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Wacko Families Operator’s Manual

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Dec 042020
 

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Wacko Families Operator’s Manual
by Dan Reinhold

You hear about them, read about them…heck, our entire entertainment industry is almost exclusively based on them.

But can you admit that you belong to one??

It’s a never-ending waking nightmare. 24/7/365, you have FAMILY.

There is some escape possible. When you worked outside the h0me, you left to go to your job and were pretty much free while you were away, except for the occasional annoying call.

Then you went and blew it. You decided to w0rk at h0me.

The particulars don’t matter, not the what, for whom or even why. You’re at h0me.

Now consider the wiring of most people today in our society. “Work” and “home” have always been separate places and functions. When you’re “at work”, you’re working. When you’re “at home”, you’re not. Nice, easy, simple and understandable concept that kept everyone nodding and smiling like bobbleheads.

Think, then, of how haywire this rusty old wiring becomes when it tries to comprehend “w0rking at h0me”. Ouch.

You may know the what, for whom and why. I would certainly hope you do. Your family ( a loose configuration of various real and “honorary” relatives you either married or have known forever) only knows that you are “at home.” Does not compute, does not compute…

That’s the reason why they don’t get it.

You’re there at home, open, vulnerable, accessible, recruitable. To them, you can’t “work” while you’re “at home.” In their eyes, you’re JUST “at home” and so all the “at home” rules apply.

This is where “h0me business” and “h0me employment” rules are born and nourished and grown until all family (well, alright…most) can recognize and interpret them to the best of their old wiring’s ability.

You GOTTA:

Use workspeak. Set your “work hours” in your “work schedule” and “go to work” and “be working” when it’s time to do so.

Work when you’re working. No one makes a living playing Tetris or Doom, except the game testers. Unless your paychecks are from a game testing company, try sticking to business. That goes for IM and chatrooms and video cell phones and whatever the latest cool toys might be. Play later.

Show proof of working. I know this takes all the fun out of driving them crazy wondering what you’re doing, but it’ll really help. You don’t have to flash pay receipts or checks, but print out a confirmation, thank you note or hard copy of a piece of a project. Whatever you do, show. All the time. Remember you’re dealing with seriously rusty wiring. My brother-in-law still asks me, “So what’s that you do again???”

Apply glue liberally to your guns and stick to ’em. The bad news is you can never stop doing all these things. Just when you think they’ve finally got it, the eyes glass over and they start drooling again at the sound of your latest exploits. This stuff is imperative to garnering whatever support and cooperation you can get from these people who never go away. Either they will get it or they’ll decide to bother someone else.

Well, we can all dream, can’t we?

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Weed Control Facts – Winning the Battle of the Weeds

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Dec 032020
 

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WEED CONTROL FACTS: WINNING THE BATTLE OF
THE WEEDS

Keeping your landscape plantings, flower beds, and nursery crops free of weeds is a battle, but if you approach it with a strategic plan, you will prevail. In order to develop a plan, you first must understand how weeds work, and what kind of weeds you are dealing with.

Basically weeds grow either from seed, or they
reproduce from their roots. As the roots grow outward from the parent plant, new plants sprout up from the lateral roots, creating more parent plants and the process continues and the weeds thrive. Weeds that tend to reproduce from the root are usually more difficult to control.

Weed control facts? Weeds are plants, and they
function just like the desirable plants in your yard. They need water, sunlight, and nutrition to survive. Of these three key survival needs, the easiest one for a gardener to eliminate is sunlight. Through proper mulching you can eliminate the sunlight.

But first, let’s look at the steps you should go through before you mulch, then we’ll discuss the best mulching techniques to use. In order for your weed control efforts to be truly effective, you should do everything in your
power to make your gardens as weed free as possible before you plant or mulch. There are a couple of ways you can go about this, either organically or with chemicals. I don’t like using chemicals, but I do use them for weed control, and I use them for pest control when necessary.

I’ll discuss organic control first. The first thing you should do is remove all unwanted vegetation from your planting area. Using a hoe, spade or other digging device, undercut the roots and remove the undesirable plants, roots and all. Then you should work the soil by
rototilling or turning the soil by hand.

Once worked, let the soil sit for four days or so, and work it again. Keep doing this over and over as long as time permits. This process serves two purposes. It brings the roots that were left in the soil close to the surface so they can be dried by the sun, which will make them non-viable, and it disturbs the weed seeds that have started to germinate, which makes them non-viable as well. The longer you continue this process the more weeds you are eliminating from your garden.

Weed control facts? Depending on the time of the year, there are a few billion weed seeds drifting through the air at any given time, so to think that you can eventually rid a garden of weed seed is false thinking, but at least
this process is effective for the remaining roots, which are the most difficult to control.

