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If you’re like many newbie marketers, you have heaps of great marketing ideas all the time. The problem is they seem to fade into nothing without you ever doing a thing about them, Am I right? Then, after a week, you have forgotten all about that great new idea, or you have that lingering annoying thought in your mind that you have let another great idea turn into nothing.

I mean, who knows if they’re great ideas to start with, but the problem is you will never know. So here are a few tips that will help you get over that hill and finally start putting your ideas into action.

– Procrastination: This is the number one problem – Putting things off. You NEED a plan and some time management system in place. Prioritize your tasks and keep lists of everything that needs doing. Don’t get too technical with this. You don’t need the latest software to manage yourself. You are trying using post-its or a simple exercise book. And no matter how much you don’t feel like doing something, get it out of the way and NEVER leave it until the next day!

– Doing It Alone: You can do it alone, but it is more challenging, and without support, you are more likely to fail. However, it doesn’t have to be much. Online forums, for example, are a fantastic source of ideas and encouragement. And with other people, like starting your affiliate program, you can leverage your efforts and do FAR MORE than you could ever do on your own.

– Be Ambitious: You won’t know unless you try. Assume you can do *anything* – because you can! You may not be ready to do it yet but don’t set up mental blocks in advance. You can create your profitable items, sell them well, and have others selling them for you. You can operate a range of websites, even host seminars, or teach others. YOU CAN.

– Wasting Money: This one is important, especially if you don’t have money to burn! Don’t get caught up jumping from opportunity to opportunity or buying everything that comes into your inbox. You’ll be surprised how much you can get for free. Trust me – you don’t need half the stuff you see online. Try to control your emotions and think before you buy. Write a list of pros and cons, and ensure that the product or service is essential to YOU.

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So, you’ve decided to start a home-based business. Congratulations! and welcome to the fast-paced world of entrepreneurship. While there is a lot to learn, your effort will be worth it. The thrill of growing your business, the freedom and flexibility to set your hours, and the possibilities of ever-increasing financial rewards are all excellent reasons to start your home-based business.

Now that you’ve decided to start your business, you might be wondering, “How can I get it off to the strongest possible start?” These seven tips will help:

• Set up a separate working space in your home. It doesn’t matter if this is a small bedroom, one part of the garage, or a living room corner. The important thing is to have some space that you can designate as your working area. This will give you the freedom and room you need to craft your dream.
• Stock your working space with materials. This sounds essential, perhaps, but one underlying element of success is that you have easy access to the tools, materials, and other resources you need. Gathering everything close by also keeps you from wasting time searching for it, so this step can also be considered a time management strategy.
• Speaking of time management, your third step is to define the parameters of your business. What days and hours will you work? When will you market? When will you provide services or products to clients? How will you keep all this straight?
• Balance action with planning. One of the most common pitfalls to successful entrepreneurship is getting too caught up in acting without planning. Stated another way, this means that you confuse “being busy” with “working on important projects.” The best approach is to plan your next couple of goals and then work backward to create step-by-step action plans to reach them. Once you have the program, then it’s time to act.
• Network like crazy. One of the fastest ways to grow any business is to make connections with other people. Be sure to share your passion and enthusiasm with others at every opportunity. Let people know who you are and what you offer. Remember, people can’t buy if they don’t know you’re selling.
• Present a professional image. If you want to be treated professionally, present a professional image. Set up a separate bank account for your business. Install a separate phone and fax line. Create professional marketing materials. Be courteous and pleasant in all your customer-facing interactions. Be someone people want to do business with.
• Automate your business as much as possible. Granted, you are just one person (right now) and might have a lot of extra time to take care of all the details. This might work for now but won’t work into the future as you get busier and busier. It’s best to set up automatic systems and processes right from the start to free up your time to concentrate on the most profitable activities.

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As the title states, “Become an Information Filter and a Knowledge Sponge.”

On your daily journey to achieve your WHY, you will travel through many different avenues, and sometimes you will ask yourself, “Why do I need to meet this person or experience this situation?” The key is to truly understand that you must become an information filter and use your personal God-given filters — your eyes and your ears. I always say that you were born with 4 inputs (2 eyes, 2 ears) and 1 output (mouth).

