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MLM POWER For the Ultimate Empowerment of Network Marketing Entrepreneurs

MLM Power Ultimate Network Marketing Empowerment

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Success Disclaimer MLM Power is intended for the personal development of network marketing and direct sales entrepreneurs. This book is of an empowering nature to stimulate the creation of ideas and motivate the readers to greater levels of achievement within their specific MLM, network marketing or direct sales business opportunities. It should be noted that the principles expressed herein are of the author’s design. The intention of James Lee Valentine is to offer inspiration of a general nature to help all entrepreneurs in their quest for positive life transformation. In the event of you using any of the material in MLM Power, the author and publisher assume no liability for your actions . . . as your actions, focused positively, could lead to a life of phenomenal achievement.

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Clarification of MLM & Network Marketing & Direct Sales Throughout this book I frequently refer to the businesses of MLM, network marketing and direct sales using any of these terms: ¾ MLM or multi-level marketing ¾ Networking or network marketing ¾ Direct selling or direct sales These – and all derivatives thereof – follow a similar system by which a parent company distributes its products or services through a NETWORK of independent business people throughout the free world. Though there are discernible differences between MLM, network marketing and direct sales companies, for all intents and purposes within MLM Power they are described as one and the same.

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Contents Preface ............................................................................................ 11

Section One The Power of YOU Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5

You are Responsible for Your Life ........................... 16 Make a Commitment to Live Life Fully ................. 21 Dare to Become a Risk Taker ................................. 26 Accelerate the Pace of Your Life .............................. 31 Create a Life that Celebrates Top Performance ....... 36

Section Two The Power of PASSION Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10

Light the Spark of Passion Within You ................... 44 Enthusiasm is the Soul of Life ................................ 49 Be on Fire with a Magnificent Obsession ............... 54 March to the Tune of Your Own Drumbeat ........... 59 Creativity is the Essence of Passion ........................ 64

Section Three The Power of THOUGHT Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15

The Amazing Kingdom of Your Mind ................... 72 The Two Worlds of Existence ................................. 77 You Reap What You Have Sown ............................ 82 The Supreme Laws of Thought .............................. 87 Wield Your Ultimate Power ................................... 92

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Section Four The Power of BEING Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20

Create an Empowered State of Being ................... 100 Positive Mental Attitudes are the Key ................... 105 A Powerful Self-Image is So Important................. 110 Develop an Invincible Winning Philosophy ........... 115 Choose Personal Excellence for Yourself ............... 120

Section Five The Power of DECISION Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25

Decisions Direct Your Destiny ............................. 128 Decide on Your True Definition of Success .......... 133 Quality Thoughts Create a Quality Life ............... 138 Choice and Decision: Twin Pillars ........................ 143 Decide to Take Enthusiastic Action ...................... 148

Section Six The Power of VISION Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30

Your Vision Ignites the Fires of Desire ................. 156 Defining the Ten Areas of MLM ........................... 161 Formula for Developing a Grand Vision .............. 167 Create Your Own Magnificent Dreams List .......... 172 Time Leads to the Fulfillment of Dreams ............. 177

Section Seven The Power of AIM Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35

The Magic of Setting Momentous Goals .............. 186 Winning Qualities Develop Solid Foundations .... 191 Formula for Establishing Fantastic Goals ............. 196 Phenomenal Goals to Set Your Life Ablaze ........... 201 Your Empowering Pure Power Declaration ............ 206 8

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Section Eight The Power of FOCUS Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40

Focus is the Magic Key ........................................ 214 Action! Action! Action! Action! ............................ 219 Persistence: The “I Will Never Quit” Attitude ...... 224 Inspiration Leads to the Land of Mastery ............. 229 Commit to Increasing Your Personal Value .......... 234

Section Nine The Power of FAITH Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Chapter 43 Chapter 44 Chapter 45

Empowering Affirmations .................................... 242 The Magic Power ................................................. 247 Beliefs: The Key ................................................... 252 Acknowledge Your Winning Qualities ................. 257 The Ultimate Power of Faith ................................ 262

Section Ten The Power of RICHES Chapter 46 Chapter 47 Chapter 48 Chapter 49 Chapter 50

Supreme Prosperity Consciousness ....................... 270 Unlimited Opportunities to Prosper .................... 275 Being Prosperous is Your Responsibility ............... 280 You Can Achieve Financial Independence ............ 285 Spread the Magnificent Wings of Your Soul ......... 290

Epilogue ....................................................................................... 295

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ersonal empowerment is the soul of this book . . . its life breath. The essence of ‘ultimate empowerment’ within MLM, network marketing and direct sales is being radiantly alive for the glory of living life to its maximum potential and literally being on-fire with exuberance for one particular business opportunity . . . yours. To reach the highest echelons of success and manifest a worldclass lifestyle through the sensational industries of MLM, network marketing or direct sales, an entrepreneur must be completely empowered from within . . . he or she must possess extraordinary GUTS. This stands for a Genuine Urge To Succeed. What exactly does this mean to the individual who yearns to positively transform his or her life in a multitude of scintillating ways and produce a torrent of glittering riches flowing to them . . . whether financially, physically, mentally, socially or within any facet of life? Well — Genuine Urge To Succeed — this means that a businessman or woman must wholeheartedly desire success at his or her endeavors. This person must have the passion for high achievement . . . ‘passion’ being the secret of creating tremendous empowerment. Once a red-hot fire of passion to attain specific worthwhile objectives is generated — literally once an entrepreneur has the GUTS — this person will be highly empowered. This book shows how to align your actions with your ultimate life’s purpose to ignite your GUTS, as there is monumental power in striving to attain a significant purpose.

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There are ten principles that comprise ultimate empowerment, an understanding of which can lead to powerful life transformation. All ten are extensively detailed in this book. Once endowed with this knowledge, a businessman or woman will be able to materialize his or her grandest aspirations through literally any networking company. Related to these ten principles, I will list here ten empowering mottos. If you truly desire fabulous success for your own enterprise, you must burn these maxims into your mind — like a super-power creed — and make them an integral part of your personal philosophy for a turbo-charged business and a magnificent standard of living: ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾

No GUTS, no glory! Action today not tomorrow! If it is to be . . . it is up to me! I shall be the best that I can be! My past does not equal my future! Teamwork makes the dream work! I must do what I love and love what I do! If my heart is in it . . . the sky is the limit! If I am committed . . . there is always a way! When the going gets tough . . . the tough get going!

MLM also stands for ‘Make Life More’ as you have an opportunity now to make your life all it can be. Through MLM Power you possess the potent instrument necessary to be highly empowered within any MLM, network marketing or direct sales enterprise. All that remains is for you to have the GUTS to get off the seat of your pants and take enthusiastic action to make your life more and . . . be empowered for life! Enjoy the journey, my entrepreneurial friends! Enthusiastically yours,

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Section One

The Power Of YOU

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ou are an exceptional human being, unique and special among all people. The intention of MLM Power is to empower YOU into knowing that you are unique, that you are special, and that you — like all empowered networking entrepreneurs — have unlimited possibilities through your specific business opportunity to express individuality, to dramatically improve your lifestyle and to greatly enhance the lives of other people too. The empowering spirit of MLM — remember its dual meaning: make life more — with its emphasis on personal growth, is precisely what generates its unrivaled power to positively impact lives, develop entrepreneurs and create wealth. Before you now, within the networking profession, are unlimited possibilities for you to experience success and manifest your grandest vision of a wondrous future. . . it’s up to YOU to tap into and maximize this free enterprise system. Today is a new day and today is the first day of the rest of your life. Today is a celebration of the fact that you can do literally anything with your life that you choose to do. So, from today, decide that you will make the most of the possibilities for success that your particular MLM, network marketing or direct sales venture offers and treat it as the outstanding opportunity it truly is. MLM Power is a reflection of your desire for self-improvement. This book will greatly empower you. Together with the industries of network marketing and direct sales, it will make you a better person and help you attain your grandest objectives. These entrepreneurial industries give you amazing choices and make possible the realization of your truest desires. This book will provide the juice to speed you to your destination with zest . . . making your life more enjoyable, more successful, more fulfilling, more empowered . . . yes, MLM Power will help to ‘make life more’ for YOU.

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“Responsibility is the price of greatness.” Winston Churchill

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ake note: whether you ultimately succeed or fail in network marketing, it is not due to your upline or your downline, or your mentor or your spouse, or the economy, or the government. It is up to YOU. It is your responsibility, completely. MLM provides you with an opportunity to express yourself, to be responsible for who you are. Here individuality reigns, diversity rules, and people can mold their work to suit themselves. Network marketing provides a breathtaking liberation from the norm. Be absolutely responsible for your life, for the entire spectrum of it. Learn to say to yourself: “If that person can do it, I can too.” Within MLM, network marketing and direct sales, you will see inspiring examples of successful people who are constantly striving to attain their grandest visions and create a worldclass standard of living. You will observe that these winners are relentlessly empowered to expand their ambitions and achieve objectives of even greater worth. They continually take responsibility for their own success. A question that we will emphatically answer here is: “Can I really stoke my inner fires until they burn with the white-hot intensity required for success in MLM at the highest echelon?” The answer is a resounding YES! With the unlimited opportunities for positive life transformation that network marketing allows, you can concentrate on your greatest potential. This is known as focusing on the whole of your possibilities. Network marketing will help you be the architect of your own future. However, it all starts with you being totally responsible for the decisions you make, which can from this moment forth categorically alter your life’s course . . . and positively transform it forever.

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MLM is a vehicle that can help to make your dreams come true. The truth is that networking will attract some of the most energetic, colorful, can-do individuals in the world . . . adventurous souls who love life’s challenges and who dream immense dreams. The question is: “How many of these people will become members in your organization?” Network marketing — at the leading edge of global business opportunities — will help you grow to meet your new challenges, because companies within this industry realize that the personal development of their people is the key to the company’s lasting success. As you grow, both as a businessperson and as an empowered leader, so too will the entire organization prosper.

Decide To Make An Emphatic Difference With Your Life Do you ever catch yourself thinking that you are living such a small life? Is your life a crime against humanity because you have not dared to enthusiastically relish it to the full? Do you have aspirations and ambitions that are still unrealized? Do you yearn to live the millionaire lifestyle of the most successful networkers? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, ask yourself why you are allowing yourself to live such a tiny existence when inside of you there is so much . . . so much more potentiality that you can savor a far more successful life with. Know that through the power of your particular MLM business opportunity, together with your newfound personal responsibility, you can begin a great journey from a small life of monotonous drudgery to a supreme life of self-empowered discovery . . . a life that sparkles with extraordinary achievement and amazing riches. Dare to build a vast income-creating network marketing organization, and life will surely materialize its most wondrous treasures for you.

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As you develop within MLM, so shall your personal organization. It will grow together with your increased ability to recruit people and your expanded capacity to share a grand vision with them and have these individuals want to be a part of your dream. Don’t look at your life as it is, right now, but as it can be. Use the unlimited creative power of your mind to imagine what can be in your most glorious of futures. Then take positive and constructive ActionSteps for your ‘dream life’ to become a reality. You can make a positive difference in the world if you so desire, this is your decision. Get ready to conquer the world. Have the guts, set the goals, design the Action-Plans, take the Action-Steps and get your life aimed in a focused direction, today. This instant, now, is an outstanding chance for you to make an emphatic difference. With your particular business opportunity as your financial vehicle of choice, all you need is to take personal responsibility for your life . . . then go for it!

Getting Started . . . Now! When you begin in the network marketing industry, you will not have all the answers . . . no one does. However, you need to know that just getting started now is the most important step of all. You must learn that forward motion is better than no motion, and that action in a focused direction will indeed conquer many of the fears and doubts that hold you back. Two great ways to succeed in MLM: Step 1: Start! Step 2: Don’t stop! It is the power of your belief in the networking opportunity — your total conviction in the powerful effect it can have on you, your family

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and your entire lifestyle — that will make you an unstoppable force for good and lead the way to your mastery of this profession. It is your role as a dynamic MLM representative to become as fully accomplished as you can by having a fabulous vision of what you want to achieve via networking, by forging a life-transforming purpose, by developing a winner’s identity, by making a commitment to be in this business for the big prize, and by having the courage to do it all. In so doing, you will create an indestructible foundation in the construction of your life’s structure. Two easy ways to fail in MLM: Step 1: Don’t get involved! Step 2: Don’t try! Here is an essential question to ponder whilst experiencing your journey of self-discovery in networking: ¾ Why should I keep growing? The answer that will make perfect sense to every experienced network marketer, is this: ¾ My personal growth determines who I am. Who I am determines who I attract. Who I attract determines the success of my own organization. Now, take this fundamental truth and climb to the upper echelons of your particular venture as a committed, on-fire, highly empowered, super-charged network marketing entrepreneur.

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“We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are YOU not to be?” Marianne Williamson

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he greatest gift you possess as an entrepreneurial professional is the power of choice. Where choice is, freedom is too . . . and where freedom is, hope always follows. Therefore, choose to create a thriving enterprise, starting today, to the greatest of your abilities. Choose also to commit to this choice. This will provide the hope to fuel your inspiring dreams of reaching the summit of success within the industries of MLM, network marketing or direct selling. As well as being aware of the necessity to take responsibility for your own personal choices and actions, it is wise to develop an intrinsic commitment to constantly strive for the pinnacle of achievement. From this moment forward, make these firm commitments to yourself: promise to make the most of your life in all areas . . . physical, mental, spiritual; guarantee that you will pour your heart and soul into the development of your business; make a vow to become an inspired leader whom others in your organization will highly respect and look to for advice and guidance; pledge to begin doing what it takes to put your past behind you and move on to your new golden future. Burn this in to your mind: My past does not equal my future . . . where I am going is vastly more important than where I have been. You must take full responsibility for shaping and defining your own life. And you must be the one who decides to live it all to the maximum through network marketing, or not. With your newfound personal commitment at hand, decide to develop an unquenchable passion for living each day as fully as possible. Absolutely, it is your responsibility to be as accomplished as you can. Your lifestyle and your personal endeavors can be so scintillating that they sparkle! So magical that they shine! So vivacious that they radiate brilliance the world over!

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Push yourself to have energy, fervor, drive and commitment . . . you’ll love yourself for it! The people who live the most vivacious lifestyles and who build the most powerful networking groups are the ones who embrace their own life and their own venture like they would embrace a lover . . . they care for it, they caress it, they cherish it, they have immense passion for it. They are passionate lovers of life . . . and intense lovers of their own particular network marketing business opportunity. These winners display the qualities of being courageous decisionmakers, of being enthusiastic leadership role models, of being persistent dynamos of action, of being competent mentors, of being committed to the welfare of the affiliates within their enterprise, and of being in the special position to make a positive difference not only in their own life but to greatly impact the world. Why not, now, from this moment forward, make the decision that you will build your networking business with an attitude built upon professionalism? There are so many fantastic things to see, hear, feel and do in this world . . . and you can experience them all through being professional within the unique vehicle called MLM.

Make An Investment In Building Your Business Professionally An investment in building your business professionally and designing a fulfilling lifestyle is the forerunner of change. Where you stand right now results directly from what you have focused on over a prolonged period of time. You can change where you stand and change the results you get by changing your focus to one of professionalism. But change doesn’t have to be fearful or intimidating, change can be a wonderful, exciting and exhilarating experience.

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Develop yourself into a networker of professionalism with such outstanding principles as persistence, self-discipline, applied faith, and a positive mental attitude. This can lead you to become an immensely uplifting example of vision, energy, enthusiasm and belief for the network marketing business opportunity. When you face new challenges, not only in your personal life but in the expansion of your network, you must adapt to the change by keeping your positive side to the forefront at all times. When you are confronted with a challenge, large or small — and believe me, in MLM you will face a multitude of challenges — you must continue adjusting to the changes, which means you will be constantly facing new obstacles and fresh challenges. This is nothing to fear though. This is part of the joy and fascination of designing your life for maximum accomplishment. Once you are part of the process of becoming more, there will be no stopping you on your own fantastic journey along the road of life. With MLM as the vehicle and enthusiasm as the fuel, celebrate your experience of life. What an exciting, adventurous and totally fulfilling journey it really is. When people are afraid of living life fully, they don’t experience enough of all the wonderment that is available. They don’t see enough, they don’t feel enough, they don’t risk enough, they don’t taste the glory of victory enough . . . and therefore they don’t live enough. MLM means ‘make life more’. This means being actively involved. MLM means jumping in the middle of it all. MLM means going beyond self-imposed boundaries and heading for the illustrious stars. MLM means living the magical existence of your dreams. We must decide conclusively once and for all what network marketing means to us on a personal basis. Do you personally see this

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profession as the answer to attaining the fabulous lifestyle of your greatest vision? If so, you must spend more quality time planning the means and ways to manifest this ‘dream lifestyle’ reality. If each of us spent only one half of the time every day planning for success in our MLM endeavors, and contemplating ways to maximize our efforts, as we do in planning our meals, then we’d all have flourishing and extremely profitable global organizations. Success within any network marketing business is not only attained through diligent planning or through finding the right people to help build your organization, though these are vital components, it is about YOU being the right kind of person . . . a professional. This is paramount. There is a destiny that makes us brothers, no one goes too far alone. All that we put into the lives of others, comes back again into our own. First, become the embodiment of a professional networker, one who is worthy of success — a leader, a mentor, a motivator, a shining role model, an inspiration to others, one who is always committed to the achievement of all — then you will be on your way to creating a massive, thriving network that can truly catch ablaze and spread like wildfire.

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“Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.” John Anster

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he primary motive of this book is to build Action People. These are the spirited networkers who have the courage to risk changing their dull and mediocre existence of the past for a glorious and magnificent life of the future. These are the enthusiastic people who dare to take a risk, dare to live passionately, dare to actuate positive change, and dare to design their MLM enterprise for maximum success. Take note, the catalyst that makes this happen is ACTION. There must be things in your life that you ache to attain, that you desperately desire to accomplish and that you genuinely aspire towards. Well, finally, through a worldclass MLM, network marketing or direct sales company with worldclass products, offering a worldclass business opportunity, here is your greatest chance to dare to have these things. Be courageous and face the diverse challenges a life of risk brings. Take Action TNT — action today not tomorrow — and dare to accomplish the multitude of exciting objectives that are high on your wish list. Do them before you get too old or before you lose sight of this extraordinary opportunity called MLM that is before you now. Why not develop the art of being more perceptive to all kinds of wealth-creating possibilities that being an active networker will generate? And why not set in motion a monumental avalanche of Action-Steps toward the fulfillment of your aspirations whilst the network marketing vehicle is in your path?

Risk Big To Win Big From deep within your soul, manifest the courage to take a big risk. Gamble with the hand of fate, roll the dice of good fortune, defy the odds and win big. Taking immediate, enthusiastic action to materialize the life of your wildest dreams . . . this is risking big.

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Through the immeasurable possibilities for life enhancement that MLM offers, take a chance, make specific detailed choices, and watch your most ambitious vision come true. To develop a profitable and expanding network, and to live a life bursting with wondrous achievement, you must be willing to take big risks . . . carefully calculated big risks, that is, not whimsical fancies or foolish speculations. It is hoped that the experience of being a networker will fire your ambitions and ignite within you the realization that massive ACTION is the major key that can turn your dreams into clear, achievable objectives. Risk, in many shapes and varieties, is a natural part of business development and of manifesting a dream lifestyle. Whenever you make a choice, you risk something. But so what? Personal and business growth can only truly take place when you are willing to risk reaching the next plateau of success. Achievement is a risk. But so what? You must learn to acknowledge the networking profession for the immense opportunity it is . . . and take action toward your goals anyway. You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. As a networker, ‘new oceans’ is your grand vision, and the ‘shore’ is your present circumstances. You must learn to say “so what?” then be more spontaneous in the multitude of decisions affecting your business enterprise. As Leo Buscaglia says: “Risks must be taken, for the greatest risk in life is to risk nothing at all. The people who risk nothing, are nothing, have nothing, do nothing and become nothing.” Leo continues: “The people who risk nothing with their lives may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they simply cannot learn and feel, change

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and grow, and love and live. Chained by their inevitability, they are slaves having forfeited their freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.” So, right now, make a decision to risk building a huge networking organization . . . and feel supremely empowered by this decision. Magical and compelling lives that are full of love and desire and passion and power . . . this is the essence of all MLM opportunities. This instant now and the next and the next will all be gone far too soon. Before long our entire lives will be over. So you must take full advantage of your particular MLM opportunity now. Can you visualize being able to celebrate every moment of achievement to the fullest? Well . . . build your group professionally and it can happen for you.

Dare To Live Your Most Ambitious Dreams Closely aligned with risk is the attribute of dare. In relation to MLM, this means possessing the courage to face squarely the challenges that may arise during the course of building your enterprise and being courageous enough to tough it out. You have a great chance here to venture out of the dull closet of mediocrity and step into the brilliant light of a world in which fun, excitement, invigoration and attainment are the norm. If you can dare it . . . you can do it! What do you work for? What do you strive for? What do you suffer for? What do you hope for? What do you love for? The answer is to experience the totality of life. To miss any of it is your greatest loss. But if you are willing to risk more, to work more, to strive more, to suffer more, to hope more, to love more, then you will know a successful life in its grandest, most complete form. This is to really live life as entirely fulfilling and as wholeheartedly as you are capable.

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Dare to do the things you want to do before you get too old to do them, or before you lose sight of this phenomenal opportunity called MLM. I dare you to develop supreme plans for the future and create outrageous goals around your networking business. I dare you to build a powerhouse organization with eager networkers who radiate the winning qualities of professionalism. Be instinctive and show spontaneity whenever opportunities come your way through the networking profession. Display inspired intuition and be audacious in taking calculated risks. Fundamentally, this is what daring is all about . . . risking big to win big. Through network marketing, I dare you to risk achieving your most extraordinary ambitions, those magnificent objectives both inside and outside your MLM business that get your passion juices flowing like no others . . . dream them, attain them, live them: ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾

Dare to be a leader of thousands Dare to be a top-ten worldwide earner Dare to create your own global network Dare to establish a charitable foundation Dare to build your ultimate fantasy house Dare to live a meaningful and accomplished life Dare to be someone who is admired and respected by others

I dare you to live your most ambitious dreams, attain your grandest aspirations and achieve incredible success. I dare you to make your life a masterpiece of outstanding accomplishment. I dare you to plan many challenging experiences to crown the latter years of your life. I dare you to do everything that your heart truly desires. And, through the wonderful opportunities inherent in MLM, network marketing and direct sales, I dare you to do it all . . . starting today.

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“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.” David Bailey

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very day, through the tremendous power of your decisions, you can make choices to improve all aspects of your business and transform every area of your life. You can decide to build your network with unlimited enthusiasm in your soul and with a smile in your heart, all the while showing an unquenchable passion for experiencing the joys of living life to the fullest. This is the ultimate demonstration of a life and a business that are built in harmony with the universal laws of balance. If there were one supreme command I could bestow, it would be for you to live your life to the maximum . . . experiencing all you can with delight, eagerness and zest for every moment. Who sets the pace for your life, fast or slow? YOU. So set a rapid pace, accelerate your life, and dance through your fun-filled days with flamboyance and exuberance. Build your MLM enterprise in a manner that’s slightly frenzied, taking the enthusiastic pathway that leads to triumph. Anything worth doing is worth doing well, and worth doing at full-speed ahead. Accelerate the pace of your life, as the world is in need of your energy. So go out and set it ablaze with your boundless reserves of passion and with your unquenchable enthusiasm for networking.

Begin Your New Life Today As An Enthusiastic On-Fire Networker Living in the now will expand your awareness of network marketing, it will make the business more exciting and more meaningful. You have the choice, second by second, as to whether you really live the now moments of your life to their highest potential. You can choose to devour every sensation of your current situation, no matter where you are, and allow yourself to be touched by the wonder of it all.

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Carpe diem . . . seize the day! Within the chain of current moments lies all of your power to accomplish, all of your ability to make decisions, all of your capacity to be effective and all of your capability to exert maximum personal control over your life. Therefore, today, seize the day, as your only point of real power is in the present moment here and now. Today you can start living a new accelerated life, if you choose. The powerful compensation plans of most network marketing organizations offer you an unsurpassed chance to literally ‘design your life for maximum success’ any time you desire to positively transform your circumstances. This choice is up to YOU.

The Accelerated Game Of Life Leads To Amazing Achievement Do you notice an interesting parallel between the success a person achieves within MLM and their own activity rates? It seems that the most successful networkers are living in a dynamic, zestful state of continual motion with enormous reserves of energy for their particular business opportunity. These winners are whirlwinds of activity . . . forever attending training sessions, learning prospecting skills, going to business opportunity presentations, mastering strategies, and mentoring the new customers. Whilst the less successful people never really seem to be active at all . . . except in making excuses for their own failure. How would you rate your activity levels in your present company on a scale of one to ten? One is a lethargic, uninspired individual who attends almost no presentations, believes training sessions are a waste of time, is thinking of canceling, has no real belief in the entrepreneurial opportunities offered within networking, is not committed, has no clearly defined ambitions, and is unable to fully master any areas of life.

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The accelerated game of life is intensely inspiring. It will rock your mind. The force of it may even hit you in the gut and knock your socks off. It will nourish you with fresh ideas and possibilities for packing your life with more friendships, more adventures, and more wealth-creating opportunities than ever before. What is the accelerated game of life? It is the professions that encompass MLM, network marketing and direct sales, of course. Ten is the on-fire inspired believer in the wondrous possibilities provided by MLM, network marketing and direct selling. Ten is fully committed to a major purpose, a human dynamo, one of the top leaders, continually recruiting new customers, with enormous reserves of energy, busy as a bee, and always accomplishing great things. Ten is the winner who talks the talk and walks the walk of amazing achievement. For some people their networks never really grow, and they go through their entire ‘experience’ with a frown on their face and deep furrows in their heart. For others their MLM enterprise is a continual merry feast. What is your choice? One out of ten: a feeble and decaying organization that lacks fundamental empowerment and languishes through the inactive apathy of its members? Or ten out of ten: a robust and expanding global empire that generates massive residual income, allowing a worldclass lifestyle of wondrous attainment? Everything is a choice, decided upon in your own mind. Focus, persistence, decisiveness, optimism, enthusiasm, happiness, confidence, joy, passion, the ability to work hard . . . all result from decisions made by YOU. Every person has the mental ability at any instant to be focused or distracted, persistent or a quitter, decisive or uncertain, optimistic or negative, enthusiastic or timid, happy or miserable, confident or shy, joyful or antagonistic, passionate or apathetic, hard working or lazy. Realize the amazing power of these choices and their effect on you. They will have a dramatic impact on the quality of your life.

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The Power Of Positive Energy Have you ever noticed that when you feel fantastic, people seem instinctively drawn to you? This is because states of being are magnetic. When you are up, the people around you tend to feel the same positive way, and vice versa. Why not make it a goal of yours to be the catalyst who brings a spark of enthusiastic and festive spirit into the midst of other networkers? This places you in a powerful position and reinforces your self-confidence . . . this builds personal empowerment. Your positive energy will attract the winners and team players who can assist you in building an immense organization. Positive energy attracts winners, so make it an aim of yours to develop a greater ability to laugh aloud and have an increased sense of joyfulness. Choose to have an irresistible sense of fun and make this a fundamental part of your life. You have the power within to materialize any emotions that you want to experience. Any state of being you desire, you can decide to feel it now. Know this to be the truth, then develop and apply a positive state of being to your own MLM opportunity. Every man and woman has the same twenty-four hours in each day. It’s entirely up to you whether you decide to use your time intelligently and accomplish something worthwhile today toward your objectives. Everything is possible as you develop the winning mindset of an empowered professional Action Person. Whatever you can conceive and fully believe in your mind, you can achieve. You possess incredible power to choose unlimited possibilities for your life and your network marketing business. Anything you can imagine in your mind you can do when you apply personal excellence to developing detailed Action-Plans and decide to take inspired ActionSteps toward the desired result.

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or you to attain a high level of success, you must command mastery over your daily actions . . . your performance must be excellent. If you are to achieve greatness within the networking profession, it is up to YOU. There are only two actions in life: the first is ‘doing it’ which is performance and the second is ‘not doing it’ which is excuses. From this day forth, you need to decide whether you will now perform with excellence or whether you will make excuses for your failures. Choose to be the new improved you — the empowered winner who works in top gear — and determine what deeds you are willing to perform excellently to attain the success you are striving for within MLM. As stated earlier: My past does not equal my future. Today is a new day and today is the first day of the rest of your life. Therefore, from today, perform your networking endeavors with all the excellence you can. You are the best source of security for your life, so decide now to design the rich lifestyle you desire through your excellent performance. It is an exhilarating feeling for you to experience fantastic highs in your life. So . . . why not experience as many triumphs as possible? Dare to celebrate success as a top earner within your networking company.

Decide To Be A Top Performer What is perfectly clear is that it is your choice, and your choice alone, as to whether you experience success or failure. Make the decision now that you will be successful, that you will be a top performer and that you will create a magnificent life to be proud of. Realize that at each moment of your life it is your choice as to whether you are successful or not . . . success emanates from your own decisions. Understand the potency of this concept. True success is the result of living by an ‘excellence’ code of conduct. Success results from the choices

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and decisions you establish, which can propel your life to the highest levels of achievement. YOU need to establish the rules for your own life based on excellent performance . . . never based on flimsy excuses. It is known that success is the result of living a purposeful life. Excellent performance, which is a major ingredient of success, is the effect of results-oriented actions and is the culmination of living by the highest standards. So establish top performance values for your life and watch the achievements compound into phenomenal success. I have heard it said that long before joining their first network marketing company, many networkers were disillusioned with their career or occupation. They felt the trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you are still a rat. Networking offers an invigorating, unique and stimulating alternative to the rat race. Success is a consequence of focusing on top performance. Ask these questions to determine if your actions are focused on excellence: ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾

Do I have a clear vision of the successful lifestyle I desire? Do I know in which areas I must perform with excellence? Do I know where my actions will lead me ten years from now? Am I able to remain focused on attaining one major objective?

Within these pages, you will find the keys to answer all these questions in an emphatic and affirmative manner. Yes, you will understand what it is to be a self-assured Action Person who knows what you want for your networking business and how to achieve it. Whether: ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾

Substantial financial security Recognition and sincere appreciation Freedom from worries, fears and insecurities Satisfaction in performing endeavors with excellence

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Follow the multitude of confidence-building, all-powerful principles as outlined in this book to create a life that reflects your commitment to top performance actions. Understand that you are not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself, indeed you are the supreme force in your life. This book will show you absolutely how to use the tremendous force that is YOU to manifest your greatest network marketing objectives and help to make your grandest vision come true.

For Outstanding Success In MLM Focus On Excellent Performance The networking industry is for people who want to participate in a financial tidal wave. Like all brilliant concepts though, it is not all plain sailing and there may be some rough patches along with the smooth. Difficult times can make us feel demoralized and weak. It is at these moments that we need to call upon our storehouse of inner strength to see us through tough times of adversity or hardship. To facilitate this, here are two inspiring sayings that need to be repeatedly imprinted into your psyche so that you can develop exceptional reserves of stamina, courage and moral fiber to see you through periods of difficulty. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Tough times never last, but tough people do. The law of the universe states that things go in cycles: day after night, summer after winter, high tide after low tide, and so on. So it is with our lives. If you experience times when everything seems to be a challenge, just remember that if you hang in there long enough, tough it out and apply the invaluable success principle of ‘excellent performance’ then all things will eventually positively transform for you. That’s a fact.

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Maximize The Power Of You To Reach The Summit Of MLM Appropriately, Section One will close with a rendering from an anonymous writer of what it takes for an individual to reach the summit. This applies equally to a person climbing a hill, or to you as a networker scaling the mountain of goals you may have to set in order to reach the worldclass lifestyle you can decide to attain through your particular business opportunity. Go forth and build your network with the full force of your heart and soul, cherishing this profession just as you would revere a precious treasure. Be a lover of network marketing, choosing to celebrate it with your fires of passion burning bright. Be a builder of people, causing your group to expand and prosper. Be a winner on this wonderful journey to success, experiencing the full glory of MLM to the maximum. See not the small vexations of each hour of the day. See the one purpose to which all are leading. If in climbing a mountain you keep your eyes on each stony or difficult place, as you ascend, seeing only that, how weary and profitless your climb. But if you think of each step as leading to the summit of achievement, from which glories and beauties will open out before you, then your climb will be so different. Today, honor your involvement in MLM, network marketing or direct sales by acting on these principles — energetically, inspirationally, enthusiastically, professionally — with your flaming fires of desire burning brilliant, powerful and pure. This is the true power of MLM and this is the true power of YOU!

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ny time you want to see PASSION . . . pure, deep, intense, radiant passion . . . look into the eyes of the most successful network marketers . . . their souls are on fire. The turbo-charged winners of networking possess a passion for life that is contagious. One reason that top networkers are universally admired and held in such high esteem by so many others is because they combine insightful business training and visionary global concepts with their big-hearted, open-minded, soul-inspiring, self-help philosophy. For them, this intimate involvement is just part of the process of empowering you into attaining personal success, building a worldclass enterprise, healing the planet, and having fantastic fun. The most successful network marketers are passionate about life and intoxicated with enthusiasm when it comes to the MLM industry. They know that if you want to attract the right caliber of individuals to your organization, you first need to display the winning characteristics required of those people. Along with honesty, integrity, commitment to excellence, focus, persistence, ambition, tolerance, determination and a host of other prized qualities, you must have your fires of passion burning strong, brilliant and true. As John Wesley, the famed eighteenth-century evangelist, keenly observed: “When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.” Field Marshall Ferdinand Foch meant a similar thing when he perceived: “The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.” This Section Two of MLM Power aims to light within you the fires of passion that can set your soul ablaze in an empowered inferno and lead you on to glorious achievement through your own entrepreneurial business opportunity.