With that process complete, go ahead and plant your garden. When you’re done planting you can either mulch the bed, or keep turning the soil on a weekly basis to keep it free of weeds. Most people opt to mulch. Not only does mulch help to control the weeds, but if you select a natural mulch it also adds organic matter to
the soil which makes for better gardening results down the road.

Before mulching you can spread newspaper (7-9 layers thick) over the soil and place the mulch over top of that. The newspaper will block the sunlight from reaching the surface of the soil and help to keep weed growth to a minimum. The newspaper will eventually decompose, and not permanently alter the make up of your garden.
Paper grocery bags also work well, so the next time you hear, “Paper or Plastic?”, you’ll know how to answer.

What about black plastic, or the weed barrier fabric sold at garden centers? I don’t like either and I’ll tell you why. For one, neither one of them ever go away, and the make up of your garden is forever altered until you
physically remove them, which is a real pain in the butt.

Weed control facts? Plastic is no good for the soil because soil needs to breath. Plastic blocks the transfer of water and oxygen, and eventually your soil will suffer, as will your garden. It’s all right to use plastic in a
vegetable garden as long as you remove it at the end of the season and give the soil a chance to breath.

Weed barrier fabrics allow the soil to breath, but what happens is that when you mulch over top of the fabric, which you should because the fabric is ugly, the mulch decomposes and becomes topsoil. Weeds love topsoil, and they will grow like crazy in it. Only problem is, they are growing on top of the fabric, and you are stuck with a ton of problems, like a weedy garden, and a major job of trying to remove the fabric that is now firmly anchored in place because the weeds have rooted through it.

Weed fabric is also porous enough that if an area becomes exposed to the sunlight, enough light will peek through and weeds below the fabric will grow, pushing their way through the fabric. I don’t like the stuff. I’ve removed miles of it from landscapes for other people
because it did not work as they had expected.

Weed control facts? Controlling weeds with chemicals is fairly easy, and very effective if done properly. I know that many people don’t approve of chemical weed controls, but millions of people use them, so I might as well tell you how to get the most effect using them.

There are two types of chemical weed controls, post-emergent, and pre-emergent. In a nutshell, a post-emergent herbicide kills weeds that are actively growing. A pre-emergent prevents weed seeds from germinating. Of the post-emergent herbicides there are both selective and non-selective herbicides. A selective herbicide is like the herbicides that are in weed-and-
feed type lawn fertilizers. The herbicide will kill broad leaf weeds in your lawn, but it doesn’t harm the grass.

One of the most popular non-selective herbicides is Round-up, it pretty much kills any plant it touches. Rule number one. Read the labels and follow the safety precautions!!! Round-up is very effective if used properly, but first you must understand how it works.

Round-up must be sprayed on the foliage of
the plant, where it is absorbed, then
translocated to the root system where it then
kills the plant. It takes about 72 hours for the translocation process to completely take place, so you don’t want to disturb the plant at all for at least 72 hours after it has been sprayed.

After 72 hours you can dig, chop, rototill, and pretty much do as you please because the herbicide has been translocated throughout the plant. The manufacturer claims that Round-up does not have any residual effect, which means that you can safely plant in an area where Round-up has been used. However, I would not use it in a vegetable garden without researching further.

No residual effect also means that Round-up
has no effect whatsoever on weed seeds, so
there is absolutely no benefit to spraying the
soil. Only spray the foliage of the weeds you
want to kill. Be careful of over spray drifting to your desirable plants. To prevent spray drift I adjust the nozzle of my sprayer so that the spray droplets are larger and heavier, and less likely to be carried by the wind. I also keep the pressure in the tank lower by only pumping the tank a minimum number of strokes. Just enough to deliver the spray.

Buy a sprayer that you can use as a dedicated
sprayer for Round-up only. Never use a
sprayer that you have used for herbicides for
any other purpose. Once you have sprayed the
weeds, waited 72 hours and then removed
them, you can go ahead and plant. Mulching is
recommended as described above. To keep
weed seeds from germinating you can apply a
pre-emergent herbicide.

Depending on the brand, some of them are
applied over top of the mulch, and some are
applied to the soil before the mulch is applied. A pre-emergent herbicide creates a vapor barrier at the soil level that stops weed seed germination, and can be very effective at
keeping your gardens weed free. They usually
only last about 5 or 6 months and need to be
re-applied.

Visit a full service garden center and seek the
advice of a qualified professional to select the pre-emergent herbicide that will best meet your needs. Never use a pre-emergent herbicide in your vegetable garden, and be careful around
areas where you intend to sow grass seed. If
you spill a little in an area where you intend to plant grass, the grass will not grow. They really do work.