When you decide to become a filter and filter through all the information taken in through your inputs, you will begin to find answers to the reasons for certain experiences in your life. What you learn from each situation that you experience will be the foundation for future decisions. My personal view is that “every failure is a stepping stone to success, which in turn will become a very long and lovely stone walkway into the castle of your dreams.” Very simply, this quote means out of every failure, you will filter information that will empower you to make wiser decisions based on the information you learned from your personal failures!

As you begin to realize you must become a filter – listen and observe more than you talk, you will be amazed at the insight you gain. When you combine becoming a knowledge sponge and being a filter, you will empower yourself to achieve your WHY! Becoming a knowledge sponge is very simple. You must immerse yourself in the knowledge of the #1 people in your field of endeavor. When I first became a distributor in a direct sales organization, I simply researched and found out what the #1 earners in direct sales/network marketing were doing. As a result, I broke all records and built enormous sales organizations. I was nothing special, but the methods I used were special because they were proven to work. Remember, the smartest people are those that realize they are not the brightest or the best.

Each day you embark upon your journey toward your Why, you need to absorb as much information as possible constantly. Success leaves clues, and usually, it is a long list of failures accompanied by one major success. I can tell you that if you have failed in the past and right now are questioning your actions, just become an information filter and knowledge sponge. Start to utilize your four inputs, and before you know it, you will hit the mark and succeed! I highly suggest listening to positive personal development tapes and reading some positive material EACH AND EVERY DAY to saturate your sponge with the proper knowledge!

Find your WHY and Fly!

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It is my personal opinion that two words are the driving force behind your personally achieving your outcome and your WHY in Life. These two words are the most powerful words that you can and will ever speak to yourself about any situation – “CAN” and “CAN’T” As I’ve said many times, “CAN” is a word of power; whereas, “CAN’T” is a word of retreat.

You have the power to decide if you wish to ACHIEVE or RETREAT because when you speak victory words such as “I CAN,” you will attain whatever you set out to do regardless of what others are saying to you. Many famous entrepreneurs in the world, such as Ray Kroc, Fred Astaire, Walt Disney, and Dick Clark. I can attest that if you spoke with each of them individually, they would tell you that at the beginning of their journey, most people told them that you CAN’T do that! Fortunately, they disregarded these statements and listened to their inner voice, who said, “Oh yes, I CAN!”

The key in life is to realize the most important person who speaks to you every day is you on the inside! You need to review your WHY in Life and see if you are on track toward achieving your WHY, or are you on a detour because someone told you, “You CAN’T do that, so stop dreaming and just forget about it!” As a personal mindset builder, you need to speak to your inner person and say to yourself, “Today, I will take another productive stride!”

Each morning, I visualize myself winning. My personal outcome for each day is to build a community of people with whom we can inspire and motivate us to make the world a better place to live. I have to admit if it was not for my inner person saying, “John, you CAN do it! YOU CAN do it!” I may not be in the position of success that I am today. Some days it is still difficult, but guess what — we ARE doing it!

I am personally very proud and appreciative of the people who have stepped up to the plate and made individual contributions of talent and time and, when combined, have made an empowered team at the Di Lemme Development Group – a team that keeps on building each day!

In summary, you need to ask yourself a sincere question, “Am I listening to my victory words from the inside, or am I letting the outer defeat (loser) words control my outcome in life?”.

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Fortune magazine once published an article entitled “The Best Advice I Ever Got.” It was a great article that offered wit and wisdom about achieving business success. I liked it so much that it motivated me to produce my newest book, Leadership: Best Advice I Ever Got, which describes the best leadership advice 136 successful CEOs, coaches, consultants, professors, managers, executives, presidents, politicians, and religious leaders received that most helped them become effective and successful leaders.

Here are 7 secrets to leadership success:

1. Leadership is about making things happen

If you want to make something happen with your life, in school, your profession, or your community, do it. Perceived obstacles crumble against persistent desire. John Baldoni, Author, Leadership Communication Consultant, and Founder of Baldoni Consulting LLC, shared this advice that had come from his father, a physician. He taught him the value of persistence. At the same time, his mother taught him compassion for others. Therefore, persistence for your cause should not be gained at the expense of others. Another bit of leadership wisdom!