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inners in the network marketing industry are those exceptional individuals whose souls are on fire. They have a flaming passion deep within their hearts that is always burning bright. They have their fires of desire ablaze in a magnificent inferno of activity and achievement. Fires cannot be made with dead embers, nor can spiritless men and women stir enthusiastic action or passionate performance. Excitement in your daily life is brought about by a passion for doing what you love and loving what you do. Passion is the one essential element that lightens the effort and turns even mundane activities into enjoyable tasks. There is no guarantee that you will ever get what you crave from any MLM opportunity, but unless you passionately want success you will never be in the winner’s circle. You have everything to gain and nothing to lose by aiming your success-strategies in the direction of the proverbial stars, as success is reached by those who take enthusiastic action and who maintain the most zealous passion. The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible. In a networking business, so to speak, you may have to take whatever the weather brings. Your choice is in anchoring your roots to enduring values such as determination, perseverance, commitment, tenacity, integrity and passion. One day a spark may be lit within you. A spark that will allow you to concentrate your passion and fighting spirit on this new and exciting mission . . . the network marketing profession. From that moment forth, your life will be dramatically transformed . . . an amazing chain reaction will begin, with you as the catalyst, bringing with it an entire series of

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fortuitous events. Into your life can come new friendships, stimulating relationships, fresh learning, added skills, increased wealth, peace of mind, self-improvement, exotic travel, time freedom, greater vitality, material riches and enhanced all-round personal fulfillment.

To Be Passionate . . . Act Passionate Winners are determined to win. Successful networkers, in reaching the greatest heights of entrepreneurial accomplishment, have an allconquering belief and powerful self-confidence . . . they believe in the most auspicious outcomes. These top network marketers know that true victory is the discipline of overcoming obstacles and moving forward, persevering again and again. The leaders in all network marketing companies know the secret to crushing adversity is through first displaying intense levels of passion. Achieving excellence in MLM is the most exceptional kind of reward. Making money is great and successfully applying the business is good. But the best reward is the inner satisfaction that comes with knowing you have reached a state of peak performance by your commitment to a higher level of passion. Success can be yours if you will ardently grasp this opportunity and not let go. Being a winner in the MLM profession means operating at maximum performance. Don’t hold anything back . . . become motivated, get inspired and take action to attain the highest level of excellence you personally aspire to. If you absolutely, unquestionably want to be one of the top network marketers, get your fires of desire aroused into a burning, flaming passion . . . NOW! The MLM business can take you down many roads. The worst case scenario is that you will make new friends along the way. The best case scenario is that you will make new friends . . . and get rich.

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The best way to love the networking profession is to love all things with intense passion. Become a lover of life. If you want to know what kind of lover of life you really are, then listen to your own self-talk. How many times during the day do you say: I hate this, I hate that, I hate those people, I hate that type of food, I hate the traffic, I hate going to training sessions; rather than saying: I love . . .? If you truly are a lover of life, how many times throughout each day do you say: I love this, I love that, I love people, I love learning, I love developing my business, I love all things, I love the rain, I love the sky and the stars and the moon? Huh . . . how many times? You can show intense passion for networking. It’s just a question of focus, and of asking yourself on a daily basis if you are intensely passionate about your own MLM opportunity. Just learn to love everything about network marketing: love the presentations, love the training, love the people, love the company, love the directors, love the products, love the plan, love the global opportunity, love the possibilities, love the vision. The more passionately you love network marketing today, the closer you will come to creating the huge, flourishing organization of your dreams tomorrow.

Develop Massive Passion For All Facets Of Network Marketing Becoming one of the most accomplished networkers demands that, from deep within your soul, you show an unquenchable passion for all realms of the MLM profession: ¾ Be fan number one of your particular networking company . . . its members, its directors, its products, its plan, its ideas, and its mission.

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¾ Exhibit great devotion for the legions of entrepreneurs . . . these are the individuals who are orchestrating the fabulous future of MLM, network marketing and direct sales worldwide. ¾ Show massive enthusiasm for your company’s range of products or services . . . be a fireball of unbridled excitement when new ones are announced and released. ¾ Display unending energy for your compensation plan . . . let others know that it is straightforward, streamlined and absolutely sensational. ¾ Demonstrate great eagerness for the personal development possibilities inherent in networking . . . let it be known that one’s leadership skills will come shining through. ¾ Become an advocate of the network marketing industry . . . the greatest route in the twenty-first century to financial liberty for millions of people. You are the architect of your tomorrow, so design a glorious future. If you truly desire a life-changing, wealth-creating, people-building organization, yearn to accomplish all of your aspirations, and crave the experience of enjoying the wonders of this world, you need to live with a burning fire in your heart that creates an inferno of zest in your soul. Develop rousing passion for all aspects of your particular business opportunity. Use the immense power of your mind to program yourself to become a self-motivated leader and empowered team player, and use this inner drive of fire power to boost your levels of enthusiasm for the networking industry.

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nthusiasm is the state of being that inspires an individual to put vigorous energy into the tasks at hand. It ignites within that person a driving force that impels dynamic, top performance action and is one of the crucial elements of a networking business conducted successfully. With enthusiasm, the aspirations of an entrepreneur become burning desires and their goals become flaming beacons lighting the way to great achievement. Enthusiasm is the ultimate emotion. It is a critical force that activates energetic action. Enthusiasm brings people to life, animating their existence and producing feelings of unstoppable passion for the attainment of their most fabulous aspirations. It gives rise to a zest for life, builds buoyant sensations of self-worth and produces an eager willingness to experience every day to its full potential. Enthusiasm creates feelings of supreme self-confidence for an individual to be able to express solid convictions to the world. Top networkers personify enthusiasm through the boundless excitement they radiate whilst striving to achieve their greatest MLM aspirations. To be enthusiastic about networking . . . ACT ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT NETWORKING! Most people have heard this oft-quoted saying, but very few seem to apply it: “To be enthusiastic . . . act enthusiastic.” You need to distance yourself from the majority of passionless failures and join the minority of successful on-fire networkers who attain the highest levels of success. Possessing an exuberance of energy for the things you want from life comes from acting that way. Do you want to feel intense passion for MLM right now? If so, at this moment just magnify your deepest desires for this business and act with multiplied exhilaration for the opportunity.

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Repeated study of each section within MLM Power and a determined analysis of your most ambitious networking aims will ensure that you consistently display the enthusiastic feelings that are inside your heart. Enthusiasm may originate in the heart, but its power is unleashed through applied action. Nourished by thoughts of attainment, your enthusiastic actions will radiate in ever-expanding circles to affect the circumstances of your networking enterprise in ever-greater magnitude. Enthusiasm is a vital force of nature with which any person can recharge their body to perform incredible acts of endurance and accomplish the most amazing feats. This book traces its source to the wellspring of genuine enthusiasm, which is passion, showing how it can be nurtured to attract the necessary elements that can positively transform your life so dramatically. The immense power of enthusiasm is even now being released from your heart and is radiating from your entire being as you focus your thoughts on the rewards of achieving your most coveted dreams. You have your MLM opportunity to get you excited and ignite your hot button. Realize that your network is a winning lottery ticket. Treat it as such and it can bring you every financial and material reward you will ever seek. This instant now, are you inspired? All people are endowed with high levels of enthusiasm and could, if stimulated by the right inducement, show extreme enthusiasm for something at this precise moment. Such as a person winning the lottery: this individual would probably demonstrate more enthusiastic passionate energy during the first five minutes after hearing about it than during the whole of the previous five years! Many people simply have little to be enthusiastic about in their lives and they have nothing exciting to ignite their hot buttons . . . but you have MLM.

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Show Great Enthusiasm For Network Marketing . . . Now! The greater your commitment to networking, and the more intense your desire to experience outstanding success through your actual MLM venture, the more enthusiastic you will unquestionably become: ¾ To be more enthusiastic about the earnings potential of your organization: look at the size of the income earned by the upline leaders and set a goal to surpass that figure. ¾ To be more enthusiastic about the multitude of training programs: aim to become one of the recognized company speakers, regionally at first then aim for international recognition. ¾ To be more enthusiastic about your company’s product range: study each specific product and actually use them . . . be a product of the product. ¾ To be more enthusiastic about any of your upline leaders: focus your attention on their virtues and attributes that you can respect the most. ¾ To be more enthusiastic about the true mission of MLM: set plans in motion to make a positive difference in the lives of many people. It is easy to be enthusiastic about networking when you are emphatic in your intentions toward this profession. Make courageous decisions and know the direction you are heading with your life . . . have definite chief aims to ignite a burning desire for what you want. This will create higher levels of enthusiasm within. No one can stop you determining in your own mind what your major MLM objectives will be. Nor can anyone stop you planning

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dynamic strategies for translating this vision into reality. Above all, no one can stop you mixing enthusiasm with your plans each and every day of your life and going on to reap the successful rewards of your most ardent endeavors. The more excitement you show for MLM, the more enthusiasm you display, the more you like what you do, the more fun you make it, the greater your commitment to it . . . the higher your chances of a successful outcome. Determine that from this moment forward you will take action toward the attainment of your network marketing goals with vast reserves of enthusiasm. Do this and you will be amazed and delighted at the good fortune your spirited efforts will generate. You may be lacking in drive simply because you are just sitting around waiting for something exciting to happen within your organization. Well, don’t sit around any longer. Have multiple targets upon which you can aim your ‘weapons of mass enthusiasm’ and get enthused for the attainment of these inspiring objectives now. The world is dynamic, ever changing and filled with spectacular opportunities for those who are courageous enough to seek them. It is enthusiasm that adds the spark of magic to any MLM enterprise and makes it a festive venture. Enthusiasm transforms an uninspired networker into a powerhouse of motivational energy. Enthusiasm is the factor that makes the difference between one individual going-withthe-flow toward a meaningless existence and another facing a bright future full of hope with all the possibilities in the world right there before them. Yes, be enthusiastic about your possibilities . . . now!

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utstanding success, financial autonomy, amazing friendships, material abundance, personal achievement and indescribable happiness. These are some of the tangible rewards awaiting network marketers who dare to live life to its maximum potential and who dare to build monumental MLM organizations. In short, those individuals who dare to become enthusiastic Action People. The secret of phenomenal success within MLM, network marketing and direct sales will be revealed to all those who expend the effort required to study in depth this empowering book and apply the principles as outlined within its pages. All network marketers are applauded who have the GUTS ⎯ genuine urge to succeed ⎯ to go after that which they truly want and to honestly give their particular business opportunity their most excellent shot through enthusiastic top performance action. Momentous achievement flourishes with this powerful attribute: The ability to take enthusiastic top performance action. The person who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. All that a person seeks to accomplish can result through enthusiastic action directed toward the attainment of an extraordinary purpose. Any man or woman who in their heart cherishes the achievement of a definite magnificent obsession will some day surely realize this aim. Enthusiastic action is of primary importance toward the realization of an extraordinary purpose ⎯ one’s magnificent obsession ⎯ the single aim above all others that will inspire a networker to take vigorous action, then drive this person forward with persistent effort in their quest for its achievement. Any entrepreneur can attain enormous success . . . all they need to do is build a red-hot fire of enthusiasm under their ambitions and develop the strongest determination to attain a specific target.

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Knowing one’s magnificent obsession is the start of all great accomplishment in network marketing and in all facets of life. When inspired by powerful, compelling motives and when buoyed by enthusiastic feelings, you — as an on-fire networker — can succeed at most things you desire. To experience enormous success within any MLM venture, you must first conceive a magnificent obsession and set out to achieve it. You must make this objective the supreme focused point of your thoughts, establishing it as your chief duty and devoting yourself totally to its attainment.

Steps To Develop Your Own Magnificent Obsession As an empowered networker who craves personal achievement and material success, you must ask this powerful question: Q. What is a magnificent obsession and how can I develop one to dramatically change my life? A magnificent obsession is a great purpose — a vast mission of your own design — powerful enough to drive you toward incredible levels of success within the MLM profession. It is the motivating impetus that will form the backbone of your exceptional personal growth. There are two major principles in developing a magnificent obsession that can positively transform your life and lead to the dynamic expansion of your business . . . but only if studied, understood and applied: 1. Your magnificent obsession begins with you asking yourself this one stimulating question: Q. What excites, inspires and drives me as an empowered entrepreneur?

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Ask yourself what is the one thing above all else within the entire realm of network marketing that lights your motivational fires? What one ambition within this profession is most essential to you? In other words, what dominant drive will inspire you toward achieving the maximum you can within your particular MLM opportunity? Once you have identified the motivational spur that can kick you into action, you have ignited the propellant that can boost you into the orbit of phenomenal success. 2. Concentrate all of your resources on the attainment of this one magnificent obsession. Your extraordinary purpose is the single aim above all else which turns you on to success like no other. Therefore, you must completely focus your resources and energies on the manifestation of this one target. This is your greatest opportunity now to find the one special purpose that not only lights your motivational fire, but quite possibly is your life’s mission. Ask yourself these two thought-provoking questions to achieve crystal clarity on your vision: Q. Am I absolutely sure that the one ambition I have chosen as my magnificent obsession will bring me the greatest personal satisfaction within my specific network marketing business opportunity? Q. Am I certain that my magnificent obsession contributes to the betterment of society, aids in the improvement of the environment, does good for those around me, or personally develops and improves the lives of people in general? YOU are the only one who can answer these two questions . . . and only after a period of intense self-reflection on what you absolutely desire to achieve. Your major catalyst for long-term success comes when your heart is at the center of what you are doing . . . to be successful, you must do what you love and love what you do.

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Choose a magnificent obsession that satisfies your needs in terms of contributing to the good of mankind. As long as your heart is in the right place, do it. Remember this saying: If your heart is in it . . . the sky is the limit! Having conceived of your magnificent obsession, and having shaped it around a meaningful purpose, you must mentally design a pathway direct to its attainment. Your focus should be on the mental strength needed to accomplish the tasks ahead and your commitment should be on holding the positive expectancy of a successful outcome in your mind. Develop the skill of using your dynamic capacity for successful achievement, which you can instantly command when you focus all of your resources on one major purpose. Controlled focus is like a guided laser beam, which you can command to cut through any obstacles that may come between you and the attainment of your magnificent obsession. It is your own magnificent obsession that will provide the drive for your most dazzling life. You now have a tremendous chance within your networking business to break your mental shackles and dream at the highest level, to brainstorm a magnificent obsession that will move your life forward on toward untold accomplishments, to find a purpose large enough and grand enough to challenge you to push beyond your limits and unleash your ultimate network marketing empowerment.

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ake up! You are responsible for how your life is at this moment now. You are in control of the vehicle called ‘You’ on its journey through life. You are in the captain’s chair with your hands on the wheel and your foot on the throttle. You decide in which direction your life goes and how fast you travel. YOU! As an independent and free thinking network marketer, you have wide access to an immense reservoir of personal choice and possibility. Through this power of choice you can decide to increase your own levels of passion and enthusiasm . . . more than enough to perform the dynamic actions and display the persistent effort that will drive you toward the attainment of your most spectacular aspirations. The motivation that will spur you to dig deep into your immense reserves of choice comes from within the inner world of mental strength, it is a part of your personal thought power. Just decide that you want to build a huge MLM organization with thousands of eager network marketers, then just do it . . . now. Because, as an independent spirit, you possess the unlimited ability to do anything you choose. As an empowered networker, you can make your own decisions, choose your own goals, select the lifestyle you desire, develop your own relationships, design your own style, march to the tune of your own drumbeat and do any one of a million different possibilities. Through your ability to make decisions and select empowering states of mind, you can direct the course of your networking business. Your positive thoughts, your optimistic attitude and your upbeat perceptions will open up your organization to many magnificent opportunities. Instead of ‘reaching for success’ seek to ‘live successfully’ by making this a habitual part of your thought processes.

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You can positively influence the course of your networking endeavors by imprinting into your mind empowering thoughts of the auspicious conditions you seek. Determine that you will live from the inside out, from the heart, being the very best that you can be and giving the maximum performance that you can give.

As An Empowered Networker You Can Build A Global Empire One of the primary objectives of MLM Power is to give focused direction and sharpened skills to the independent entrepreneur who has an overwhelming desire to be successful within the networking profession. To give him or her effective strategies, workable techniques and potent network marketing principles to help create a business that can impact the lives of the multitudes worldwide. A major attribute of being an empowered networker is that you get to feel the passion of being closely involved in the personal growth of another. You feel the non-monetary gain of helping somebody. Nothing is better for your ego than being sincerely appreciated as a virtuous individual who has made a positive difference in the life of another. My aim through this idea-inducing book is not to make you the single greatest network marketer who ever lived . . . though that wouldn’t be a bad thing, would it? My intent is to help you to reach your ultimate potential; to assist you in accomplishing the maximum results from your MLM endeavors; to show you how to establish significant targets at which to aim your most ardent efforts; to help you build a solid personal empowerment foundation, so that you are impelled to reach your full potential; and to help you realize that through your own inherent talents and abilities, you already possess all the genuine fire-power needed to reach the upper echelons of your particular business opportunity.

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These Three Empowerment Keys Hold The Power Of Freedom The actions that will help your business flourish and ultimately change your life, and your subsequent capacity for persistent effort, are motivated first and foremost by your thoughts. It all begins with your mental powerhouse. In other words, the ability you have to THINK, to ACT and to PERSIST are all directly and powerfully interrelated: the stronger your thoughts, the more dynamic your actions, the greater your capacity for persistent effort. By turning to your advantage your status as an independent networker and by applying these three empowerment keys that are fundamental to your success — thinking — acting — persisting — you can transform your dreams into material existence, your desires into physical reality, and your goals into solid achievement. Also . . . you can develop the ability to become fully self-motivated, forge a powerhouse of inner strength, turn yourself into an Action Person, attain an abundance of self-confidence, realize your positive potential to succeed, build a winning self-image and display the determination needed to reach any height of success that you aspire to. Isn’t that how the game of life is . . . when someone takes action with infinite enthusiasm, don’t they feel like they can accomplish great and extraordinary things? Starting right now, today, you can live an exciting, compelling and immensely rewarding life. This is the first-class lifestyle you have always desired and the first-class lifestyle you deserve. Make concise ActionPlans today for the future you crave tomorrow. You must establish empowering long-term objectives . . . then take immediate, enthusiastic Action-Steps toward their attainment.

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Have the guiding force of a magnificent obsession, chase the attainment of it with enthusiastic action and you will surely achieve astounding success as a network marketer with a lifestyle beyond your wildest fantasies. Do not be dragged into a state of inaction by lack of initial success in your MLM venture . . . keep your levels of motivation high, knowing that better times are just around the corner. Learn what you can from experiences of failure, but keep your head up and continue to focus on the positive principles that the leaders endorse so enthusiastically. One saying worth repeating again is this: My past does not equal my future! Meet tomorrow head on with an abundance of self-confidence and optimism. Always move in a forward direction, not backwards. Have big dreams for your MLM organization and a magnificent obsession ahead of you to look forward to. Say goodbye to the past, nothing can change it. You can study and learn from former events, but move forward with this knowledge firmly in hand. There is no rational reason to have regrets about earlier deeds or events. The past no longer exists in any way other than memory, so leave it there as history where it belongs and face your wonderful future as a empowered networker with the enthusiasm of a triumphant victor. If you will choose to celebrate your network marketing business opportunity and honor your role in it as an inspired leader, everything can materialize in abundance for you to live your life as passionately as you have ever dared to dream . . . yes!

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“It is better to create than to learn. Creating is the essence of life.” Leonardo de Vinci

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e creative and set the entrepreneurial world on fire. Learn to be creative within the parameters of your own network marketing opportunity. It is a fact that creative effort is linked to enthusiastic action and is known to be a substantial factor in the peak performance rates of the top achievers. The more enticing your creative endeavors, the higher the levels of stimulation, the more excitement created . . . the greater the chances of a successful result. Many networkers yearn to be more creative, but they lack the confidence to begin projects and the determination to stick with them. Until you can hurdle these barriers, you will not reach the highest echelons of success within network marketing. It is assumed that artists, musicians, authors, sculptors, designers and other artistic types are the only creative people. But this is not so, as there is a budding artist in each of us waiting to be unleashed. All that is needed for this creative ability to be put in motion is a source of empowering ideas, a desire to express oneself creatively, and a powerful feeling of self-belief. Success and creativity rest upon each other. The most successful networkers are not only the most creative . . . but the most creative networkers are usually the most successful. Within the entire spectrum of the networking world, there are a multitude of ways that you as an enterprising and astute networker can express yourself creatively: ¾ Each time a member of your network personally brings in two ‘direct’ customers, offer them a dinner voucher for two people at a restaurant or a couple of tickets to a good theater show.

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¾ Have a birthday list of every networker in your personal organization. Then, on their birthdays, send them not only birthday cards, but also empowering books, such as this one, to motivate them into creating an avalanche of activity. ¾ Design a ‘good news’ website that broadcasts only uplifting and cheerful news exposing the lighter side of the MLM profession to give people another positive angle of this business. ¾ Write a booklet, sanctioned by your company of course, showing new networkers what can be done during their first twenty-one days in this business to get them on the right road to achieving a specific level of success. ¾ Conceive your own ‘incentive award program’ for the newer members of your group. An idea could be to recognize them for earning their first income. Use your imagination to come up with special ways to reward these new networkers. ¾ Once your MLM income has reached a certain point, open your own office to support, mentor, encourage, empower and teach your leaders the necessary skills to take them to the next level. ¾ Offer your services as an ‘ideas person’ so that you are involved in the process of designing and implementing reward schemes. ¾ Produce a humorous video representing some of the comical exploits seen within the MLM industry. Use this tool to show prospective networkers that this business can be great fun. ¾ As recognition and appreciation are two of the key factors in keeping networkers involved in this profession, especially at the lowest level, why not take it upon yourself to find inventive ways to reward all individuals in your organization, not just the top performers.

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Don’t limit yourself to one creative endeavor at a time. Brainstorm with the networkers in your group, and talk with your upline leaders to devise a variety of inspirational schemes to keep the passion juices flowing and ensure the business remains exciting. The bottom line is that the more genuine excitement there is in your organization, the more expansion there will be too. A thriving industry such as network marketing, which is united through its mission of personal development, is a constant reminder of what is most important in life. MLM is an empowering, structure that epitomizes the highest characteristics of human nature. Within your particular MLM venture, choose to express your creative endeavors in whatever style is most appealing and individualistic to you. Of course, the most important point is that they must have an excitement factor for you. As long as you have the enthusiasm to achieve the objects of your creative efforts and the passion to follow them through to completion, then you can succeed with them.

Display Creative Uniqueness In MLM Be creative — be different — be unique. In the network marketing profession, with its multitude of possibilities and opportunities, there will never be another entrepreneur just like you. You are unique. You possess great talents and skills, but they need to be nurtured and utilized before you can reach the level of success you aspire to. You can achieve anything you desire if you will just believe in your own abilities . . . and display them creatively. Don’t necessarily follow others like sheep in the pasture. Be creative, be different, be unique, and display your passion for building a huge network marketing organization in scintillating ways.

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One important success factor in networking is to recognize the big difference between having and living, and there is a vast contrast. More material possessions or more money — having — will not necessarily be the answer to the improvements you seek in your network. But passionately expressing your true self through an intense enthusiasm for MLM — living — leads the way to creative fulfillment. You are unique and special . . . you are the one and only you. As an independent networker, freedom of choice is yours to express who you really are. Possess self-belief, creativity and passion, then declare your convictions to the world, and your future will be glorious. Will you make a commitment this instant, today, to display your uniqueness by being creative in your network marketing endeavors? Will you grab hold of this opportunity and squeeze from it all the passion, power and enjoyment that you know can be yours? This is your chance starting today to reach for the realization of the lifestyle you’ve always dreamed of. Many people know what they want to do during their lifetimes, but they never seem to discover a suitable opportunity to fulfill their ambitions. But you have a networking vehicle directly in front of you . . . now. Will you make the most of this glorious opportunity? Let’s trust your answer is a resounding YES! From this day forth, choose to build your business enterprise with your fires of desire burning bright. Experience all you can with energy and passion for every moment. Why not live with enthusiasm in your soul, love in your heart and an eternal smile on your face? And why not acquire a wonderful ability to experience the entire multifaceted spectrum of life to the full? The network marketing opportunity is here before you now and the choice is yours to build your organization with passion. Choose wisely.

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Section Three

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oday you awoke with awesome power, magnificent power, phenomenal power . . . this is the ability you possess to choose empowered thoughts. Know that you have the capacity to direct this power for good or evil through your decisions. Use it wisely. Within this power of thought-decision are the positive endowments that a networker can utilize to maximum advantage in constructing a successful MLM business: confidence, resourcefulness, imagination, commitment, determination, integrity, belief and a host of other winning qualities. These are all controlled and directed by thought processes. You are the one in command of your mind with authority over your thoughts and deeds. Therefore, it is your choice as to what you think and what actions you perform on a daily basis. The Buddha said that we are what we think and that with our thoughts we make our world. Marcus Aurelius wrote that a man’s life is what his thoughts make of it. And the Greek philosopher Plato spoke of the immense force of our thoughts when he said that reality is created by the mind and we can change our reality by changing the thoughts that go through our mind.

This Section Three states emphatically that, through your power of thought, you can choose to be an outstanding networker . . . right now. Today you can be an inspired leader for your network marketing organization. Today you can discard unconstructive behavior patterns for an enterprising demeanor. Today you can transform negative thinking into optimistic thoughts. Today you can swap destructive habits for winning disciplines. This all begins with you choosing to project empowering thoughts of an awesome vision, choosing to design potent Action-Plans, choosing to take enthusiastic Action-Steps, and choosing to have a mindset focused on the attainment of your major aims.

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“Man has it in his power to perfect himself, and in time completely to transform himself. But this transformation must take place in his innermost self, in his though-life.” Rudolph Steiner

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his is the essential principle of empowered thought: If you think you can, you can . . . but if you think you cannot, you cannot. The truth of this fact as it relates to MLM is best illustrated as: Whether you ultimately succeed or fail in building a profitable networking organization, it is entirely up to you. Your success or failure is, first and foremost, a mental decision created in your own brain. Success comes in cans . . . failure comes in cannots!

The prominent networking leaders are the ones who recognize and fully employ the extraordinary powers of their mind. These individuals know how to realize the full potency of their intellect, maximizing its immense energy force and directing it toward the accomplishment of their greatest objectives. These top networkers crystallize their hopes into powerful beliefs, then into burning desires and eventually into infernos of faith in their capability to achieve. The outstanding leaders in MLM focus the clear thoughts emanating from their incredible mental powerhouses to design for themselves lives of immense mastery and create networking organizations of phenomenal vision. Once you grasp the full impact of the power of your thoughts, this will change the way you live your life and alter the way you build your network marketing enterprise. Not only will you be tremendously inspired and highly motivated as change affects your entire way of living, but you will be transformed by this power. There is a glorious life of choice, possibility and remarkable opportunity waiting for you . . . it is all found within the kingdom of your brilliant mind. Harness the full force of your thoughts to make the most glorious vision for your life come true. This book provides the insights into how

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this happens, so that you can apply it to your networking endeavors. All that you can conceive within the realm of your mind is ready for you to claim now. The time is right. Are you ready to seize it? You will possess total mastery over your life when you control how you respond or react to the thoughts, both negative and positive, taking place in your mind at all times. Understand that everything changes in wondrous ways for those who constantly develop the powers of their mind. Can you imagine what great changes will take place in your life when you start utilizing the inherent forces of your mind combined with building your networking business in line with ingenious and life-impacting network marketing principles? It is the grand view of the inspired leader you can become, and the large organization you can create, which should be enough to compel you to work diligently at forging a new reality through these potent mental forces.

The Science Of Mind Powers The powers of the mind are a very great science. They are the science of self, the science of personal effectiveness and the science of understanding how to develop great empowerment. With an intense study of the powers of the mind, this will reveal new and compelling material. To most of us, the ‘mental’ area is unfamiliar. Our parents only shared with us a tiny glimpse of our intellectual powers, because they didn’t comprehend too much themselves. Our teachers and schools don’t teach it to us, because they don’t fully understand it. Our religions and church-elders, generally, don’t teach it. Only if we are fortunate to find mind-power materials, or specialized programs that instruct us about the potency of thoughts, are we able to learn. We can then acquire knowledge about the unique mental powers and abilities that each of us does possess.

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It is often thought that control of the mind is a perplexing affair; something that requires hard study, knowledge and time to accomplish. This is not true. You already have within your mind all that is needed, and you possess all the time required, to design your intellectual nature, your character, and practically your entire life. Who you are in life right now, and what you stand for, is an accumulation of all your thoughts, all your beliefs, all your feelings and all your emotions about every incident and circumstance that has ever transpired in your life. It is this amalgamation of all your understanding, ever since you were a young child, that shapes who you are at this very moment. It is all your hopes, all your dreams, all your worries and all your fears — every experience that has ever been processed through your thoughts — that manifest your living reality on a day-to-day basis. A flash of lightning . . . a thought . . . and the industry of network marketing was born, unleashing tremendous human ingenuity and creating possibilities for a standard of living, and for freedom of choice, unequalled in the history of personal business opportunities. Your thoughts, your attitudes, your beliefs, your questions and everything about you, create a vibration — an energy force — manifesting your life. You have your personal vibration — your energy force. I have my ‘James Lee Valentine’ vibration — my energy force. All individuals have their own energy force that creates their own reality. So it is that your own vibration and energy force manifest the particular experiences happening to you in your life. This is such a powerful subject . . . don’t dismiss it lightly. Your personal vibration and energy force, shaped by your thoughts, are the source of your ultimate network marketing empowerment.

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Armed with knowledge of mind powers, you can take immediate control of your life. You can direct the most awesome forces imaginable, unleashing the full potency of your positive potential, manifesting the reality of a spectacular existence, inside and outside the arena of network marketing. You are an accumulation and a combination of all your thoughts, all your beliefs, all your feelings and all your emotions. It is these components that produce your personal vibration — your energy force — that directly interacts with life at all times. As you begin to work positively on your personal vibration and energy force, and as it gets stronger, your life will become more highly empowered to match it. The powers of your mind will awaken the most potent abilities you have within. You are in full command of your mental faculties. Therefore, you control the magnitude and scope of your networking endeavors by way of your empowered thoughts. You will develop an immense amount of personal power once you begin consciously strengthening your mind. You are the cause of everything . . . you are it! You will possess ultimate empowerment as you create a grandiose lifestyle and build a thriving MLM organization through the methods, laws and principles by which reality unfolds. This is further enabled through an understanding of the two worlds of existence.

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“So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see; for so, in truth, it is.” Book of Mirdad

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here are several extremely powerful principles that we must begin understanding before we can fully utilize the powers of our mind, and before we can weave these forces together with building a flourishing organization. This chapter in its entirety deals with one such potent principle. It is this: We live simultaneously in two worlds. These are two states, completely separate and apart from one another. These two independent conditions are the external world — outside of ourselves — and the internal world — within our mind. ¾ The External World: Consisting of our material possessions, the environment, circumstances and the multitude of events that happen to us in our outer daily lives. Examples are: the house we live in, the car we drive, our career, the news on television, network-building training sessions, business opportunity meetings, products, people, the ocean, lakes, trees, flowers, the economy, government policies, global events, and everything out there . . . outside of ourselves. ¾ The Inner World: Consisting of our everyday thoughts, beliefs, emotions, attitudes, feelings and our inner mental experiences. Examples are: how confident we feel in speaking before a group of people, falling in love, the emotions of laughing or crying, our thoughts of success, the excitement felt upon receiving a large commission payment, having doubts, fears, expectations, hopes and dreams, and everything in here . . . within our mind. A major misunderstanding for many people is that they think this is all one world we live in. However, in reality, it is two: the external world, outside of us, and an inner mental world that exists within our mind. Many people think the inner world is just a mirror of the external world. So this is how those people act, mirroring the external world with their inner thoughts. However, reflecting the external world is certainly not the right way to create a self-empowered life.