That’s what I know about weed control. Read this article several times. Your success depends on getting the sequence of events correct.

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Succeed In Your Home Based Business The Jeff Bezos Way

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Dec 022020
 

Starting out from his Garage
Jeff Bezos built the foundation of Amazon.com from the garage of his two-bedroom house rented outside of Seattle. He fashioned his first office tables from wooden doors, angle brackets, and two-by-four lumber purchased from Home Depot.

This article summarizes the recognizable aspects of Amazon.com’s success and lays down lessons learned in the form of tips. You have the opportunity to analyze the tips given here and apply them with prudence to your own business.

You as the owner of your own home based business started – or about to embark if you have not as yet started – with the same resources as Jeff Bezos. You are in a similar situation – if not much better position – than the Amazon founder because you have the secret to his success to learn and apply into your own business.

Tip No. 1: Be modest in your initial investment. For example, your laptop or PC shall not necessarily be top of the line. Your office location could be a corner of the house or your room, basement or garage. Save on office rent by all means. Be like Jeff Bezos and other successful marketers who spent prudently and succeeded.

Motivation
You should motivate yourself to succeed. When Amazon was struggling to make profits for the first time, only its founder Jeff Bezos believed that the business goal could be achieved in a year’s time. Everybody was astounded when Jeff Bezos achieved his goal after one year.

Tip No. 2: The lesson that could be learned from the above account is to lay down and make known in clear fashion your goal to every stake holder of your small business. They include your spouse and your web designer, among others.

Write down this goal and post this on the wall beside your desk. Save this goal in your hard disk and make the text the start up page when you boot your computer. You can convert your goal into a screensaver. Read your goal to yourself every day as you go about your business on the Internet.

Tip No. 3: You should motivate yourself every day and pass this motivation on to every one who’s involved in your business. To paraphrase the author Wallace D. Wattles who wrote The Science of Getting Rick in 1910, envision yourself right now as having a very successful business and do every which legal and ethical way to actualize your vision. FYI, Wattles’ book is featured in my web site.

Change
It is said that change is the one single permanent thing on this planet. Amazon changed the way it does business through the years. First it was an online book seller. Next it expanded into selling music and videos.

Then it offered toys, consumer electronics and software to its customers. These were linked with a host of new products until this very day. Amazon has a constantly evolving product line. Its competitors have a hard time catching up with the innovator.

During its initial years of operation, Amazon was not making any real profit. It practiced instead the habit of reinvesting its income into new markets. This it did to make possible for its customers to make wider choices for the company’s offerings.

Tip No. 4: Your home based business should be run like Amazon. You could be selling your single information product now. Two weeks from today you will have added another back end product. Next month you will have introduced into your product line the inventory of the affiliate program you have joined in.

Tip No. 5: If your web site is content based, you should be adding new content every day. Casual visitors to your web site will become your regular visitors when they see new content every time they come back to your site. And these visitors will in the end become your regular customers.

Be a Generalist
A generalist is one who does a multitude of things. In computer language it is known as multi-tasking. This has been the culture at Amazon.

Tip No. 6: You as the single person in your home business must be a generalist, too. This means doing and knowing everything that goes in and out of your business.

You don’t know any HTML coding? This is tolerable. You must strive however to understand at least the basic formatting that goes into you site code. This way you can make small insertions into your web pages when your web designer is nursing a cold or is out of town. Or you can learn a thing or two on scripting. By the way, HTML tutorial is one of several categories among the home based business free learning stuff presented in my web site.

Work Ethic
Jeff Bezos was the company CEO and he and his wife were the first workers at Amazon. Their work ethic was marked with hard work and consistency, among others. These traits were handed down to their employees through the years.

Tip No. 7: To succeed and last long in your Internet business, you should work hard to put your business online in the fastest and frugal manner possible. The important thing to consider is to start up and put your small business online early and rapidly. If you have to wake up at two in the morning to do your Internet work, by all means stick to this routine.

Tip No. 8: You should be consistent in your business-related tasks. If your content needs updating twice weekly, follow this schedule with devotion. Visitors to your web site will notice even slight changes to your content when they go back to visit your web pages. Not to mention the search engine spiders which would just be too glad (i.e., in electron manner of speaking) to index new contents to your web site.

Be First to Embrace Technology
Amazon was among the first, if not the first, to adopt online book retailing. When the major book sellers – Barnes & Noble and Borders Books among others – realized this new way of selling books, Amazon was miles ahead. Jeff Bezos surveyed the Internet horizon and embraced the best technology on sight.

Tip No. 9: New technologies come and go almost daily. Some of these technologies enable you to run your business fast and easy. Other technologies rob you of your investment. Your duty is to examine each technology and assimilate into your business the best.

