business, learning how to leverage the skills of the team so that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Synergy is a result of listening, building mutual trust, tuning into your intuition, being flexible, having compassion, and a total commitment to action. The sixth step is achieving results: although up to ninety percent of new start-ups fail within one to five years they often do so because they haven't made the necessary distinctions that distinguish them from others. Optimal results are achieved by ensuring you spend a significant percentage of your time on whatever are the measurable revenue producing activities in your field, and delegating or outsourcing everything else you can. In life we choose to either have reasons or results. Commit yourself to engage and move boldly forward, embrace a willingness to make mistakes, and don't become frozen with fear. When you decide to become an entrepreneur and to play the game of business some days will be testing and some days will be triumphant. However spectacular results will occur as you fully focus on creating success in your niche and when all the elements of the model are in place. Remember that scarcity only exists in the mind. The universe is designed to deliver abundance when we follow universal laws. Don't deviate. Always define, refine, and refocus. Results will then occur at a obtained tangent to your stated intention, because when you plan, commit and take action on your plan, its like dropping a pebble into a pond, the ripples spread and have far reaching effects well beyond what you may dream. All that's left is to celebrate your success. "The process for establishing a successful business is: find a master, together identify a niche, learn how to leverage that niche, develop a team; with that team generate the power of synergy, then create results." - D.C. Cordova of Excellerated Learning Systems. This article is based on a concept taught in the 'Money and You' seminar facilitated by Robert Kiyosaki and Blair Singer.

To Your Success, Lloyd Dobson

Fundamental For Success

Fundamental Principles For Success

Seven Principles For Success

Principle #1 For Success
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Tools and techniques that you can employ to help ensure your
success with your business.

So let me ask you, what do you think it takes to be
successful? Think of the most successful people you know.
What are some of the qualities that they have in common?
Take out a piece of paper and let's list some of the
qualities together!

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[|> 1.[ Positive Attitude
[|> 2.[ Friendly
[|> 3.[ Hard Working
[|> 4.[ Outgoing
[|> 5.[ Risk Taker
[|> 6.[ Big Thinker
[|> 7.[ Fun
[|> 8.[ Creative
[|> 9.[ Resourceful
[|> 10.[ Focused
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I'm sure you can think of more. Go ahead, write them down!
Now for the hard part...write your name at the top of the
paper and commit to becoming that person!

So many people decide to start a home based business
without stopping to think about what it will really take to
make it. They start with a "try it and see" attitude. If
they don't see immediate results they blame their sponsor or
the company or the entire industry. They decide network
marketing doesn't work. The truth is THEY didn't work!

I'm still amazed by the number of people that say they want
to earn $10,000 or even $100,000 a month but then they say
they're only willing to invest five hours a week to build
their business. And they whine about spending money on a
long distance call or this marketing system. That's just
plain silly! Building anything worth having is going to take
an investment of time, energy and money.

That's why we call it netWORK marketing and not netPLAY
marketing!

There's one word I want you to erase from your vocabulary
right now. And that's the word TRY! To be successful, you
are not going to TRY! You're going to DO. With a CAN DO
attitude, no matter what challenges lie ahead (there will be
many) you will SUCCEED!

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[|> Seven Principles of Success
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The truth about what it takes to succeed:
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[|> 1.[ An Unshakeable DESIRE
[|> 2.[ Measurable GOALS
[|> 3.[ A PLAN of attack
[|> 4.[ A DUPLICABLE System
[|> 5.[ All-Out-Massive-Action (AOMA)
[|> 6.[ FOCUS
[|> 7.[ ATTITUDE of a mental giant
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"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated.
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
~David Lloyd George~

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[|> Step One: An Unshakeable DESIRE
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This is the single most important step in starting and
succeeding in your home based business. Why? Because one
thing I can promise you, there will be challenges! The road
to success is not without potholes!

However, with a keen desire and focused dedication, you can
learn to smoothly navigate any distraction in your path. In
fact, you'll even learn to view the bumps as opportunities
to learn and grow!