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For an individual who doesn’t yet understand the powers of the mind, when something ‘bad’ happens in the external world it often has a profound negative influence on his or her inner mental world. For example: a networker hears that an economic recession is happening in his country. He has heard this in the external world. But, now, in his inner world, his mind starts racing and he begins to think absurd and cancerous negative thoughts about how difficult this business will become. His reaction is crazy. He doesn’t have to experience this disempowering reaction at all. This networker can learn how to utilize the immense power of his mind to respond positively, staying in control, being empowered and directing his life as he chooses to direct it. You live simultaneously in two worlds . . . not one, but two. You must learn how to respond positively by creating empowering thoughts in your inner world. You must rule your mind if you wish to have personal power to influence your direction in life for the better. One of the greatest powers of the mind will be revealed when you take control of your inner world and direct it as a separate entity to the external world. These are two independent worlds. The secret of success is for you to think thoughts that are separate to and beyond what the outer reality of the external world would suggest to you. As an example: confidence doesn’t exist in the external world, does it? Nor happiness? Nor a feeling of excellence? Neither do the negative emotions of fear, doubt, guilt or inadequacy. These are all inventions of the inner world . . . your inner world. These are all creations of the mind . . . your mind. Everyone wants to be confident. Even the most lethargic person yearns for more self-confidence. Well, I have news for you . . . it doesn’t exist outside of you. There is no confidence in the external world. It is an invention of the inner mental world, created in the minds of people living in the external world. The point is that you cannot purchase

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confidence in supermarkets or manufacture some in factories. Confidence is a product of the mind, beginning as a thought and intensified through continuous mental reinforcement until it becomes an empowering emotion. Confidence is an invention of the inner world, as is every other empowering emotion. Confidence, the same as all emotions both negative and positive, is created in the mind. Therefore, starting right now, you can direct your inner mental world to think thoughts that develop only empowering emotions and produce only empowering responses.

You Are The Cause Of Everything That Happens To You Every single thing that happens to you in your life, everything, whether you like these things or not, is caused by you. Your first reaction to this news may be to tell me to wait a moment, that I do not even know you and that you are certainly not causing these things to happen in your life. My answer to you is: “Oh yes you are, you certainly are. You are the cause of everything that happens to you in your life.” As human beings, we do not often like to accept responsibility for the things that happen to us — that’s human nature — especially if they are bad things. It is so much easier when we can believe that it has nothing to do with us. We can then blame other factors: the government, or our family, or our upline, or our circumstances in life, or blame just about anybody and anything . . . any excuse will do. Listen carefully to your own self-talk. Do you ever catch yourself making these same kinds of pathetic excuses to explain your present position in life?

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¾ The reason I have difficulty in communicating the attractions of network marketing to others is because I lack self-confidence. It has nothing to do with the fact that I haven’t instilled deep self-belief within myself by attending powerful trainings, building my business professionally and mixing with inspiring leaders. ¾ The reason I have no money is because there is an economic recession going on, maybe even a depression. There are no opportunities for me right now. It is the government’s fault for sure. Oh yes, we are all really talented at inventing excuses for why our lives are not working as well as we would like. However, these are not the real reasons. There is something inside each of us, deep within our inner mental world, that we can use to take control of our life and manifest our reality. Quite simply, it is this: “THINK EMPOWERING THOUGHTS!” Know that thoughts manifest action . . . and action manifests success. All your actions are a by-product of your mind, starting as single thoughts and amplified into action through continuous mental reinforcement. Take responsibility for the thoughts that create your life. It may be so easy to believe that what is happening in the external world has little to do with you, but this will not lead you to mastery over your circumstances. Being in control of how your future unfolds gives you an immense amount of power. This means that as you change, from the inside out, your whole world will begin to change. Understand that it is all created by you. As your thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, emotions and feelings all change, for good or for bad, your life will change to match them. Use the unlimited mental power you possess to feed your mind empowering thoughts on a consistent basis and watch your life explode into remarkable change.

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“The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart, this you will build your life by, this you will become.” Stanton Kirkham Davis

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uccessful network marketers possess a wealth of valuable attributes. One of the greatest is that they recognize the phenomenal power of their magnificent minds. As you begin to discover the miraculous potential of your own mind, every aspect of your existence will be enhanced. You will be better able to influence your conditions, direct your circumstances and achieve your most notable MLM objectives. Your mind is far more powerful than you have ever been taught. It is only a lack of belief in your inherent mental capabilities that has held you back from accomplishing all that you could. As alluded to multiple times throughout this life-transforming book: Every day of your life you possess unlimited power at your command . . . this power is your ability to choose empowering thoughts. Maximum utilization of this thought-power enables your life to manifest as the ultimate expression of your magnificent mind and for you to become the creator of the most glorious future one can ever imagine. Your life is a reflection of you, a perfect reflection. If you do not like the reflection, do not blame life. Do not blame the situations and events of your external world. Have a good look at yourself and realize it is all a precise manifestation of your inner mental world. You need to radically alter the way you think if you are to affect the flow of your thoughts from inconsequential to highly empowering. You will be amazed at the rapid transformation this act affects in the material conditions of your life. Empowered thoughts of being a self-assured network marketer will solidify into circumstances of achievement for your business endeavors.

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This positive energy will flow down through your organization impacting the entire group. You cannot directly choose the external conditions influencing your business, but you can choose your thoughts, which form your internal attitude and which surely shape your MLM enterprise. Stated an alternative way: If you will first sow the seeds of an empowered mind, you will eventually reap a harvest of good fortune. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. All achievement within any MLM opportunity is the result of concise, directed thinking. Your actions and capacity for persistent effort are motivated, first and foremost, by your thoughts. In other words, the ability you have to think, to act and to persist are all powerfully linked. The stronger your thoughts . . . the bolder your actions . . . the greater your persistent endeavors. Your network will rise or fall, strengthen or weaken, due to the polarity of your mind . . . positive or negative. Over a period of time, your enterprise will grow as insignificant as your controlling negative belief, your worst fear . . . or as consequential as your dominant empowering thought, your highest aspiration.

The Law Of Sowing And Reaping Think of your mind as a rich, fertile and well-nourished garden, with yourself as its master gardener. Whatever thought you plant in this garden that is tended and nourished will grow and bear fruit. Your mental powerhouse may be intelligently cultivated and developed, or it may be neglected and left to the weeds. An important point to understand is that you must consciously choose to feed your mind on a regular basis with highly empowering thoughts that are positive and constructive, otherwise your mind will continually feed itself negative and destructive thoughts. You must intelligently cultivate your mental garden if you wish to accomplish

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great deeds as an entrepreneur. First you sow and cultivate empowering thoughts . . . then you reap and harvest an empowered life. This is stated here in a thought-provoking, mind-stretching way to help you realize the overwhelming power of your thoughts: ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾

Sow an empowered thought Sow an empowered attitude Sow a winning discipline Sow an immutable character

. . . reap an empowered attitude . . . reap a winning discipline . . . reap an immutable character . . . reap a supreme destiny

Whatever you have in your life at this moment is a result of all the mental sowing you have done until now. On another level, whatever success you hope to achieve with your organization will depend entirely on both the quality and the quantity of sowing you do to nourish your business with wealth-creating seeds. An alternate way to quote the Law of Sowing and Reaping, which will open up your life to endless possibilities, is: Whatever you have harvested until now is a direct result of all you have sown. If you have a burning desire to know what is causing your presentday harvest, ask yourself soul-searching questions. Definitely of more value to you, though, is to thoroughly study your answers: Q. Do I fully comprehend that the person who planted my present harvest is me? Q. How many success seeds have I personally sown since beginning in the network marketing profession? Q. Have I read any empowering leadership books lately, the advice of which can effectively boost the moral of the networkers in my group? Q. Have I listened to many personal development audiocassettes recently, the stimulating lessons of which can inspire me to ever greater heights of achievement within network marketing?

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Q. Have I established specific short-term and long-term goals for my organization and decided upon exact deadlines for their attainment? Q. Have I established any specific written Action-Plans to point me in the direction of success? Q. Have I taken any Action-Steps today toward the achievement of my greatest networking desires? Q. Do I possess the determination to read MLM Power from cover to cover, then apply the principles to enable me to emulate the top networkers? Q. Will I use the thought-provoking ideas within these pages for the good of my life and to positively impact many people? Q. Am I really living the dream life I would most love to live? If not, can I understand that I must change before my life can improve? Analyze yourself and come to some honest conclusions. Perhaps you will need to sow many powerful, positive, constructive and empowering thoughts, and plant a multitude of success seeds. If your current harvest is a few skinny morsels you must be unimpressed with your performance. In future, you will need to sow more seeds, and plant better quality seeds, if you are to produce the maximum results from your networking endeavors. You must first sow the seeds of an expanding network before you can reap the harvest of a thriving, profitable MLM business. Your mind is a far greater success-mechanism than you have perhaps ever contemplated. It is an almighty powerhouse, with unlimited effectiveness at its command. Utilize its awesome power.

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“The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good, but instead leave all to chance.” Orison Swett Marden

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Your Thoughts Are Energy And Have Real Power Your thoughts are amazing, they are powerful and they are magical. Yet because they are so common, you possibly take them for granted and fail to recognize their true strength. Each individual thought needs to be tended and nourished and encouraged to blossom to reach its

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peak potential. Once you can understand the incredible potency of this law — the fact that each solitary thought is an energy ray — this can have a terrific positive impact, especially when the thought is multiplied and concentrated to boost its power. Weak and scattered thoughts are weak and scattered forces. Strong and concentrated thoughts are strong and concentrated forces. Single thoughts have minimal strength and are quite ineffective when perceived only once. However, just repeat the thought and it becomes concentrated. Through repetition, its force is multiplied many times. The more times the thought is repeated, the greater its energy and the more power it generates. Weak and scattered thoughts will not be of any use to you in your search for success and accomplishment within any network marketing opportunity. You must develop strong and concentrated thoughts, which are a creative and vibrant force. Yet, thoughts only become power-packed, energy-laden forces through continual repetition and focused concentration. To illustrate this, imagine a magnifying glass on a sunny day. If the rays of the sun are simply allowed to shine through the glass, nothing will happen. But if the magnifying glass is held at a suitable height and focused at the correct angle, the same rays of the sun will become concentrated . . . enough to ignite a fire. So it is with your thoughts. Learn to focus your mental magnifying glass, concentrating your thoughts into a beam of energy that ignites the powers of your mind.

Your Predominant Thoughts Direct Your Destiny By thinking with emotional intensity, the condition of your thoughts change and they become magnetized. They then attract similar thoughts

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the way that a magnet attracts iron filings. You will attract the conditions and circumstances that match your predominant thought patterns and, as such, these will direct your destiny. As an example, if you wish to be a confident and empowered networker, one who exhibits inspiring leadership traits, then you must make characteristics such as these your predominant thought patterns. Likewise, if you desire great personal wealth and thriving profitability for your network, you must saturate your mind with thoughts of prosperity and business-savvy. What you think is what you get . . . and the more concentrated your thoughts the more you get. Your current circumstances and status in life are a direct result of the predominant thoughts that have gone into your mind over a long period of time. You absolutely can change what you are, change where you are and change who you are by changing your predominant thoughts. All you need to do is decide what circumstances you want for your life, then consistently reinforce this desire by feeding your mind empowering thoughts of these conditions.

Your Mind Can Create And Concentrate Thoughts This is the greatest Law of Thought, for this is where you can create the thoughts that will bring your reality into existence. You have the power within your mind at any time to create any thought. This is an extremely powerful principle. Even if the reality of the thought is not real or realistic, you can still create it and concentrate it in your mind. Such as creating thoughts that suggest to your mind that you are a prosperous and successful networker before the actual conditions of wealth and success have materialized within your enterprise. Learn to create at all times using this law and do not limit yourself to reality. Every day, through self-talk and visualization, you should

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create empowering thoughts in your mind on enthusiastic action, on an expanding network, on your abilities as an exceptional leader and effective mentor, on successful results, on prosperous business conditions, and on any other desired circumstances. When an object or purpose is clearly held in thought, its precipitation in tangible and visible form is merely a question of time. The vision always precedes and itself actually determines the ultimate realization. Make it a winning discipline to analyze the quality of your thoughts. Notice if the fundamental nature of your thinking is predominantly positive and constructive, or if it is mainly negative and destructive. The ideal state you should strive to develop is this: Be conditioned to always think empowering thoughts . . . instinctively. Your mind cannot tell the difference between constructive thoughts and destructive thoughts. Your mind makes no distinction between positive and negative . . . to your mental powerhouse they are the same. It may not matter to your mind what thoughts it thinks, but it absolutely matters to YOU. Your happiness, success and fulfillment all depend on your predominant thoughts being of a highly empowering nature. The negatives must be stopped . . . and it is within your supreme power to defeat them. One vital point to accept is that a negative thought only has power over you when you react to it. Once you develop the ability to ignore all aspects of a disempowering thought it then loses its strength, weakens and dies. You will retain total mastery over your networking endeavors when you control how you respond or react to the thoughts, both negative and positive, taking place in your mind at all times.

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“With each returning night we are born again and naught of all our former life remain. Today, estranged from all past joy and strife is radiant with new opening life.” Palladas

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hat is the effect of thinking thoughts? Yes, it is true that we think thousands of thoughts daily . . . but this is a cause. What we want to know is . . . what is the effect? What results are manifested by thought-action? To have a clearer understanding of this, we need to know there are but two realities we are absolutely certain of that will happen to us every day: ¾ We think thousands of thoughts every day ¾ Countless circumstances happen to us daily Why is it we cannot fully comprehend that these two realities — of thinking thousands of thoughts every day and of having countless circumstances happen to us daily — may have something to do with each other? Could they be connected? Could it be that the reality we manifest is a delayed reaction of our thoughts, beliefs, feelings, emotions and our personal vibration . . . our energy force? Could there be some interaction between our inner world of thought and the circumstances materializing in our external world? Certainly, I believe so. If you want to create a successful network or display the characteristics of a gifted leader, then these are the seeds — in the form of empowering thoughts of this nature — that you first have to sow before you can harvest those realities in your life. You must accept maximum responsibility for what transpires in your life. You are responsible for what happens to you. One irrefutable fact is that you are one hundred percent responsible for what occurs in your inner world . . . within your mind. You must take absolute responsibility

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for this. You have total control over the inner world. As you begin to cultivate your mental garden it becomes ripe for seeds to be sown. Therefore, you never want negative thoughts, disempowering beliefs or destructive memories occupying your mind at any moment. You have absolute control over your mind . . . take full responsibility for it. This means that any negative thought that persists in your mind is there because you allow it to be there. Stated once again, with emphasis: Any negative thought that persists in your mind is there because you allow it to be there. Ask these questions for verification: Q. What jealousies, what grudges, what inadequacies and what nonsense from the past am I presently carrying around in my mind? Q. What negative garbage is going on inside my head that I should have discarded ages ago, and how long will I continue to carry it with me? You have the power to either entertain thoughts or dismiss them, as you are the one with complete control over your inner mental world. So take full responsibility for what occurs in your mind at all times. Yes, every day I insert into my mind — through affirmation or visualization — thoughts of an empowering nature. This winning discipline will create my own rewarding and fulfilling life: ¾ Every day I insert into my mind positive thoughts of tremendous energy, massive enthusiasm and great excitement for MLM. ¾ Every day I insert into my mind positive thoughts of achievement, happiness and fulfillment as an empowered networker. ¾ Every day I insert into my mind positive thoughts of abundance, prosperity and fantastic riches through my networking efforts.

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¾ Every day I insert into my mind positive thoughts of colossal personal power, peak performance and a spectacular commitment to excellence within my particular networking opportunity. Why do I insert empowering thoughts of this bold nature into my mind on a regular daily basis? Well, why not? I would be absolutely crazy not to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity. How about you? Are you feeding your mind with the good, the clean, the pure, the positive and the empowering on a consistent schedule? Is your life where you want it to be yet? If not, I’d highly recommend you feed your mind with dynamic, empowering thoughts every day. Such as: “I recognize that I, James Lee Valentine, have the power and ability to insert any thought of any kind into my mind at any moment.” Yes, you can be absolutely sure that I take full advantage of this spiritboosting, energy-increasing, self-empowering principle.

Know Thyself Know thyself. This is the inspired message that the Greek philosopher Aristotle had engraved above his classroom door over two thousand years ago. Know and understand the power of your mind. Know and understand your capacity for learning and continued mental growth. Know and understand that you can create and manifest the things that happen to you within the networking profession. Know your power! Use your power! Live your power! Your life always perfectly reflects the condition of your inner mental world. Therefore, if your life is not growing as you would wish; if you have objectives to be achieved, but are not reaching; if your life is not unfolding in the exact manner you want it to unfold; if your harvest is not to your liking . . . what kind of thoughts have you been thinking to attract this harvest? What kind of personal vibration and energy force have you been emitting to manifest this reality?

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This is the empowering statement that I repeat to myself to wield my ultimate personal power: “During my lifetime, I am not interested in being realistic. I am interested in wielding and directing the most powerful forces I have at my disposal . . . I am interested in stepping into the world and creating and manifesting the circumstances I want to see . . . I am interested in being an empowering force. Yet I know that any thought I plant into my mind, that I tend and nourish and cultivate, will grow, will develop and will produce spectacular results in my networking endeavors.” Here are two Power Questions to yield personal power: Q. If I want to radiate supreme self-confidence as a leading networker, when will I start thinking confidence-boosting, enthusiasm-producing thoughts to induce this condition? Q. If I want my MLM organization to be fabulously successful on a global scale, when will I start feeding my mind on a regular basis with the thoughts that will attract success on this massive scale? Now is the time to unleash the immense energy of mind-powers. Control your future via empowering thoughts, display full mental abilities, utilize networking as a leading wealth-creation vehicle, and materialize a scintillating life of fulfilled accomplishment. When will you begin to unleash the awesome power of your thoughts to manifest your own spectacular standard of living . . . when? Do it now! It is now time to take command of your mind-powers and fulfill your ultimate destiny. Godspeed on your own journey through life. May you live each moment with the knowledge that deep within your mental powerhouse you possess the supreme force to shape, direct and manifest a brilliant future. This force is the power of your thoughts.

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ne of the essential factors for success as a network marketer is adopting the right state of being. For the top leaders in MLM, this state of being is the proper mindset, the correct demeanor, strong poise, a high value of integrity, the posture and behavior of a champion, an ability to mentor one’s associates to success, and a dynamic, self-empowered attitude. Changing one’s state of being is more important to the long-term prosperity of a networker’s personal organization than learning any specific skills or knowledge. Once the mindset is ‘tuned-in’ to the wavelength of success, one can learn the key principles for a thriving MLM business at any time with astonishing speed. Successful network marketing leaders, due to definite learned unconquerable characteristics, have the winner’s edge. Within this Section Four — The Power of Being — we will give close study to several of the character traits that will help all networkers become more complete, fully rounded individuals.

This examination includes taking a look at the mental attitudes which can empower a person to achieve amazing success, learning why a healthy self-image is so important, knowing how to develop an awesome activity-boosting Winning Philosophy, and understanding why it is vital to choose the path of self-improvement leading to personal excellence. It is my sincere belief that the greatest discovery you will make by following the dynamic principles as outlined in this section, is: You can positively transform your life and impact the lives of others, often dramatically, by developing a new self-empowered state of being.

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“Life is no brief candle for me. It is a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” George Bernard Shaw

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ou are a human ‘being’ and, as such, it is your inherent nature to ‘be’ particular emotions . . . such as a confident, determined, or enthusiastic entrepreneur. If you want to feel a definite way, you just have to ‘be’ that state . . . instantaneously. Don’t wish for certain feelings or emotions to occur in a distant moment, just make an empowered decision to be whatever state of being you desire . . . then be that state now. Being is a simultaneous, three-fold process: just THINK it, ACT it, and BE it: ¾ Think . . . act . . . be . . . confident! ¾ Think . . . act . . . be . . . determined! ¾ Think . . . act . . . be . . . enthusiastic! Being is an instantaneous process, meaning that the three steps of thinking, acting and being occur simultaneously. As an example, let’s take your level of confidence: Once you have made the firm decision to be self-assured in your presentation of a networking opportunity, then you must instantly think confident thoughts whilst acting confidently and your state of being will instantly be charged with extra confidence. There are a large number of people who have the potential to be celebrated MLM champions, but they display the wrong state of being. Instead of exuding characteristics of strength, they allow their weaknesses to shine through in their thoughts, actions and being. As another example, let’s say that you want your network to be extremely successful and your desire is to have people joining your

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organization from all over the globe: Your success starts with the level of magnetism you display to attract the right caliber of individuals to join your group. This level of magnetic attraction is a by-product of your state of being. The greater the energy force that pervades your physical body, the stronger the mental strength you display, the more powerful your spiritual roots — all geared toward you being a successful networking entrepreneur — then the greater, stronger and more powerful your state of being . . . and the more successful the consequences manifested through your entrepreneurial endeavors.

How You React Or Respond Determines Your State Of Being The human mind can do one of only two things at any precise moment: either react to circumstances or respond to the situations that develop. To react is negative and destructive, but to respond is positive and constructive. To respond is also highly creative. You are the cause of everything that happens to you, because you choose — in your inner mental world — whether to react or respond to all things occurring in your life and in your MLM enterprise at any time: ¾ Those who ‘react’ are reactionary and inflexible. They have little or no control over themselves or their circumstances. They are not able to create with their lives . . . the best they can do is go-withthe-flow on their journeys through life. ¾ Individuals who ‘respond’ are the responsible ones. They are flexible and completely able to respond to all events occurring around them. Subsequently, they create with their lives . . . they are in control of their own networking destiny. Now, what kind of networker do you choose to be . . . reactionary or responsible? Your choice will determine your state of being and ultimately govern the success of your business. If you constantly react,

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you never have the chance to wield your true power. Who and what you are manifests your reality. Your thoughts and energy force — your personal vibration — cause things to happen to you. As you learn to respond, not react, your thoughts will alter to a more positive frequency. At this time, your state of being — which is constantly changing — will alter to match your new success-creating empowering vibration. It is not what happens in your network marketing venture that determines your level of success and achievement, so much as the way you REACT or RESPOND to what happens. Let us look at two examples of ways in which networkers can either react or respond to an event: ¾ Upon hearing that the local stock market has crashed, devaluing the national currency, one networker may ‘react’ by getting angry with the world in general. He may blame outside circumstances on his failure to build a strong business, and stop going to presentations because he thinks all efforts to build in this recessive climate are futile. However, the networker who ‘responds’ to these same factors may do the following: Firstly, he won’t rush into any false judgments of the situation and he will analyze the scenario carefully before making any major decisions. Secondly, he will try new avenues of attack. If people are suddenly less receptive to his business proposition, he may decide to double his efforts for several weeks. He may talk with twice as many prospects, go to twice as many presentations and mentor twice as many downline members. ¾ One networker ‘reacts’ upon getting a negative answer from her prospect by thinking ridiculous thoughts about how difficult this business really is and how under-qualified she is to even contemplate building a MLM organization in the first place. What the heck is she doing here, she wonders? Another, more empowered networker,

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‘responds’ to the same negative answer from her prospect by knowing that she is not being rejected personally. The prospect is saying no to the opportunity for whatever reason, that’s it. This winner will analyze her presentation skills to see how she can improve. Then, with sky-high confidence and her state of being projecting a positive aura, she will present her opportunity to other prospects. The characteristics you exhibit this moment — the winning qualities you demonstrate, the determined attitude you display as an empowered leader, your ability to communicate to your downline effectively, and a myriad other winning personality traits — you have attracted to yourself by ‘being’ the person you are. If you will change in a positive manner, not only what goes into your mind but also the way you respond to it, then all things will definitely transform for you. You don’t have to change what is outside in the material world . . . all you need is to concentrate on positively changing what is inside, within your inner world. Do not wish your life can be easier; know that you can be better. Do not wish for fewer problems; learn to develop more skills. Do not wish for fewer challenges; seek more wisdom. All the while, empowering your state of being. Start developing an empowered state of being and begin sowing seeds for the success of your MLM organization. You can do this through an improved, more determined mindset; through a higher level of selfesteem; through creating a Winning Philosophy; through committing yourself to personal excellence; and through being the outstanding professional networking entrepreneur you are destined to be. Then your world will dramatically improve . . . guaranteed!

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ne of the greatest factors determining the success or failure of your organization is the ATTITUDE you demonstrate toward all aspects of this business. Your attitude is the key that unlocks colossal achievement within networking. Attitude is the little thing that makes the biggest distinction in how your MLM fortunes ebb and flow. Positive attitudes bring effective results to your life and negative attitudes, of course, breed futility. Your attitude controls your life. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that you know how to harness and command this great power. There are two major forces at work in your life: external and internal. You have little control over forces of the outer external world such as typhoons, floods, earthquakes and natural disasters. What matters is the internal force, which is your mental attitude. How do I respond to the disasters? Over this inner choice you have absolute control. Your world will become what you choose for it to be. It is a perfect reflection of your attitude, which mirrors your state of being. You can soar to great heights of achievement or you can manifest a mediocre life devoid of glory. The choice is yours. To change your world, you must change it from the inside out through first projecting a positive mental attitude. Built over time, your MLM enterprise will become an expression and a reflection of your fabulous mind. Yes, you are the creator and shaper of your venture. As an empowered networker, you are free to will any state you desire through the use of your thoughts, words and actions. Every day you wake up with unlimited power at your command . . . the ability to choose empowering thoughts, make courageous decisions, take enthusiastic action and create a positive mental attitude.

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Your entrepreneurial career can be smooth or rough, long or short, wealth-creating or energy-depleting . . . this is always your decision. The quality of your endeavors comes from the quality of your thinking. Thoughts produce actions. Take the time to study your thoughts and see if you can find genuine connections between unfavorable circumstances materializing in your network — such as few leaders, no momentum, slow growth, lack of morale — and negative thoughts such as envy, greed, doubt, fear and resentment. Then think of all the positive emotions that cause a leading networking entrepreneur’s venture to prosper . . . such as passion, diligence, faith, generosity, self-confidence and consideration. Don’t these positive emotions bring greater rewards to the MLM enterprise? The key point to understand is that it is your attitude — as the leader of your own organization — that makes the greatest difference in the ultimate success of your network.

Your MLM Organization Thrives On A Positive Mental Attitude It is absolutely true that the quality of your thoughts determines the quality of your MLM endeavors. Well, the number one factor in determining the quality of your thoughts is your attitude. No surprise. Your attitude very definitely influences how well you build your business and whether you are able to get the maximum from it or not. Of vital importance to a thriving network marketing organization is the development and permanent use of a positive mental attitude: ¾ Being positive in networking means looking for better alternatives when challenges arise . . . and focusing on SOLUTIONS, not problems. ¾ Being positive in networking means developing understanding attitudes . . . electing to be friendly and outgoing to all networkers.

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¾ Being positive in networking means choosing to be optimistic and forward looking . . . deciding to look on the brighter side of life, not having a pessimistic outlook. ¾ Being positive in networking means saying what you want . . . and striving for the accomplishment of your burning desires. ¾ Being positive in networking means doing what you love and loving what you do . . . you must love this business. ¾ Being positive in networking means having a vibrant, healthy selfimage . . . liking YOU, respecting all people, and taking a real interest in making the world a better place in which to live. A positive mental attitude is of greater value and is more important than intelligence and knowledge in achieving success. An “I can do it” attitude will help you to attain your MLM objectives quicker and more effectively than just having the mental ability and power of learning to reach them. A positive mental attitude comes from having positive emotions. Emotions are the most potent and powerful forces inside us. Empowered by emotions, human beings can perform the most heroic acts. Examples of positive emotions are enthusiasm, confidence, generosity, passion, desire and love. There are four major emotions — the 4 Ds — which can trigger incredible activity and turn your life around: ¾ Disgust: One does not usually equate ‘disgust’ with a winning attitude. Properly channeled, however, disgust can positively impact lives. The networker who feels absolutely disgusted with his or her own life has reached a point of no return. They are now ready to say: “Enough! I’ve had it! I don’t want to live like this any more!”

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Look out! If you can get thoroughly disgusted with yourself, this will be the day that your life begins to turn around. And what better vehicle than MLM with which to turn it around? ¾ Decision: Most of us need to be pushed to the wall to make decisions. We have reached a fork in the road . . . in our journey of life. Whatever you do, don’t camp at the fork in the road. THINK! Decide what you want for your life and your networking business. ACT! Take action to achieve it. PERSIST! Be persistent until things begin to positively transform. Decisions are the pathways to the pure power potential that lies within you. Remember: My past does not equal my future! The seeds are sown during your future moments of decision that that will shape your network marketing enterprise. ¾ Desire: The best way to build a red-hot, burning fire of desire within your soul is to know exactly what you want — have an awe-inspiring aim for your MLM entity — and to be energetically pursuing that target. Desire is the primary step toward achieving your grandest goals. It is the starting point of all human accomplishment. ¾ Determination: I will! These two words are so potent. When you resolve to do or die, nothing can stop you. The mountain climber says: “I will climb the mountain. They’ve told me it’s too high, it’s too steep or it’s too difficult. But I will climb it. You’ll see me waving from the top or you’ll never see me again. Unless I reach the peak, I’m not coming back.” It is such iron-willed determination that leads to the unleashing of one’s ultimate network marketing empowerment. Master these four major empowering emotions and you will trigger incredible activity that can positively transform your life in a heartbeat, leading to your outstanding success as a network marketing professional.

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our self-image is the mental picture you hold of yourself. This is the way you perceive the real you to be. Even though your perception can sometimes differ widely from how other people see you, their view of you is not the major ingredient in your exertions to create a substantial networking organization. The critical factor is the image you hold of yourself . . . this is the catalytic force, capable of driving you toward outstanding success in your MLM endeavors. The true image of YOU that you carry in your heart — the one of you as an enthusiastic winner — once empowered with self-confidence and self-assurance, is the one that will ignite your powers of attainment, leading to all you desire. This is the image that will shine forth brilliantly to others reflecting the new successful, highly empowered you. Self-image is sometimes referred to as self-worth or self-esteem, with a poor self-image known as an inferiority complex. Whether you see yourself as one of the outstanding leaders — dynamic, energetic, confident and successful — or as a timid, reserved networker with little concrete belief in your powers of achievement, this is the self-image you hold of yourself. The good news is that you can, at any time, change and strengthen your self-image with a few learned disciplines. There are four empowering objectives behind this chapter that will help you be a more effective networker. These are: ¾ To help you realize that in all areas of your life you are in much better shape — emotionally, physically, mentally, financially, spiritually — than you have perhaps ever acknowledged before. ¾ To help you develop for yourself a healthy self-image, so that you can have full belief in yourself as the confident, dynamic, iron-willed, empowered winner that you really are.

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¾ To help you understand that as a networker with a robust self-image, you are capable of reaching the upper echelons of success within any networking business opportunity. ¾ To help you manifest the reality of a substantial and ever-expanding network through your power of self-belief. Your self-image will always remain consistent with who you think you are. Therefore, for you to best succeed in MLM and gain the maximum from your networking exploits, it is vitally important that you display a vibrant, healthy self-image and that you show supreme confidence in your talents and abilities. Right now, you do possess the aptitude to fully empower yourself into thinking, acting and being a successful networker. As already mentioned, your self-image is your responsibility. It is, therefore, you who must decide how much you appreciate yourself and you who must recognize the innate abilities you possess for inspiring yourself to build a substantial networking business. Typically it is a lack of recognition and a lack of feeling appreciated that prompt people to leave an organization. Note: Do not wait until someone else recognizes your talents or gives you sincere appreciation. You must be your own number one supporter and praise yourself. The awesome power of your thoughts, together with a positive state of being, creates a success mechanism that has the capability to direct your life wherever you choose. You can decide to be who you want to be, do what you want to do and have what you want to have. You can be self-assured, confident and courageous. You can be a highly optimistic person with an empowering self-image, completely in control of your own life. It is all up to you. The power is within you to shape your life and establish the vibrant, healthy self-image of your choosing.

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Network marketing is a story-telling business. The more emotion-filled stories you have to share, ones that can pique your prospect’s interest in MLM, the stronger your self-image will become. And the stronger your self-image, the larger your network will grow. A healthy self-image for all humanity begins with treating others with the highest respect. Treat all people as you would want to be treated is the golden rule. As your experience of the compassionate world of networking increases, your goals will reflect this caring for others and will mirror your own empowered self-image.

Seven-Steps To A Healthier Self-Image Of course, it’s easy to say: “Change your state of being, alter your attitude and develop a healthy self-image . . . and your life will be greatly transformed.” But how to do this without knowing where to start? Changing one’s self-image doesn’t need to be a challenge and, in fact, can be quite straightforward. If you will consistently employ several essential techniques, you will soon experience a vigorous and empowering view of yourself. Here are seven steps to a healthier self-image: 1. SMILE: A big smile spreads joy to everyone you meet and gives this message to the world: “Hey, I’m a happy person!” Put a smile on your face and you’ll be halfway to a healthier self-image already. 2. THINK: Think of yourself as already being the winner you want to be. It’s difficult to be one of the top networkers if you don’t constantly think that you are one. Think it . . . then just be it!

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3. IMPROVE: Immerse yourself in a course of self-improvement. Read books that can help you to adopt a new positive mindset. Watch inspiring movies, listen to music that empowers you, and attend insightful seminars to improve many areas of your life. 4. ACTION: Act in highly empowering ways — cheerfully, enthusiastically, passionately — with a fire in your heart for your specific business opportunity. 5. CHANGE your environment: Create personal space that makes you feel eager to improve. Your environment should reflect the selfimage you wish to display. Make your surroundings colorful, bright, inspiring and stimulating for you. 6. MENTOR: Follow the leaders. Find successful networkers who already display the winning self-image you desire. Model the MLM professionals. Follow their lead. Learn from their examples. 7. ASSIST: Help others attain success in their networking endeavors. One of the most rapid ways to positively change your self-image is to take the focus off yourself and assist others. Offer help to the networkers in your group. Help them expand in all areas of their life, not just with business concerns. Let everyone know what you’re doing and enlist their support to help and give ideas. The more you all feel like you’re part of a group effort, the more likely you all are to be successful, and the healthier the self-images of all involved. Remember that your self-image guides your life. It is a great power working for you twenty-four hours every day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that you be patient and recognize that most changes occur slowly, over an extended period. If you don’t get instant results, don’t be surprised . . . and don’t give up. NEVER QUIT! Keep working . . . positive change will come.