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The Internet’s New Secret Weapon for Getting Free Publicity

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Dec 012020
 

You probably don’t even know about them. Few people do.

Even fewer people realize how many different ways you can
use them to get free publicity, increase your search engine
rankings, and make yourself a media celebrity in your field.

I’m talking about “news alerts.”

Google offers Google News Alerts at www.news.google.com.
Look in the column to the left of the page.

Yahoo has a similar service, as do a number of other web
portals and news outlets.

News alerts are the Internet’s new — and one of its most
powerful — secrets weapons for attracting attention from
radio, TV and newspaper reporters.

You can sign up for news alerts for free. Then you choose
keywords related to your industry, and whenever those keywords
show up in a news story–practically anywhere–you get an
email notification and a link to the story..

News alerts allow you to identify and contact the journalist
who did the story to suggest a follow up, offer another
angle, etc. on the story they’ve already done.

You can even set up news alerts for a competitor’s name. If
they’re quoted in a story somewhere, you’ll be notified by
email. That gives you an opportunity to contact the reporter
who wrote the story and position yourself as a future
resource for similar pieces.

You can also set up your news alerts so that every time your
name appears in the media, it sends you an email
notification.

It¡¯s a great way to find out when your news releases, tip
sheets, or articles have been published. This can be
extremely valuable since people who print your
stuff don¡¯t always let you know they¡¯re doing it.

Furthermore, when you find out that something by you or
about you has been published, you can get copies or
reprints to use in a multitude of ways to further establish
your credentials with the media.

For instance, you can print out stories you may want to
include in your media kit, or even mail to journalists to
reassure them that your topic really IS newsworthy–
and that you indeed ARE an expert in your field.

I got quite a giggle — and a little bit of a shock — when
I set up a news alert for my own name recently.

I got an alert from Google a few days later telling me the
name “George McKenzie” had appeared in a Scottish TV
story.

When I clicked on the link, I found out it wasn’t really
about me–it was about a Scottish lawyer named Sir George
McKenzie, an advisor to King Charles the Second 300 years
ago.

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News alerts are one of the Internet’s most important
developments for helping people get the attention of the
media.

They’re free, easy, versatile, valuable, and best of
all–your competitors probably don’t have a clue they exist.

For more information on how to use news alerts to identify
reporters who are already doing stories about your
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Tips For Starting A Home Business

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Nov 302020
 

Start a home business and experience one of the most rewarding and exciting things you can do. It can be both frustrating and profitable at the same time. When starting your own home business you need to look at what product you are going to sell, who you are going to sell it to, where you are going to sell it at, and why you are starting your own home business. Leave one of these questions unanswered and it is going to be harder for you to succeed.

It’s a good idea when starting your home business to minimize your start up costs whenever possible. Here’s a few ideas on doing that.

– Barter

When you start your business you should be bartering goods and services with other businesses. You should try to trade for something before you buy it. Barter deals usually require little or no money.

– Network

Try networking your business with other businesses. You could trade leads or mailing lists. This will cut down on your marketing and advertising costs. You may also try bartering goods and services with them.

– Wholesale/Bulk

You’ll save money buying your business supplies in bulk quantities. You could get a membership at a wholesale warehouse or buy them through a mail order wholesaler. Buy the supplies you are always running out of.

– Free Stuff

You should try visiting the thousands of freebie sites on the internet before buying your business supplies. You can find free software, graphics, backgrounds, online business services etc.

– Borrow/Rent

Have you ever purchased business equipment you only needed for a small period of time? You could have just borrowed the equipment from someone else or rented the equipment from a “rent-all” store.

– Online/Offline Auctions

You can find lower prices on business supplies and equipment at online and offline auctions. I’m not saying all the time, but before you go pay retail for these items try bidding on them first.

-Plan Ahead

Make a list of business supplies or equipment you’ll need in the future. Keep an eye out for stores that have big sales. Purchase the supplies when they go on sale before you need them.

– Used Stuff

If your business equipment and supplies don’t need to be new, buy them used. You can find used items at yard and garage sales, used stores, used stuff for sale message boards and newsgroups etc.

– Negotiate

You should always try negotiate a lower price for any business equipment or supplies. It doesn’t hurt to try. Pretend you are talking to a salesman at a car lot.

– Search

You can always be searching for new suppliers for your business supplies and equipment. Look for suppliers with lower prices and better quality. Don’t just be satisfied with a few.

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Sandal repair for newbies

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Nov 292020
 

Are you a fashion freak who loves to get whirled in the massive breathtaking sky colored waves? All the trendy beach aficionados can now add feathers to their expensive, conspicuous and trendy beach dress by stylish yet comfortable and sustainable beach sandals.

