I was on a teleconference call tonight – the same team conference call I’m on every Monday night as part of my network marketing business.  This call is conducted by the Team Leader, who just happens to be one of the company’s Millionaire Club members. She’s starting a “90-Day Run” with those of us who have elected to do so to build our business, or “take it to the next level” as it’s often referred to.

What the 90-Day Run really is, is a “haul-balls-run-screaming-for-the-wall-bust-through-all-your-obstacles-and-keep-going” commitment. It’s the “Run for the Roses” – so to speak. For some, the final destination will be the top position in the compensation plan, for others it will be a particular figure of monthly income, for others it will be a particular size team or a particular number of groups or small businesses or individuals helped with the services.

Each person defines their personal reason for making “The Run.”

She shared something that she had received in an email today:

“Have you done all you can to make sure your plans for 2011 are going to maximize your success and are simple enough to put into action right away?”

My spiritual mentor, Elder, and business coach of 25 years has always stressed the importance of being “frequency specific.” In other words, we have to clearly define our goals. The greater detail we give to this process, the greater chance the Universe has to respond. We also increase the effectiveness of our goals by utilizing multiple senses in their creation – i.e. writing them down, speaking them, creating visuals through “vision boards,” meditation, and other known methods of  transforming thoughts into matter, i.e. results.

Paramount to achieving our goals is the belief that we can.

“There are no limitations in your life, only limited vision, and little faith.” –Pa’Ris’Ha

Equally paramount to achieving our goals is being willing to put in the work required.

“The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your
goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” –Oprah Winfrey

Finally, the third component to achieving our goals is to know that our past performance, or lack of it, is only significant in terms of teaching us what didn’t work. Life, like Sales,  is a numbers game. Either be willing to take the “no’s” as part of your progress or get ready to live disenchanted and disillusioned.

“We cannot change the past, we can move forward and away from it and its influences.”  –Pa’Ris’Ha

Our experience is what we make it. When we give it our “all” – our best 100 Percent effort and then some…we’ll go the distance. But we have to be honest about that effort.

“When it really makes a difference is when you get real and stop the pretense and determine you and you alone can set the course of your life.” –Pa’Ris’Ha

©2011 Deborah Adler. All rights reserved.

Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest
amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest
intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When
it’s right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it. – Oprah Winfrey

I have walked across a hot bed of burning coals on numerous occasions in the past 25 years while taking part in Ceremonial Fire Dances. As I have mentioned before here, this is not something that is accomplished by fooling the mind into believing that it is “cool moss” or some sort of illusion or anything else other than what it really is…a bloody hot fire that has the potential to melt a car engine!

I’ve tended those fires and witnessed many adults and even children walk across without injury. But whether or not one does so is in itself a lesson in listening to that “small still voice within.” It is about connecting with the God-Self.

Fact is, I didn’t walk my first time. At the culmination of the Fire Dance, we celebrated those who walked. Then we also celebrated those who honored their inner voice to not walk. Because the point of the event is not to dazzle anyone with your bravado – it’s about connecting with your Inner Truth.

My spiritual mentor and Elder Grandmother Pa’Ris’Ha, who is known to some as Parisha Taylor, has been an immensely successful business coach to many over the years, and she is one who understands and demonstrates that no one is unworthy of their goal and no goal is unworthy of accomplishment. Ultimately we are the only ones who obstruct our own progress – not on the field of play but in the arena of Mind-Child.

I am about to embark on a 90-day run for advancement in my network marketing business. Those of us who committed to this received an email today from our team leader. The subject line read, “Is Your Thinking Holding You Back?”

“One percent doubt and you’re out!”  Pa’Ris’Ha has often times repeated while coaching others to their businesses success.

“The fact is that when we fail to make the goals we set; it is not because we do not believe in the progress it offers, but because we stop opening to the possibilities and potentials therein.” -Pa’Ris’Ha

Once we commit to belief in the vast field of potentiality in which we live in, we have to take the appropriate right action to make sure we arrive at our destination. As an oft-quoted Amish gentleman once said, “If you want potatoes, you have to pick up a hoe.”

Every fiber of your being, as states Oprah Winfrey, will be your barometer when deciding a particular path or challenge to take on. “Opening to the possibilities and potentials therein” will keep the Universe in cooperation with fulfillment so long as we provide the necessary and appropriate action. Many people will set resolutions for the New Year, as a way to “begin anew.” Just remember the key to accomplishing those goals is to stay vigilant inside your head and “evict” any nay-sayer BEFORE it gets a chance to have its say! Then follow up with Right Action.