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“The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?” Dale Carnegie

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he essence of a Winning Philosophy — for you as a networker — is being committed to personal excellence toward all that you do in pursuit of your greatest MLM objectives. It is the practice of a few basic winning disciplines every day that will lead you to the accomplishment of your loftiest network marketing aims. This all begins, first, with you asking this one powerful question: Q. What winning disciplines can I follow every day that will dramatically impact the scope and direction of my business for the better? Adherence to this question starts with forming new attitudes, with creating a strong self-image and with developing an invincible Winning Philosophy. Benefits of sincerely applying your answers are that you will learn the fundamentals of self-improvement. You will understand how to attract the right caliber of individuals to your group, how to build these winners into strong leadership role models, how to have an abundance of energy to perform the multifaceted MLM tasks with ease, and how to experience greater universal benefit through developing an expanding network that is a reflection of you as its guiding light.

Becoming The Right Kind Of Person Is Paramount To Success Having a Winning Philosophy is a major factor in how successful you will be. Develop one that is invincible and your world can be magical, don’t have one and your lifestyle will be mediocre at best. Presently, how successful you are has little to do with your circumstances. Do not blame your parents, or the government, or your upline leaders, or the economy, or the weather. Where you are in life has everything to do with YOU, not your mentor or your downline members, and is a result of your current thinking and present state of being. If you have problems,

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they started in your own mind with a disempowering mental attitude. You need to be the right kind of person, before you can do the right kind of things, before you can have what you most desire. The greatest value in life is not what you get, the greatest value in life is what you become. Do not ask what you will get from being involved in a free enterprise business, or get from networking training sessions, or get from this book. Ask what you will become by giving more than receiving, or become by using the empowering strategies as outlined herein. Ask what you can do for other networkers, not what they can do for you.

Develop An Invincible Winning Philosophy “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” This saying is so well known that almost everyone knows it by heart. Here is a question for you: What if this is true, and eating an apple a day does indeed keep the doctor away? Sounds easy to do, doesn’t it, just eating one apple a day, so why do most people not follow such simple advice? The quotation doesn’t mention smoking a packet of cigarettes every day, does it? You have to be smarter than this as it relates to the habits — now known as ‘winning disciplines’ — concerning your networking enterprise and as you begin the process of developing your own Winning Philosophy. If you make this kind of simple error of judgment every day of your business-life, then it will accumulate into eventual adversity. An excellent definition of failure is: A few simple errors of judgment repeated each and every day. Perhaps you are healthy now so you do not bother eating an apple a day because you think it will not make any difference. Perhaps today it won’t, but over a lifetime of tens of thousands of ‘todays’ it will. Look at how much effort you are putting into building

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a solid networking business and see what simple errors of judgment you are making. Perhaps you don’t attend training sessions regularly, or you don’t go to many business presentations, or you don’t mentor new networkers, or you don’t follow up with prospects. What will these errors in your current philosophy cost you over the greater period of time? The financial cost? The relationship cost? The cost in terms of success? Ask yourself if there are any simple errors of judgment taking place in your networking endeavors that can be likened to an apple versus a packet of cigarettes a day? An excellent definition of winning is: A few winning disciplines practiced each and every day. If today you decide to eat the apple instead of smoking the cigarettes, you have begun the process of positively turning your life around. Keep up this routine of practicing a few winning disciplines every ‘today’ with your business endeavors and your personal responsibilities. Attend all training sessions until you know your business thoroughly, consistently apply what you have learned, develop leadership skills, become a mentor for new networkers, know how to do thorough follow up with prospects . . . keep improving on a consistent daily basis. Eliminate the errors in your life by swapping them for a few winning disciplines. And begin this process of life-change . . . TODAY!

Your Personal Vision Statement As part of your new Winning Philosophy, you should write a list of winning qualities you either perceive in yourself this instant or would like to see in yourself soon as a network marketing professional, then phrase them in the form of a Personal Vision Statement. Carry this with you and read it on a regular basis to strengthen your powers of determination, build a more solid state of being and raise your level of self-confidence. Have wholehearted belief in the positive attributes you have written and they will materialize in your character. It’s your choice, but you may want to word your own Personal Vision

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Statement similar to this power-packed example. Alternatively, write your name in the spaces provided . . . and every day, emphatically state this declaration to massively empower yourself. My Personal Vision Statement _____________________, I am a self-assured networker who is magnificently motivated and exceptionally enthusiastic. I am dynamic, exciting and highly empowered. I will forge my mark in the MLM world by boldly building my business on the foundations of action, passion and integrity. _____________________, I am a respected role model and an asset to the network marketing profession. I have huge ambition, I am a big thinker and I enjoy setting inspiring goals. I have a vast amount of ability and do a first-class job in everything I attempt. I believe in joy, happiness, excellence, ambition, enthusiasm and determination. Therefore: I think, speak and act only joy and happiness. I think, speak and act only excellence and ambition. I think, speak and act only enthusiasm and determination. _____________________, I have incredible dedication, immense drive and tremendous vitality. I am a winner who is going places, fast! I look great, I feel fit and I act sharp! I clearly communicate my passion for the MLM opportunity. _____________________, I am a great and exceptional human being and an outstanding winner in the game of life. I enjoy taking action to achieve my networking dreams and desires. I go for the maximum and I always . . . do it now!

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“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” Aristotle

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ersonal excellence is one of the key factors in cultivating a stronger, more assured state of being. Each day marks fresh possibilities for the achievers, the winners and for those individuals who aspire to reach the highest levels of effectiveness within the MLM profession. If you desire to join the top networkers, use today to its fullest advantage by applying personal excellence to your business-building strategies. If you perform to the best of your abilities in all endeavors — never settling for second best — you will produce outrageous results in your quest for an excellent lifestyle. Make every day a masterpiece of personal excellence . . . then go forth with confidence that you gave it your best shot. As I’ve heard it said at networking events: “Always aim to better your best!” In other words, give every effort your very best shot. There are three hugely consequential, interrelated parts in displaying a commitment to personal excellence: ¾ Always give your very best effort ¾ Always give more than others expect ¾ Always give 100% commitment to the tasks at hand If you are capable of eating and drinking without a helper, then you are capable of further increasing your network marketing aptitude and able to significantly improve yourself. If you are serious about attaining substantial success in MLM, ask this Power Question: Q. How can I significantly improve myself as a networker? Ask this question daily and take action on it daily. By doing so, there is one fact that will emerge with crystal clarity: Through following a strict program of personal excellence, you will become profoundly enriched, mentally, spiritually and financially.

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Personal Development Leads To Personal Excellence Whilst most networkers are eager to improve their lives, some are unwilling to invest the effort needed for self-development. They then wonder why others race ahead of them in their particular venture and their mediocre existence remains the same. Use the networking opportunity as an aid to precipitate your personal excellence and as a means to discover and develop your limitless powers and untapped positive potential. As the Roman scholar Suetonius said: “Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.” This is a perfect example of the waste of human potential when an individual lets his or her mind become idle. The person becomes stupid, not because they are naturally that way, but because they do not consistently exercise their mind or positively cultivate a winning attitude every day. You need to exercise your mind on a disciplined regular basis to stimulate personal development growth. You can discover and implement the principles of self-improvement and personal excellence through many practical methods, such as: ¾ READING: Read self-improvement books, read books on all areas of specialized interest to you, and read books written by people who have overcome adversity or failure and who are winners in the areas within which you desire to achieve success. ¾ LISTENING: A tremendous source from which to learn personal development principles is by listening to rousing and knowledgebuilding audiocassette or multimedia programs from worldwide MLM champions or listen in person at networking events.

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¾ COMMUNICATING: You’ll improve by watching, listening to and communicating with the proven leaders in your chosen areas of self-improvement. ¾ TRAINING: Recommended for networkers who crave excellence are seminars and workshops that offer the opportunity to improve any area of life or to strengthen any facet of human potential.

Leaders Are Readers And Readers Are Leaders All leaders are readers . . . they read, read, read. They are so curious to know more that they are driven to read. This is one thing all successful people have in common: they just have to know more. Reading is mental exercise of the highest quality. Almost without exception, top networkers the world over, those with enduring success, are strong readers. Strong readers are not born this way . . . they develop the habit by devoting at least thirty minutes daily to increasing their knowledge through reading excellent books. Are you a strong reader? Yes? If so, that’s great. However, just to check, what empowering books are you reading today . . . on teamwork, on leadership, on sales skills? In the networking environment, it is not just you who is empowered by changing your language to a more positive nature; it is all the other networkers around you too. There is a positive alternative to every word, find it. Networkers who crave lasting success will greatly enhance their possibilities through the application of an acutely empowered vocabulary. Long-term, a person’s careful choice of words will have a tremendous impact on their quality of lifestyle. Learn that certain words are constructive and empowering and should be used daily, while others

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are negative and destructive and must be permanently discarded from all MLM communication. Your state of being will change in proportion to the empowering nature of the vocabulary you consistently employ. Think positive . . . talk positive . . . be positive!

Power Questions Enhance Your Mental Powerhouse The quality of your life is a reflection of the potency of the questions you mentally ask yourself. Upon waking, if your habitual thoughts are regularly along these lines: “What’s for breakfast?” or “I wonder what’s on television today?” for sure this will produce an uncertain future for you . . . likely one that’s not very successful. Alternatively, if you awaken with thoughts on your mind such as: “Wow, I feel fabulous, so why not give focused effort toward my major aims today?” or “What actions can I take today that will help the people in my organization be even more successful?” then these Power Questions will produce greater, more extraordinary results in your business. Why not, from tomorrow morning, study your own early-morning mental questions to see if they add zip or drag to the start of your day? The principles of personal excellence can be put to work this very day with powerful results. All you need to do is apply fixed purpose to your thinking and persistence to your disciplines . . . then you will be on your way to outstanding success in networking. It may take a month or a year or a decade, but the super-abundance that will eventually materialize in your life is surely worth the effort required. No networker will become an instant millionaire or an overnight success through the principles of self-improvement. However, any person who puts a solid program of personal excellence into immediate and continuing effect will be greatly enriched, financially and mentally, and their state of being will be greatly empowered.

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ou have a choice. As a free-willed, free-spirited, self-empowered network marketer, you always have a choice. Every new day you awake with awesome power at your command. What is this unstoppable force? It is your power of DECISION . . . the ability you possess to choose new empowered thoughts at any moment. Section Five emphasizes this fact: What you think is always your choice. It is up to you to harness the fabulous power of your decision-making faculties. For you, and only you, are the one who decides what you think at each and every moment of your entrepreneurial existence. At any time, as an empowered networker, you can decide to take the high road toward success by choosing to radiate massive enthusiasm for your particular opportunity, or you can take the low road toward mediocrity by choosing to show the exact opposite characteristics. It is true that the quality of your decisions determines the quality of your network marketing endeavors. Your ability to be self-empowered comes from this faculty of decisionmaking. Utilize the dynamic force of your decision-making capabilities to feed your mind a constant stream of upbeat, empowering thoughts, highlighting the remarkable benefits of network marketing. Directly you will materialize a super-abundance of all the great things a successful MLM organization can offer: vastly increased wealth, liberty of personal choice, meaningful relationships, special friendships, material pleasure, time freedom, personal development, and true independence. The power of decision is one of your greatest assets. Use it to unleash your peak performance and utilize its powers to direct your networking business to the ultimate destination of unlimited success.

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“The power of decision. Everything that happens in your life — both what you’re thrilled with and what you’re challenged by — began with a decision. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” Anthony Robbins

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very decision begins as a thought. If thinking is your pathway to power, then it must be true that your decisions are your surest and most rapid super-expressway to success. Decisions are the strongest and most powerful way for you to positively transform your circumstances . . . within your business and within your personal life. By making decisions, you are taking responsibility for your life to guide it through the labyrinth of choices available to you. It is the force of your past and present decisions that will guide your current actions and bring forth future success. Yes . . . it is in your strength of decision today that you will direct your actions tomorrow. Successful networkers, those with flourishing organizations, have the habit of making decisions promptly and firmly . . . and they stickwith-them. Whilst most unsuccessful networkers, whose MLM groups are not at all prolific, make decisions in vain and implement them slowly. One of the empowering aspects to know regarding your decisionmaking ability is that you already possess all the inherent talent necessary to make decisions . . . outrageous and mighty. Your free will — to think, to act, to take control, to shape your life — can best be harnessed when you make committed decisions to get what you want. Only then can your life and your networking business make an effective transformation. Right now, know that you can muster the courage and summon the power to make empowering decisions that will revolutionize your life forever. Know that it is up to you . . . it is always up to you. Ask yourself powerful questions to see if they can prompt you into making some dynamic life-impacting decisions right now: Q. Will today be the day I decide to take control of my network marketing endeavors by wielding and directing my incredible power of decision?

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Q. Will today be the day I decide that from this moment forward I demonstrate only the winning side of my personality in all business endeavors? Q. Will today be the day I decide that who I am and what I stand for will be consistent with the quality of my highest aspirations? Q. Will today be the day I decide to outline specific targets for my network affiliates and inspire them into dynamic effort through rigorous adherence to definite written Action-Plans? Q. Will today be the day I choose a magnificent aim for my MLM organization and decide to make a marvelous difference in the world, positively impacting the lives of many people? You have unlimited chances to make empowering decisions that can have a tremendous positive impact on your life. When you make a committed decision to take a forward Action-Step, within reason you can do it. Sure, there may be obstacles and challenges along the way. However, fierce self-belief expressed through firm decisions, and intense self-confidence shown through enthusiastic endeavor, will be the stepping stones that carry you over any troublesome times, leading you on to triumphant victory.

Strengthen Your Business Through Firmness Of Decision Making decisions can be likened to exercising muscles: the greater the intensity of the exercise, the stronger the muscles grow. Likewise, the firmer your decisions — as an empowered networker — the more conviction behind them, the greater the impact they will have on your organization. You have made a firm decision when a commitment is made to achieve a specific result and thoughts of all other possibilities are cut off. To reach the upper echelons of success in MLM, you must

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display true resolve for your decisions. You must take enthusiastic action to ignite them, and follow through with eager determination toward the attainment of the desired results. Hannibal was one of the world’s greatest soldiers. He possessed extraordinary tactical skill, a bold conception of strategy and a capacity for leadership that commanded the loyalty of his troops amid danger and defeat. “We will either find a way, or make one,” said Hannibal as he led an army of thirty thousand troops over the Swiss Alps into Italy. Yes, that was a firm and courageous decision. When you are truly committed to a decision, that is it, final, you never even consider the possibility of turning back. It is not what has happened to you in the past that determines your level of success, rather it is your decisions now, and at each stage in the future, that determine the subsequent course of your personal networking organization. It is your decisions about what you will focus on, what things mean to you, and what you will do about them, which matter most. Committed decisions are the powerful forces that sculpt your business and shape your life. Your decisions play an unquestionable role in defining your destiny.

Commitment : The Ability To Stick-With-It By now, you must know that I am a true believer in the astonishing power of decision-making. I believe wholeheartedly that it is in our moments of decision that we shape the future course of our lives. It has nothing to do with our circumstances. We are the ones who are in control of our long-term future by using the awesome power of our thoughts to make mind-blowing, earth-shattering, life-changing decisions.

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The ability to stick with a program of personal growth, the ability to stick with a regimen of goal-setting and actionplanning, the ability to stick with a task until completed, these are all talents to be admired in a network marketer. So, how do you develop this focused ability to stick-with-it? COMMITMENT is the key. The competence to stick-with-it is developed through the power of committing to your decisions. Commitment is when you give wholehearted, one hundred percent effort to the tasks at hand. If you ‘give it a try’ to see if it works, it won’t. If you ‘wait to see’ what happens, you will see nothing. This is true for all facets of every networking opportunity . . . nothing happens until committed action is taken to produce a result. The networker who is committed to success, gets from where he or she is now to somewhere better by consistently doing tasks that others will not do. Commitment means sticking to the decision once it has been made and following through with the necessary drive and reserves of energy required to attain the desired successful results. It is not what ‘happens to you’ during your time involved in a MLM venture that matters, it is what you ‘decide to do about it’ that counts. Good and bad things happen to us all, but it is the way we choose to respond to these things in an empowering manner that makes the greatest difference in how our networks develop. We all have the capability to positively transform our network marketing fortunes. This revolution results from our stunning power of decision . . . the empowered thoughts we think and the strategic choices we make are what matter most.

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ow is the time — this instant — for you to make courageous decisions for the future success of your networking venture. Be definite about what you do and do not want for your business. You must know what you want before you can get it, so decide exactly what it is that you desire. Make these important decisions concerning the ultimate success of your personal organization now. Be definite in your choices. Be specific. Do not be vague. Decide precisely what you want, then go for the attainment of exactly that. It is you who has the first and the last word in determining how successful your MLM group is. Your level of performance will always be consistent with who and what you think you are. Therefore, it is vital for you to make decisions that will empower you as the head of your organization and lead to a more powerful team effort. Also, you must have an abundance of confidence in your abilities if you are to excel in your endeavors and experience maximum rewards. Take responsibility for the success of your network and decide how profitable it will be.

What Is ‘Success’ To You? Success. It means different things to all people. Have you ever asked yourself: “What does success mean to me? What would it take for me to consider myself a success?” We all say we want success, but what does ‘success’ really mean to you? As it relates to your MLM efforts, what will it take for you to consider yourself rewarded in this business? For a certain networker, success may be speaking confidently in front of a group of prospects. For another, it may mean earning a recurring weekly income. For yet another, with eyes aiming for the top levels of networking, success may be an organization that attracts new members on a fast, continual basis.

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As a networker aiming for the apex of attainment, a major step is to clarify your own unique definition of success. Many define success in strictly financial terms, but that’s not the only measure. Even more vital, perhaps, is to include some of these fundamentals when defining exactly what ‘success’ means to you: ¾ How can I make the other networkers in my group feel sincere appreciation for their efforts? ¾ What level of avid commitment will I strive to maintain in my network marketing endeavors? ¾ Through my MLM organization, am I, in any way, contributing to improve the world? ¾ If I had the power to build my network to any size, the lives of how many people would be positively impacted in the process? ¾ What will be my lasting legacy when I die, what will I leave behind that will benefit all mankind? Once you have answered these questions and defined success in your own personal terms, you need to decide what you love being successful at within the networking arena. Here are some empowering decisions you could make for yourself as a fortuitous networker: ¾ I love being successful as a supremely confident presenter of the MLM business opportunity. ¾ I love being successful as the inspired leader of multitudes of eager networkers in my group. ¾ I love being successful as a speaker who is able to deliver highly enthusiastic presentations.

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¾ I love being successful as a mentor empowering other networkers to reach higher levels of success. ¾ I love being successful as a philanthropist giving charitable donations from my networking income to improve the lives of less fortunate individuals. Through the unique nature of your particular opportunity, you can acquire the character traits of a successful networker because you possess infinite power to direct your thoughts and make empowered decisions. Make your decisions those of enthusiasm, self-confidence, prosperity, success and enterprise if these are the states of being you seek. Yes, it is up to you . . . it is your decision!

Building A Network Is A Journey . . . Not A Destination The process of building a massive worldwide organization is an extraordinary journey to be savored each step of the way . . . it is not just a destination. A big mistake is made if you treat your networking enterprise like a destination way off in the distance. Perhaps you are always going to do something one day: going to be successful; going to train the new associates; going to gain leadership skills; going to be a better presenter of the business opportunity; going to create a program of effective follow up techniques; going to start a savings and investment plan with the extra income. It sounds like you are always going — always traveling — so no wonder you never have enough time to achieve significant success. The truth is that going to is a destination you will never reach. From this moment forward, transform your vocabulary and make a vow to yourself to never again make the statement that you are going to do anything.

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As an empowering alternative, learn instead to say: I will do this; I will be successful; I will train the new associates; I will gain leadership skills; I will be a better presenter of the business opportunity; I will create a program of effective follow up techniques; I will start a savings and investment plan with the extra income. Once your vocabulary is empowered to add another dimension to your effectiveness as a networker, make it another winning discipline of yours to always DO IT NOW! Now is always the right time to design Action-Plans and take forward Action-Steps, so make a decision this instant to positively transform your life and empower your organization. Decide to accept nothing but the best for your MLM enterprise and choose to be an energetic, confident, motivated, audacious, vivacious, honest, inspired, enthusiastic, dynamic, thoughtful, healthy, vibrant, compassionate, trusting, creative, kind, and supremely successful networker. Make this decision, be highly empowered and just . . . DO IT NOW! Success is a consequence of attaining one’s greatest desires. The starting point of all success is desire . . . that which is wanted intensely by the individual. This is the starting point. Desire is the infinite urge of life for expression, expansion and attainment. However, surprisingly, few people actually know what they really want. Few networkers ever define, in a concrete way, exactly what they ask of life. What about you? You, from this moment forward, as a highly empowered networking leader, through the awesome power of decision, can define your needs and strive to attain all you ask of life. Decision is your key to a glorious new future whereby your MLM group can literally expand worldwide and make a positive transformation in the lives of people globally. Make your decisions wisely and today launch your most compelling of futures with thoughts, words and actions that are inspiring and empowering.

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“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” Swami Vivekananda

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or you to experience the maximum reward from your MLM endeavors and manifest the highest standard of living — for you and for the members of your network — you have to first strengthen your attitude through a commitment to personal excellence. This is achieved by thinking quality thoughts that create a quality life. For sure, your existing lifestyle is better than you appreciate it to be, it’s all a matter of contrasts. No matter how demoralized, depressed, destitute or disheartened you get, if today you are a member of a MLM corporation, have ample food to eat, clothes on your back and shoes on your feet, then your life is in better shape than the vast majority of the planet’s population. Understand that the world is your oyster. Once you can grasp the incredible significance of how fortunate you are to be here at this instant, then take this fundamental truth and today launch your new thoughts, your new decisions and your new life. Be thankful for what you already possess, learn a winner’s attitude from the leading networkers, then go forth striving for the attainment of many glorious aspirations. Design powerful objectives that will drive you toward incredible levels of success within the networking business. Your mind is far more powerful than you have ever been taught. It is only your own limiting, negative and disempowering belief systems that are holding you back from accomplishing all that you can. Where does it all begin? It begins with decision. Know that you have the power to change what goes into your mind by empowering your thought patterns on a continual basis and by following these changes with enthusiastic action toward networking targets. As you begin to understand the absolute power of your mind, all aspects of your life will

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be enhanced. You will be able to influence the conditions surrounding you, direct your circumstances, change your states of being, and achieve your desired networking aspirations.

Empower Your Thoughts By Changing What Goes Into Your Mind If you want to improve your life, if you want to alter your circumstances, if you want to instill great power and momentum into your MLM network, then you can . . . just empower your thoughts. This is done step-by-step on a daily basis by changing what goes into your mind. The multi-stimuli that continuously bombard your mental powerhouse influence your thinking and direct the circumstances of your life. The easiest way to transform your predominant thought patterns is to feed your mind fresh and invigorating positive thoughtprovoking stimuli that can empower your thinking and promote your actions in the direction you desire for optimum results. Luck, it is said, is a matter of being in the right place at the right time. However, both location and timing are under our personal control. Therefore . . . we determine our own luck. To empower your thoughts, you need to cultivate the winning discipline of feeding your mind on a daily basis with good, clean, pure, powerful and positive stimuli. The most effective ways to do this are: ¾ By reading empowering, motivational books. ¾ By mixing with positive, happy, optimistic people. ¾ By listening to inspiring, enlivening, uplifting, instructive personal development audiocassettes. ¾ By avoiding major sources of negativity . . . such as most television, radio, newspapers, gossipers, whiners and complainers.

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You have a choice as to what positive stimuli go into your mind. Make this choice wisely. It is true that the quality of your thoughts determines the quality of your life. It is also true that the quality of your thoughts pertaining to your networking endeavors determines the quality of your MLM organization.

The Quality Of Your Thoughts Determines The Quality Of Your Business You will attract to your networking venture whatever you consistently think. If your empowered thoughts are invariably of good-fortune, success, mastery and attainment, you will ultimately experience the conditions of a successful business. Likewise, if you steadily project empowered thoughts of fabulous health, high-energy and super-vitality then you will attract the very best of health to yourself. As the Greek philosopher Plato said: “Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.” The highest quality thinking is no more than fretting over ‘problems’ zero percent of the time, and focusing on ‘solutions’ one hundred percent of the time. You possess absolute power over your thought mechanisms. Therefore, once you can grasp that all of your inadequacies, all of your problems, all of your difficulties and all of your limitations are artificial realities held to you only by your thoughts, then you can quickly create for yourself the foundation stones of the magnificent life you desire. You will command complete mastery over your life and your entrepreneurial ventures when you can control how you react or respond to all thoughts — empowering and disempowering — taking place in your powerhouse mind at all times. You are the one who commands total responsibility over your thoughts at each moment. Wield this power!

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Your Thoughts Are The Building Blocks Of Your Organization You are the architect and creator of your networking enterprise. It is a personal creation of yours and you can build it to the degree of your choice. The foundation stones and building blocks for this structure are your empowered thoughts. Right now, take a moment to decide what substantial bedrock you want for the imposing and solid MLM organization you will create: ¾ You can decide to conquer the world with an immensely profitable networking empire that spans all corners of the globe. ¾ You can decide to make a positive difference in the lives of the multitude by building a business enterprise that becomes your everlasting legacy. ¾ You can decide to create a grand vision for your business which is so compelling that networkers the world over will applaud your aims. Everything is possible for you as an empowered networker . . . for whatever you can conceive and totally believe in your own mind, you can achieve. You possess an incredible ability to decide upon unlimited possibilities for your life. Anything you can imagine in your mind you can do when you apply yourself and decide to take enthusiastic action toward that end result. Immediately, this moment, begin focusing the awesome force of your empowered thoughts toward successful achievement. . . then watch out for the dramatic and positive transformation that will definitely take place in your business and in your life.

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ne of the most potent concepts within this empowering book is CHOICE . . . the fact that you can ‘choose’ to make decisions to directly impact your destiny. Choice is the twin pillar of success, together with the power of decision. Try to understand and grasp the incredible strength that resides within your own mind as it relates to you having the choice to be anything you can possibly want to be and to do whatever your heart desires. Today, choose to begin new empowering thought processes and decide this moment to make a determined resolution to positively transform your life through your network marketing endeavors. Enduring success or eventual stagnation of your MLM group will result from the series of choices you constantly make. Once choices are made, they stack up, one on top of another, initially molding the identity of your business and ultimately shaping its size and significance. The following examples show how your choices affect the very nature of your being and manifest the ‘chosen’ conditions in your life: ¾ If you want to be a mega-confident networker, choose to think confidence-inducing thoughts. It really is as simple as developing new thought patterns in your mind and throwing away your old negatively conditioned ways of thinking. The greater the intensity of your ‘confident’ thought seeds, the more empowering the feelings of self-assurance that will result. ¾ If you desire streams of vibrant health or torrents of extreme wealth flowing through your life, simply begin by choosing to think thoughts of this very nature. To start the process of having vibrant health, just think empowered thoughts of super-vitality, high-energy, outstanding dynamism, amazing vigor, fantastic spirit and exceptional power. Likewise, for more success and wealth in your

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life, think empowered thoughts of extraordinary riches, astounding fortune, incredible abundance and unlimited prosperity. ¾ You may want your networking organization to be a global empire, positively impacting the lives of individuals across all lands of this planet, with many active networkers and energetic leaders. However, you will need to choose this result for yourself by making a firm decision that this is what you want, by believing in it, by visualizing it, by planning for it and by taking action on it. Only then will it have a greater chance of coming true. The potential for success within network marketing is almost infinite. Imagine your business as a great canvas with unlimited possibilities that can be painted on to it. As the leader of your particular MLM group, you are a unique and special artist who holds the brush and colors to create an enterprise that is . . . kaleidoscopic. Why not choose to paint a vision of your business that is a scintillating panorama? Then paint yourself right into the midst of it all and endow your loved ones with a colorful lifestyle that others can only dream of. You have the power to design a mosaic of magnificence. You can do it, but realize it all begins with choice . . . the power of decision. Take personal responsibility for designing your network marketing organization as a vibrant masterpiece of excellence or for creating it as a lackluster portrait of nothingness.

Building A Stellar MLM Organization Is Your Choice Abraham Lincoln stated that people are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Fundamentally, he meant that people choose whether to feel happy or not, determined or not, confident or not, enthusiastic or not, enterprising or not, or successful or not.

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This essential message represents the ultimate truth of the Power Philosophy and is one of the realities of life itself. This is: To ‘be’ any condition, one must first decide to ‘be’ that way. Being a successful networker comes from choosing the accelerated game of life — living life to the maximum and building a stellar MLM organization — knowing that you have done your best in every situation and in excelling to the farthest reaches of your God-given ability under all circumstances. Where you are in life right now is directly related to what decisions you have made over a long period of time. However, that is all in the past. What we are interested in here is your future. What we want to know now is what empowering decisions will you make from today? You must decide where you are going with your network marketing business . . . one year from now, five years from now, even twenty-five years from now. Things will only improve in your life if and when you make new empowering decisions to change them. Within your specific MLM opportunity you have amazing possibilities to transform your life in a thousand different dimensions. Time invested in improving yourself and in developing your MLM business cuts time wasted in non-productive pursuits. If you are reading this book, it is accepted that you want to improve the conditions of your life and positively transform your circumstances. The first step that needs accomplishing is to develop an awareness of the conditions you seek by thinking thoughts of that precise nature. You — and only you — need to decide what circumstances you desire for your life. Then, consistently feed empowering thoughts to your mind of these stated conditions. The next step is in possessing an almighty

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belief in your personal ability to manifest your greatest objectives. This comes through your self-assurance that you are indeed an empowered entrepreneur.

Choose To Believe In Yourself As An Empowered Entrepreneur Self-belief is the foundation stone for every forward step made in MLM. All desires held by you can be manifested if you will just believe in their eventual outcome. Self-belief is the determination to follow through on your network marketing goals. The one thing that will guarantee the triumphant completion of any task is the belief that it can be done. Self-belief is what successful networkers live by . . . a supreme, self-confident belief that unites faith with enthusiastic action to make the nearly impossible become reality. Perhaps the hardest part of attaining a high level of success in the networking profession is believing that you can succeed. If you don’t earnestly believe you can do something, then you won’t give the necessary committed effort. Self-belief is a catalyst . . . dynamic self-confidence triggers the mind into figuring ways and means for your most outrageous ambitions to be achieved. One of the greatest forces in existence is the will of a networker who has self-belief, who dares to aim higher and who confidently focuses on the desires most cherished. “I can do it” is a tremendously powerful affirmation. Believe, really believe in your ability to do something and you will most certainly accomplish it. Provided, of course, that you follow your intense belief with immediate, enthusiastic action toward the accomplishment of your greatest MLM ambitions.

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ction! Action! Action! Do not fall into the trap of thinking too much about doing something, instead focus on mastering the discipline of taking action on an immediate basis. The winner’s phrase to repeatedly imprint into your psyche is this . . . DO IT NOW! All of your dreams, all of your hopes, all of your goals, all of the mightiest aspirations you hold for your enterprise are completely useless without action. Therefore, take action and take it immediately. The most powerful way to implement change in your life is to get yourself to take enthusiastic action. Above all else, enthusiastic action is the key to achieving every one of your desires. It is not what you do once in a while that will shape your organization, but what you do with consistent and persistent effort, with total commitment to your decisions. Ultimately it is results that count most in the game of life. Results are what distinguish the successful networkers from the shattered ones. All the dreams, desires, goals, plans, belief and confidence in the world will come to mean nothing unless action is taken in the process of MLM achievement. Goals that inspire, and a burning desire to attain those goals, will certainly help to overcome inertia and make that first step toward action possible, but it is ultimately only the action itself that will materialize the networking results you seek. DO IT NOW! The positive energy released by adhering to this principle is astounding. Do it now and your adrenaline flows, you feel better and work more effectively. Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari Computer, had this to say about the power of action: “The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Today!

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The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” If your intention is to be an empowered networker, one critical question to ask yourself is whether you are a doer or a dreamer?

Become Known As An Action Person Action conquers fear, releases tension, soothes anxiety and provides immense personal satisfaction, because it is the catalyst that gets things done. Why not become known as an Action Person and make each day one of personal excellence? You will reach success by taking enthusiastic action toward attaining your goals on a consistent daily basis. It is vital for you to take that first Action-Step to overcome inertia. Inertia is what holds you back from making decisions, creating ActionPlans and taking the enthusiastic action that will move you toward the attainment of your networking desires. Understandably the first step is the most difficult of all, so how do you overcome inertia and get the ball of achievement rolling in a positive direction? The answer lies in the process of writing and following these five all-important principles, with two key points to first remember: ¾ Always make your goals and all related steps as much fun as possible. ¾ Always state your goals and all related steps in a positive frame of reference. 1. DECIDE on what your goal is. Get focused on one networking target that will greatly impact your life. 2. WRITE a clear description of your aim near the top of a fresh sheet of paper. Be specific. 3. OUTLINE each Action-Step required to reach your objective. Write these below your networking target on the same sheet of paper.

