Ideas, Ignorance, Imagination

IDEAS

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“The Bible says, ‘If you wish to find, you must search.’ I believe that is true, rarely does a good idea interrupt you.” — Jim Rohn

“Be willing to abandon your old ideas if someone comes up with something new and better.” — Brian Tracy

“Ideas are the root of creation.” — Ernest Dimnet

“The ideas are the important thing. If you’re successful in getting the ideas across from your mind to the minds of your audience, you’re as successful as a speaker is supposed to be. Audiences have a way of knowing when you’re more interested in what you’re saying than in how you appear.” — Earl Nightingale

IGNORANCE
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” — Socrates

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.” — Winston Churchill

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” — Dalai Lama

IMAGINATION
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” — Albert Einstein

“Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.” — Ingrid Bengis

“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” — Mark Twain

“Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.” — Charles F. Kettering

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No time for excuses

There is one thing I can tell you about Dani, she tells it like it is; all straight talk. If you have a soft shell; put on the armor.  If you desire to win, that is.  If you are not connecting with your Leaders and have reached out to all of them; you should consider finding a Coach or Mentor that you unconditionally trust.  There are many quoted in this “Attitude Center” and thousands more on the web.  If you won’t do it on your own or with your Team; reach out and find the right person or group to release the greatness within you, to share with others.  NOW

as the clock moves forward, so should you

You own a “Green Income Solution” with 20+ years and 16,000,000,000 miles of proved emission reduction and mileage improvement.  Help the world find you so you can help them save and earn money.  No more excuses, either you want to make a difference or you don’t.  You choose.

Don’t hesitate to improve your life by learning and living it.  You have already chosen the most practical, useful, economic, environment and long-term solution in a business.  Now help others do the same.  Just do it!  This is a NO EXCUSE ZONE and we are here to help you break through any obstacles, for they are simply a detour to something better. CSea Perkins

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The #1 Roadblock Keeping You From Success!

by Jon Gordon

I’m blown away with the amount of excuses that people can come up with. It’s ridiculous and completely endless how people invent them in order not to succeed. Most people spend their entire life instantaneously choosing excuses.
Excuses are so engrained into us that it becomes a knee-jerk reaction, something we instantly come up with for reasons why we can’t do something instead of coming up with ideas how to make it happen. We’ve been conditioned for excuses by the media, Internet, advertising, and movies.
But, what about results? Why aren’t we conditioned for them instead of for reasons and excuses?

I’ve always said that the definition of an excuse is a well-planned lie.

“Gosh, I’d love to but I’m kind of busy.”

“I don’t have the time for that.”

“I’m too old (or too young).”

“I’m too fat (or too skinny).”

“I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks.”

I believe that this is the number one roadblock that keeps people from success! Let me share my own personal story about excuses.

Twenty years ago when I was homeless during the month of December, I allowed excuses to take me down a path of destruction. My reasons were real. I had no money and no job. My husband had deserted me in Hawaii for another woman who was in Japan and took off with everything. He drained my bank account and left me with $2.03 to my name and a $35,000 credit card debt with no chance of charging anything else on them. Nothing was going right and I let these reasons make me homeless and turn to drugs. This was the worst thing I could have ever done.

At the beach, I dived into a wave. When I came up, I heard a voice that said “pick up your mat and walk!” I did, and never looked back. The next day, I started a business out of the trunk of my car and made $2,000 in four days.

What changed on that next day? Nothing changed. I still had no money. I was still homeless with a husband who had deserted me and a father who hated me. My circumstances were exactly the same. Nothing around me shifted except for one thing—I made a decision. I made a choice.

Until I said, “Enough is enough! God didn’t intend for me to be mediocre. It’s time for me to shut up, step up and do something.” That’s when my circumstances began to change. Because I made a decision at that moment, the rest is history.

After coaching and training thousands of people all of these years, I’ve found this to be the number one reason for business failure—indecision. In my opinion, making a decision is the number one thing that will get you on the fast track to success!  Those that succeeded simply made a decision to do whatever it takes to make it. They made a decision that “enough was enough!” They were tired of looking at two cans of beans and having to choose the lesser priced one because that’s what the checkbook dictated.

Until you make a decision to change and do whatever it takes to make it, you will continually be blocked from true and long-lasting success. Do the number one thing that will get you on the fast track to success—make a decision and kiss excuses goodbye!