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You Just Bought a Lifetime Pass to the Emotional Roller
Coaster!
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There's no doubt about it, network marketing is not for the
faint of heart! Friends and family members may laugh at you
or criticize you. Co-workers may resent you. Dream stealers
will tell you it can't be done. Prospects will hang up on
you, companies will go out of business. Upline may ignore
you, customers may complain, distributors will quit.

But none of that matters...IF your "WHY" is big enough!

Repeat after me: "If it's to be, it's up to me!"

AGAIN: "If-It's-To-Be, It's-Up-To-Me!!"

AGAIN: "IF--IT'S--TO--BE, IT'S--UP--TO--ME!!!"

You are the only one responsible for the success of your
business!

It doesn't matter what anyone else does or doesn't do, it
really comes down to you and your desire or your "WHY".

So before we go one step further, you need to get 100%
crystal clear on why you are in this business. Your "WHY"
needs to be larger than life; something much bigger than
just you. Something you're willing to fight and die for!

For me it is my son. It was important to me to be able to
see my son grow up. I wanted to be home for the first word,
the first step, the first fall! I wanted to be there on the
field trips, the recitals and the after school milk and
cookies.

At the same time, I wanted to provide a superior lifestyle
for my family which for me included travel! I wanted
something grand of my own, besides being a father. I wanted
to make a difference not only for my family but for other
families as well.

This became my WHY, my Passion! And network marketing my
chosen vehicle, through the potholes, the uphill climbs and,
yes, the free, open highways as well!

My Challenge to You!
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[|> Determine your "WHY"!
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I can promise you, this will be the single most important
determining factor of your longevity and success in this
business! If you've already put some thought into this,
great! Let's revisit your goals and dreams together! As we
grow and change in this business, so do our reasons for
being here!

Today's homework: get a notebook and make it a nice one that
you'll enjoy working in. This will become your blueprint to
success and will be with you throughout the duration of your
journey.

Success Principle #1: An Unshakeable DESIRE

OK, time to dig in and get to work! Above your homework
was to get a nice notebook for developing your blueprint to
success. I hope you take this exercise seriously because it
will become the single most important factor in the success
of your home based business.

Ask any successful person you know. Nine times out of ten
they'll tell you, where goals are concerned, they don't
think it; they ink it! So are you ready! Today you become
the architect of your-own life!

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Take this exercise seriously...but have fun with it!
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Find a nice quiet place without any distractions. Prepare to
spend at least 30 minutes on this exercise. Don't worry
about how your answers sound. Just free-flow write. This is
fun and can be very revealing!

Ask yourself the following questions and write them down.
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[|> 1.) If I didn't have to work for a living what would
I love to do?

[|> 2.) If I were given $10 million dollars (tax free!)
what would I do with it? (Of course you'd pay the bills, but
after that) No limits here, write it ALL down!

[|> 3.) If I just found out I had six (healthy) months to
live, what would I do with the rest of my life?
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Identifying Your "WHY" Helps You Define Your True Purpose
in Life!

Now try to determine the essence of these desires. Ask
yourself, "If I did this, or had that, what would it bring
to me?" These thoughts should reveal to you the lifestyle
you want and the type of person you aspire to be.

When you know your purpose, you can put passion behind it.
When you move forward with passion, there's no stopping you
and others will be attracted to follow you! Therein lies the
key to success in your network marketing business!

Make a commitment to yourself to pursue your life's purpose
and create the lifestyle you want. Become the person you
desire to be. Your purpose and the passion that flows from
it, is what will empower you, no matter how bumpy the road
gets!

Develop the habit of writing in your notebook or journal
every day. Just ten minutes in the morning and ten minutes
at night will help you keep in touch with who you are and
who you are becoming. Your goals and dreams will shift and
change as you grow in your business. You'll have a record of
the past as well as a vision of the future!

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"See into life ~ don't just look at it." ~ Ann Baxter
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To your success!

Lloyd Dobson