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4. NOTE the deadline for achieving your goal and also the dates you intend accomplishing each individual step. 5. TAKE ACTION, no matter how small, toward the achievement of each one of the steps. Then measure your progress by charting your goal. This can be done with a simple tick or mark to show that you have actually carried out the steps. Keep a written record of the daily, weekly and monthly progress you make in the direction of your target. If you do take the necessary individual steps toward your goal and you do chart your progress, then reward yourself occasionally with a special treat and keep the entire process of goal-attainment fun. As already stated, it is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped, so decide right now to follow the preceding five action principles. IF IT IS TO BE . . . IT IS UP TO ME! These are the ten most power-packed and inspiration-laden two-letter words in the English language when stated together. What these words imply is that we create our own lives, our own luck and our own destinies. If you desire to be a top networker, endowed with the empowering character traits this entails, then all life-transforming choices should be made through this dynamic four-step process: ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾

The making of business-impacting DECISIONS. The immediate setting of inspiring OBJECTIVES. The development of comprehensive ACTION-PLANS. The taking of consistent, enthusiastic ACTION-STEPS.

The power to be an Action Person is already an inherent part of you. If you have not been able to summon it, this is merely because you have failed to set targets for your MLM organization that get your adrenaline flowing. Be enthusiastic and set stunning goals to ignite yourself into an inferno of exhilarated activity.

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We must be willing to take the necessary action to put the process into motion for achieving our networking goals. In other words, nothing will happen in our business until we make it happen. Learn to look at each opportunity as it arises and say to yourself these empowering words: “If it is to be . . . it is up to me!” Then take immediate, enthusiastic action and conquer the moment. Are you determined to set your networking business ablaze and committed to squeeze from it the entire potential that it holds? Many networkers know what they should do within their MLM enterprise, but they never do it. The reason is that they are lacking the drive and enthusiastic feelings that only the most magnificent and compelling vision of the future can provide. Through your power of decision, combined with your network marketing opportunity, you have an unprecedented possibility right now to find he desires that will light your motivational fires and keep them burning bright. Your networking business provides spectacular possibilities for you to break your mental shackles and perform at the highest level . . . but only if you will take enthusiastic action. Through this book, you now have an excellent chance to brainstorm objectives that can propel your life toward astonishing accomplishments . . . but only if you will apply the principles. Through the sheer power of your decision to take enthusiastic action on a consistent basis, and your choice to apply empowering principles every day toward your ultimate objectives, you can unleash incredible powers to break through your limitations and release the full potential of peak performance.

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our vision of the future has immense power. Your dreams, your aims, your aspirations, contain within them the empowering force that directs action and shapes lives. Now is the time for you to take command of your network marketing enterprise and design a GRAND VISION for its most auspicious future. Use the power within you . . . the energy that is created when you have a monumental vision of the future that ignites your fires of desire. Once you unleash this phenomenal personal power, you will be unstoppable in creating physical, mental, spiritual, emotional and financial abundance beyond your wildest fantasies. You will be a powerhouse of unlimited achievement.

Whether a glorious MLM future materializes instantly, or takes shape gradually over time, know that the only limits to what you can attain within any network marketing venture are governed by the magnitude of your own virtuoso endeavors and by the level of personal commitment you display toward attaining your grand vision. This Section Six provides a blueprint with the power to positively transform your life. This dramatic transformation comes as the result of the creation of a long list of dreams. This list will help establish the direction for your future entrepreneurial activities . . . instilling massive self-confidence and generating incredible empowerment. On this list you must write everything that you ever want to achieve, have, own, do, create, become and contribute. This action will instill awesome power in you. It is from your own list of dreams that the focus of your entire life will flow. Harness the amazing power of your most glorious aspirations to conceptualize your ultimate destiny. Within your grand vision is a most prosperous future.

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“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophesy of what you shall at last unveil.” James Allen

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uccessful networkers possess a wide range of valuable attributes. One with particular significance being the ability to imagine that which they absolutely desire, then have it crystallize into an inspiring vision. It is this vision that drives the leading networkers toward accomplishing their grandest ideals. It is true that nothing is achieved in any network marketing enterprise that is not first conceived in the form of an idea in someone’s mind, as a fabulous vision that compels enthusiastic action. A vision is a conception of the future . . . a dream showing a better tomorrow. All top achievers within the MLM industry have dreams for the fabulous life they aspire to . . . with hope, eager anticipation and self-confidence for a superior future. The dreams of successful networkers evolve as their vision ignites their fires of desire . . . desire being the driving force necessary to empower a networker into attaining any dream. When mixed with intense conviction and ardent enthusiasm, desire becomes a passionate burning vision that is the launching pad from which the most outstanding aspirations can all be reached. Far away there in the sunshine are the highest aspirations you hold for your business. You may never reach them, but you can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. Just for a moment, look into your mind’s eye and picture the fabulous lifestyle of the top earners in MLM, network marketing and direct sales. Visualize the grand homes these people own, the luxury cars they drive and the exotic places they travel to. Imagine the freedom these winners enjoy to be able to spend gifted moments with their loved-ones and attain what they most desire with their time and money. Imagine the greatest accomplishments these successful networkers will dare to achieve.

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Well . . . let me tell you right here that you can attain all this, and more, through your MLM venture if you will begin the journey toward success by following the simple procedure of writing down a list of your most coveted dreams . . . now! From the delightful musical South Pacific comes the following lyric which nicely sums up the essence of having an inspired vision: “If you don’t talk happy and you never have a dream, then you’ll never have a dream come true.” You must have compelling dreams of what you want in life . . . and they must be written. However, a word of advice: only write those dreams that you DO want to come vibrantly alive. As the very act of writing them sets into motion forces that will eventually lead to their realization.

Dreams Are Free . . . So Have As Many Of Them As You Want It is your choice as to whether you experience the amazing satisfaction you will feel upon realizing your most enticing MLM vision. Once you decide to perform with maximum personal excellence toward the attainment of your dreams, the guidance offered within these pages will prove invaluable. Of foremost importance though, it is vital for you to first visualize those things you earnestly crave and then to write them on a list. Thereafter to endeavor with all of your empowered ability to enthusiastically achieve those dreams. The act of striving to fulfill your vision will create an inner strength and develop a dynamic feeling of awesome power that will carry you along through the varied trials and tribulations of building a successful network. One vital thing to remember is that dreams are free . . . so have as many as you want. I have over two hundred dreams on my own Dreams List. Personally, I believe that the more dreams you have then the more you will eventually accomplish and the more rewarding you life will ultimately be.

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Your vision is an opportunity for you to let your imagination run free and dream at the highest level for all you’ve ever yearned for. It is a chance to control and direct your destiny with the power of your visual thoughts. Many networkers make the mistake of spending more time planning their meals than they spend in strategizing for the future success of their MLM organization. By failing to plan, they are actually planning to fail. It is true that if networkers don’t plan a strategy for their business, then circumstances will overrun them and orchestrate their enterprise in any number of impotent and unproductive directions. Today is the day for you to take command and plan where you want your MLM business to be in five, ten, even twenty-five years from now. Utilize the inherent strength you possess . . . the power that is unleashed when you have a vision that empowers you into massive action. Once you have chosen to release this mighty force within, you will become an effective powerhouse in creating physical, mental, spiritual, emotional and financial abundance beyond your greatest desires. Whether your vision evolves instantly or takes shape gradually over time, know that the only limit to what you can accomplish through your entrepreneurial endeavors is governed by the size of your vision and the intensity of commitment you display. In the tale Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, all that Aladdin has to do is rub the lamp and a genie appears who will grant him three wishes. Please comprehend that your grand vision has the power of a magic lamp, but with an unlimited number of wishes. As Anthony Robbins states: “You possess a lamp that is not limited to a mere three wishes!” Right now is the time for you to write your Dreams List and summon the force within your soul to create a magnificent lifestyle and manifest a compelling future for yourself.

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Create Your Vision As A Blockbuster Movie Script Imagine a thrilling blockbuster movie with you in the starring role: The Life & Times of a Highly Empowered & Hugely Successful Networker. This is how your life can be. Just think of your grand vision as the script for a movie about your network marketing exploits. In this movie, as well as being the lead actor, you are the writer, director and producer. You have the power to take this movie in any direction you choose. Use your list of dreams to pack the script with many exciting experiences and glorious accomplishments. Your imagination is the only limit to how scintillating this movie of your life can be. The quality of this movie will be a direct reflection of the quality of your MLM business. Basically you have two options, the first will empower you, whilst the second is the disempowering option: ¾ Plan your networking endeavors around your grand vision and live life like the ultimate blockbuster movie it was meant to be, with ecstasy, exhilaration and excitement as your rewards. ¾ Conversely, build your business without a solid vision and you are apt to live a mediocre life of dullness, drudgery and never-ending disappointment. You begin actualizing the first empowering option once you take the time to write a long list of stimulating dreams that can instantly ignite your fires of desire and advance your enterprise to the next plateau of network marketing achievement.

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he business of network marketing can be divided into ten independent, yet interrelated areas. Networkers who aim for the top strata of entrepreneurial achievement, should visualize inspiring dreams and establish empowering objectives within each area to instill an attitude of focused determination. These ten Areas of MLM are: ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾

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Once the importance of each individual area has been acknowledged, it is imperative that you commit to significant networking endeavors within all ten sectors. It is the striving for achievement that will fill you with a sense of enterprising progress, driving you eagerly forward, advancing to an illustrious future. Following are questions with examples of objectives for each Area of MLM, short-term and long-range: 1. Commitment Ask yourself if you possess the fortitude to stick-with-it and build a flourishing network? What is your level of devotion toward your networking endeavors? ¾ Master this business by attending all training sessions ¾ Attend 100 presentations, two per week, during this year ¾ Make a written pledge to stay with this particular company for a minimum of five years

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2. Grand Vision Have you defined the grand vision and the inspiring dreams that will empower you and the networkers in your team to dynamic action? ¾ Purchase my ‘dream’ 7-bedroom oceanside villa ¾ Attain an income of ten thousand dollars per month ¾ Accumulate US$1 million in assets by the age of fifty-five 3. Action-Plans How enticing are the plans which can ignite the explosive growth of your network? Have you written these Action-Plans? Will you ever write them? ¾ Devise an Action-Plan to build my network in five countries ¾ Write a series of affirmations to ignite my own fires of desire ¾ Plan to develop five key leaders, one for each country in which I build my organization 4. Knowledge Do I possess the level of expertise required to attain success in MLM? Am I knowledgeable in all facets of my specific business opportunity? ¾ This year, write a book entitled: “Top-Gun Skills for Empowered Network Marketers” ¾ Gain a knowledge-rating of 100% in all aspects of my company’s business and be a qualified expert on our range of products 5. Prospecting How skilled am I in seeking out the networking winners of tomorrow? Are my prospecting strategies up to the level required for success in this area? ¾ Master the art of prospecting ¾ Make a list of 100 prospects, pre-qualified in various criteria ¾ Aim for 20 “YES” responses from qualified prospects this year

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6. Presenting Do I exude great confidence whilst presenting and do I possess the professional qualities required to induce winners to join my network? ¾ Create a new wardrobe of ‘POWER’ clothes ¾ Be a master in applying the ‘48-hour follow up’ rule ¾ Become the most enthusiastic stage-speaker in my particular company for large business opportunity presentations 7. Leadership Am I able to mentor, lead and empower the members of my network? Do I exhibit outstanding leadership abilities and am I continually improving my team-player skills? ¾ Mentor five networkers to success this year as high-earning, capable, action-oriented leaders ¾ Create a library of books on mentoring, leadership, sales skills, empowerment . . . and digest one good book per month 8. Momentum As a group, do we generate the positive atmosphere needed to create and maintain rapid growth? ¾ My organization to be one of the top-ten fastest growing within my particular company this year ¾ Develop a winning attitude, which leads to a positive atmosphere for the group, which increases the accomplishments of the people 9. Time Will I devote the time to consistently perform the enthusiastic ActionSteps required to build a successful enterprise? ¾ Organize my schedule to attend 50 presentations this year ¾ Commit to spend twenty ‘focused’ hours every week working within this business opportunity

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10. Earnings What are the inspiring rewards I seek from this business, both financial and non-material? ¾ Earn enough money to purchase my ‘dream’ house and lot ¾ Create an income of US$100,000 during the next twelve months ¾ Seek to make this world a better place through my personal contributions to humanity

The Wheel Of MLM It is an excellent analogy for you to think of your personal marketing endeavors as a wheel ⎯ Wheel of MLM ⎯ with each sector within the wheel representing one of the ten areas of network marketing efforts.

The more satisfied you are with your personal sales efforts today in any one area determines the length of that particular sector. A successful, well-balanced enterprise will result from a round fully inflated Wheel of MLM with ten complete sectors. Fully inflated is ten marks out of ten

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for each specific area within network marketing. On a scale of ten to one, ten is the highest mark — representing excellence — and one is the lowest mark — representing total dissatisfaction. It has been asked: “What is the ultimate reward in MLM?” Well, if you will look closely, you will see that money is at the center of the wheel. This signifies material riches being the driving force of your network marketing endeavors. Love is at the center of the Wheel of Life, whereas money is at the center of the Wheel of MLM. Why not strive to attain excellence in all ten areas? Don’t just focus your efforts on improving two or three or four areas of your personal endeavors, expand your horizons and seek spectacular progress with your efforts within the sphere of your entire network marketing enterprise. This moment, right now, if you were to award an imaginary mark (from ten to one) to each area to determine the level you are presently at ⎯ relative to your ideal ⎯ what would your current Wheel of MLM look like? How well would it roll to the ultimate destination of a first-rate profitable networking enterprise? Just as an explorer cannot reach his destination successfully without the aid of a reliable compass, neither can you reach the attainment of your grand vision without first knowing in which direction you are heading. The Wheel of MLM is a compass . . . it lets you know where you are now and keeps you on track to where you are going. If you desire success, you must have the sectors of your Wheel of MLM as strong as possible (ten out of ten) to surmount the challenges that arise on your journey. It is only when aiming for ultimate success ⎯ the attainment of your grandest vision ⎯ and heading unswervingly in its direction that you will build a successful enterprise.

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ersonal accomplishment starts within the framework of a GRAND VISION, the most empowering part of which is a written Dreams List. The incredible potency of this list is out of all proportion to the effort required to visualize the dreams and write them. Five minutes spent writing and describing your most cherished aspirations ⎯ such as the stunning house you would love to live in and the luxurious car you would love to drive ⎯ can ignite five or ten years worth of actionoriented empowerment for their attainment. The vision you hold for your life and your networking enterprise will take a quantum leap forward with this list. It is from your dreams that order, control and direction will flow. Much of what you can accomplish stems from this one action of writing all of your dreams, followed by detailed Action-Plans and enthusiastic Action-Steps. Certainly the overriding mission for your life will become better defined. Use your most valuable asset ⎯ your imagination ⎯ to brainstorm for the things you most want to achieve during your lifetime. You can direct your destiny, right now, through the absolute power of your mind. You possess the mental strength to take command of your life. So take control now by writing an expansive list of scintillating dreams today.

Four-step Formula For An Expansive Dreams List 1. Get a pen and paper: Take a pen and a fresh sheet of writing paper. On the top of the paper write your name, the date today, and the title: “My Dreams List” . . . then begin writing. 2. Brainstorm for ideas: Spend time brainstorming for the things you most want. These are what you absolutely, positively, implicitly crave.

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As you visualize a dream, write it immediately. As you think of any desire, add it to your list. Number each particular dream and continue writing them, one after another. Your destiny can be directed here by using the power of the mind to spark your creative juices into action-mode. 3. Ask questions: Ask the following eight Power Questions as though there were no limitations on your life, money was in great abundance, and a successful result was the only outcome: Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q.

What would I own? Who would I help? Where would I go? What would I do? What would I be? What would I create? What would I contribute? What would I achieve?

On your list, write all dreams that come to mind and every ambition that you aspire toward. 4. Keep dreaming: This is a lifetime dreams list with no deadlines on attaining any of the aims. It is also an ever-expanding list . . . so add further dreams to it whenever fresh ones spring into your mind. As you think of something new or exciting that you would really like to do or accomplish one day, then write it on your list. For as long as you live and as long as you have new inspiring desires in your heart . . . just keep dreaming and just continue writing. Once a multitude of dreams are added to the list, your powers of accomplishment will become focused like a laser beam. Your physical, mental, spiritual and emotional energies will be able to cut through all obstacles and empower you to move directly toward the attainment of your aspirations.

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Whenever you accomplish any of your dreams, you should acknowledge the fact in two ways: i. Record the date: Write the date of attainment on the Dreams List and leave it there as a reminder to yourself of your outstanding ability to succeed at what you set out to do. ii. Reward yourself: Each time you attain an objective, reward yourself. The reward should be in direct proportion to the size and difficulty involved in reaching that ambition. Keep your life fresh by ensuring your rewards are fun-tastic! Develop the winning discipline of reviewing your Dreams List regularly. Take it out from time to time, relax into a dreamy mood and read slowly through it. Visualize yourself doing those things, being at those places and having ownership of those possessions. This list has the empowering capability to give you psychological sunshine and a mental boost. It provides the extra spark you require to take enthusiastic action to bring the attainment of your dreams one step closer.

Get Fired-Up By Your Dreams For a fast start to your list, brainstorm for a period of time, allowing yourself at least thirty minutes. Write everything that you have ever dared to dream. Keep the ideas flowing, keep the pen moving, do not censor yourself and do let every fantasy out. What would you want for your MLM business if you could have anything? If success was the guaranteed result and money was no object, what would you wish for? Remember that the only limits are those of your imagination. Your dreams are a method of clarifying the things that excite and delight you.

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Get inspired and fired-up by this Dreams List. Imagine how wondrous your life would be if you accomplished all these things and every one of your dreams really did come true. Imagine today that your organization is growing at a fabulous rate and generating a weekly income of thousands of dollars. Visualize unlimited money in your hands today. See the money, feel the money. Now ask these questions: Where would I celebrate? What exotic countries would I travel to? What places would I visit? Who would accompany me? How would I spend my money and my time? What presents would I buy, and for whom? Where would I choose to make my home? Would I live in a large villa, a spacious mansion or a huge penthouse apartment? Would I own a sailing yacht moored in an exclusive harbor? What luxury automobiles would I drive? Would I wear the finest clothes and buy diamonds for my loved ones? How would I maximize my life every day if I had unlimited money? Now, realize that nobody will give you a thriving MLM enterprise. That will have to be built, step-by-step over a period of time, through your earnest efforts. Try to understand the tremendous power of your Dreams List . . . it is an empowering force. Follow the procedures as outlined within these pages and you definitely can achieve all you hunger for. You can attain everything you desire. However, it all begins with you deciding exactly what you want for every aspect of your life, imagining these things, then adding them to your list of dreams. Switch your rational mind off during this exercise and forget about reality. Concentrate solely on what you desire for your most golden future. Do not be influenced by your current circumstances. As you keep adding dreams to your list, do not even think about your present financial situation or the abilities you may or may not have. Continue visualizing more dreams and keep adding them to your list. There are no impossible dreams . . . there are only those that you do add to your list and those that you do not.

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“See your goal, your star of desire, see it red hot, feel it burning. You must be obsessed with it to make it you true yearning. Be ready my friends for when you truly believe it, you will certainly achieve it and by all of God’s universal laws you will receive it.” Bob Smith

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Dreams List has great power . . . literally the power to move mountains. My personal list, which I have been adding my aspirations to for the past twenty years, presently has more than two hundred dreams on it, with less than one half yet accomplished. I cannot fully explain the phenomenal strength this list renders, but it is impossible for me to feel depressed when I read of each of the many wonderful places I still want to visit, see all of the brilliant things there are yet for me to do and know exactly what I want to achieve during the totality of my lifetime . . . both within and outside of MLM. Again, burn this empowering motto into your mind. Make it a part of your winning philosophy so that you are compelled to design a life that radiates awesome possibilities: My past does not equal my future! There are no limitations to the total number of dreams you can add to your own list. Only the depth of your vision, the intensity of your desire and the capacity of your imagination limit you. My ultimate intention is to have two hundred and fifty inspiring dreams on my own list before my next birthday, and achieve every last one of them before I die . . . this includes having vibrant health and vigorous fitness at the grand age of one hundred years old. Oh, gotta run . . . just thought of another enticing dream to add to my ever-growing, empowering list. Of course, just by writing your desires on a list of dreams, it doesn’t mean you’ve made a commitment to achieving any of them. Rather, the writing of the dreams is just an extremely powerful method of clarifying those desires that excite and motivate you the most. The commitment to achieving any of your dreams comes only when you turn them into goals. The entire methodology of goal-setting is discussed in thorough detail within the next section: The Power of AIM. Read it and feel the tremendous power at your disposal as your wildest dreams are molded into focused objectives.

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Your Personal Dreams List Your networking business can instantly turn 180-degrees, facing the direction of success and attainment, but only once you have actually created a list of dreams combined with taking full responsibility for your own actions. This list holds extraordinary power, but you must understand that you are the one accountable for your enterprise and what happens within it. Remember: If it is to be . . . it is up to me! You will take command of your efforts, and your destiny, once you internalize your dreams and make them an integral part of you. Let them spur you into action. Let them spur you into thinking up new ideas and tackling new projects with a passion you haven’t experienced since childhood. Let them spur you into wondrous change. As success breeds greater success, you will start to understand that you can do anything you choose to do. And the truth is . . . you can. Following is a diverse and multifaceted list of dreams ⎯ both within and outside of MLM ⎯ to stimulate your imagination into achievementmode. These, or more exciting and meaningful objectives, you may wish to add to your Dreams List. As the following examples illustrate, place them under different categories of your choice. Business ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾

Mentor 24 leaders during a single year Have 10,000 networkers in my group worldwide Build an organization that expands into ten countries Earn US$25,000 in a single month through my business Publish a book to help create empowered networking winners Merit the rank of #1 earning networker in my particular networking company for an entire year

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Possessions ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾

Buy my mother & father a house Own a Harley Davidson motorcycle Be a part-owner of a chain of restaurants Purchase a brand-new Jaguar X-Type automobile Own a vacation cottage on a secluded tropical island Live in my ‘dream’ oceanview villa, with swimming pool, hot-tub, large patio terrace and 7 bedrooms

Travel ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾

Go on an African safari Walk on the Great Wall of China Stand before the Taj Mahal in India See the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem Ride a camel around the Pyramids of Egypt Climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris Travel on a wine-tasting tour through Europe

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Visit Disney World Travel on the Orient Express train Spend an exciting week in Las Vegas Voyage on the QE2 luxury ocean-liner Attend a Formula One race in Monaco See a play on Broadway in New York City Attend Mardi Gras in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Adventure ¾ Snow ski in Switzerland ¾ Ride in a hot-air balloon

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Freefall parachute jump Scuba dive in the Red Sea Sail on an ocean-going yacht Hike in the Himalayan Mountains Climb to the top of Mt. Fuji in Japan

Personal Achievement ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾

Learn to play the piano Earn a university degree Author a best-selling book Join a Buddhist monastery Score a hole-in-one in golf Speak a second language fluently Live to be one hundred years old Be a godparent to someone’s child Read the Bible from cover to cover Run a mile in less than six minutes Become a qualified college professor Earn a black-belt in the martial art of Aikido Represent my country in the Olympic Games Be named in the Guinness Book of World Records

To attain any of the dreams on your personal list, you do not need a vast sum of money, you do not need a special education and you do not need any high-powered contacts. What you do need is to raise your self-imposed limits, develop greater confidence in your abilities and take action — Action-Plans and Action-Steps — starting today, one step at a time, toward the accomplishment of your highest and most glorious network marketing objectives.

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“I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.” Emily Bronte

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iterally every human being has multiple ambitions they would like realized. Network marketers, especially, because of the magnificent possibilities for wealth-creation offered in MLM opportunities, have stirred their fires of desire to believe in the attainment of sizeable objectives. Networkers have amazing aspirations to aim at through the real-life examples they witness every day who are walkingthe-walk to the upper echelons of success in their respective companies. However, despite the importance of a focused vision to a networker, one of the real secrets of accomplishment is in having an understanding of the importance of ‘time’ and the role it plays in the development of an ever-expanding, income-producing networking organization. William Shakespeare wrote: “Do you love life? Then waste not time, for time is the stuff that life is made of.” True words indeed. This is much like the proverb which states that time, like a snowflake, disappears while we’re trying to decide what to do with it. To achieve success of any magnitude within the networking profession, you must become more adept at prioritizing your time and maximizing your schedules. Time, your ‘life’ time, is the asset of greatest value in the pursuit of your MLM ambitions and in the development of your network marketing organization . . . so make the most of your time by investing it wisely.

Many people believe money to be their most valuable asset, but they are mistaken. If you waste money you will still have an opportunity to increase your total, often to an amount greater than you had before. If you waste time though, it is gone forever. You will have wasted a part of your life and no amount of money will ever bring it back. So spend your time wisely. Manage time by prioritizing tasks and aim to maximize your MLM endeavors to their absolute fullest potential.

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Success begins with first writing a substantial list of every desire you will ever hold for your future . . . this is your Dreams List. This must then be followed by the development of detailed Action-Plans, by the taking of enthusiastic Action-Steps, and by the unyielding observance of a method for prioritizing your time, your tasks and your activities.

Pareto’s Law: The 80/20 Formula There is a formula — Pareto’s Law — which states that eighty percent of results come from just twenty percent of the actions involved. This can be interpreted into your networking efforts to say that only twenty percent of the tasks or activities on which you could choose to spend your time will produce eighty percent of the results you seek. Following are several examples of Pareto’s Law as it relates to the development of your networking business: ¾ Eighty percent of new networkers joining your organization will be introduced by just twenty percent of the members within the group. ¾ Eighty percent of your time spent doing one-on-one presentations will be to prospects of just twenty percent of your group’s members. ¾ Eighty percent of your prospecting success will come from the best twenty percent of effective closing techniques you use. ¾ Eighty percent of your mentoring endeavors will be to the twenty percent of members who display the greatest eagerness to learn. ¾ Eighty percent of your residual income will be generated by the efforts of just twenty percent of the people in your downline. ¾ Eighty percent of your time spent in training situations will be in expounding the most potent twenty percent of training materials.

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¾ Eighty percent of networkers will join a MLM company because they want more money, twenty percent will join for other reasons. When it comes to accomplishing your networking vision, you will achieve success faster by identifying your twenty percent of priority tasks and spending the greater part of your time on them. Focus your energies every day on identifying and working toward the twenty percent of priority tasks that will transform your life from one of misdirected time and misspent energy into one of astronomical personal effectiveness. The power of Pareto’s Law, once utilized, is that you will attain far more during your lifetime but with less effort. You will prioritize your time, increase your self-worth and multiply your personal value, all the while achieving greater success.

Networking Is The Spark . . . Your Grand Vision Is The Catalyst You will always feel an abundance of vibrant enthusiasm for your particular network marketing opportunity as long as you retain these two key factors: ¾ Continual realization that within your hands you hold a phenomenal wealth-creating entity in the business of network marketing. ¾ Continual realization that you have a multitude of exciting, fun and empowering things to look forward to . . . all recorded on your Dreams List. MLM can be the spark that sets your life on fire, whilst your grand vision is a catalyst that speeds you along life’s exciting road to the ultimate destination of empowerment and success. Through your power of vision, you have a remarkable opportunity to ignite the desires that will set your motivational fires ablaze and keep them burning brilliant and true.

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Ask yourself: What are the wildest fantasies and the craziest dreams that I could ever wish for my life? Then go for it, dream those wild dreams, take action, make a solid commitment to network marketing, and choose always to live your life to the maximum. No man but himself can decide to choose a thought, therefore no man but himself can alter his own conditions in life. Whatever a man’s circumstances may presently be, he will rise or fall, strengthen or weaken, dependent on the power of his mind, the strength of his dreams and the intensity of his grand vision. All accomplishment, whether in the business, social, personal or intellectual world, is the result of focused thinking . . . a solid, substantial vision is the best way, and perhaps the only way, to direct one’s thoughts. Once recognition sinks in that you are the one responsible for your life, the greater the control you will possess for the attainment of your dreams. You will see accomplishment with greater clarity and, more and more, you will notice possibilities instead of problems and envision opportunities in place of obstacles. You can become everything you have ever admired in others, and you can do, have, be or own anything that you can possibly imagine. Just see it, know it and believe it . . . then achieve it. With the profession of network marketing as your ally and your particular MLM company as the wealth-creating vehicle by your side, determine that from today you will take action to fulfill your vision with all the enthusiasm you can muster. Do this and you will be delighted at the good fortune your spirited efforts will generate. The power of a grand vision is now in position to positively transform your life and bring to you a worldclass standard of living.

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reat, inspired, magnificent goals . . . you’ve gotta have them! This is the rallying cry you will hear from the foremost leaders in MLM. The most successful networkers aim straight for the heart with their declaration that everyone can be a winner in this business if they will just have BIG GOALS that can set the world on fire. This is what ‘aim’ is all about . . . having visible targets that are vivid enough to inspire, excite and induce action. Aim is the compass that guides people along the journey of life and shows what is attainable. Aim is a series of dreams that have been given life through the application of enthusiastic action. It is by taking aim that the direction of a person’s life becomes crystal clear. This Section Seven intends to focus your aim through the power of setting dynamic objectives for your life and establishing compelling goals for your MLM business. These targets are stepping stones toward the ultimate realization of your grand vision . . . they are the building blocks that will help you to construct a spectacular life. Inspiring targets will help you soar to great heights of achievement. No person can predict what lofty summit you will reach within network marketing or direct selling, not even you will know until you establish some dazzling MLM goals to add zest to your endeavors. Top networkers are achievers . . . and achievers are goal-setters. They write their goals, regularly review them, establish detailed Action-Plans, take specific Action-Steps and focus their energies to accomplish them. Achievers are on fire because their goals inspire. Empower yourself now by setting goals that are compelling enough to spur you into taking enthusiastic action toward their attainment . . . every day.

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“When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.” Greg Anderson

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ll the aspirations in the world will amount to nothing unless ACTION is taken in the achievement process. Action is the critical element. However, goals that fuel inspiration, and an extraordinary desire to accomplish these goals, will greatly increase a person’s motivation for taking the first Action-Steps necessary in pursuit of a successful outcome. Networkers can overcome procrastination and come alive to the possibilities of achievement, if they will first set spectacular MLM goals that ignite their inner fires into an inferno of red-hot desire. Yes, goals that absolutely blast them into dynamic action. Compelling objectives can help networkers accomplish extraordinary aims. The order of life commands that all specific, clearly defined intentions backed by absolute commitment will come to fruition. Basically a specific, clearly defined intention is a written goal. Why not ensure your goals are specific and clearly defined by writing them now?

The Importance Of Thinking Big Goal-setting is an action. It is quite possibly the most essential action in pursuit of success within any networking enterprise. In fact, goalsetting is the most important positive action that a networker can take toward the creation of a thriving, profitable MLM organization. When setting goals, what you are doing is designing a structure for your life and business . . . one that can be as remarkable as you plan for it to be. Goals will provide you with the force to tap vast reserves of power, which can be used to shape your future. Success, as it relates to MLM, is the progressive attainment of networking goals. But . . . Action-Plans must first be detailed before any goals can be realized. Goal-setting is an integral part of this planning. It is the key to all reward and fulfillment. Goal-setting instills within leaders burning desire, profound self-confidence and a firm commitment

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to follow through with persistence toward the realization of their networking objectives. A goal that is crystallized focuses aim and helps set lives flowing in a positive direction. Goals that are crystallized seem to attract everything necessary for their achievement. Whether it is the cooperation of people needed, extra income or more inspired ideas, all the ingredients for a fortuitous result always seem to align themselves on the exact timetable to hit the target dates. The way to achieve BIG success is by being BIG-MINDED. Entrepreneurs cannot expect to attain great rewards by thinking small. Thinking big means keeping matters of greatest importance ⎯ such as your lifetime goals ⎯ foremost in your mind at all times. Do not waste time on unimportant tasks. Have massive goals to inspire you and stretch yourself to attain them. Think big and associate with fellow networkers who have empowering goals for their organizations too. These are the winners who can help you develop a focused strategy, thereby igniting explosive growth in your network. Success is not found in having goals as such, it is found in the quality of life you experience along the road to achieving them. Big inspiring goals can enable you to experience the prize of a worldclass lifestyle and build a worldclass MLM business. The setting of big goals is a powerful attribute to nurture and one that will bring dramatic results to all areas of your life. To set big goals is stimulating, challenging and empowering. Big goals will stretch you to the extreme . . . but your limits are boundless and will continue to expand as long as you always advance toward the accomplishment of your most awe-inspiring long-range goals. A well-planned series of major objectives gives order to your endeavors. Unsuccessful networkers get trapped in performing tasks that have little importance instead of designing their particular MLM business for maximum success. They become so immersed in these aimless labors that they lose sight altogether of the grand vision they once enjoyed for a glorious future. Their tasks become false ends in themselves, rather than spokes in the wheel of long-term success. With diligent focus on

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the attainment of your goals, you will perform to the best of your abilities. There will come to you an ease with which tasks can be accomplished. You will complete your objectives with elevated levels of skill and stamina. A higher quality of effort will result in a greater quantity of performance, which will culminate in a more successful MLM organization.

