Pa’Ris’Ha Taylor: 2022 as Seen by Elders and Peacekeepers
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Andre Pitre, Producer
Pa’Ris’Ha Taylor: 2022 as Seen by Elders and Peacekeepers
Video Courtesy of Lux Media
Andre Pitre, Producer
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“What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people’s lives.” –Oprah Winfrey
I’m fresh back from four days of my company’s International Conference at Oklahoma City. There were 11,000 associates in Cox Arena for trainings, team meetings, recognition and networking.
Years ago while under the tutelage of Coach Pa’Ris’Ha Taylor, I learned to appreciate the importance of attending the national events sponsored by network marketing companies. This is the opportunity to learn from the top producers. It’s where you get your company’s announcements first hand, learn about product and service innovations, and perhaps most importantly meet people from all over North America who are aspiring and seasoned entrepreneurs sharing their successes, their trials, and building not only business connections but lasting friendships.
Most attendees will tell you that the events are great, but the journey to get there is the real accomplishment.
My company has roughly 400,000 associates across the U.S. and Canada. There were 11,000 of us who made it to Oklahoma City. There are those who can travel with ease and afford luxury accommodations. There are many more who ban together for travel filling vans or cars and buses, and sometimes sleeping 6 or more to a room just for the privilege of being there. (I can tell you from personal experience that Group Hotel Room Rule #4 “Ten minute morning bathroom shifts” goes a long way to keep the peace!
Everyone has their own story. The sacrifice to get there, whether it be financial or risking the wrath of your boss at work, or family objections…whatever the particulars are, the victory comes in overcoming the obstacles and making it there!
We learn, we have fun and we get a better understanding of our business – and its magnitude – in a real up-front, close and personal way that just doesn’t happen in the smaller venues.
One of our speakers offered this for our consideration:
You make a living by what you get,
You make a Life by what you Give.
I have really come to appreciate this, not only with regard to the business I’m in currently, but in all sales, as well as Life in general. Coach Pa’Ris’Ha Taylor demonstrated to us the value of a service-driven life. One of her constant prayers is:
“Creator, use All of me. Use me up.”*
Our business is a vehicle for making connections with others. We make a commission from our sales, but we reap rewards beyond measure when we take time to get to know and care about a person. When we give of our time, our sincere interest in another and offer ourselves in service, we create a life of beauty. -Deborah Adler
“Allow there to be much to be thankful for in your day. Touch others’ lives today in a service that will reward you and them in a good and helpful way. Harm no one and let truth be your solid ground.” –Pa’Ris’Ha Taylor*
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“Change is constant and it challenges us in every moment and breath. Every breath in and every breath out – every heartbeat is change. Each is a measure of life that is finished, past, and to be no more.” -Grandmother Pa’Ris’Ha, from Grandmother’s Legacy*
The only thing that we can count on in this lifetime seems to be that nothing stays the same. That can be a comfort or a cause for consternation – depending on how we choose to see it.
The top coaches know to keep their charges in constant chaos – to avoid the onset of complacency, and therefore stagnation. When you’re stretching and growing, there is no “neutral” – there’s forward or backwards.
How often do we hear some lament that “nothing stays the same?” Maybe we’ve uttered those words ourselves.
To live in stagnation is death.
As Grandmother Pa’Ris’Ha has shared in the passage from Grandmother’s Legacy, each new breath brings change. Each moment that passes brings the accumulation of yet another piece of “time exchanged for experience.” We grow with each experience, or at least change. We can deny it but we can’t keep it from happening.
It is this phenomenon that gives credence to the premise that we can re-start our life in any particular moment. “Today is the beginning of the rest of your life” reflects that. But we aren’t held to the 24-hour time frame. It only takes a moment to make a decision. Then we must take action to support that decision.
There is a saying, “If you want tomorrow to be different than yesterday, you have to do something different today.”
As I sat in a business briefing tonight and dutifully raised my hand when the speaker asked, “Who here couldn’t use an extra $1000 each month?” – I wrote in my notes, “So why don’t you?” – meaning, why don’t I take the necessary prescribed actions to achieve what I say I want?
Grandmother Pa’Ris’Ha has never supported self-castigation. She coaches and teaches from a “so you want to change, then change” posture. It’s about taking that different course of action to yield different results in the next moment that counts, not what I did or didn’t do in the past.
So tonight when I returned back from my business briefing I called one of my upline coaches and asked for his assistance in locating an accountability partner. I asked him for someone in his organization with my excitement and commitment, who needs to work with making the necessary numbers each day. We’re going to work together as a result because we both are ready to take our organizations to the next level.
That’s taking a different action. The decision is the first part – the follow-up action is what brings about the change. Change is what delivers us to the growth we are seeking.
It can happen with us or in spite of us, but it will inevitably happen. When we embrace it and harness it to our advantage, it becomes a Force that can lift us to new heights. -Deborah Adler
“I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.” –Oprah Winfrey
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“To every thought and action there is re-action – opposition. This brings the experience and outcome. Cause and effect….For every determination and intention there will be a counter determination and intention. Every thought will have an effect and action.” From Grandmother’s Legacy by Pa’Ris’Ha *
The other day I was traveling back from a sales training with a fellow sales rep and we were discussing an apparent “slump” in the activity of our local sales force. He shared his recent discouragement from getting more rejections than normal and that he was letting that holds him back from pursuing more new contacts.
I offered the wisdom of my business coach, whom I have also known as spiritual mentor and Elder for over 25 years, Pa’Ris’Ha Taylor. Coach Taylor often speaks of the using the opposition to gauge the strength of what we have put into motion.
We know, from the laws of physics, that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Therefore when we declare a goal, or make a declaration of position, there is a natural response of equal and opposite energy that comes back to us.
Some will see that as a “sign” that they weren’t supposed to proceed, or that they were on the “wrong” course, or that it’s going to be too hard. Coach Pa’Ris’Ha Taylor always used that show of opposition as an indicator of the power and strength of what she had put into motion.
She taught by her example, to welcome and embrace the opposition.
From Quantum Physics we learn that there can be no creation without resistance. “Resistance” can be another term for opposition.
Cold calling isn’t something that comes easy to me necessarily, but it is something I have done well when I’m consistent with it. Many sales people can identify with the “fifty-pound phone” analogy. So can some network marketers. So my “resistance” is to picking up the phone. But unless I pick up the phone and make the calls necessary to make contacts and appointments, I make no money.
In order for me to experience success in sales, or “create” income, I have to move through my resistance and do what I might not find pleasant, but in the end profitable.
If I’ve set a high goal and start experiencing lackluster results – it might just be that “opposition” factor coming into play. The opposition/resistance can come from outside myself or within myself – or be a combination. What I know from my own past experience is that if I allow the resistance to stop me, I don’t reach my goal. If I persevere and press through the resistance, I accomplish what I set out to achieve, and then some.
“You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more”. Oprah Winfrey
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