Most of us are not cognizant of the relevance beach footwear. We are frequently concerned about our beach dress, sunscreen, beach hats and a pair of goggles but we seldom pay much heed to the beach footwear, thinking that they are insignificant since unrecognized by people. But friends that is not the case…just as every drop of water is responsible for filling up a tank, small wooden planks conjoin to shape a big room; similarly, your footwear bedeck or embellish your attire and the overall looks. What to say about the twin tasks of providing comfort and enhancing your grace that some beach sandals do! The Crocs sandals are a paradigm case in point. Unlike many other sandals these sandals function multiply. Firstly, the Crocs sandals are known for the numerous colors they come into for instance coral, sea blue, sage and emerald etc.; giving all the classy people an opportunity to complement their style. So even if you are heading for a bonfire on the shores, you don’t have to think twice…for these sandals that correspond well with your apparel can make you look hot in the midst of cool breeze and chilled tides.

After appearance what matters to almost every individual is the design and comfort of the footwear. Thus the Crocs beach sandals are crafted in an exclusive manner to bestow upon your feet an amicable hassle free walk even on the slippery soil. The best part about the design of these sandals is the spaces offered on the surface that allow air to constantly pass through. This also enables the crystal clear water to kiss your feet. Along with the space the sandals are assisted with a strap to hold to your feet firmly.

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MLM – It’s NOT About You

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Nov 282020
 

You know if there’s one thing that’s become ever so clear to me it’s what goes on inside a distributor while (s)he’s working the business.

You see when someone’s working their business, really working it, there are things going on inside the person that are totally dictated by what goes on outside of that person. And what I mean by outside is what kind of activity that distributor is creating in their prospecting world.

When a new distributor, or any distributor for that matter, is prospecting and going through leads or whatever other method they are doing, they inevitably have to talk to folks and determine if these people are really qualified prospects for their business.

Even those prospects that are generated through non-contact type methods like having someone track you down and sign up under you. Whatever.

When this happens a new distributor finds themself having to converse with that new prospect. And what happens when this occurs? Many things.

But let me first set the stage for what is going on in that new distributor. You see, it’s pretty obvious that we’re all human. And by that I mean that we all have feelings, hopes, desires, wants, needs, and so forth. All that sometimes referred to as ‘gushy stuff’. But no matter what you call it, it is what makes us totally distinct from virtually every other creature on the planet.

And at the same time this is the stuff that can lead to a new distributor’s downfall.

I’ll explain.

Wait, I’ll need to go on a little side route off of this insight path for a minute…

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Several weeks ago my wife asked me why I was doing all this MLM stuff. You see, I’ve been doing it for a few years now and she was just curious as to why I’m doing all this and what keeps me at it.

I must admit that she had me stumped because I couldn’t think up an answer to her inquiry. At least not at that moment.

I found that her question was a really good one because it made me think and precisely figure out why I was doing all this stuff. And after about a day of pondering all of this I finally figured out what it was that was keeping me in this sometimes crazy-making business. And it all came down to one word…

Hope.

You see, I still have that necessary J.O.B. and all the shackles that go along with it and I work my business around my day work. So like probably most of you I am still living to work instead of working my dream.

I found out that MLM gives me hope. The hope of coming home to roost someday soon. The hope of being able to dictate my days and what gets done or not in them. You know, the ‘be your own boss’ mantra and all that stuff.

Anyway…

Continuing with this sideroute – I found that this ‘hope’ stuff is something that most networkers carry with them. I know this is true because that is the bill of goods we’re usually sold when we sign up with our main deal. The dream. The magic ending to all this. The end result. Freedom.

And how do we hang onto all of this? How do we keep the ‘dream’ alive? Hope.

So let’s recap exactly what’s been (un)covered here so far.

We’re all distributors.

Some are more newbie distributors than others but that doesn’t matter.

As since we’re all distributors, we all at one time in the past bought into the dream of MLM.

Perhaps not wholeheartedly. Some of us instead of diving in perhaps are just sticking one toe in to test the waters, but nevertheless, we have all been given a taste of the elusive dream of … yes, that word again…

Freedom.

The call of freedom and all that it will mean to us when our entire day is built on it being personal freedom to us.

The second point here is that as a part of accepting that dream of freedom and the fact that most likely we don’t have it currently to the level that we desire, we’ve also enrolled ourselves into the second part of the MLM equation. That part is what is called ‘hope’.

Hope for a better future…

…For us.

…Our families.

…Our days.

…Our grandchildren.

…Etceteras, and on and on.

So we all live in HOPE.

Got it? Good. Let’s get back on the main insight path and continue with this article.