2. Listen and understand the issue, then lead

Time and time again, we have all been told, “God gave us two ears and one mouth for a reason”…or as Stephen Covey said…”Seek to understand, rather than be understood.” As a leader, listening first to the issue, then trying to coach, has been the most valuable advice that Cordia Harrington, President, and CEO of Tennessee Bun Company has been given.

3. Answer the three questions everyone within your organization wants answers to

What the people of an organization want from their leader are answers to the following: Where are we going? How are we going to get there? What is my role? Kevin Nolan, President & Chief Executive Officer of Affinity Health Systems, Inc., believes the more clarity that can be added to each of the three questions, the better the result.

4. Master the goals that will allow you to work anywhere in today’s dynamic business world

Debbe Kennedy, President, CEO, and Founder of Global Dialogue Center and Leadership Solutions Companies, and author of Action Dialogues and Breakthrough, once shared this piece of advice instrumental in shaping her direction, future, and achievements.

She was a young manager at IBM just promoted to her first staff assignment in a regional marketing office. For reasons she can’t explain, one of her colleagues named Bookie called her into his office while visiting his location. He then began to offer unsolicited advice, but advice that now stays fresh in her mind. He mentioned that jobs, missions, titles, and organizations would come and go as a business is dynamic– meaning it is always changing. He advised her not to focus her goals toward any of these but instead learn to master the skills that will allow her to work anywhere.

He was talking about four skills:

The ability to develop an idea
Effectively plan for its implementation
Execute second-to-none
Achieve superior results time after time

With this in mind, Kennedy advises readers to seek jobs and opportunities with this in mind. Forget what others do. Work to be known for delivering excellence. It speaks for itself, and it opens doors.

5. Be curious

Curiosity is a prerequisite to continuous improvement and even excellence. The person who gave Mary Jean Thornton, Former Executive Vice President & CIO, The Travelers, urged her to study people, processes, and structures. He inspired her to be intellectually curious. He often reminded Thornton that making progress, in part, was based upon thinking. She has learned to apply this notion of intellectual curiosity by thinking about her organization’s future, understanding the present, and knowing and challenging herself to creatively move the people and the organization closer to its vision.

6. Listen to both sides of the argument

The most valuable advice Brian P. Lees, Massachusetts State Senator and Senate Minority Leader, ever received came from his mentor, United States Senator Edward W. Brooke III. He told him to listen to all different kinds of people and ideas. Listening only to those who share your background and opinions can be imprudent. It is important to respect your neighbors’ rights to their own views. Listening to and talking with a variety of people, from professors to police officers, from senior citizens to schoolchildren, is essential not only to be a good leader in business but also to be a valuable member of your community.

7. Prepare, prepare, prepare

If you fail to prepare, you are preparing to fail. If one has truly prepared and something goes wrong, the strength of the rest of what you’ve prepared for usually makes this something easier to handle without crisis and panic. One of the best pieces of advice Dave Hixson, Men’s Varsity Basketball Coach at Amherst College, has ever received and continues to use and pass on is this anonymous quote, “Preparation is the science of winning.”

Along with this are two expressions from Rick Pitino’s book Success is a Choice, which speaks to preparation. Hixson asks his teams every year: “Do you deserve to win?” and “Have you done the work?” This speaks to the importance of preparation toward achieving your final goal. If you haven’t done the work (preparation), the answer to the second question is an easy “no!”

Great advice comes from many sources: parents, other relatives, consultants, bosses, co-workers, mentors, teachers, coaches, and friends. The important point to remember is to stay open, listen to everyone, and develop your own leadership style.

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MLM has a bad reputation with many people. This is unfortunate because the Direct Selling Industry is a billion-dollar enterprise that if done correctly and with integrity, can provide an incredible income. Choose wisely. There are six significant elements you should be looking for in a network marketing company:

– Stability: How old is the company?

– Outstanding products or services: will people keep buying?

– Pay plan—it should be smooth and reasonable, and generous. This is vital as the pay plan depicts precisely how you’ll get paid–or not get paid.

– The honesty of the company and the management: As much as possible, examine the experience of the CEO and reputation in the network marketing industry.

– Momentum and timing: Search out the company’s location, current affairs, and if it is rising.