Dani Johnson is a relationship marketing expert, author, speaker, trainer and founder of Call to Freedom Int’l. She went from living out of her car with $2.03 to her name to earning her first million in two short years by the age of 23. Dani regularly consults, mentors, and coaches successful home business owners and entrepreneurs on marketing and lead generation solutions, prospecting, closing, business building strategies, leadership development and personal achievement, insider profit strategies, organizational and team development and more.

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All You Want is Within Your Reach

If there is one thing that I believe with all my heart it is that you can have any life you choose. You can live the life you have always dreamed of.

We live in a period of unparalleled opportunity in human history. Think about it: Just one hundred years ago, most people really only had five or six options when it came to deciding what they would do with their lives. For most, they didn’t even have the knowledge that they could do anything other than take over their father’s farm when they turned eighteen!

But today a person living in the western world (and many other areas of the world as well) can choose to do virtually anything they want to! The key is the word “choose.”

You see, the world is within your reach. Any job you want can be yours if you decide. All of the opportunities are there for the taking. The question is whether or not you will take.

You say, “But Chris, you just don’t understand. I’m 38 years old with two kids and I have bills to pay. I make $28,000 a year. I can’t just go become a doctor and make big money!”

And I say, “Yes you can! If you decide to. If you will take action, you can become a doctor or anything else you want to. We live in a day and age when virtually anything is possible.”

For the sake of highlighting this principle, let’s look at the above example. How would this person change careers? Simple. Here is the process in specific action steps:

1. Find out from a medical school what classes you would need to take to get in. Chances are your college major would need some rounding out or if you didn’t go to college, you would need to do so. Maximum time to do this: 3 days.
2. Now, go to school. Maximum time to do this: 4 years.
3. Now, medical school and residency. Maximum time to do this: 6 years.
4. Begin practicing medicine.

At this point you would be 48 years old. That leaves you 17 years to practice. Now, let’s see the impact it has on your life:

1. You get to pursue your dream, making you and your family MUCH happier.
2. You will make, on average, $100,000 more per year. The difference here is manifold! If you stayed where you were, you would have earned $28,000 a year for 27 years and would earn $756,000. If you left and pursued your dream, you would earn $128,000 for 17 years (that’s if you took 10 years to make the transition; most would be less.) and your earnings would be $2,176,000! This is a difference of $1,420,000! And this doesn’t even take into consideration the amounts you would earn on investments with the difference in incomes.

So is it possible? Yes. Does it take time? Yes. Is it hard? Yes. Is it scary? Yes, and that is why most people won’t do it.

It isn’t for lack of opportunity. It is usually because of one of the following:

- Lack of vision
- Lack of tenacity
- Fear

The truth is that you can do anything you want to. Stop telling yourself excuses! Go to battle against a lack of vision! Pick yourself up and get tenacious! Look fear in the face and stand up to it! Your whole life depends on it, my friend!

The choice is yours. Will you continue to limp along in life because you don’t have the courage to run for your dream? Will you continue to allow the fear of poverty keep you from pursuing the riches, both materially and emotionally, that lay within the vision you have of what your life could be?

You CAN live the life you have always dreamed of. All you want is within your reach. But to pick it up, you must first empty your hands of what they already hold. Then you must reach for it, take a hold of it, and possess it!

– Chris Widener

The ‘Basics of your Value’ is the value to them

The following wisdom is imparted by dear friends Bill and Consuelo.  We’ve worked together for over 5 years now and they will always have a special place in my heart.  I admire their perseverance regardless of the obstacles placed in front of them.  Read on; digest it very carefully and give thanks for the insight or reminder!

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Bill and Consuelo

I’ve said this for years: If you want to separate yourself from all the other network marketers out there, stop talking about the products and stop talking about the company, and start talking about the people.

When I say the people, I’m talking about your upline. For those of you that have been following this blog, you know how strongly I feel about the upline team (it’s the most important asset you have).

From the emails and phone calls I’ve been receiving on yesterday’s blog, I know that many of you are on board with this idea, but might be struggling a little bit with implementing it. It’s ok; that’s normal

Most people don’t think this way, and unless you’ve been brought up as the heiress to a multi-million dollar fortune, you probably don’t either. But if you want the HUGE money in network marketing, you’ve got to make this transition.