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Now, about this fact that we humans basically allow what happens outside of us to dictate what happens inside of us. It would appear that I might need to explain this with a couple of examples in order to make it perfectly clear what I’m writing about here. Sound good to you? Good.

Okay, let’s keep this at the level of your business and what you’re doing to build it.

As a newbie distributor you’re hopefully doing what you’re supposed to be doing and what is that something, exactly? Building your business of course.

And how to do you go about building your business? You prospect.

You seek out hungry prospects who are just looking for a chance to change their lives with a truly unique and genuine opportunity just like the one you’re offering them, right?

So…

You’re out there promoting your deal to folks and sifting and sorting for the good ones. What happens during this sifting and sorting methodology stuff? You come across a ton of tire-biters that are so cold to your opportunity that they couldn’t fog up a mirror in the middle of a cold northern Canadian winter.

And what do these prospects say to you so that it is crystal clear to you that they couldn’t possibly care any less for your deal than if you were offering them your product for free?

They say no.

Oh, but not just a simple no…instead you get the grand- daddy of all no’s. The hit-you-where-it-hurts no.

You get the “HECK no” (again, family-friendly insight here folks so no “I’m gonna wash your mouth out with soap” words allowed :-).

And what happens to you once this brutal conversation occurs in your world of prospecting?

You make this about YOU.

You shrink up.

You react.

You take it personally.

You feel rejected.

You question yourself if even just a little bit.

You hurt.

You get mad.

You feel disappointed.

You die inside ever so slightly.

And what’s the end result of this? You slowly but imperceptibly chisel away another small chunk of your hope. It falls away never to be found again.

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Now, how about we look at what happens when you’re doing your prospecting and you come across a bunch of prospects that are more than happy to hear what deal you’re working. They’re interested. They ask questions. They inquire about the product and the biz side and what you’ve done to-date. They like what they hear.

And then what do they do? They actually sign up.

Yes, after all your smooth talking combined with that miraculous 3-way with your upline. And their reading of that fat prospect packet you mailed to them at your cost. And after they saw the smooth company video and listened to the audiotape and drooled all over the slick corporate brochures…they actually joined your deal. They call the company on their own initiative and signed up under you.

Actually, as you’re talking to them you recall that they even called you to tell you that they signed up under you and want to build it big with you.

Life couldn’t get any better than this. Seriously.

This is what it’s all about. Isn’t it?

You’re in this deal to sign folks up. You’re in this deal to find leaders like these folks and to sponsor them into your biz.

Wow. Too cool.

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So after all this happens and the smoke clears from your eyes, lets take a detailed look at what’s going on inside you. Many words can describe this inner situation.

Elation.

Excitement.

Promise.

Expectancy.

Commitment.

Confirmation.

Happiness.

Gratefulness.

Hope.

Shall I continue? I think you get the picture.

Essentially, you’re feeling pretty much on top of the world at this moment. Pretty neat stuff when you think about it.

But do you want to know something?

Sit down for this one…

This is no different than when you were chopped down by all those tire biters. Absolutely no difference whatsoever.

I’ll explain.

You see, exactly what is going on here is that you’re letting what is happening outside of you dictate what happens inside of you.

I know, I know, I hear it already…

“But Andre, what’s wrong with feeling good about signing up a winner like this new distributor I just hooked? I mean, come on dude can’t I just celebrate the good ones like this? What’s wrong with that?”

Did I paraphrase your thought fairly well? So, I’ll now answer your question.

What’s wrong with this is that you’re dancing on the other side of the same coin. On one side of the coin is the mental and emotional space containing rejection, disappointment, fear, dread, failure. On the other side of the coin is the mental and emotional space containing happiness, deserving, excitement, and want.

What I mean by all this is that one day all is going about as bad as it can and you’ve been rejected 87 times from Sunday from every prospect you come in contact with. And then the next day you can’t say even the right thing to anybody and people are dropping distributor applications at your feet…all filled out with their check attached to the application paperwork. And what do you do with all this? You respond accordingly.

Outside bad, inside bad. Outside good, inside good. Results negative, outlook negative. Results positive, perspective positive.

Essentially, what is happening here is you’re allowing yourself to be dragged from pillar to post and you don’t even know it. And what is really going on here through all this? You’re lows are eating away at your hope. That one thing that is keeping you in the game. That so precious commodity that only can be reduced so far before you find yourself saying goodbye to the dream of making anything happen in MLM.

Now I know that this seems to be just the human thing to do. Doesn’t it? Things are going good in your world, why not feel good about it? Well, let me ask you – when things go bad does that necessarily mean that you have to feel bad? I’ll bet that at least some of you see the absurdity in all this.

So let me ask you again. How do you feel when you have that ‘really good prospect’, the one you’ve been dogging since last year on a bi-weekly basis, finally show you his/her true colors and finally say ‘nope not interested’ to you? What do you do? Like most of us, you sit back as you recoil from the situation.