Right Thinking, Right Action will take us to where we want to go.

-Deborah Adler

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Tonight I was on a team call for my network marketing business where one of our Million Dollar Club members reinforced 3 keys to success:

1. Showing up
2. Activity
3. Personal Development

Consistency is the driving force underlying each of those elements. I’ve danced that one a lot in my life. I learned early on how to look “busy” – but busy and productive are two different animals. “Busy” may get you past the boss’s scrutiny in a job, but when you’re in business for yourself – it definitely doesn’t yield results.

Consistent Productive Activity yields successful results.

One of the things I’ve had to let go of is a “retirement” frame of mind, where I work in spurts – but always watching for the reward. My consistency starts to dwindle when the results I’m looking for don’t come fast enough. I have to work past the “I’m going to put in this much effort to get my reward and then I’m done.” It’s that “then I’m going to be done” part that prevents me from reaching my target. It’s like running a race and slowing up because you can see the finish line – or on the other hand because it seems too distant.

The most successful people I know in business are the ones who are constantly in the “launching phase” of their business. In other words, they’re constantly in the development process of new exposures and expansion.

My Business Coach and Elder, Grandmother Pa’Ris’Ha has often challenged us with this: if we want to succeed we have to be willing to “increase our failure rate by 300%.”

There’s no “and then I’m going to quit” in that. The implication is that in order to succeed, we have to dramatically increase our productive activity and understand working the percentages. It’s all about consistent persistence. It’s about keeping on keeping on.

©2010 Deborah Adler. All rights reserved.

“Whatever you have made of your life depends on how
you value all your challenges and hard knocks. Strife
develops character and we would be quite pale if we
lived differently.

“Do you see yourself in the children’s eyes
and hear your own pain in their cries?

“Do you not see your anger in their defiance?

“If not, you are not being real.

“We are all bewildered by life. Champions are not born.
they appear from the rubble of destruction.

“Let our loves be as Champions and leave
a legacy for the upcoming generation.”

-Pa’Ris’Ha – Cherokee Elder

It’s 10:44 PM and I’m looking back over a day that has been full of activity and productivity: prospecting for clients and business partners over the phone; a business luncheon turned into training; a late afternoon appointment to write a product application; connecting with a person I’m working with in recovery; attending a recovery discussion group together; coffee with my new gal afterwards; a team training call related to my network marketing business, and a phone call to one of my team mentors to top it off.

Our business luncheon took on a personalized “what daily activity do I need to do to reach my financial goals for the coming month” as our Regional Manager went around the table to grill each business partner. She worked out the numbers with each one of us– what is each sale worth (according to us respective positions), how many appointments do we need to get one sale – how many prospecting calls will it take to set one appointment? It was a “come to Jesus” meeting of sorts – but she could have just left because our guests failed to show, or worse yet if we hadn’t done the activity required to get someone there.

Coach Parisha Taylor has worked numbers with us on many occasions in a variety of business ventures. “Success is a numbers game” is a tried and true wisdom in any kind of sales. Persistency pays off. Quitting does not.

Coach Parisha Taylor has also shared the value of living each day as a complete “life” – including work, play, service to others, and communion with God.

This day has held many gifts. I’ve been able to reconnect with an old friend and help him with my business service, as well as support a local business person by meeting in his neighborhood café. Listening to another person in recovery – especially when they are new – is a gift I give to myself. I get to share the wisdoms of those who helped me along the way, and renew my appreciation for my own recovery. It’s an awesome win-win.

Looking back over my day, I’ve had a rich “life” this 24 hours. It’s been a good day and I am blessed.

I give appreciation to all who have added to my experience today, to all I have touched and have touched me. As always, I give great appreciation for the one known as Coach Parisha Taylor for being a part of my life today and every day! – Deborah Adler

 

©2010 Deborah Adler. All rights reserved.

In his recent book, The Business of the 21^st Century, Robert Kiyosaki writes, “I dedicate this book…to the millions of you who are a crossroads in life – who are affected by the current economic crisis and feeling helpless as to what you can do to secure your financial future. I want you to know that there are, despite what they may seem, the best times to take control of your future.”

Kiyosaki, author of NY Times Best Selling Book Rich Dad Poor Dad goes on to extol the virtues and advantages of network marketing as “The Business of the 21^st Century.”