Action-Steps All achievement begins with successfully completing mini-goals or Action-Steps. These objectives can be daily, weekly or monthly targets. They are the steps necessary to realize your larger one-year goals, fiveyear goals and even your ultimate lifetime goals. An example of Action-Steps for an empowered network marketer’s one-year aim could be as follows: ¾ One-Year MLM Goal: Develop twelve keys leaders in my organization, one per month, for the next twelve months. ¾ Action-Steps: 1. Make a meticulous list of fifty prospects who have the potential to become top networkers. 2. Rank these prospects into first, second and third level categories dependent upon their potential for leadership, previous networking experience and desire for an extra income. 3. Begin contacting these prospects, one-by-one, for a business opportunity presentation, beginning with the highest-level category. 4. Once a prospect becomes a networker, help them to set specific goals for their business. 189

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5. Ensure new networkers attend vital training sessions and have all required business-building materials. 6. Mentor each new networker for at least one month in all aspects of the MLM opportunity. 7. One-by-one, keep contacting more of the fifty prospects for business opportunity presentations. 8. Continue mentoring, training and developing new networkers for at least one month each. 9. As one or more of the networkers develops into a ‘key leader’ offer empowering assistance through regular daily or weekly contact. 10. Maintain records of all progress to help keep the motivational fires burning strong. One of the major benefits of Action-Steps is their ability to instill massive self-confidence. When goals are broken down into bite-sized pieces, they appear less daunting to attain. As the individual steps are accomplished, you will feel personal pride in your achievement and begin enjoying the rewards of the success process. With increased selfconfidence comes a higher level of empowerment, which in turn boosts your overall capacity to excel. It is critical for lasting, long-range success that all Action-Steps leading on to your long-term goals are of your personal choice, not those of someone else. Don’t let other people select your targets . . . this is your life, not theirs. Take command of it and try to accomplish those things with greatest worth to you. Success is being true to your personal values and doing things your way. As Frank Sinatra sings: “I did it my way.” Now, go out into the world and build your MLM organization in your own spectacular way.

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“Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.” Brian Tracy

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uccessful entrepreneurs, in diligently performing their most ardent endeavors, demonstrate WINNING QUALITIES. For instance: they display tremendous determination in achieving their objectives; they show focused persistence in getting tasks accomplished; they are extremely enthusiastic in their efforts; they are highly motivated toward their aims; they are tolerant of another’s limitations; they are highly optimistic for a greater future; they exhibit great passion for their particular business opportunity. Network marketers with winning qualities act like the professionals they are. They are winners in the game of life. They develop a lifestyle and a personal environment that is both empowering and inspiring to themselves, and pleasurable to those individuals who are within their circle of influence. For you to possess that winning style and act with total professionalism, you need to adopt the posture, attitude and actions of a self-assured professional person. It all begins, though, with you adopting the indomitable qualities and empowering character traits of a successful networker. Many network marketers have ⎯ like an uncut diamond ⎯ shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. Learn to look for the inner good. Winning qualities give an entrepreneur’s life concrete foundations. It can be said that the achievement of business success is firmly anchored to empowering qualities. The businessman or woman who seeks an auspicious life must have a clear vision of what qualities are most important to him or her. This person must decide to live by these qualities no matter how smooth or rough the journey through life. Their choice of which qualities they will live by will direct them on an immutable course and define the extent of the success they can ultimately achieve.

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Winning MLM Qualities Qualities as detailed in this chapter are specifically applicable to your network marketing endeavors, as such we will refer to them as MLM Qualities. Within Section Six ⎯ The Power of VISION ⎯ we outlined the ten Areas of MLM. Now . . . it is vital for you to choose one or more qualities to represent each of these areas of a successful networker’s business. Following are examples of winning qualities for a top performance entrepreneur: ¾ Commitment

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Focused Tenacious Wholehearted

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Daring Optimistic Courageous

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An understanding of what qualities you exemplify is essential in determining your networking priorities and establishing meaningful targets. When determining your MLM qualities, you should display the wisdom to ask yourself this one vital question: Q. Do my qualities reflect the intensity of my desire to be successful in network marketing? Like many networkers, you have possibly spent little time thinking about your qualities and perhaps don’t even know what they are. As a result you are probably spending a large part of your MLM endeavors displaying character traits that do not reflect the intensity of your desire to succeed in network marketing.

Your MLM Qualities List Now you must make a stand. Take a pen and paper now and write a list of all the qualities that have importance to your MLM endeavors.

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Decide immediately what are the greatest qualities that represent what you stand for and what you desire. Not in your husband’s life, or your wife’s, or your childrens’, or your boss’s, or your parents’ lives, but the most important qualities as they relate to you and what you desire. These are your qualities. This single action will enormously contribute to your ultimate success, both inside and outside of MLM.

Align Your MLM Goals With Your MLM Qualities It is vital for the creation of a successful networking venture that your goals are in alignment with your qualities. For maximum effectiveness, you must know your qualities then base your endeavors around them, not vice versa. Lack of harmony within your business will inevitably occur when your aims are out of alignment with your qualities. In other words: ¾ First ¾ Second ¾ Third

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Choose your MLM qualities Establish your MLM goals Exemplify your winning character traits

Determine not only which qualities have most importance to you but also which qualities empower you the most, and then design your enterprise around them, instead of conducting business in a freewheeling ‘go-with-the-flow’ style. You are the one who dictates the direction of your venture by determining your qualities, then acting in a manner that both exemplifies these winning character traits and illustrates to the networkers whom you work with that you are sincere in your aim for a high-caliber network marketing organization.

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“Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.” Denis Waitley

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uccess is the progressive accomplishment of goals, one following another, over a long period of time. The specific level of success ultimately realized in your networking endeavors is not determined by the hand of fate. No . . . it is decided by you. The actual number of opportunities you take advantage of during the course of your business is directly proportional to your clarity of vision and your willingness to ethically do what it takes to be successful. This is why your lists of goals are so vitally important . . . they help you to understand your desires. An immediate result of knowing exactly what you want is increased clarity. This is what it takes to recognize an opportunity and seize it. The goals you establish are the vital steps toward the fulfillment of your vision. As opportunity is pounced upon with enthusiastic action, your sense of awareness is heightened and fortuitous events begin moving in your direction at rapid-fire speed. Once you have clearly identified what you want and what you are willing to do to get it, you will be in control. You will have, by choice, set the goals that are most important to you. Why invest your time and energy in anything less than the achievement of your most fabulous aims? This is what will lead you through to the most successful life attainable. Right now, let’s explore the ten-step procedure of how to set and reach the greatest objectives imaginable.

Ten-Step Success Formula For Goal-Setting The action of goal-setting is the key step in all major accomplishment. It is the most crucial part of your personal plan for success and must be carried out before any goals can be attained. As Zig Ziglar wisely asks: “How can a man hit a target he does not have?” Yes . . . you must set goals . . . and BIG ones too. 197

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Here is the Ten-Step Formula for Goal-Setting. These are the essential procedures for manifesting long-term success within your networking business or in any free enterprise endeavor you choose. 1. Decide Exactly What You Want Quite simply, all you have to do is decide what it is that you truly want. Ask yourself these eight questions for clarification of your desires: Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q.

What would I own? Who would I help? Where would I go? What would I do? What would I be? What would I create? What would I contribute? What would I achieve?

2. Crystallize Your Thinking Analyze in great detail the answers you get from the previous eight powerful questions. Crystallized thoughts focus your direction and define your aims. Precisely outline your thoughts and become crystal clear on exactly what you want. 3. Set Specific Inspiring Goals No person can hit a target they do not have. So . . . once you decide exactly what you want to achieve, you should establish these objectives as specific goals within each area of the MLM business. When setting goals, make them exciting so that they inspire you to take action. Goals that inspire will set your world on fire. Also, make sure your goals are aligned with your winning qualities. This will ensure your time and effort is effectively invested in working toward targets that have greatest importance to the long-range success of your venture.

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4. Establish Deadlines for Your Goals Goals are dreams with deadlines. You must place a specific date on each goal for when you intend reaching it. This act of deciding exactly when you will achieve certain targets, sets in motion powerful forces to make the attainment of your goals a reality. The power behind establishing deadlines is that they focus your achievement-oriented energy on a specific moment in the future. 5. Decide What You Will Do to Reach Your Goals To successfully reach your targets you must determine what decisions to make, elect to pursue an appropriate course of action, outline obstacles to hurdle, and fix a definite direction in which to aim your success strategies. Decide now what you will do. 6. Have Written Action-Plans There are three written principles that you must follow to develop complete Action-Plans: ¾ Write clear descriptions of your goals. ¾ Write the dates for attainment of your goals. ¾ Write what Action-Steps you will take to reach your goals. A goal is not a goal until it is written. The most powerful goals also incorporate written Action-Plans. Written Action-Plans will motivate you to a greater utilization of your abilities. Your written Action-Plans are the maps that will guide you to the attainment of your desired goals. 7. Take Enthusiastic Action Action-Plans must be followed by immediate, enthusiastic effort toward their achievement. This power to act is already within you. If you haven’t been able to summon it, this is merely because you have failed to set inspiring goals that can ignite your motivational fires.

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8. Picture Your Goals You can instantly raise your level of enthusiasm, thereby boosting yourself into dynamic action-mode, by picturing the end result of your aspirations. This can be achieved in either of two ways: i.

Mental Pictures: Using the amazing power of imagination, mental pictures are images projected in your mind’s eye of whatever goals you desire fulfilled.

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Real Pictures: These can be photographs or pictures from catalogues, magazines and books that depict or represent your ultimate goals.

By having a picture of an objective, this sparks a force that is like issuing a command directly to your mind to apply its full power to the attainment of that aim. By clearly picturing your goals you can focus far more intensely on that which you are trying to manifest. 9. Keep Taking Your Action-Steps One of the main advantages of dividing singular goals into multiple Action-Steps is that the goals are easier to complete when tackled one bite at a time. As each individual step is reached, your levels of confidence will rise and you will be better prepared for attaining subsequent steps. 10. Persist with Conviction Persistence is the essential factor in all major long-term success. The “I will never quit” attitude is the greatest discipline a networker can cultivate to improve the success ratio in any endeavor. Resolve to persist with enthusiastic action toward the attainment of your grandest goals. Have a conviction that your consistent efforts will bring rewards at the highest level. Stay true to your aim and be prepared to see outstanding results as your business blasts to a new strata of possibilities.

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o attain major success, networkers must have short-range and long-range goals at which to aim. The short-term targets are Action-Steps as outlined earlier. In this chapter, we will examine the vital importance of having long-term aims. These long-range goals can propel you into the orbit of incredible personal accomplishment. They are what inspire enthusiastic action. For optimum success, you must set empowering long-range goals within each sector of your business for the following durations: ¾ One-Year MLM Goals ¾ Five-Year MLM Goals

Now . . . let’s have fun! The following written exercise is designed to inflame your fires of desire. Its intention is to clarify the most eager objectives you desire to attain within your network marketing venture. This exercise is to establish goals that will lead you on to outstanding achievement. During the course of the next few pages you will establish twenty exciting, powerful and self-motivating one-year and five-year goals that will set the focus and direction for your immediate future. Now is the time to unleash your personal power and positive potential to succeed within the MLM business opportunity. This comes from setting specific long-range goals that are dynamic, exciting and empowering. This exercise is where your ultimate gratification in life will come from . . . through setting stimulating goals that arouse your desires, reveling in the chase for their attainment and living with zeal as they are realized. Also, having a zestful appetite for setting higher and even more motivating goals to replace those already achieved.

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Empowering MLM Goals Following are examples of objectives that can empower a networker to tremendous feats of achievement: ¾ Commitment

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Here is your opportunity to face the future head on and show the world that you are an empowered network marketing leader. Right here, right now, set twenty empowering objectives to ignite your business.

One-Year MLM Goals You must be sure that you are willing to exchange the effort required over the next twelve months for the attainment of the goals you will write here. You need to establish targets that at least have a value comparable to one year of your hardest effort. The destination you are aiming at is where you will arrive one year from today, so you must be inspired by the goals you set. Write ten One-Year MLM Goals this instant that absolutely electrify you. How would you feel if you accomplished all of these goals within the next year . . . just satisfied or euphoric? ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾

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This is a vital exercise and one that must be done. The destination you reach in five years from now will be as a direct result of the forward planning and the inspiring goal-setting you do TODAY. Within these ten goals, one stands above all the others . . . this is your ultimate Life MLM Goal. It is the one overriding desire that will transform itself into a principal purpose to spark your life into an inferno of glorious achievement. This ultimate Life MLM Goal forms the basis for your Pure Power Declaration, as discussed in detail in the next chapter. If you seriously desire to positively transform your life and attain the levels of success you aspire to, then DO IT NOW! Your One-Year MLM Goals are bridges to your Five-Year MLM Goals, which are a bridge to your lasting success. It is the achievement of these goals that will empower you with a dynamic sense of self-confidence . . . powering you forward to a future that is scintillating. First, there is one missing link: this is your Pure Power Declaration. This states the way to realizing your greatest objective . . . the one ultimate Life MLM Goal that stands above all others.

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our Pure Power Declaration is an inspiring, stimulating and selfempowering statement, which encapsulates all that you desire to achieve in your one ultimate Life MLM Goal. It is the mission statement of your magnificent obsession. It sets a focused direction for your life’s purpose and is the essence of your chief aim in life. Fundamentally it represents the new highly empowered you and sets into motion the direction in which you will now set sail with your life. Within all network marketers, you included, there is a spark of genius. All that is needed to turn this tiny flame into an inferno of action is an unconquerable desire to succeed at the one thing you absolutely want to do. Discover your life’s ultimate purpose, express it with passion through your Pure Power Declaration and produce extraordinary results within your enterprise that can lead to positive life transformation. Your life will make an immense difference once you have monumental aspirations to spur you on.

What Lights Your Motivational Fire? To think as a successful networker, all you must do is sit still long enough to determine one basic fact about yourself . . . what lights your motivational fire? Begin by asking yourself this insightful question: Q. What one thing, above all else within network marketing, lights my motivational fire and keeps it burning bright? In other words, what dominant urge or interest within networking will drive you toward being the best you can be at one particular thing? This factor, once determined, will form the foundation of your magnificent obsession and will create the solid framework around which your Pure Power Declaration will take shape.

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Contribution: The Fire-power Leading To Triumphant Victory Contribution is one of the primary factors leading to success. Nothing gives us a greater sense of well being and personal satisfaction than contributing to society or fellow networkers . . . giving unselfishly is the route to a satisfied life. You must ask yourself the following question to ensure that your focus in life and the direction of your networking endeavors come from the contribution mode: Q. How does my ultimate Life MLM Goal contribute to the betterment of society, the improvement of the environment, do good for those around me or personally develop and improve the lives of people in general? Right now, it is time for you to create your own magnificent obsession based around giving to life, instead of taking from it. Project your grand vision around what it will take for you to manifest a future that is both rewarding and fulfilling whilst still coming from contribution mode. A future in which you make a significant difference and a lasting contribution to the world and vastly improve the quality of your life and the lives of other people in the process. A future in which you provide a rich, healthy environment for yourself and others, and literally make yours and their dreams all come true. A future in which you build a networking organization that exudes positive energy.

Your Pure Power Declaration Will Set Your Life Ablaze Study your lists of MLM Goals, focus your thoughts and choose the one dominant aim above all others that is to become the nucleus for your magnificent obsession. Follow this unique seven-step formula to awaken your talent, set your creative juices flowing and design for yourself an empowering Pure Power Declaration to carry you on to great success.

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This is the seven-step formula for a powerful Pure Power Declaration: 1. Write your one ultimate Life MLM Goal precisely on a fresh sheet of paper. 2. Ask yourself: Is this truly what I desire for my life above and beyond all else? If the answer is no, go back to the start of this book and begin reading again from the first page. 3. Ask yourself: Does the focus and direction of my ultimate Life MLM Goal come from contribution and will it positively impact the lives of others? If not, rework the purpose of your goal. Build on it from new angles until you see benefits for others in it and you can truthfully say that it does come from contribution. 4. Now, write your ultimate Life MLM Goal again on another fresh sheet of paper. This time increase it to a full paragraph or more until it embodies all of the qualities and attributes that will, from this moment forward, drive you on to success. 5. This is now your Pure Power Declaration. Personalize it by adding your name. Take this statement and place it in a prominent position from where you will be able to see it daily. 6. Commit to reading your Pure Power Declaration at least once a day, out loud if possible, with a high level of emotional intensity in your voice, visualizing the new glorious future desired, all the while with enthusiasm in your spirit and a smile on your face. 7. Cultivate the winning discipline of daily growth and long-range achievement in your life by taking some action today, no matter how little, toward the attainment of your Pure Power Declaration. This elementary discipline of daily action is the seed from which your outstanding success and amazing fortune will grow.

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An example of a Pure Power Declaration: James Lee Valentine My name is James Lee Valentine. I am an ‘empowering author extraordinaire’ and a dynamic & inspiring seminar presenter. It is my aim to make a positive difference in this world through the POWER books, seminars & personal empowerment tools. These will have a profound positive impact upon the quality of life for those people who put these empowering principles into daily practice. The POWER Philosophy built upon the bedrock of self-improvement will help to make this world a better place. I have an unquenchable passion for life and an incredible desire to experience it all fully. My commitment is to design and live a life that works so well, all who see it are moved toward the attainment of maximum health, wealth, wisdom and happiness for their own lives too. It is my motto that I will make a positive difference . . . inspirationally! It is not necessary for you to be a super-hero to come from contribution mode and make a positive difference with your own life. However, there is one quality that you must possess to win . . . and that is definiteness of purpose, which is the knowledge of what you want and a burning desire to possess it. Your Pure Power Declaration when read on a daily basis gives you this definiteness of purpose. This is your best opportunity now to release your mental shackles and plan at the highest level . . . to brainstorm something that will drive your life toward untold achievements, to find a target big enough and grand enough to challenge you to push beyond all limits, to discover your ultimate purpose. This is your chance to design a Pure Power Declaration that will keep your aim straight as you journey along the infinite and ever-empowering road of life.

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Focused determination Enthusiastic action Unwavering persistence Passionate fires of inspiration Unyielding commitment to personal excellence

The best way to enduring networking success is by displaying focus. If your desire is to earn a vast residual income through your networking efforts, you must make the success of your venture the focal point of your actions. You can attain greatness as an empowered networker and reach the top levels of MLM achievement, but merely thinking of success won’t yield it . . . you must demonstrate the power of applied focus.

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he most comprehensive way for an entrepreneur to attain massive success within the sphere of any network marketing opportunity is by taking enthusiastic action toward his or her central aims with focused determination. It takes focused effort, and plenty of it, to turn a vision into a successful reality. Most unsuccessful networkers lack the focus to generate feelings of enthusiasm, which can immobilize inertia, so they wait in anticipation of their lives magically improving. In most cases, little happens and these individuals waste precious time waiting for their networks to catch fire. Focused determination, which reinforces clear thinking and leads to enthusiastic action, is the best approach for networkers to ignite explosive growth in their groups and is the magic key to lasting success. To ignite explosive growth within your network, and dramatically increase the work-rate of the active networkers within it, a decisive commitment must be made to faithfully adhere to these three allimportant ‘focus-inducing’ Action-Steps: ¾ Decide in which areas you will focus your most ardent MLM efforts . . . this determines the direction you are aiming. ¾ Take immediate, unlimited, enthusiastic action toward the accomplishment of your objectives. ¾ Whatever you do, be absolutely determined to stay focused on your targets . . . display iron-willed tenacity. Use this moment now to ask potent questions, analyze your present level of focus and understand why your enterprise is perhaps not growing as fast as it could. Learn from the experience of winners and focus your effort on the key principles that will have the greatest impact on the continued expansion and increased profitability of your business.

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Action TNT! The first key principle to generate explosive growth within your organization is that of immediacy. This means taking action TODAY. Immediate action is the primary ingredient of focused determination. Action today not tomorrow! Don’t think too long about doing something, practice the winning discipline of doing it today. Action TNT! The positive energy released by following this principle is astounding. Take action today, and every day, and you become empowered, your adrenaline flows, motivation builds and self-confidence grows. Immediacy conquers fear, soothes anxiety and gives immense personal satisfaction to the doer. Be known as an Action Person . . . an empowered networker who completes tasks, fast! Be a leader in networking by taking action today, not tomorrow, on a consistent daily basis. It is not what action you take once in a while that shapes your MLM organization, but what diligent effort you commit to on a continual basis. You reap the reward of whatever you FOCUS on in life . . . whether your business expands or stagnates is in direct proportion to the amount of applied focus you attend to it. There are a vast number of people who could have been networking champions, but they never took ACTION, they never made the effort and never joined an MLM company. Men and women who were smarter, stronger, better educated than the leaders. They could have done it, but they never even took the first step. Your focus needs to be on the positive. To attain results that count, you must decide to go after the outcomes for your MLM venture that are wanted. The more specific you can be, the sharper your focus, then the greater the power you will command to directly achieve the results you seek. Keep your energies focused on the desired long-range outcome.

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Know that action in the wrong direction, no matter how enthusiastic, won’t get you to where you want to go.

Overcoming Inertia Will Lead The Way To An Expanding Network Inertia is the restraint that stops you from taking the action that will move you toward the attainment of your MLM objectives. In manifesting your aims, it is vitally important that you are able to overcome inertia and take empowering Action-Steps. There is a proverb that states: “The beginning is half the whole.” Understandably, the first steps in overcoming inertia are the most challenging of all. Once the ball of achievement is rolling, it is easier to keep it in motion. An effective key is in having a burning reason for attaining the goal . . . your desire must be an inferno of fire to inspire. Another key to overcome inertia is to make an instant start, TODAY, on whatever it is that needs doing. Once you have created motion, the momentum will build to keep you progressing in a forward direction. Networkers with focused determination develop compelling reasons to be inspired. Red-hot, flaming desires for specific targets will break the stalemate of inertia and provide the impetus to take enthusiastic Action-Steps. Power is essential for the realization of any objective. Goals are inert and useless without enough momentum to translate them into being. This force manifests itself in the form of an intense desire . . . the motive that pushes a networker’s hot-button releasing the full power of enthusiastic effort. Q. How can I overcome inertia and get the ball of achievement rolling in a favorable direction? The answer to this action-inducing Power Question lies within the application of this powerful five-step formula.

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1. FOCUS on one major MLM objective. Decide on one inspiring aim only . . . you cannot effectively chase two unrelated goals at the same time. 2. WRITE a clear description of this major networking aim on a fresh sheet of paper. Be specific. 3. OUTLINE each individual Action-Step required to reach the target in the form of an Action-Plan. Write this underneath your MLM objective on the same sheet of paper. 4. NOTE the deadline for achieving your goal and also the dates you intend accomplishing each individual step. 5. TAKE ACTION, no matter how small, toward the achievement of each one of the steps. Let today and every day have significance toward your ultimate networking objectives through your focused determination. If you desire success in your endeavors, let every day be one of progress in your quest to realize your goals and manifest your grand vision. Strengthen your self-resolve by being a MLM achiever . . . tear into the newfound possibilities in your business with increased vigor. Footprints in the sands of time are not made by sitting still, so make procrastination your enemy by displaying boundless enthusiasm and getting stuck into the tasks at hand in an empowering manner. Show focused determination and move forward in the direction of success today by taking Action-Steps toward the fulfillment of your highest aspirations. Achieve something else today by reading the next chapter on the power of action and learn how to generate more energized feelings for the way you act within the networking profession. Feel the energy surging through your body as you radiate the vibrant pulse of a leading networker inflamed by the burning fires of desire.

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“Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers, powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing, forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.” Orison Swett Marden

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he surest way to attain your greatest aspirations is by taking ACTION. Networking objectives immediately acted upon will drive you toward extraordinary success. You may anxiously want to achieve your ambitions, you may think about them often and you may tell everyone you meet that you are focused upon them . . . but the only way you will ever manifest your networking objectives is through taking action . . . action . . . action . . . action! If your MLM organization has yet to expand in the way you were initially expecting, and if things are not happening as planned, then you must do things differently or do different things. The results being experienced are occurring in direct proportion to your focused endeavors. You must take personal responsibility and realize it is your actions, or more critically your lack of them, which are causing your business to prosper or fail. It is not the actions of your upline leaders, or your mentor, or the company. If the results coming forth from the efforts of your networking enterprise are not to your liking, you must be the one to kick your personal efforts to a higher level. Ask this penetrating question to see if you control the ultimate focus of your own endeavors or not: Q. Where will I be ten years from now? If you do not yet have a clear idea of where you will be ten years from now . . . you are in trouble. Where will you be ten years from now if you keep on doing what you have always done? Can you notice that through the MLM vehicle, your efforts can make a real difference? Through your specific networking opportunity you have a chance to achieve all the success you desire by changing what you have always done. If your answer is not yet crystal clear, understand that you must get focused and take immediate action to change your direction.

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It is true that ten years from this point in time, you will surely arrive at the destination at which you are currently aiming. Presently, if things are not as good as you would like then take personal responsibility for this. Realize that YOU are the sole cause of everything that happens in the initial stages of your organization’s growth. You manifest the effect with your action . . . or lack of action. Blame only yourself for the events occurring in your business. Don’t blame outside factors or ascribe your failure to other networkers. Make the absolute most of today and grasp new opportunities as they arise. Today is a fresh new day and is the best time to begin the changes you seek. So . . . make a commitment that from today you will take action to design a new future. Today, start developing the ActionPlans and begin putting into motion the Action-Steps that will enable you to become the successful networker you aspire to be. Understand that you have within your grasp the ability to empower yourself or to improve any aspect of your networking endeavors: ¾ You can dramatically enhance your ability to present any MLM business opportunity. ¾ You can empower yourself to be outrageously self-confident when communicating with others. ¾ You can vastly improve your financial situation by building your networking organization in a professional manner. ¾ You can empower the entrepreneurs in your network to become visionary leaders and effective mentors. You can improve yourself and your networking strategies. If you will change, everything around you can transform in miraculous ways.

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Don’t try to change what is outside your reach, change what is inside your mental powerhouse. In future, when adversity is experienced, view the situation in new ways. Don’t wish the networking profession were easier. Instead, decide to become better equipped to handle the ups and downs through personal development. Don’t wish for fewer difficulties. Instead, decide to develop more synergistic capability, so that you can better cope with any challenges that come your way. By taking action and embracing the changes that your MLM organization generates, you will create your own good fortune. You are the one who controls your business and your ultimate destiny. Nothing will happen until you make it happen . . . it is up to you. It is through the power of your thoughts, your decisions and your actions that your future is shaped.

Motivation . . . The Action Key To Ignite Explosive Growth Within Your Network Climb into the pilot’s seat of the rocketship called ‘My MLM Venture’ and start soaring. Through life-transforming positive actions, you will be the one to set the direction for your business. Sometimes the journey to ultimate network marketing empowerment may seem a long and challenging mission, but one well worth taking as a thriving, profitable organization will radically transform many facets of your life. Motivation is the inner urge that induces action or determines choice. It is the spark that provides a motive to act. The inner urge can be anything that incites action and can be in the form of a thought, idea, desire, emotion, feeling or impulse. Motivation can also be inspired by outside influences, such as the fervor and excitement of an energized crowd at a network marketing event or the talk of an animated, firedup business opportunity presenter.

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Follow this high-impact three-point formula to motivate yourself toward remarkable success within the realm of your MLM endeavors and lead your network toward outstanding excellence. This formula is analogous to a rocketship blasting free from the earth’s atmosphere and orbiting successfully in space: i. Ignition point: First, isolate your motivation. Recognize the many major objectives for your enterprise that truly excite you . . . the ones that get your passion juices flowing and can ignite and inflame your motivational fires. Once these objectives are known, magnify your feelings of desire for their attainment until your motivation reaches the critical ignition point. ii. Blast off: Take immediate, unlimited, enthusiastic action toward the attainment of these inspired objectives. It is essential that you fully utilize the assets at hand ⎯ whatever you presently have to work with: skills, training, mentors, materials, catalogues, products, technologies ⎯ regardless of how many or how few they may be, and blast off into the trajectory of success now. iii. Cruise control: Navigate your MLM organization to an upper stratosphere level and choose to cruise in this ‘success’ orbit. Emulate the finest character traits of the chief networkers to keep your passion juices potent and your inspirational energies in a sky-high realm. Above and beyond what is needed in any other business, within the network marketing industry you require a vast reserve of motivational feelings and empowered emotions to achieve any great degree of success. These are internal powers that will propel you at astronomical speed toward the attainment of your most magnificent MLM objectives.

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ersistence is the essential factor in all major long-term achievement. An “I will never quit” attitude is one of the finest qualities that network marketers can cultivate for a successful outcome in their endeavors. If all other advice is ignored in this MLM Power book, any networker will probably still succeed at most tasks he or she attempts if they will just apply this one empowering principle: NEVER QUIT! Achievers never give up, no matter how many disappointments or setbacks they have. After a fall, they pick themselves up, figure out their mistakes, apply the lessons they have learned, then . . . try, try, try again. As the co-founder of Amway, Richard M. DeVos, ardently stated: “If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, here comes number seventy-one.” The common denominator of the most successful network marketers is in the persistence they display toward overcoming all obstacles and in keeping on moving ahead toward their most inspiring network marketing aspirations. It does not matter how fast these entrepreneurial winners move forward, the vital point is that they are continually advancing: action first, persistence second, rewards third.

Action ⎯ Persistence ⎯ Rewards First: Take Action ⎯ NOW! Don’t sit still waiting for an opportunity to raise its pretty head, it won’t. Take action this instant to capitalize on the greatest opportunity that is before you now . . . your particular network marketing entity. Make your efforts today the cause of your success and wealth tomorrow.

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By developing detailed Action-Plans, and by taking immediate ActionSteps, and by directing them enthusiastically toward your networking priorities, you will increase the chances of favorable outcomes coming your way . . . sooner rather than later. With every focused effort made, you boost the possibility of good fortune in the present, here and now.

Second: Be Persistent ⎯ EVERY DAY! Never let a day pass in which you do not devote eager effort toward the realization of your networking goals. Always keep yourself ‘hot’ on the idea that you will attain your grandest objectives soon. Follow your written Action-Plans with accuracy and be persistent in carrying out the Action-Steps toward the realization of your greatest aims by taking immediate, enthusiastic action . . . every day!

Third: Attain Riches and Rewards ⎯ YES! Networking success is never guaranteed. But the seeds of your richest desires will have a far greater chance of coming to fruition if you will follow, persistently, the many empowering principles as outlined here.

Thinking And Action Principles Whenever ‘persistence’ is mentioned throughout this book, let it be understood that what is meant is persistent effort in a focused direction. Blind persistence is only for fools. Success and attainment require focused persistence. This means integrating an “I will never quit” attitude with these ten dynamic THINKING and ACTION principles: Thinking Principles 1. Decision: Become crystal clear on the short-term objectives that must be achieved in your quest for long-term networking success. Have firmness of decision concerning your future. Know exactly what it is that you desire . . . clarity of decision is so vital. 226

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2. Direction: A target must be chosen, and clearly outlined, before a meaningful direction can be identified. Once your objective is known, focus in one direction will multiply your personal powers enabling you to be more persistent in your daily efforts. 3. Purpose: Be specific in your reasons for wanting to reach your objective. Definiteness of purpose is vitally important in setting inspiring goals that ‘fire’ you into action. With an empowering purpose that sets your soul ablaze, your rewards can be unlimited. 4. Goals: Once you have established exceptional goals to ignite your fires of desire, fan the flames by keeping your mind’s eye on the ultimate target. Picturing the end-result in your mental powerhouse will keep your motivational engine running ‘hot’ as you pursue the successful achievement of your most ambitious aims. 5. Calm: Practice tranquility by being at peace with the universe. Don’t burn yourself out through too much intense effort. Leave your work from time to time and relax completely. Upon your return, your judgment will be clearer and your energies will be restored to a greater degree than before. Action Principles 6. Action: Action is undoubtedly the most potent component of persistent effort . . . but it must be taken NOW to be most effective. Keep moving forward. Keep writing Action-Plans. Keep taking Action-Steps. Keep searching for more empowering ways to express your efforts. Immediate, enthusiastic action is what’s needed to manifest the rewards you seek through your networking enterprise. Action is the most powerful success key of all. 7. Enthusiasm: Enthusiasm is the fuel that speeds you to your destination. There is no equivalent to enthusiasm in the explosion of vibrant energy it can bring to your endeavors. Enthusiasm is what

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keeps one’s desire for accomplishment blazing. Develop a reserve of ‘fired-up’ enthusiasm to impel yourself to perform the persistent actions that will literally blast you past the winning post. 8. Excellence: Always deliver maximum effort in the quest to produce superior results . . . give your very best effort, expect your very best effort and accept only the very best effort from yourself. The size and quality of your enterprise will be measured in direct relation to your personal commitment to excellence. The stronger the dedication shown to precision in reaching your ideals, the greater the ultimate reward. Perform to the foremost of your abilities in everything you do . . . and outstanding results will materialize. 9. Passion: Your life will literally be a paradise on earth once you display an inflamed passion toward all networking activities. Instill a deep passion within yourself to always be fired-up for your particular MLM opportunity. Perform with the greatest measure of persistent passion . . . and the world will be your oyster. 10. Confidence: Develop immense self-confidence in advance of the triumphant accomplishment of your network marketing aims. This will be a major key enabling you to display the persistent efforts necessary for a victorious result. Intense self-belief in your personal ability to perform at the highest level is needed, in tandem with huge self-assurance, to spur you on to achieving the Action-Steps required for a successful outcome. For sure, you will possess the attribute of focused persistence when you combine the preceding ten principles with your own potent “I will always persist” attitude. However, it is only when you consistently concentrate your entrepreneurial efforts in a forward direction that you will unleash the full awesome potential of unwavering focus.