You BECOME the situation. You take it personally and internally and get depressed. You take it in and spit it right back out in your actions. Or in this case, probably a lack of actions.

I mean how much prospecting do you find yourself doing when YOU’RE depressed and feeling dejected in general. I’ll bet not much is happening in any area of your world. Right?

Let’s twist the insight here and look at what is REALLY going on here.

I know, I know… “But Andre, you just finished talking about what’s happening inside of us because of what happens outside of us. Isn’t that the point?”

Good observation, but you’re only partially right.

Let’s continue with this insight because I think I’ve cut this point down to the bone about as far as I can go.

Moving on.

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The real point to this insight is that what you’re doing here is you’re making all of your prospecting about YOU!

Flew right over the ol’ forehead with that one didn’t I?

I’ll rephrase…

As long as you’re allowing yourself to be thrown about by the world around you, as you perceive it, you’re actually operating under the belief that you can actually control the world and its outcomes.

I’ve got news for you.

You can’t.

Sorry to be so blunt but I know by now that you can take it.

You see, when you get all depressed and rejected by a prospect turning you down what is really happening here is that you’re somehow, perhaps even in some small way, operating under the belief that you can control or create YOUR desired outcome with this situation. You’re operating under the belief that you can control this prospect and if you only give them a stellar enough presentation then you’ll have them slobbering at your feet and kissing your shoes thanking you for coming into their life with your deal.

This even applies to those situations when all appears to be going well. Remember those prospects that you can’t say the wrong thing to and they still sign up under you? Yeah, those dream prospects.

I ask you, what did that have to do with you? Perhaps you think that they joined because of you and that amazing 3-way you allowed them to have with your upline leader. Or maybe you gave them just the right amount of information and had the proper influencing tone in your voice that just made them see how good a deal you had with you and they just had to bite on the bait.

But you know what’s common with both of these situations? You’re making them about you by thinking that you are an integral part of the equation. And when that equation doesn’t add up to what it’s supposed to, then you respond accordingly. Either in a positive, or a negative way.

Now, let’s see what you can do about all this.

How about you do nothing?

That’s right…nothing.

You don’t do anything about this. You don’t act, react, or get into the emotive side of things. You don’t make this about you. You don’t make this about how good of a presentation, or even how bad of a presentation you did. You don’t make this about how polite you were and considerate you were that you asked them about their great step aunt’s appendectomy scar that must be healing by now.

Forget that you can control ANYTHING about this process. And how about instead you remember that the only thing that you truly can control in all this is the fact that you can’t control them and what they do. Or don’t do.

You see, it’s to your downfall that you’re making this about you. Don’t do that. Stay out of the emotional side of all this and just do what you’re supposed to do since you’re one of the good distributors. Be the messenger. Give them the MLM message you’re offering. And that’s it – your job’s done.

If they grab the baton and run with it in your race, you know what? That had nothing to do with YOU. THEY were ready to do it. You just happened to be in the right place.

I think I need to rephrase this to ensure that I’m getting to all of you.

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Just imagine for a moment that you’re one of those 7-star- super-astronomical-fourth-quadrant-stellar-blue-ointment-diamond distributor’s and you’re at the top of the pay plan. You’re raking in, say, forty-thousand monthly. Month in, month out. You there. At the top.

Now, you know as this top-of-the-heap distributor and company leader that the key to staying on top of the game is to continue to prospect no matter how much green you’re making. So you’re still doing your prospecting vigorously.

Now I ask you, does your list of cold-lead prospects know this is who you are when you call them on the phone? Does that dudette you approach on that street corner know that you’re making more in a month than she probably does in a year? What about that grocery clerk who just asked you about that button you have pinned on your chest that say’s “I feel cool, ask me why”.

Do any of them even care who you are? Well, outside of you being a total moron to them, they probably won’t even give YOU a second thought. And you know what will happen? They’ll either join, or not. And their joining won’t have diddly to do with you and who you are in your main deal.

It’s all about THEM. Not about YOU.

It’s all about where they are in life and if they’re ready for what you have to share with them. If they aren’t ready to make a change, it doesn’t matter if you’re that superstar leader distributor. Or on the other side of the spectrum, it doesn’t matter if right now your bonus check was $6.47 last month.

Did I make that point clear? Good, let’s continue.

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So, again, what are you doing about all this right now? You think you can control them. You think you can control your prospecting situation and the outcome of that situation.

You think YOU are part of the equation. And, again, what happens when you do this enough times?

Yes, you lose hope. And eventually you’re out of the race. Your hope dies and so does your dream along with it.