– Support, training, and business systems: A company with brilliant management, products, and services, with a payment plan that’s exclusively fair and very liberal, will be in no use without good support and training.

Practice what they teach: For success, beginners need to be eager to pay attention and learn from counselors. But whatever the counselor did to succeed, don’t try to copy them blindly, but you have to be keen to gossip and be taught and pursue those systems.

The higher-ups- The general term is the “upline,” meaning the people higher than you. They should be as committed to your success as they are to their own. Newcomers should be capable of relating to the upline and be able to call them at any time to say, “I need some help.”

Take up the lead with your downline- There’s a term in the network marketing industry called “orphans”— newcomers joining the MLM industry and have nothing to do as their mentors are busy reruiting. Mentors should be ready to bear at least 30 days of training a newcomer into the industry– helping them and holding their hand until they feel positive to be able to go off on their own. Great leaders continue to nurture their team for as long as they are active.

We live in a virtual world now and the strongest companies have made the pivot. Zoom has replaced Home Parties and presentations. No more cleaning up, babysitters or snacks.

Taking care of business: As this is a business, and just like if you were running a trade or a shop, you should maintain all the official formalities. In addition, you have all the same write-offs tax-consultants you have with running a [full-time] business, so it’s imperative to research getting engaged before you start earning cash from it.

It’s essential to build a support team around you and seek suggestions from lawyers proficient with the MLM industry or Direct-Selling Company.

Click here on the “Be An Influencer with MK” tab to see how one of the best in the industry does it.

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Take a listen to a fun interview with me and Nicole Walker of WinHer United!

Website Link: http://bit.ly/WHU-S8E3

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When you first start your personal development journey, it can be tempting to take short cuts. You think that you already know who you are, what you want, and what you stand for, and how to exemplify that. However, that’s not how the human mind works. Often, we hide truths from ourselves and are not honest with ourselves about these issues. For this reason, follow these best practices for starting your personal development journey so that you will succeed.

Don’t Skip the SWOT – It’s imperative that you perform analysis on yourself in every aspect of your life to find out what strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats you face for any of the target issues you want to address. For example, if you perform a SWOT and realize that you’re not very good at something, you then have a choice. You can find someone who is to do it for you, or you can find training to learn to do it.

Nurture Your Strengths – When you perform the SWOT for any sector of your life, you’ll also identify your strengths. The best thing to do in life is to choose to lead with your strengths. You want to keep doing the things you’re strong at and learn to do them even better since you’re obviously interested in those things.

Improve Your Weaknesses – When you find out that you are weak in some area, you’ll need to determine whether you should improve it yourself or improve it by outsourcing it. To determine which is better, ask yourself whether it really matters who does it or just that it is done.

Understand The 3 Domains of Personal Development – They are, physical, cognitive, and social-emotional. Together, these domains cover all aspects of your life, including health, work, personal growth, spiritual life, and so forth. Working on all aspects of your life usually is much better than focusing only on one as they are sometimes indistinguishable.

Plan for Action – As you work through crafting your plan, nothing is done until you’ve set up action-packed steps and put them in your calendar scheduled for you to implement them. Whether you are doing it yourself, or outsourcing it, doing is the most critical part of the plan.

Focus on The Right Target Issue First – One reason it’s helpful to go through every single domain and issue you have before setting up a plan is that it helps you to know which issue to focus on first. For example, you cannot write a novel until you can read, and you can’t learn to write until you can read, first things first.

Be Persistent – Once you have your action plan, which is developed based on reality and not on how you wish it to be, you only now need to be persistent and take the steps to success. It truly is that easy. Once you have the steps scheduled in your calendar and you start implementing them, your life will begin to change.

Get a Coach – If you understand everything but your implementation skills leave something more to be desired, you may want to employ a life coach to help you. If you know some life coaches who specialize in personal development, you might want to talk to them. If you don’t know anyone, ask your colleagues for recommendations. It’s likely they will know someone or can direct you to someone who would know more on the topic.

One thing to remember about personal development is that it’s an ongoing process. You’re never done with it. There is no real finish line. For this reason, it’s best to develop tenacity and persistence as you follow the path you’ve created for yourself, adjusting as you go based on facts, and learning about what is really and truly important to you deep in your subconscious. It’s all about knowing who you are and living a life that illustrates who you are.

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