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nthusiasm is an effect of inspiration . . . the greater the ‘inspired’ feelings displayed toward something, the more euphoric the enthusiastic feelings generated. To stimulate more enthusiasm for your particular business opportunity and to be radically inspired as an empowered networker, you must instill more excitement for your enterprise. It is the sheer thrill of working toward invigorating objectives that will arouse extraordinary feelings of inspiration. Review your lists of MLM goals to find major objectives you can display excitement for now, then take immediate and impassioned enthusiastic action toward their attainment. Remember this empowering motto: Take action . . . to be inspired . . . to be on fire! As Thomas Edison, the great inventor, stated: “Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.” You must be the one to ignite the fires of inspiration ⎯ you are the only person who can set them ablaze ⎯ and the flames must be continually fanned by you to keep the fires of desire burning hot. The first flickering embers of inspiration are lit from the simple deed of taking enthusiastic action toward the achievement of any objective. It is action that fans the flames and keeps them blazing. Steady progress each and every day toward your networking targets is all you need to keep enthused and inspired. Inspiration is magical because it is the inspiration itself that will lead you on past obstacles and challenges, via opportunities and possibilities, into the golden land of mastery and affluence. The network marketer who makes errors along his or her journey to success is half way to the target already. The very fact this man or woman is making mistakes means that action is already being taken toward the objectives. All this individual requires is greater applied focus

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in setting an empowering course of Action-Plans and Action-Steps, and a personal commitment to excellence in his or her networking endeavors, then they will surely reach the designated destination. When you make a mistake, large or small, it is vital that you get back on track to success immediately. An instant boost of inspiration is needed to your system. You will get this by taking an immediate burst of super-charged, enthusiastic action toward your targets. A zest for life is a natural instinct when things are humming along smoothly. However, it is when things start to get tough or begin taking a turn for the worst that it is most essential for you to keep your levels of enthusiasm high and your fires of inspiration burning strong. To achieve a successful outcome, it may be necessary for you to overcome frequent times of trouble and conquer many adverse conditions. To sustain consistently high levels of enthusiasm, and stay inspired for the attainment of your most awe-inspiring objectives during bad times as well as good, is one of the greatest success-traits you can develop. Study the leading network marketers and you will observe men and women who display the trait of ‘continuous inspiration’ every time you see them. They are always up. The attainment of success within any networking venture is primarily controlled by one state of mind only. This is: A positive mental attitude. What transpires in real life within your network isn’t nearly as important as what optimistic thoughts you focus on and what empowered attitude you display to get your business running on the winning track. Your ability to be inspired comes when you use the power of focus to direct you along the road to success.

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An Environment Of Inspiration Will Increase The Fun Of Being A Network Marketer Many networking companies, especially in the modern hi-tech work environment, place a high premium on inspiration. Is your particular networking opportunity an example of this? If you are involved with a company that doesn’t tolerate inspirational ideas, you are possibly working with an enterprise that’s eventually going nowhere for you. Why stay on board a ship that refuses to leave the harbor, is probably barnacle-encrusted and may even be sinking? Life is too important and too much fun to spend it with losers. It is wise indeed to spend your time with open-minded companies, ones that encourage inspired uniqueness. Develop inspiration in an environment that is creative and this will help to spark your networking efforts into an inferno of inspired ingenuity. The famous playwright Noël Coward once said that work is much more fun than fun. What he was alluding to is the immense fulfillment that comes from having a vocation that motivates men and women and lights their inspirational fires. Network marketing can be such a vocation for you. Treat your MLM venture as significant and feel inspired to be an integral member of an empowered enterprise. The difference between performing with unhappy drudgery in your tasks or cheerful uplifting effort is often no more than personal perspective . . . which is determined by your positive mental attitude. Treat the company you are associated with as consequential, and the inspiration that flows will increase in direct proportion to the tasks becoming more meaningful.

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Put some magical inspiration into your business. With a new view of your networking exertions as stimulating and enjoyable, and an attitude tuned into being creatively inspired, it won’t be too long before your organization starts building momentum and generating large income . . . another self-fulfilling prophesy. Do not compromise your life by staying too long in a vocation that holds no great joy for you. Get your inspirational juices flowing by being in control of your professional destiny and being part of an empowering organization. Being a highly successful and widely respected network marketing leader ⎯ one of the outstanding winners in MLM ⎯ is this one of your greatest yearnings? If so, are you obsessed with this aspiration? Does this vision captivate you and pull your heartstrings? Do you tell everyone you meet that being an inspired networker is what you are? Is awesome success in networking one of your major goals? Do you think of MLM as your life’s calling? Have you written many inspiring objectives and developed Action-Plans to attain them? If you desire success as an empowered networker, ask yourself questions such as these to see if you are serious about success in this calling, in particular: Q. Am I acting as an empowered networker anywhere today? To achieve your goals, you must be willing to invest the necessary time and persist at doing what it takes. There is no such thing as an overnight success. Instant mastery, right now, will not occur. You must persevere in your aspirations and have faith in a successful long-term outcome. Develop magical feelings of inspiration by being fired-up about your MLM enterprise. Well-planned goals and enthusiastic action, combined with a commitment to excellence, are what will get you to the pinnacle of success in any networking opportunity, nothing less.

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our value is determined first and foremost by the intensity of your dedication to top performance. The quality of your life will always be in direct proportion to your commitment to personal excellence . . . the stronger your dedication to precision in reaching your ideals, the greater the ultimate rewards you will reap. By performing to your foremost ability in all networking endeavors, you can produce results of outstanding achievement in your quest for a fabulous lifestyle. If you never settle for second best in anything, you will be the one who is favored with a measure of success in everything. As Henry Ford, the greatest industrialist of the twentieth century, stated: “Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.” Your personal value will rapidly increase and a decisive commitment to excellence will be forged when you develop singleness of purpose. This is excelling to the greatest of your ability within ONE particular sphere of activity . . . the direct sales industry, for example. Your own commitment to personal excellence will manifest in the daring decision to give one hundred percent effort to all tasks leading to the achievement of your most cherished ambitions. You will gain merit through high-octane, all-out, top performance action. No matter the task you have to accomplish, always give it your very best shot. Strive for excellence and perform to the upper limits of your ability. As the leading networkers can confirm, one’s finest efforts will pay off handsomely in the long run. A vital ingredient of developing a commitment to excellence is in applying integrity to the fulfillment of top performance action. Integrity, in essence, can be defined as honesty. All enduring success is built upon the solid foundation of truth, trust and fairness. The straightest and surest path to the creation of a successful network marketing enterprise

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is through the application of integrity in everything you do. It is the supreme factor in the building of character and of developing ultimate network marketing empowerment.

Increase Your Personal Value To Increase Your Personal Success Vast wealth can come to any networker who creates outstanding personal value . . . the person who places a large worth on their own life. The individual who makes himself or herself valuable is the one who more often than not will reap the reward of great providence and achieve excellence in their endeavors. As the internationally acclaimed motivator, Jim Rohn, says: “Work hard on your job and you can make a living, but work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.” During your lifetime, you are paid exactly what you are worth. No matter your earnings, whether five dollars per hour or five million dollars per year, this is your personal value . . . and this is determined by YOU. Is Madonna worth an income of around fifty million dollars per year? Yes is the answer. Is Oprah Winfrey worth annual earnings of over one hundred million dollars? Again, the answer is yes. Whether you earn a lowly pittance through your network marketing enterprise, or your income amounts to vast mountainous sums, you are paid for bringing your value to the marketplace . . . the marketplace being wherever you or your product or your service is bought or sold or traded. In the case of Madonna and Oprah Winfrey, the marketplace for each of them is global in scope. Is it possible for any person to become two, three or many times as valuable as he or she presently is? Is it possible for him or her to earn two, three or many times their present income in the same amount of time? The answer to both of these questions is a resounding YES! The person accomplishes this by increasing his or her personal worth.

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Jay Abraham, a top financial consultant, says: “Wealth, prosperity and success come to those people who create great value in themselves.” One of the fundamental keys in increasing value is to work harder on you than you work on your job. In relation to creating a successful MLM business, this means first instilling leadership qualities into you before attempting to instill them within the individuals of your organization. Yes . . . personal development is the key to increased personal value.

Personal Development Will Increase Your Personal Value To vastly increase your value as a networker, you first need to work wholeheartedly on the personal development side of yourself. Start by doing what you love and loving what you do . . . you really must love being involved with MLM. This is a major secret of success and will help in keeping your levels of inspiration and enthusiasm sky-high. Develop your creative talents and abilities around objectives of consequence, then acquire the skills you will need to be an outstanding network marketer and one of the respected leaders in this profession. Change your mindset in an empowering and constructive direction and your entire life can explode into wondrous change. You need to place a tremendous value on your own worth. This is not an egotistical statement but an important reality. You must increase your personal value for you to achieve significant success and lasting gratification. Successful networkers promote themselves and are self-confident fires of passion for the network marketing industry. They are their own number one fans and let their prospects know in no uncertain terms that their MLM opportunity is absolutely the best. These winners know it is they, themselves, who must take top performance action today to be an excellent role model for others, always leading by example.

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Distinguish yourself in your networking efforts through a commitment to personal excellence, then begin harvesting your riches. By performing to the very best of your abilities, you will have an incredible opportunity to succeed big-time with your MLM venture. Within network marketing, the possibilities you have available before you to succeed almost anywhere in the world are truly staggering. Very few of the top networkers today had their early times in MLM easy . . . neither should you expect any free rides. These leaders hustled with masses of enthusiasm, persevered with vast quantities of confidence, and never gave up believing in the golden networking opportunity. When you perform to the best of your abilities, you will possess resilience with which you can accomplish tasks. You will be able to complete your network marketing objectives with raised levels of speed, skill and stamina. As each task is completed, you will find yourself with increased will-power and higher levels of self-confidence to enhance your ability to achieve the next task. A greater quality of effort will result in a greater quantity of performance. This cycle feeds upon itself: the greater your energized actions toward this effort, the easier the attainment of it, and the greater still the next performance. Aim to get the highest possible result from every action you expend in your MLM endeavors from this moment forward. With a positive winning attitude focused on personal excellence, your worth to your organization can be exponentially compounded. Once you begin this shift toward aligning yourself with the awesome power of focused determination, all aspects of your life and every facet of your business will transform in the most spectacular ways.

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aith is inextinguishable hope . . . an invincible belief in the grandest outcome. The power of faith is a force to attain our greatest desires. The foundations of faith are prayer and affirmation. Through empowering prayer ⎯ the affirming of our needs to God ⎯ faith manifests higher levels of confidence. This spirit of confidence unfolds in wondrous ways, resulting in the accomplishment of our desires. It is said that affirmations are the closest link to prayers. But with affirmations, instead of praying directly to God, you affirm your intentions straight to your inner-self, manifesting your desires on a conscious and subconscious level. Through this Section Nine, we will illustrate that affirmations of faith are not feeble wishes . . . they are powerful, unyielding convictions. The prayers of a network marketer, if expressed in earnest, will instill high levels of self-confidence and allow a greater degree of focused determination. Prayers that are stated with intense belief will result in an existence wherein the most exalted desires are fulfilled. Faith empowers. Networkers of unconquerable faith shine brightest when they encounter difficulties. Certainly it is best not to have any obstacles at all, but setbacks and challenges can serve us. When overcoming difficult situations, if the networker will exert his or her most ardent efforts, one’s character will grow stronger. Weak individuals, those without a personal development foundation, who over long periods grow accustomed to being challenged, may acquire the tendency to give up and quit. But with enough instilled faith, none of us need ever resign ourselves to defeat. The key is to state solid affirmations and take enthusiastic action until the desired results are produced or the situation turns around. Faith has the awe-inspiring power to positively transform our lives.

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“Every moment of your life is infinitely creative, and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request and everything your heart desires must come to you.” Shakti Gawain

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hroughout this section we will make reference to FAITH by way of the immense power of affirmations. These are dynamic statements repeated over and over to oneself that a desired future condition is already true. Through repetition, affirmations are one of the easiest techniques known for powerfully influencing a person’s mind. These words and phrases, reiterated daily, are concise methods of convincing the intellect. Any thought that is passed through the mind often enough and forcefully enough is finally accepted . . . it becomes the dominant thought pattern. Constant repetition of affirmations leads to instilled belief. Once a belief becomes a deep certainty, powerful forces arise. Entrepreneurs can use the awesome power of affirmations to attain their most exciting MLM objectives through replacing disempowering, destructive doctrines with empowering, constructive belief systems. Either silently or aloud, affirmations can be repeated at any time and place. Self-talk of an optimistic nature can be practiced upon waking first thing in the morning, standing in line at a store, working out at the gym, sitting in a restaurant waiting for a prospect, or even lying in bed before you go to sleep at night. You decide when and where you are most comfortable doing them. The vital point is that you do repeat affirmations on a consistent basis if dramatic change is desired in your life. The repeating of positive affirmations is one of the most powerful success disciplines. As the Bible says: “Thou shall decree a thing and it shall be established unto thee.” Wise words indeed. Today, state some new empowering affirmations to begin the process of manifesting the successful network marketer’s life of splendor that you desire.

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Start Your Day With Enthusiastic, Inspiring, Upbeat Self-talk Top networkers are inspired . . . they are on-fire. They possess an inner drive for action, an urge for accomplishment and a motive for winning that keeps them competing for success. The most effective motivation is that which is self-generated. Motivation is largely a matter of one’s attitude. Since attitudes are habits of thought, it follows that self-motivation is a learned skill. Therefore, any person who can develop a new habit of thought can become self-motivated. The technique with the greatest effect for self-motivation is enthusiastic self-talk . . . the stating of empowering affirmations. The course of your day ⎯ and how effective you can perform as an empowered networker ⎯ is determined from the instant you regain waking consciousness. Why not have a series of positive affirmations that you can repeat to yourself as you arise from sleep? Display them prominently so that you can read them easily after waking. Develop this daily winning discipline to see how energized, electrified and exhilarated you can feel . . . every day. Examples are: ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾

Today I feel fabulous! Yes . . . today is a magnificent day! My energy and vitality are boundless! This is a wonderful day of opportunity! Something wonderful happens to me every day! My networking business possibilities are awesome!

A series of powerful affirmations can literally turn your world around with their massive positive impact. They will influence not only your MLM endeavors, but they will transform the lives of other networkers within your enterprise as they notice and respond to the positive energy you continuously radiate.

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Eight-Step Success Formula These are the all-important Action-Steps required for creating effective results-achieving affirmations: 1. Personalize Your Affirmations Start your affirmations with “I . . .” or “My . . .” making them personal to you. These are suggestions to improve your life, so ensure that you are the focal point. Personalize your affirmations by having their meaning relevant to how you want the events of your life to be at this instant: ¾ My networking organization is expanding rapidly! 2. State Your Affirmations in the Positive Always state your affirmations in the most upbeat way possible. Affirm the conditions you do want, not what you don’t want. You should aim to describe that which you desire to create or achieve. “I am . . .” or “I have . . .” are excellent beginning points: ¾ I have phenomenal self-confidence! 3. State Your Affirmations in the Present Tense Affirm in the present tense as opposed to the past or future tenses. It is vital to create desires as if they already exist . . . this speeds their realization. Instead of saying “I will be inspired!” say “I am inspired!” End affirmations with “now” to keep their impact level high: ¾ I feel endless enthusiasm for networking . . . now! 4. Keep Your Affirmations Short The shorter and more dynamic the affirmation, the more effective it is. Your affirmations must be concise statements that convey a positive feeling. The greater dynamism carried by the affirmation, the longerlasting its impression on your mind: ¾ I am a highly empowered network marketer!

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5. State Your Affirmations with Conviction If an Army General stood before his troops and asked in a mild manner for them to “sort of ” or “kind of” or “perhaps” or “maybe” come to attention, the result would not be impressive. But if he stood tall before his regiment and commanded in a loud, powerful voice: “Attention!” then the soldiers, every one, would precisely execute the command. Now, speak to your mind and do not beg, ask or coax. Lay your demands upon your mental powerhouse. You are the General and all the cells of your being are waiting to carry out your every command. So affirm with total conviction that the desired outcome will result: ¾ My residual income is sky-rocketing! 6. Your Affirmations Must Be Sincere Ensure your affirmations are for the things you truly desire. This will make them sincere . . . from the heart. Sincere affirmations are free from pretence and have a greater likelihood of being realized: ¾ My competence as a skilled mentor is amazing! 7. Your Affirmations Must Be Written Writing your affirmations as statements keeps you on the right track, crystallizes your thoughts and inspires you to take immediate, enthusiastic action: ¾ I love being a successful, highly empowered entrepreneur! 8. Repeat Your Affirmations Often The secret of successful results is in the repetition. State them over and over again until the desired outcome is attained. The recommended minimum is twice a day. Stated in the morning and repeated again in the evening is the ideal situation for the greatest results: ¾ I think I can . . . I know I can . . . and I will!

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“Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.” Cherie Carter-Scott

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reative visualization is truly one of the most remarkable principles for a network marketer to master in pursuit of success within any MLM business opportunity. Creative visualization involves using the awesome power of IMAGINATION to mentally create the desired results. Excellence in any endeavor depends foremost on having a clear mental picture of a specific activity being successfully completed. Well directed and focused, the powers of creative visualization and imagination are two of the most dynamic faculties an individual can possess. Thoughts are a form of energy and have real power. As such, any image focused by the mind has a force that will eventually produce an effect. If focused firmly over a long enough period of time, this effect will be the manifestation of the visualized objective.

Three-Step Formula For Effective Creative Visualization This is the powerhouse formula that you must develop into a fundamental part of your daily plan for focused effort if you absolutely desire to materialize outstanding results for your networking venture: 1. THINK: You will require a quiet period of fifteen minutes every day for your Creating Period. It is imperative during this time that you are undisturbed. ¾ Be silent, then close your eyes and think: This first step is for you to decide exactly what it is you want to have. You need to know what major MLM objective will be the focus of this particular Creating Period. For example, your main aim may be for your organization to generate one key leader per month for the next one year, with each of the leaders mentored by you.

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¾ Breathe deeply, relaxing your entire body: It is essential for effective visualization that you have the most highly receptive state of mind. This comes from being totally calm and relaxed. ¾ Use your imagination: Once thoroughly relaxed, visualize the desired objective in your mind exactly the way you want it to be. You must create clear imagined pictures of the objective as real. Make your mental images as vivid as possible. ¾ Personalize your visualizations: It is vital that you are the primary character, the central theme of your visualizations, if dramatic change is to be effected in your business. ¾ Visualize in the present: Picture yourself doing or having the desired objective right now, not as some future possibility. Imagine everything in the present as already existing in your network marketing enterprise the way you intend it to be. This entire first step ⎯ THINK ⎯ is an intense fifteen-minute period of concentrated clear thought. It is constructively using your mental powerhouse to positively imagine the desired outcome of tangible objectives that can lead you on to the attainment of specific, clearly defined MLM aspirations. 2. ACT: The creative faculty of imagination can never substitute for action. There is a magical power in imagination ⎯ the dynamic effect it has on one’s self-belief ⎯ but it is the action taken that produces the result. A networker cannot devote time imagining himself as a millionaire, then do nothing about it expecting millions of dollars to fall into his lap. If, on the other hand, he will visualize himself as a millionaire, develop detailed Action-Plans and take consistent and persistent Action-Steps toward that end, then daily he will increase his chances of becoming a millionaire. This man’s visualizations will become his self-fulfilling prophesy. Not due to

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any mysterious magic though, but because of the immediate and unlimited enthusiastic action he took toward his desired objectives. Now, can you see how critically important action is in pursuit of your networking goals? 3. PERSIST: Do not expect grand, instantaneous results. The present and future are not joined by a single link, but by a chain. This chain is composed of the goals you have set, the plans you have made to achieve them, the affirmations you repeat to instill great confidence, your ability to creatively visualize the future you desire, and the persistent actions you take toward the target. Reap the remarkable benefits of spaced repetition by having your Creating Period once a day and indefinitely repeating the procedure. Change takes time, so have patience. It took years, even decades, to create the present you . . . your new empowered self will also take time to build.

The Power Of Imagination Many of the greatest thinkers throughout history have recognized the awesome power of imagination and used it to astonishing effect in creating lives of outstanding achievement. Consider the assessment of such eminent minds as Disraeli, Einstein and Shakespeare. Following are statements that these three masters of extraordinary ability said about the power of imagination: “Imagination governs the world.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein

“Imagination makes man the paragon of the animals.” William Shakespeare

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Through the creative use of imagination, literally all ideas that a network marketer can conceive in his or her own mind can be achieved. Imagination in its most fertile form is creative visualization. It is a fact that whatever is visualized wholeheartedly and believed-in with total conviction will become a self-fulfilling prophesy. The ultimate secret to effective visualization is in imagining circumstances not as they are right now, but as they are desired to be in anticipation of a wondrous future. The imagination is literally the workshop of the mind. Within it are fashioned a networker’s most creative and innovative aspirations. Imagination is an immense and powerful force. As George Bernard Shaw said: “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.” Why not channel this creative energy by conjuring up imaginative ideas and inspiring concepts for your business? It is said that ideas are the fruits of thinking; they are the seeds of progress. Ideas are at the start of all innovation, change and attainment . . . the more visionary ideas you can conceive for your networking endeavors, the greater your long-term success. Mark Van Doren stated: “Bring in ideas and entertain them royally, for one of them may be a king.” When you possess strong enough reasons for wanting the things you desire, then you really can think up a whole host of excellent ideas for their realization. The necessary ingredient is in having the right motivating force. This comes from the strength of your fires of desire. The more heat, the larger the inferno. If you want to be successful, you must possess an inflamed desire to succeed. This will provide the powerful reasons that will spur you into creating the higher levels of motivation needed for attaining each of your major objectives.

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he Bible says it best: “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Remember the following timeless truth whenever you imprint new empowering thoughts into your consciousness: What you think . . . is what you believe . . . is what you will become. Belief Systems are things that you: ¾ Believe about yourself ¾ Believe about your surroundings ¾ Believe about the world in which you live Your beliefs about yourself, your beliefs about your surroundings and your beliefs about the world in which you live, affect your life in dramatic ways. Your beliefs and the experiences you subsequently encounter are directly connected to one another. What you believe is what you get, and what you will eventually become. In other words, you will direct your ultimate destiny by what you think and believe. Once your mind holds a belief, whether imagined or real, it will continually feed you thoughts to support that belief. For example, let’s say that you believe it is difficult to earn money within network marketing. This belief, repeated again and again, is soon imprinted onto the screen of your mind. Once imprinted it will feed you thoughts such as: “This business won’t work for me” or “I will never earn much doing this” or “Income is hard to generate” or “This opportunity may be working for others but it will never bring me any big reward.” All of these are just imagined states, but your mind doesn’t know this and mistakes them for reality, thereby manifesting these exact conditions for you. Through the potent disciplines of affirmation and creative visualization, you must command absolute control over your mind, then program or imprint new beliefs. Such as: “My business is prospering”

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or “My income is constantly increasing” or “Money-making opportunities come easily to me as a highly empowered entrepreneur” or “My level of wealth is now sky-rocketing.” Only then will your mind begin acknowledging these powerful beliefs and start to manifest new conditions in your life to support them.

Six Steps To Powerfully Change Your Belief Systems Practice these all-important Action-Steps if you are determined to powerfully impact your MLM fortunes. This process will change your existing disempowering belief systems into empowering convictions: 1. What you believe is what you get: Quite simply, if you believe bad, negative and destructive things about yourself and your networking enterprise, then these are the material circumstances and conditions you will attract to yourself. Have pure, positive and constructive beliefs to attract the most powerful forces for good to your network marketing venture. 2. Write your existing beliefs: If you are currently experiencing any undesirable results within any aspect of your networking endeavors, you need to understand your beliefs about those particular areas. This is best done by writing all of the beliefs you currently hold about those aspects of your business . . . negative and positive. 3. Be determined to change your existing negative beliefs: Challenge yourself to create new positive belief systems ⎯ the exact opposite of your existing disempowering ones ⎯ even if initially you do not believe them wholeheartedly. It is only by changing that you will be able to construct a new highly empowered self. 4. Write your new positive beliefs: Decide what are the specific rewarding conditions you desire to appear in your networking organization.

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Write these new empowering beliefs on a fresh sheet of paper and carry this with you to affirm to yourself and imprint into your mind at any opportune moments. 5. Imprint your new positive beliefs on a regular daily basis: At least twice per day visualize your new empowering beliefs to yourself and affirm them either silently or aloud, with confidence. Yes, affirmations are most powerful when stated in a confident, self-assured manner. 6. Imprint each new area of belief for thirty days: Do this for one whole month for each area of your MLM business in which you want to transform your belief systems. Perhaps the first month will be for empowering your mental state as a leader, the second month for the financial conditions desired, the third month for presenting, the fourth month for mentoring or prospecting, and so on. Note the date today, then begin your first session of imprinting immediately.

Imprinting: The Key To Transforming Belief Systems The technique of imprinting is a powerful mix of affirmations and creative visualization performed in unison. It is the strongest means known for changing beliefs. Imprinting is the most effective way to instill emphatic new beliefs into the conscious mind. For any new idea or belief to become an ingrained part of us, it must be thoroughly imprinted into the mind. There is a necessary period of germination before the new suggestion will take root and flourish. Precise imprinting requires at least one month before the new idea is firmly anchored and its benefits can be fully utilized. It should be your intent to create new positive MLM beliefs within the mind that are often the exact opposite of any present negative doctrines. Only through a disciplined regimen of daily imprinting for a

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minimum of thirty days will the new suggestions establish themselves as cohesive and empowering beliefs. True imprinting requires at least thirty daily sessions of eight to ten minutes each. Can you understand why those people who try to adopt a new belief by reading it two or three or five or ten times are doomed to failure? “I’ve really tried to believe it, but I can’t,” they say in vain. Yet how hard did they truthfully try? Imprinting will release a striking force within you for coping with any condition ever thrown in your face by network marketing. Whatever your MLM objectives, imprinting will empower you to handle all things with greater proficiently, whether: ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾

Master depression caused by past failures Speak proficiently in front of large groups Have more raw passion for network marketing Gain supreme self-confidence when presenting Destroy habits destructive to your business endeavors

Whatever your desired objective, you are trying to create new empowering beliefs. Often these new beliefs contradict the existing disempowering ones. It is just not possible for your mind to incorporate any new belief unless you mentally imprint it daily for one month or longer. Why waste your time with futile half-hearted attempts? Each new belief needs thirty days at least to be solidly imprinted, anything less will not be successful. To emphasize this: Each new belief needs time to be solidly imprinted! Each new belief needs time to be solidly imprinted! Each new belief needs time to be solidly imprinted! Can you now understand the immense power of imprinting and see how it can impact your networking endeavors in spectacular ways?

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“You are a child of God; your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you . . . as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.” Nelson Mandela

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cknowledging is recognizing and verifying the multifaceted range of positive qualities you possess. It is also the ability to identify areas in which you have experienced a taste of success, large or small, both in the present and the past. When you acknowledge a thing, you agree to its truth and validity, you wholeheartedly endorse it. You must acknowledge all the many aspects of YOU to create a feeling of achievement within, as perhaps all too often you focus only on what you wish to attain in the future, forgetting what you have already accomplished in the past. Learn to be your number one supporter and give yourself recognition for all your past success. Acknowledge every aspect that makes you feel good about yourself and everything that empowers you as an on-fire network marketer. You should acknowledge the fact that you are unique and special. Yes . . . you are a wondrous and extraordinary human being. Wouldn’t you agree that every person on this planet is special, including you? Each person has a particular mission to come into this world to do exceptional things. God did not create any failures — he took the time to create only magnificent beings — you included. But you need to acknowledge these facts more often. Realize how unique and special you are. There never has been and never will be another person just like you. You are an exceptional human being, rare and unequalled. You can attain anything within the MLM business if you will just acknowledge that you are indeed unique and special. Shout it from the rooftops how special you really are. You are the one and only you. Believe in yourself, and your success can be aweinspiring. You have the freedom to be your true self, and nothing can stand in your way of greatness unless you permit it. This freedom of choice is your most remarkable power. As Richard Bach declares: “Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body.”

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Acknowledging Lists Empower Networkers To Greatness Do not just acknowledge the evident qualities you possess at this instant. Recognize all of your intangible assets, victories and winning attributes from the past. Acknowledging creates a feeling of achievement in the now. The more you acknowledge yourself, the greater your memory of success, the more empowered your character becomes. Credit yourself daily for progress in any area of your life. Remember all of your accomplishments and search for all of your strong points, then write them on lists. These now become your Acknowledging Lists. You can write one list that catalogs every quality and achievement from your life, or develop multiple lists for specific areas such as these: ¾ Winning qualities ¾ Past and present accomplishments ¾ Skills and abilities Make your lists long. The longer, the stronger. Don’t be modest or reserved. Aim for a minimum of twenty to thirty items on each list. By acknowledging, you will be able to see in a clear and visual form all the many reasons you have to feel good about yourself. 1. Winning Qualities All positive characteristics should be written on this list. You will note that these acknowledgements are empowering affirmations: ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾

I have supreme self-confidence I display immense leadership ability I am ambitious and set large MLM goals I am a highly motivated network marketer I possess a personality well-suited to the networking business

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2. Past And Present Accomplishments Choose past and present events or facts from your life and business that galvanize your memories and restore feelings of high achievement: ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾

I once built a network of five hundred people I earned a masters degree in business management I received my first networking royalty within one week Our company is a worldclass organization, with worldclass products, offering a worldclass opportunity

3. Skills And Abilities The focus here is on specific skills and abilities you possess with regard to all areas of your life. However, as a networker, you can specify in writing the things you perform well within your business: ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾

My entrepreneurial skills are excellent I am proficient at mentoring new networkers I express amazing passion for my MLM company I have ten years experience in the networking industry I possess a wonderful ability to communicate the network marketing opportunity to prospective customers

There is a wise saying that nothing succeeds like success. Your Acknowledging Lists will show you where you have already succeeded, and will help to reinforce within you the winning feelings necessary for masterful achievement and lasting fulfillment.

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The best way for the mind to function to its maximum potential is when actively engaged in a stimulating activity, when solving a problem or when rising to a challenge. The greater the intensity of thought exerted, the higher probability of the mind reaching a suitable solution. For an entrepreneur to flourish in the world of networking, certain thought-enhancing rules should be followed: 1. Concentrate mental exertion on one task or activity at a time. The mind performs best when focused on a single clear objective. 2. Let the mind work free from worry. Don’t look back in anguish, look ahead with confidence. 3. Relax . . . be at peace while creatively thinking. 4. Respond to circumstances on a spontaneous basis as new ideas and concepts arise. 5. Sleep on it. If satisfactory answers do not leap into the front of your mind after a concentrated period of thinking, then dismiss all thoughts of the subject matter until the following day. Imagination is a creative ability. Through imagination, and by way of upbeat self-talk, you can formulate a multitude of action-based ideas to generate momentum in your networking enterprise and develop meaningful objectives for the benefit of your organization. You can direct your success mechanism by the use of your ability to creatively visualize auspicious results, and you can mentally picture the constructive and positive future in network marketing you yearn for. All this is possible by you awakening the genius that is already within your mind. Affirm for a winning attitude, visualize a strong business, imprint glorious beliefs, acknowledge your powerful traits, and keep the faith that your enterprise can have amazing growth . . . because it will be so if you truly believe it.

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“Let us live with hope . . . eternally. Our mind of faith instantaneously becomes the cause, the effect and the power of eternal happiness. It translates into great joy and great fulfillment.” Nichiren Daishonin

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he ultimate power of faith as reflected by the affirmations one states is not in the potency of the words themselves, but in the knowing that every attribute of the condition being sought is already possessed. For example, if you seek greater confidence, realize the power to be super-confident already exists inside your soul right now. Confidence is not a quality one can buy at a supermarket, or something that people carry around with them in their wallets. Confidence is something that exists as an inseparable, inherent part of everyone. All one needs to do is have the faith that this is so, then tap into the vast reserves of confidence within their soul. The same is true whether one desires higher levels of enthusiasm, an increased ability to concentrate or greater powers of focused determination for MLM. For another example, let’s say you desire to experience the explosive growth of a thriving organization. You may affirm many times: ¾ My networking enterprise is growing, thriving and prospering! It is not until you fully realize that your mind and body are always in perfect harmony with this thought that you will experience the condition of a flourishing network. The very action of holding the thought of prosperity in your networking endeavors sets into motion the ultimate power of faith that will eventually lead to the manifestation of the condition you seek.