So, how about you do this from now on…

Don’t think about the RESULTS of your prospecting. Instead, think about the PROCESS.

What I mean by this is you remove yourself from hoping for a good end result, because remember when that end result IS good you FEEL good, but when that end results turns out ‘wrong’ or bad you FEEL bad.

Think about the process. Just BE the process of MLMing. Go out there and prospect. Prospect the dickens out of your world. Totally get into the process because when you do you’ll be reaching out to folks like your deal’s going out of style. And that’s good.

Focus on the process of MLM. Focus on recruiting. Focus on training. Focus on sharing. Focus on getting the message out there. Focus on being the best messenger you can be. Focus on being the best sponsor you can be. Focus on developing your-self to the best of your abilities. All of this is in your control so this is why you need to focus on all this.

DON’T focus on the end result of all this MLM crazy-making. That’s not in your control.

Don’t think that this new prospect has to join your deal. That’s not in your control.

Don’t think that you can control what someone else does. That’s not in your control.

Don’t think that your prospecting outcome has anything to do with you because as long as you’re sharing the message, it doesn’t.

And above all else…

…Don’t get into the emotions of all this and lose sight of the process.

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So, to summarize…

Stay with the process. You control it totally, so keep it moving.

Keep an eye on the results but don’t make the results the goal. They’re not.

As long as you’re focusing on the process and continuing with it and moving ahead with the process of MLMing you’ll keep your hope intact and the results will take care of itself. I guarantee it.

Good luck.

I hope this insight was helpful with your business efforts.

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How to Keep in Shape with Exercising Gadgets

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Nov 272020
 

We’ve all seen those TV commercials featuring all sorts of exercise gadgets that will get you that buff body or that rib-like belly with minimum effort. There are even wrap-around belts that zap your midsection with electronic pulses, allowing you to slim down without even making an effort to move your own muscles. Wow! If only they worked!

But, of course, any of us who have bought one of these effort-free exercise gadgets knows that their ultimate use is as a trash can stuffer. They work about as well as miracle weight loss diets. They are expensive and worthless gadgets, not solutions to getting yourself in shape. The only way to get in shape is the old fashioned way sweaty exercise on a scheduled basis.

It’s not a bad way to go, either. I have done it for years, and this issue leads with an exercise article by Richard Blunt that I adhere to, with a few modifications. For example, I like to chop wood so I often substitute chopping wood for resistance training.

But I have found a good use for gadgets to help me stay in shape. In fact, as I write this I’m on my eighteenth minute on my treadmill, which is a super-handy gadget. And I’m writing this commentary by dictating it into another gadget a pocket-sized cassette player/recorder. It is even more useful than my treadmill because it turns the treadmill into a work station, making it something that doesn’t just exercise my body but allows me to continue working at what I like best writing this magazine.

This is a critical issue for me being able to work while I exercise. I am one of those people who can’t just exercise. I have to get stuff done, whether that stuff is working at my business or just catching the news or a basketball game on TV.

So I’ve positioned my treadmill in front of the TV, and in a little plastic basket I’ve taped to the side of the treadmill I keep the TV remote so I can switch between channels or raise the volume when I put the treadmill into a jog. Also in the basket is my hands-free telephone with headset, just in case I get an important business call while I jog. And I keep my high fidelity earphones in there too, in case I want to pursue one of my favorite hobbies listening to books on tape.

I’ve essentially turned my treadmill into a work, entertainment, and learning center. It’s become one of the most productive areas of my house.

I am not the only busy person I know who has embraced the necessity of exercising to maintain good health but who can’t quite justify the effort to just exercise. Ron Graham, BHM’s operations manager, also has his exercise machine a Gazelle Freestyle Glider in front of his TV, and he typically exercises on it to the tunes of his favorite group, the Bee Gees.

To me it just makes sense to make exercise fun and mentally productive. Otherwise, why would anyone continue doing it? It’s not human nature to continue doing things that make us miserable.

I have other exercise gadgets too, like a set of dumbbells, a bench, and a heavy bag, but all are strategically located so that I can do more than just work out.

These little electronic gadgets not the electronic zappers and miracle diets are the real miracle exercising tools of our day. They help the actual workout fade into the background, and for me they often even extend the workout. For example, I intended to use the treadmill this time for 20 minutes, but I have been so mentally involved with formulating these words that as I look down at the treadmill timer, it is on its 26th minute.

Here’s the bottom line: The greatest impediment to people exercising to maintain their health is that it takes too much time and trouble. So fool yourself by making it either fun or productive. My wife loves her jazzercise. It’s good exercise and a social event at the same time. My daughter loves her dance classes. There’s lots of stuff to do out there besides just exercising. For the sake of your health, find your own fun and keep fit.

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