Yesterday I talked (typed – LOL) with you about my story, or my ‘pitch.’ Today, I want to talk to you about the music behind my words. The attitude, confidence, mindset, and body language that goes with it…

Everything you say and everything you do has an effect on your prospect, but it’s also how you say and do it that affects the outcome. The way you hold your arms, when in the conversation you lean forward, do you look them straight in the eye (and when do you glance away?), what is the volume of your voice and when do you raise and lower it, are you talking to them like a friend or like an authority figure? All of these factors (and many, many more) have a large effect on your success in clearly delivering your message.

Now before you despair and give up on ever being able to master all these subtle techniques (politicians spend their entire careers mastering these things, LOL), understand that there is an easier way.

If you learn to think the right way, you’ll act the right way. There, that’s it; it’s that simple. Class dismissed. Remember what we’ve been saying? “The biggest difference between people that just make some money in network marketing and those that buy islands is the way they think.”

So we don’t need to waist blog space talking about whether or not you should wear a bikini for your next presentation (you shouldn’t – unless you’re on Bali and even then only shoes are required ), instead, let’s talk about what our mind-set should be. And remember, I’m assuming that we’re going to be talking to people that say they’d like to make a lot of money.

First lesson: You have what they need, not the other way around. This is not arrogance, this is simple truth. You have access to millionaire makers, they don’t. You’ve got the team that has the knowledge, wisdom, experience, and track record of making others wealthy. You can direct the awesome power of this team to whomever you bestow it on. Hopefully you are mature enough to not let this go to your head, but it would be better to err on that side than to send the wrong signals by being timid, meek, or unsure. If you really care about someone, get this part down. How tragic it would be for a loved one to miss out on this awesome experience because you were too timid to communicate it with strength.

“If they think you need them, they will run from you. If they believe you’re doing them a favor, they will flock to you.”
– Bill Luznicky

Second lesson: Stop worrying about whether they’ll be successful or not. Here’s the reality; some will, some won’t – and you can’t control that. If you spend your time second guessing yourself and trying to predict who will be successful or not you’ll never attract anybody (and you’ll deny everyone the opportunity to be wealthy). Besides, who do you think you are? God? You can’t know whether someone has the desire, work ethic, persistence, and fortitude to take full advantage of the opportunity or not. And that’s not your job. Your job is to clearly present the magnitude of this awesome opportunity; to give them a chance they would otherwise never have. You should feel good about this and they should thank you every day for the rest of their lives that you thought enough of them to give them this chance.

Lesson # 3: Understand that it’s a numbers game. You don’t need the person you’re prospecting. If they don’t join you, someone else will (it’s just numbers). Talk to everyone and don’t prejudge. The biggest mistake you’ll ever make: “Oh, he wouldn’t be interested – he’s already way successful.”

Lesson #4: Don’t be afraid to take it away. If in the course of presenting this incredible situation to someone they throw out an objection, I’ll respond to it. If they throw out another one, I’ll probably respond to that too. But if the objections keep coming, I’m very quick to pull back my offer. I politely let them know that I’d be glad to answer any questions that are really important to them, but I’m really sensing that this opportunity is just not right for them. We’re still friends and we can talk more about it some other time, but right now I’m putting together my inner team and I don’t have a lot of time. I’ll let them know how it goes. Sometimes they quickly convince me that no, they really are serious. But if they don’t, it’s ok. I just know that they’re not right for my inner circle. I’ll come back after we launch and let them buy product from me.    Oh, and if they ask me what the product is, I’ll tell them that it will be a good quality nutritional product. If they ask again I suggest you tell them that you don’t know and you don’t care. The important thing to you is that you’ve got a team of pros willing to work daily with you and your team and nothing is as important as that. If you can make a million dollars with it, you could care less whether you’re marketing Vitamin C, or water from the Fountain of Youth !!! Their response to this will let you know if you’re talking to the right person or not.

Lesson #5: This is our shot. This is our chance and we’re not going to miss it. Consuelo and I just bought our dream home and we were able to do it (in an economy where no one else can) because we treated our last venture like it was our shot (maybe our only shot) at taking our income and lifestyle to another level. This time around, we’ve got a shot at providing for our family for generations; I’m talking Trust Fund Wealth. This is our chance to provide a legacy; to make sure that no one in our family ever again will grow up with crooked teeth. To make sure we all have the best doctors and the best care. To insure that no family member ever has to die alone in some state run facility. To give all the children options at the best schools, be it Harvard, MIT, or Oxford overseas. And speaking of travel, what an advantage it will be for us to all know what it’s like to live in a Third World Country – to see first-hand what corruption, politics, and lack of education can do to a people. What an advantage it will be to experience the cultures and history of Europe and Asia. To change the world you must know the world, to know the world you must travel the world and meet her people’s. I choose to be the patriarch of my family. I choose to make a difference and this is my shot to do so.