Coach Parisha Taylor worked with a number of us some years ago in a venture – a network marketing opportunity – to help us learn about working with systems, team building and the financial advantages of leveraging our time as well as the merits of creating residual income.

Some people like to scoff at those who think outside the box and “reach for the brass ring” – or in this case, the gold ring. Those people seem to take great satisfaction when we might not succeed at a given venture. They are firmly embedded in the exchanging time for money model that has kept people enslaved for the majority of their lives down through the ages. They are the “Dream Stealers.”

Still others enjoy pointing out the appearance of repetitive failure to those of us who have been involved in a number of opportunities over the years. What I’ve finally come to appreciate is that while some of us grasp the concept – we then have to find our “passion.”

The fact is network marketing is a proven business model based upon following a system. If you’re teachable and are willing to follow instructions, you can succeed. When I hear someone say, “Oh, that didn’t work for me” I know what they’re really saying is that they didn’t work at it.

Like anything, there are those who have abused the compensation structure in the past. But there are reputable companies that have not only survived but thrived over the years and given honest, hardworking everyday people the chance to achieve “extraordinary” lives, while giving others much wanted monetary cushions over and above their job income.

In The Business of the 21^st Century, Kiyosaki explains Eight Wealth Building Assets which can be realized through the network marketing business model:

Asset #1. A Real-World Business Education

Asset #2. A profitable Path of Personal Development

Asset#3. A Circle of Friends Who Share Your Dreams and Values

Asset#4. The Power of Your Own Network

Asset #5. A Duplicable, Fully Scalable Business

Asset #6. Incomparable Leadership Skills

Asset#7. A Mechanism for Genuine Wealth creation

Asset #8. Big Dreams and the Capacity to Live Them

Most of us never learned about entrepreneurialism in school. Coach Parisha Taylor has taught pre-schoolers about generating income for themselves and to help others through their own business ventures. The kids get it – a lot quicker than most adults, because they don’t have any fear of failure. Ever run a lemonade stand as a kid? Or wash cars in the neighborhood?

Taken one step further, I’ve seen Coach Parisha Taylor help kids to learn about “duplicating” their efforts – bringing others on board to increase production/services and help others learn about how to become self-supporting through personal enterprise. She teaches them about reproducible systems. This would correlate to Kiyosaki’s “B” Quadrant. (See Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad’s Guide to Financial Freedom)

John Maxwell, in his book Failing Forward, stated that the average millionaire in America failed 19 times before he/she became successful.  Coach Parisha Taylor teaches us that we have to daily be willing to “up our failure rate by 300%” if we expect to succeed.

Back to network marketing. It teaches about how not to personalize rejection. It teaches the value of working together with a T.E.A.M. – as in

Together

Everyone

Achieves

More.

Many national and international corporations have turned to network marketing to grow their sales force. One has only to find their passion and then follow the system to success.

A word of caution:  If you don’t like people or you really don’t care about helping others, you probably won’t succee at network marketing. Because at the heart of network marketing is the old adage I’ve come to associate with a great teacher and salesman, Zig Ziglar: “You will always get what you want if you just help enough other people get what they want.”

This also brings me back to something Coach Parisha Taylor constantly instills in us: Our greatest work is Service to others. We must focus on the service. If we find a way to be of service, the money will follow.

After numerous “tries” down through the years, I have found my vehicle for helping others. I haven’t quit my “day job” yet – because I’m using that to take care of the basics while I build for my future with my network marketing business.

Some “experts” want us to believe that we live in a world of economic downturn.  Fact is there is abundance all around us. The old job model where you work for one company for 40 years and they take care of you with a pension until you die is out the window. But there’s a tried and true proven model out there that offers time and money freedom “in the now.” It requires hard work and determination not to be discouraged. But the rewords have no ceiling.

One last thought: If I want tomorrow to be different from yesterday I have to something different today.

If I’m just barely making ends meet with my current job income, then chances are it’s not going to improve as expenses continue to escalate. Few of us have the financial wherewithal to begin a franchise business – which can cost anywhere from five thousand upwards to half a million dollars! That makes a network marketing opportunity a great option to explore. But don’t just dip your toe in to test the waters. I suggest doing your due diligence to find the right fit for you in terms of product or service. In other words, Find Your Passion – and the run with it!

-Deborah Adler

©2010 Deborah Adler. All rights reserved.