Your Spirit Will Guide Your Actions As An Empowered Networker Spirit represents our inner state of being . . . heart and soul. Spirit determines what we devote our lives to. It is the fundamental core on which we base our existence. A person’s spirit is invisible, but is evident

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in his or her character. The spirit controls everything about an individual, every moment of every day. It is the essential determinant of one’s life. The spirit is a perfectly skilled artist and, as such, it freely creates representations of all things. One’s spirit is the artist, the sculptor, the designer and the architect of his or her state of being. As network marketers who desire to reach the upper echelons of success within the MLM business opportunity, we should paint the impression of our networking enterprise in our heart as spectacular as possible. This ‘painting’ becomes the design for the future of our business. The immense power of the human spirit enables us to produce a wonderful masterpiece in accordance with that design. The more detailed and specific the blueprint we hold in the deepest recess of our heart, the greater the power of faith to materialize our grandest vision. The key is to continue vividly painting the intent you desire and to advance toward that target with a mindset of absolute faith. Let’s say that your ultimate MLM goal is to have a network of ten thousand people that spans the globe. With total belief, the reality of this vision will begin to approach the ‘painting’ that is your inspiration. Here are three questions you should ask yourself to be sure that your spirit is painting a masterpiece that truly represents your grandest entrepreneurial vision: Q. What kind of self am I trying to develop? Q. What future do I envision for myself in networking? Q. What do I desire most to accomplish through my greatest network marketing efforts? The quality of lifestyle we experience through our MLM endeavors depends on what is in our spirit. Heartfelt prayers will definitely be answered. Once we have determined that something is possible, then consistent with our minds in thinking so, even things seemingly

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impossible can become attainable; not easily attainable perhaps, but still feasible. As Henry Ford said: “If you think you can or you think you can’t, you are always right.” Likewise, if we have the confidence that we can definitely do something, we are already one step closer to achieving it. Firm faith in the power of your spirit is essential to success. The power of the universe is in our spirit. Its ability to shape our lives is absolute. Faith empowers us to command supreme belief and radiate intense hope even amid circumstances that appear demoralizing or disheartening. For mastery of our MLM ambitions, we need to develop faith ⎯ which is positive expectancy ⎯ that good things will always be happening in our business. To facilitate such occurrences, we need to be prepared with inspiring affirmations. One that is worth saying to yourself before you do any important networking tasks is this: “If I was ever sure of anything, I am sure of this right now . . . the result will be perfect!” Pessimistic thoughts and feelings of a negative nature influence your network by manifesting paltry results. Networkers with vast streams of negativity flowing from them, create effects for themselves that perfectly match their stinking thinking. It is vitally important ⎯ as an empowered networker ⎯ to be an optimistic thinker toward all facets of your opportunity. Develop the discipline of conveying only good news and positive information whenever you conduct any entrepreneurial interaction . . . especially with the newest people in your organization. Become the positive end of the magnet attracting the things you most desire. Magnetize your condition by having the self-confidence that you can attract anything you want. State the following affirmation for whatever you truly crave within your MLM venture, whether a substantial residual income, motivated leaders, global expansion, firedup networkers, increased confidence when presenting . . . whatever.

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Just add a description of an empowering desire at the beginning of the affirmation. Hold this vibration of thought, believe you will attain your aspiration and continually fan it with positive expectation. With this power of faith, you absolutely will achieve it. ¾ The best result will come to me, at the best time, in the best way, and with benefits for all concerned. I will accept it when it comes and I will be empowered by it! We need to take absolute control of our MLM endeavors, directing our business toward its most dazzling future. When we live with such a magnificent vision, our enterprise will sparkle with jewels of good fortune and accomplishment. We can then confidently participate in a wonderful journey through life in which our network marketing aspirations one after another are achieved within a sphere of scintillating brilliance. It is my sincere hope that each of you who makes the effort to apply the Power Philosophy, will steadfastly advance one step at a time toward a grand and towering MLM ideal. I wish you Godspeed as you sustain your quest for success, walking forth on roads, traveling over mountains and crossing seas, as need be, to reach your aim. At the same time, causing a positive revolution of your character that will make our world, for all mankind, a better place in which to live. Ponder this thought-provoking quotation from one of Japan’s most revered leaders, Daisaku Ikeda, and have faith that you can positively impact the world: “A great revolution of character in just a single man will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation, and, further, will cause a change in the destiny of all mankind.” Amen!

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iches, as defined within MLM Power, represent all of the incredible rewards the business of network marketing has to offer, including the luxury of time freedom, prosperity, applause, recognition, wisdom, exotic travel, residual income, friendship, success and financial independence. All of these assets are wealth to a network marketer and are considered as part of the richness of MLM. If you desire to attract an avalanche of abundance into your personal world, you must become mentally wealthy by developing a ‘prosperity consciousness’. This means to be aware of the unlimited affluence that continually surrounds you, both inside the realm of network marketing and outside MLM encompassing all facets of your life. Within this Section Ten, you will learn how to develop an enlightened awareness of riches. You will realize the importance of having supreme faith in your wealth-creating abilities. Your present level of riches, or lack thereof, results from your thinking. What you program into your mental powerhouse is what you will get. Your mind and your dominant beliefs are what create your current reality. Your mind will keep you rich or poor depending on how well you fine-tune it for attracting abundance. Your thoughts are energy . . . they are powerful forces. Therefore, what you think, speak and believe is what materializes throughout all aspects of your networking business . . . both positive and negative. Believe that every financial desire can be attained and you will create a consciousness of prosperity in your mind. Think poor and stay poor or think rich and become rich. THINK RICH! It is through applying this power that you will manifest the conditions of wealth and abundance you desire through your networking endeavors.

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“Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.” Eric Butterworth

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aving a ‘prosperity consciousness’ means many things. It means being mentally rich. It means creating thoughts of generosity, abundance and affluence. It means becoming aware of the absolute bounty of the universe that is a river of wealth running daily through our lives. It means developing the discipline of being rich and outgoing to all people. It means offering the gift of oneself by contributing as much pleasure to others as possible. It means embracing all mankind in a compassionate hug, and it means being open-armed to the world in its abundant totality. Within the arena of network marketing, become empowered by displaying the characteristics of a businessman or woman who gives more than receives. Be generous with the time you spend mentoring networkers. Be generous with your endeavors toward building a large networking enterprise that can positively transform many lives. Be generous in the quality of effort you put into your quest toward mastery of MLM. Be generous in the respect you show for all areas of your particular network marketing opportunity. You can afford to be generous, for an endless source of wealth and riches is forever accessible to you when you choose the path that leads to a prosperity consciousness.

The Ocean Of MLM The Ocean of MLM is an analogy for the richness of the entire spectrum of network marketing. For this ocean contains in abundance all that you could ever desire to attain through your most ardent networking efforts: all the trappings of success, all the time freedom, all the accumulated wisdom of the ages, all the financial independence, all the recognition and applause, and all the riches of life.

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Some networkers venture to the Ocean of MLM and merely take a cupful of the lavishness it holds, whilst others take almost nothing. You can choose to drive a turbo-pump right into the depths of this ocean so that you can obtain every drop of success desired. No matter how much you take from the Ocean of MLM, and even though millions of networkers worldwide are continuously taking on a daily basis, there is no way it will ever run dry. This is not possible, because the Ocean of MLM is infinitely full. The container that is used to take from the Ocean of MLM is your consciousness . . . your thoughts. It is not important what has previously happened in your life, what matters is where you are now heading. With network marketing, you have a vehicle upon which you can hitch your star. What will determine your level of networking success is what you now think and believe about prosperity. It is your ability to make decisions, and your capacity to accept this wealth into your life, that will attract infinite riches to you.

Develop An Awareness Of The Abundance Of MLM Develop an awareness of the marvelous abundance of your networking opportunity and feed your mind positive thoughts of all that it entails. It will be the consequence of your choices as to whether you experience prosperity and develop a flourishing MLM organization, or whether you encounter lack and scarcity. This instant, now, why not evaluate your awareness of prosperity in these areas: ¾ Income: Does your MLM venture produce a large stream of residual income, or none at all? Do you have thousands of eager networkers in your group who are toiling on your behalf each hour of every day, or do you have only a few half-hearted individuals who don’t

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even care about their own success, let alone yours? Think about it, how much money do you need to begin in most network marketing businesses . . . how much money to build a networking enterprise that can literally span the globe and produce untold abundance? The answer is an infinitesimal sum to purchase a rudimentary starterpack in most present day network marketing companies. It’s not the amount of money that’s the critical issue in determining MLM success, it’s a combination of two factors: personal effort and mindset. In terms of personal effort, the key principle is this: the more effort you give, the more reward you will receive. Regarding your mindset, learn to display generosity in your attitude to enjoying money, because what you think ⎯ empowering or disempowering ⎯ will determine how much income you are blessed with. When your mindset changes from insufficiency to abundance, you will positively transform your consciousness. This will greatly influence your income and you will grow richer. ¾ Time: Do you have plenty of time with which to build a thriving networking organization, or do you always feel time-pressured to the limit, thereby accomplishing objectives of little value? Again, what you think and believe is what will be produced in your reality. If you feel you have all the time in the world in which to manifest your grandest MLM vision, you will intuitively experience an abundance of it. Remember that every networker has the same twenty-four hours available in each day for building his or her own network and for developing leaders within their group. It is your thoughts and beliefs concerning time and how you schedule it that makes the greatest difference to your overall success. ¾ Enthusiasm: Do you display great passion for your specific network marketing business, or do you constantly experience weariness? If you are literally ‘on-fire’ for the possibilities inherent in your particular opportunity, then you are wealthy in terms of enthusiasm and you will possess vibrant zest in large measure. You command the choice . . . you can arise each morning feeling healthy, strong

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and full of energy ready to give your all for another magnificent day of tremendous accomplishment. Whether you exude boundless enthusiasm for network marketing or you convey boredom, remember this is always your choice. ¾ Success: How do you feel about achievement in your networking endeavors? Are you experiencing successful circumstances, or not? It is all controlled from within you . . . by your mindset. If you think of yourself as being successful, whatever success ultimately means to you, then this is great and you are prosperous in success. Understand that it is your choice as to whether you develop an awareness of all the possibilities and opportunities that surround you within the MLM profession, or whether you do not. It is your awareness of this extravagance of potentiality that will manifest good fortune in your life. To create a powerful prosperity consciousness, your mind must be tuned to the wavelength of riches and abundance . . . synchronized with the frequency of success. You must amplify a state of mind that absolutely accepts there is enough of everything for everyone. You must develop a mental powerhouse that looks at all entrepreneurial business opportunities as wondrous adventures full of rewarding experiences and enormous personal fulfillment. As an empowered network marketer, you possess a wealth of entrepreneurial skills that are just waiting for the Action-Steps to put them into forward motion. So . . . act today and choose to attract the affluence you desire by creating a vivid prosperity consciousness. Decide now to magnetize the power of riches in your life through this empowering mindset.

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nother step toward magnetizing the power of riches and developing a strong prosperity consciousness is to understand there are an unlimited number of extraordinary opportunities for increasing abundance that can be found throughout all aspects of a network marketing enterprise: ¾ Extraordinary opportunities for escalating wealth to outrageous financial levels. ¾ Extraordinary opportunities for developing an empowered entrepreneurial spirit. ¾ Extraordinary opportunities for creating a worldclass standard of living. An attitude tuned to the frequency of prosperity and abundance will be your guide toward an unlimited number of life-transforming possibilities within MLM. Where are they you ask? Everywhere . . . all around us at all times. Focus your mind on positive outcomes and develop an attitude of “I can see extraordinary opportunities everywhere” and definitely you will soon see them.

Acknowledge The Incredible Abundance Within Network Marketing Learn to honor the phenomenal exuberance of wealth that exists within the MLM opportunity. Allow yourself to become aware of the incredible potential for abundance that exists in your specific company. Look for and acknowledge the tremendous affluence and the vast storehouse of riches that surround you every day in the network marketing business . . . it is in the smallest things as well as the greatest:

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It is in the global business opportunity It is in the encouragement of the mentors It is in the dedication of your upline leaders It is in the diverse training programs offered It is in the high income-producing possibilities It is in the friendship of your fellow networkers It is in the determination of striving entrepreneurs

For this abundance, be appreciative and show gratitude. Develop the habit of saying thank you to the universe on a regular basis for bringing these fabulous opportunities to you. Learn to appreciate everything in your life. There is no lack or limitation in this world. The only lack is in your own mind, caused by poverty thinking. As the Bible states: “The power that has created us has put everything here for us, and it is up to us to deserve and accept.” Look for and behold the enormous wealth that is all around us in the MLM industry. Not just in the colossal earnings of successful networkers, but in everything. Do not wait for things to come to you. Take action to make it happen and search for things in MLM right now that you can feel prosperous about. Express appreciation for the top earners in your particular company who are blessed with having massive incomes. This is the best way to set your mind into the acceptancemode ready for a flood of riches to materialize for you. Recognition of the prosperity that surrounds you will definitely help to ease you along the journey to attaining fulfillment with non-material wealth. As Oscar Wilde declared: “Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”

The Abundant Opportunities In MLM Are Everywhere Network marketing, in its kaleidoscopic splendor, is here for us to celebrate its many wondrous facets. In this business, there are an

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extraordinary number of opportunities to experience, but at times we see only lack and limitation. We must learn how to gaze deeper into the true essence of MLM . . . recognizing that the possibilities surrounding us are infinite. This will positively affect our prosperity consciousness so that we can attract more wealth through our entrepreneurial activities. The abundant opportunities inherent in MLM have brilliantly revolutionized the way millions and millions of people worldwide now conduct business. What was once seen as distasteful or inappropriate, for many is now a mainstream pathway to success and affluence. We must acknowledge that there are immense opportunities surrounding us in network marketing. But we must also accept the fact that nothing will transpire until we make a commitment to personal excellence in our networking endeavors. It is only when we combine the enormous force of a prosperity consciousness together with personal excellence that we will reap the rewards of abundant success. To illustrate this, three Power Questions will now be asked of you, each one with a portrayal of how best to take effective action to attain outstanding results through excellent performance: ¾ Commitment: Do I possess the fortitude to stick-with-it and build a flourishing network? When a couple celebrates their Golden 50th Wedding Anniversary, they are applauded for their commitment to each other. This magical word ‘commitment’ is the secret of their successful marriage. The same is true of networking or any other business . . . to be successful one must stay committed to the job at hand. Why is it then that many networkers quit working with one company as soon as they hit a rocky patch, then ‘jump into bed’ with another networking venture? These people obviously do not know the secret of success, which is to stay firmly committed to excellent performance at only one business opportunity.

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¾ Grand Vision: Have I defined the breathtaking dreams that can inspire my organization to enthusiastic action? Most networkers confuse a grand vision with vague ideas of what they want for their lives. Whenever asked to describe the most wondrous visualization of their ‘dream’ car or ‘dream’ house or ‘dream’ lifestyle, they reply with vague descriptions that are fuzzy images. These are not a grand vision at all, but weak prayers without even the faith to launch them. It is only the grandest of visions that can empower you with the dynamism needed to pursue your networking endeavors with excellent performance . . . every day, not just once in a while. If you want to attain success within the networking profession, you must arise with a fire in your gut every morning. A grand vision of your greatest desires will light this motivational fire. ¾ Action-Plans: How potent are the plans which can trigger explosive growth within my network? Once a networker has expressed his or her firm COMMITMENT to excellent performance within one particular networking enterprise, they must light a blazing fire of enthusiasm that can’t be extinguished. This flaming passion is ignited through a GRAND VISION for a future that is so enormously compelling they are driven to succeed. Next is the development of written ACTION-PLANS to empower themselves and the members of their organization with a specific direction in which to aim their greatest efforts. Once the true course is established, enthusiastic ACTION-STEPS must be taken. These four components, when implemented in unison, will almost certainly guarantee the conquest of any network marketing opportunity worldwide.

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ou have a responsibility to succeed with the building of your networking organization on a massive wealth-creating scale that positively transforms the lives of the multitude . . . you are obligated to accomplish your networking desires and become prosperous. Recognize that the more success you attain, the stronger your position to help other networkers reach affluence in their lives. Become victorious by building a global business and you have an opportunity to impact literally tens of thousands of people worldwide . . . but fail and you will be helping no one at all. Be a winner by developing a powerful prosperity consciousness that can propel you forward to awesome achievement. Be one of the leaders and create the mindset of a champion in all networking activities. By being in the winner’s circle of life you are in the best place from which to positively impact the lives of other people. Champions breed champions. Be one of the leaders and discover the extraordinary possibilities that exist within MLM. It is your responsibility to be successful. When you are a winner it rubs off on others. Enthusiasm is contagious . . . so is success. By being a member of the winner’s circle, you can personally decide to assist vast numbers of networkers.

Be Generous And Contribute To The Success Of Other Networkers In networking, as with most things in life, we get back what we give out. This is best expressed this way: The more we give, the more we get. This is why some people earn so much from this business . . . financially and emotionally. These individuals take advantage of the unlimited opportunities to contribute good to others. The most successful networkers have an urge to positively transform the lives of all members of their networks by giving of themselves. The phrase ‘living is giving’ comes to mind, as does this story of The Two Seas.

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The Two Seas The Sea of Galilee is fed by many rivers and streams rich in minerals, nutrients and oxygen. It receives their contribution and passes it on. It receives, it gives and it lives. The Sea of Galilee is a living sea! Likewise, the Dead Sea is fed by many rivers and streams rich in minerals, nutrients and oxygen. But rather than receiving their contribution and passing it on, it keeps and stores. The Dead Sea doesn’t give and it doesn’t live. It is a dead sea! So goes your life: If you give, you live . . . and the more you give, the more you live. The same applies to your networking organization: the more you give, the more you get back. Do not decide that when you get, then you will give. You have to give first . . . then you will receive what you desire, multiplied too.

Do You Want To Be Wealthy? Mix With Wealthy People The positive energy of successful people is an aura of power, which you should tap into. For instance: prosperous entrepreneurs think rich thoughts, make great wealth-creating decisions, develop extreme ActionPlans and complete successful projects. You can avail of this vibration of positive ‘affluence’ energy and use it to your tremendous advantage just by being in the presence of prosperous individuals. You meet a multitude of people every day through your networking endeavors. Choose to associate with only those wealthy or flamboyant human beings you want to be like in your life. Without too many exceptions, the kind of person you hang around with is the kind of individual you are. It is known that if losers hang around with stray dogs long enough, they will surely catch fleas. Winners choose instead to soar with the eagles, flying high in the stratosphere of success.

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¾ Do you want to be a star networker? Make friends with the leaders and model their commitment. ¾ Do you want to be an empowered mentor? Be mentored yourself by the best mentors in network marketing. ¾ Do you want to be a competent leader? Develop your leadership skills and abilities extensively. ¾ Do you want to be an effective presenter of your MLM opportunity? Practice yours every day. ¾ Do you want to be a gifted orator? Learn speech techniques from talented linguists. ¾ Do you want to attain incredible wealth? Do business with a direct sales millionaire and model his or her strategies. ¾ Do you want to be successful in networking? Mix with a champion networker and model his or her winning qualities. Join a reputable network marketing company to have an opportunity to mix with wealthy, resourceful and empowered networkers. Ensure you go to the places where the kinds of people you want to be like are gathering. Association works.

Get Invisible Counseling From Special Role Models As well as real-life role models, you need the support of invisible counselors. Whether you ever had the chance to meet them, this doesn’t matter. These should be successful people who, during their lives, accomplished things you respect and admire. Select people whom you can feel an affinity with. You may have never met your heroes, but let them inspire you to success nonetheless. Examples could include: ¾ Inventors: Leonardo de Vinci or Thomas Edison ¾ Explorers: Marco Polo or Christopher Columbus

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Philosophers: Aristotle or Socrates Authors: Jane Austen or Charles Dickens Track Stars: Carl Lewis or Wilma Randolph Conquerors: Genghis Khan or Julius Caesar Industrialists: Henry Ford or Andrew Carnegie Females: Madame Curie or Florence Nightingale Ancients: Alexander the Great or Cleopatra of Egypt

You can receive incredible inspiration from your invisible counselors. Obtain pictures of your role models and put them into a prosperity file or hang them on your walls. These people are your ‘mentors for success’ and their virtuous character traits are what you should try to emulate for your own good fortune. Fuel your fires of desire by often acknowledging your role models. Feel great joy whenever their past success is mentioned. Imagine yourself attaining the same victories as these people did during their lives. The triumphs and glories that were theirs can be yours too if you will adjust your thoughts from lack and scarcity to prosperity and abundance. Let your heroes be a source of guidance and encouragement along the journey to success in network marketing. There are excellent examples of leadership all around the MLM world. Use these successful networkers as mentors. The top earners, universally, will share their ideas, their methods, their strategies and their techniques with all networkers who are eager to learn. The winners don’t hold back, they give their all in the belief that everyone benefits. Being prosperous is your responsibility. So take it upon yourself to drink from all sources . . . anything that empowers you to success as a networker is invaluable. Learn from the leading role models and continue the process of personal transformation.

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“Take your satisfactions from service, constantly seek to expand and improve it; take no thoughts for the money, which is always the ‘result’ of service; and you will find yourself involved in an abundance that is unshakeable for it comes from the roots of the soul.” U.S. Anderson

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oney ranks highly in the minds of most networkers because it affords the means to supply the greatest desires of mankind. Status, recognition, independence, security, even greed, are all motivating factors for an accumulation of money. For any given individual, however, it is not easy to say which are the most important factors for wanting more money. As network marketer Angelo D’Amico said: “Money is not the key to happiness. But the more money you have, the easier it is to get the key made.” What then is the value of money? Certainly it does not mean the same thing to all people, with a degree of financial autonomy to one person seeming almost like poverty to another. The value you place on money is found in many factors, including what financial independence actually means to you. Financial independence is financial freedom. It is the ability to live for the remainder of your life without outside help, working if you choose to do so but only if you truly desire. It means for you to have enough money or income for the rest of your life to do and have whatever you want. The extent to which you can become financially independent is determined by a number of factors, most of which you control: ¾ Method: The particular financial vehicle that you choose for producing an income stream. For instance, this could be your specific business opportunity within the network marketing industry. ¾ Amount: The exact amount of money or income you desire to attain. Be specific, both for short-term sums and for long-term residual income streams. ¾ Time-frame: The precise number of months or years allocated to reach your objectives.

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¾ Commitment: The quality and quantity of effort committed to the tasks . . . the greater one’s determination, the higher the rewards. ¾ Desire: The strength of the desires you have. A small fire will produce only minimal heat, whereas a large fire can become an inferno. ¾ Belief: Your level of self-belief and the positive expectancy you display toward the attainment of your aims will be a self-fulfilling prophesy. ¾ Knowledge: What specialized knowledge do you possess within the specific area of earnings? Perhaps an eighth factor could be classified as luck. However, I do not subscribe to this loser’s philosophy and you will find that not one of the most successful network marketers believes it either. We make our own luck in life by working hard at that which we most like to do. It is an astounding fact: The harder we work . . . the luckier we get!

Abundance Affirmation To Attract Financial Independence An excellent discipline to cultivate is in the creation of a magnetic attraction to wealth and abundance. This magnetism is formed when the mindset is tuned-in to the frequency of affluence. This Abundance Affirmation will begin the process of magnetizing your prosperity consciousness as you read through it from time to time, especially at those moments when you are feeling financially impoverished: I am blessed with a new awareness of prosperity and abundance, and I experience a steady increase in material wealth. Wonderful financial opportunities come into my life daily and an endless supply of money is attracted to me. A golden river of glittering riches flows through my life, bringing with it success, happiness and contentment.

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Everything I touch is successful and every endeavor in which I am involved brings forth the maximum rewards, for I conduct my life with dignity and integrity. I display great generosity, taking advantage of the unlimited opportunities to contribute to others. Any good that I can do my fellow man I shall do it now, for I may never pass this way again. I understand that the more I give, the more I will receive. Divine intelligence supports me in all I do, and I trust the flow of abundance in my life to produce perfect results.

Your Formula For Attainment One indisputable truth is that to attain any sizeable accumulation of money, or develop a large residual income stream, one must first have a burning desire to increase their riches. The following seven-step Formula for Attainment will help you to establish how strong your financial motivations are. This formula, although primarily intended for the accumulation of money, can actually be adapted and applied to any objective within network marketing: 1. Be specific and state the exact amount of money desired through your MLM opportunity. 2. Establish a deadline for the accumulation of this money at an exact date in the future. 3. State the exact product or service you intend providing to attain this sum of money. 4. Develop a detailed Action-Plan, listing the exact Action-Steps required to achieve this goal. 5. Write the above four points as a clear concise statement on a fresh sheet of paper. 6. Repeat this statement out loud with intense enthusiasm in your voice, at least once a day. 7. Take immediate enthusiastic action toward the attainment of this amount of money, and keep persisting until you reach the target. 288

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Following is an example of a specific written Formula for Attainment for a network marketer: Formula for Attainment My chief financial aim is to have ONE MILLION US DOLLARS as my personal worth on May 31, 2008 This amount of One Million US Dollars will come to me by May 31, 2008 as my personal reward for doing the best with every financial opportunity that presents itself to me within the realm of my networking business opportunity. This includes developing my MLM enterprise to its full global potential. I have made a personal commitment to excellence and will perform all my tasks with dignity, integrity and passion. I have supreme faith that One Million US Dollars will be my personal worth by May 31, 2008. My belief is so strong that I can clearly see myself in possession of this money on the appointed date. I will build my network to the best of my abilities and also the groups of the networkers in my organization. I will constantly generate inspirational ideas by which to accumulate this amount, and I will keep making dynamic plans and taking persistent action on these ideas at the most fortuitous times for all concerned. I know that: If it is to be . . . it is up to me! Therefore, in return for this personal worth of One Million US Dollars by May 31, 2008, I will give the most efficient service of which I am capable, rendering the fullest possible quantity and the best possible quality of service to all people at all times. The riches I desire will divinely follow.

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inancial independence is the situation most networkers dream of attaining ⎯ doing what they want to do when they want to do it, and having what they want to have when they want to have it ⎯ but many people never reach anywhere near this situation. The most successful networkers, those who create affluence to outrageous extremes, are the ones who are in control of their lives, not controlled by their circumstances or the happenings that surround them every day. Be sure that, as you begin your journey to attain the riches desired through being an on-fire network marketer, you are the one directing your life by way of your most self-empowering beliefs. Through the great law of attraction, all things will manifest in your life that you wholeheartedly believe. Every single circumstance of your life has been attracted to you by your innermost thoughts and beliefs. You are literally a product of your own mind. Yes . . . you are truly what you think!

Creative Relaxation Exercise For Wealth-Creating Beliefs A successful outcome to any task depends primarily on confident thoughts of excellence being held in mind throughout that particular endeavor. Thoughts are pulses of energy and have real power. As such, any positive thought or empowering belief held by the mind has a force that will eventually manifest a positive result or an empowering effect. Following is a Creative Relaxation exercise to be repeated consistently, which will manifest beliefs of an affluent nature. You should practice this exercise during your Creating Periods . . . 10-15 minutes spent quietly in deep thought or mental relaxation.

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Creative Relaxation Exercise Become calm and tranquil . . . be at peace with the world . . . and relax completely. As you mentally affirm the following, know that your mind will absorb the full impact of the words and will manifest the reality of an abundant and limitless life for you . . . now. All that I desire for my life is mine through the creative power of my mind. This is my birthright, part of the incredible gift of life from infinite intelligence, part of my unlimited personal power and positive potential. Life-force, which represents love, life, light, health, wealth and happiness, is mine to share in peace and harmony with everyone. I have a deep understanding of my personal power and take full responsibility for directing my own destiny. As I breathe in life-force, I imagine a new way of life opening up and energizing me. I feel radiantly alive. I picture my new life exactly as I want it to be. It is here now and I savor it all. I let go of the old and live in the new. I rule over my personal universe ⎯ my physical body ⎯ with love and respect for myself. Life-force soothes, heals, repairs and restores. Every nerve, cell and system in my body responds immediately to the unifying power of life-force. All functions of my body are in perfect harmony with life-force. My eating, sleeping and drinking habits are all consistent with my needs for maintaining vibrant good health and phenomenal creative energy. I welcome every new day, for each one is inspiring and filled with extraordinary opportunities for success and achievement. Life is adventure, life is fun, life is happiness, life is joyful, life is exciting, life is love, life is great health, life is prosperity, life is abundance, life is empowerment, life is celebration, life is wisdom, life is passion, life is desire, life is rich, life is ecstasy and life is magnificent. This is exactly the way I manifest my life. For every day in every way I choose to live my life to the maximum with dignity, with integrity and with noble purpose.

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Whenever you return from a period of Creative Relaxation, you will bring back to your physical reality all the power, peace and selfrealization that you were experiencing in that creative center of natural calm and control. This creative meditation is your lifeline to the infinite power of the universe.

Be The Best You Can Be In MLM Success is being your best . . . not someone else’s best. It is not what you get that makes you a winner, but what you consistently do with what you’ve got. Being successful is no more and no less than doing your best, giving your best and being your best in everything you do, every day of your life. As Sir Edmund Hillary, the first conqueror of Mt. Everest, said: “Aim high . . . there is little virtue in easy victory.” It makes no difference what is going on out there in the world, what makes the greatest difference is how you look at it. Instead of viewing your glass of life as half empty, look at it as half full . . . and know that you possess the supreme power to fill it all the way to the top. Every networker needs a solid philosophy to be the right kind of individual and build a successful life. The empowering principles taught throughout this MLM Power book will help people create their own Power Philosophy. With this mindset, you can become the kind of person who magnetizes your circumstances and attracts successful results. Utilize the inspiring messages and empowering principles within these pages, study the lessons, master the fundamentals, learn the quotations, have faith, believe in your abilities, grow in self-confidence, be enthusiastic, do what you love and love what you do, make plans, take action, be persistent . . . and reap the rewards of success with a life of fantastic riches and colossal abundance.

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Spread The Wings Of Your Soul We all have wings. Not the wings of an angel or the wings of a dove or any other wings you have ever seen. These are the wings of the holy human spirit. Wings that lift the mind and heart to the highest places. Wings for all the great dreamers in our midst who will see them and go forward, inspired to try to stretch the infinite frontiers of human possibility. The wings of your soul are invisible to the eyes; they can only be seen by the heart and by the imagination. You have to believe in them and use them to embrace change. To see how they work, you must take courageous action and face risks in challenging situations. You must believe in the unlimited abundance of the universe and understand that extraordinary opportunities exist in all areas of your wondrous life, then you can fly. Now is the time for you to stop drifting in the wind and time to conquer your limiting beliefs. Now is the time for you to spread the magnificent and limitless wings of your eternal soul. Be brave and chivalrous, be courageous and confident, be dynamic and daring, be passionate and loving, be exciting and inspirational and be the scintillating new highly empowered you. Be an empowered entrepreneurial spirit, spread the wings of your soul and soar in the heavens to unlimited and almighty heights of love, wisdom, peace, joy, wealth and happiness. May God bless you on your journey through life, both as an exceptional network marketer and as a truly remarkable human being with awesome possibilities before you.

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Epilogue So there you have it, MLM Power, my comprehensive guide to how you may attain ultimate network marketing empowerment. One way to positively transform your life, igniting it into an inferno of magnificent empowerment, is through following the winning disciplines of this easy to remember acronym: N.E.T.W.O.R.K. N. Never quit: You must make a commitment to do whatever it takes through thick and thin to get where you desire to go. E. Expand your vision: The grandest vision of your most golden future is what will keep you on the right track to success. T. Try personal excellence: This is making the greatest use of what you’ve got and doing your very best under all circumstances. W. Want massive success: Having a genuine urge to succeed (G.U.T.S.) is what will keep your fires of desire burning strong. O. Outline Action-Plans : When you plan your objectives, what you are doing is designing your life for maximum success. R. Risk taking dynamic Action-Steps : All large achievement comes as the result of successfully accomplishing multiple steps of action. K. Know that you are responsible for your life: Your ultimate destiny lies within your own two hands. If it is to be . . . it is up to me. Now go for it . . . and may God bless you on your own miraculous journey along the infinite and ever-empowering road of life. Enthusiastically yours,

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I have a personal request . . . Please write and tell me how any aspect of MLM POWER has positively affected your life. Why not share your success stories with me so that I may use them as inspirational examples to others? What Action-Steps have you taken to dramatically change the direction of your life for the better? Please explain what you have done different as a result of reading this book? What have you been motivated to achieve? In how many ways has your life been empowered? How have you improved as a person? What secrets have you learned about building your network marketing business to the maximum? What tips do you have that I can pass on to future readers? Do you have a favorite story, quote or insight about networking or direct sales that you’d like to share with others? Please send your illustrations to me and soon they may appear together with your name in a future book for all to see. I am eager to hear from you. Thank you for reading my work and for fully participating in the journey of life. Please contact me at the following e-mail:

[email protected] I look forward to hearing from you soon. Enthusiastically yours,

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