Everyone has different goals in life, but when you get the above five lessons down pat (especially number 5), you’ll be unstoppable – and your world will be a better place.

Adapting to Change

If you don’t embrace it, expect it and adapt to it, change becomes a burden, an obstacle and sure fired way to become stagnant.  That sun will rise, whether your attitude is positive or negative.  Why not be on the positive side and receive more each day?

photo by Yardie

Each day brings change, opportunity, ways to be in gratitude and choices.  How do you choose to see it?

As quoted by James Ray:

“We live in a very interesting time. Our world is changing in ways we would’ve never imagined just a decade ago. I mean, who would’ve guessed that some of the largest financial institutions in the world would crash into bankruptcy?

These are definitely times of great change, and for many people, quite a bit of uncertainty. How is all of this change affecting people, their emotional and physical health, ability to maintain financial security, happiness and overall well-being?

What can we do for ourselves and others who are struggling through these times?”

We can live through example, share our opportunity and solutions or not.  We have an extremely viable solutions to anyone desiring to earn additional income.  We offer 8 income centers with which to grow our income.  FLIglobal offers all the tools, support, product and operations for any person / company to increase their asset base.

We can live life to the fullest, share our grateful attitude and help those who wish to improve their lives.

Growth, resilience and receiving change bring such delight to ones life.

Try it; you will like it!

Time

You always have enough time, if you will use it wisely.

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Your dilemma goes deeper than having a shortage of time, it’s basically a problem of priorities.

Most people leave undone those things that should be done, while they do things that they shouldn’t be doing.

Set priorities for your goals.
A major part of successful living lies in your ability to put first things first.
Most major goals are not achieved because people put second things first.

Is what your doing getting you closer to your objectives?
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time.

Don’t serve time, make time serve you.

… by Charlene Summers

Attracting This and That

Searching, seeking, seeing, achieving all this for me

You Choose

The blessings I deserve, the gifts I receive all through love, thirst and hunger

Feeling the fullness always, abundance is mine to use and never abuse

What a wonderful world to gift me each and every day

For it is attitude that determines the wealth of each blessing each day.

The wealth of each blessing each day.  Yes, indeed the value increases.

I receive it today, I receive it this moment, I receive you always

Oh how incredible I feel, always in gratitude is my attitude

You reward me simply for believing.  My belief grows each day; I feel the foundation

I feel the growth, I feel the foundation you gifted to me

I build on it; I appreciate it; I receive it; I’m humbled by it

My belief grows and the blessings multiply; giving to others achieves this

Think first of thy brother and sister, feed their hunger, show them the dessert

The reward so precious and fulfilling, that attitude of gratitude.

Share it, pass it on, give it away so freely.

Searching, seeking, oh me oh my what delight I feel and see

Seeing is believing; believing is seeing

What a wonderful world we live in; what a wonderful world we create.

(C) 2009 CSeaPerkins

Gifts galore

Searching, seeking, seeing, achieving all this for me

The blessings I deserve, the gifts I receive all through love, thirst and hunger

Feeling the fullness always, abundance is mine to use and never abuse

What a wonderful world to gift me each and every day

For it is attitude that determines the wealth of each blessing each day.

The wealth of each blessing each day.  Yes, indeed the value increases.

I receive it today, I receive it this moment, I receive you always

Oh how incredible I feel, always in gratitude is my attitude

You reward me simply for believing.  My belief grows each day; I feel the foundation

I feel the growth, I feel the foundation you gifted to me

I build on it; I appreciate it; I receive it; I’m humbled by it

My belief grows and the blessings multiply; giving to others achieves this

Think first of thy brother and sister, feed their hunger, show them the dessert

The reward so precious and fulfilling, that attitude of gratitude.

Share it, pass it on, give it away so freely.

Searching, seeking, oh me oh my what delight I feel and see

Seeing is believing; believing is seeing

What a wonderful world we live in; what a wonderful world we create.

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