Listening to one of my favorite audios in the car earlier this week, he reminded me of a very important business fact. It applies doubly to online business and internet success.
What he said was that success is a marathon and not a sprint.
We all know this, but sometimes it's important to remind ourselves and really take it to heart. In today’s fast paced world of instant gratification and immediate feedback.
We want everything right now. Just look at video games, movies "on demand", and online anything. Instant gratification is the name of the game and the marketers know it. With the internet, they'll even deliver anything they can instantly. (ebooks, movies, and special access areas.)
We are bombarded by messages that tell use that this or that is the instant solution to whatever problem we need solved. Why? IT WORKS!!! We are called to action, and we take it with our plastic card or paypal account.
As sellers, we can use this to our advantage, but when buying we must realize that no matter what we're being told their will be WORK involved.
I've bought and tried just about anything and everything online that promises to help me make money quickly and guess what? Mostly it's good information, but none of it has lead to instant wealth in my life. The experiences gained while trying all these different things has given me a hard earned education. Actually it is this experience over time along with the information that turns into revenue.
We all know if you treat your business like a sprint and jump into every business opportunity thinking that if you just get in early and push hard that money will fall in your lap, you'll fail every single time. Rather real success online or with network marketing comes from consistent and persistent focused effort aimed towards your ONE goal! A goal that is different for each of us.
For instance, Internet network marketing is my chosen niche for a reason. I love the speed of results that can be created in an online world, but I equally love the security and financial freedom that a strong and thriving network marketing organization affords.
I know that if I can master both internet and network marketing that I will be able to grow a large thriving network marketing organization FASTER than if I do it solely offline. (I've done the off line thing for a long time.)
Even at this, I know that it's a marathon and not a sprint.
So stop and ask yourself right now . . . Are you committed enough to your business and your future that you would devote the next 3 to 5 years of your life to it to see big results? To achieve internet success.
Network marketing can give you more freedom in your life than you can ever imagine if you just approach it as a marathon and not a sprint. The dream is true and its there if you want it. You have to give your time and your passion to your business and your organization.
Rome was not built in a day and neither will your network marketing financially free lifestyle no matter what THEY say! Remember it is a marathon not a sprint.
Steve Peck
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Why Punish Yourself For The Faults of Someone Else?
"Why Punish Yourself For The Faults of Someone Else?" What a great question to ask yourself when you're mad or feeling upset with someone.
I heard this the other night at a "Tea Party" given be the Tzu Chi Foundation. (http://www.tzuchi.org) One of my daughters was in a group receiving scholarship awards from this group and my wife & I were there as guests. It was a wonderful event put on by a gracious and caring group of people.
After the ceremony, there was a chance to mingle with the Tzu Chi members. One of the women members was telling me about the founder, Cheng Yen who started the organization in Taiwan over 40 years ago. It was Cheng Yen who asked the question "Why Punish Yourself.....". It really struck me.
I had to stop and wonder, where has being mad or upset taken me off task or made me less effective. Many times we all let others effect us in negative ways. This simple question shifts the perspective all around. So Simple yet So Powerful.
Have a great day,
Steve Peck
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When Should You Give Up, Some Thoughts
The other day I as watching a baseball game, 15 and 16 year old boys. In the 2nd inning one of the teams had a rally and got 5 runs in. (It was my son's team so I was happy) But I over heard a couple of dads comment that "here we go again, its over now!"
Wow, giving up already and there were still at least 4 innings left. It just made me wonder....where do I do this in my life? Is there someplace where this is my reaction and I don't even know it?
As I thought more about it, it was clearly an area worthy of some reflection and inquiry. Was there, or maybe there always is, someplace I was accepting defeat unknowingly. Was it in my personal life, my business.....hmmm.
I've been reflecting on this for the last several days...and then I noticed I hadn't even made this note to my blog which was part of my initial thought. Now what does that say......?
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The Red Marble
Here is a story I've heard before...read it today again and just thought it was worth sharing. Enjoy!
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A Red Marble
During the waning years of the depression in a small southeastern
Idaho community, I used to stop by Mr. Miller's roadside stand for
farm fresh produce as the season made it available. Food and money
were still extremely scarce and bartering was used, extensively.
One particular day Mr. Miller was bagging some early potatoes for
me. I noticed a small boy, delicate of bone and feature, ragged
but clean, hungrily apprising a basket of freshly picked green
peas. I paid for my potatoes but was also drawn to the display of
fresh green peas.
I am a pushover for creamed peas and new potatoes. Pondering the
peas, I couldn't help overhearing the conversation between Mr.
Miller and the ragged boy next to me.
"Hello Barry, how are you today?"
"Hello Mr. Miller, Fine, thank you. Just admiring those peas...
sure look good."
"They are good, Barry. How's your Mother?"
"Fine. Getting stronger all the time."
"Good. Anything I can help you with?"
"No, Sir. Just admiring those peas."
"Would you like to take some home?"
"No, Sir. I don't have anything to pay for them with."
"Well, what have you to trade me for some of those peas?"
"All I have is my prize marble here."
"Is that right? Let me see it."
"Here it is. She's a dandy."
"I can see that. Hmmmm, only thing is this one is blue and I sort
of go for red. Do you have a red one like this at home?"
"Not exactly...but, almost."
"Tell you what. Take this sack of peas home with you and next trip
this way let me look at that red marble."
"Sure will. Thanks, Mr. Miller."
Mrs. Miller, who had been standing nearby, came over to help me.
With a smile she said: "There are two other boys like him in our
community, all three are in very poor circumstances. Jim just
loves to bargain with them for peas, apples, tomatoes or
whatever."
"When they come back with their red marbles, and they always do,
he decides he doesn't like red after all and he sends them home
with a bag of produce for a green marble or an orange one,
perhaps."
I left the stand, smiling to myself, impressed with the man. A
short time later I moved to Utah but I never forgot the story of
this man, the boys and their bartering.
Several years went by each more rapid than the previous one. Just
recently I had occasion to visit some old friends in that Idaho
community and while I was there learned that Mr. Miller had died.
They were having his viewing that evening and knowing my friends
wanted to go, I agreed to accompany them. Upon our arrival at the
mortuary we fell into line to meet the relatives of the deceased
and to offer whatever words of comfort we could.
Ahead of us in line were three young men. One was in an army
uniform and the other two wore nice haircuts, dark suits and white
shirts...very professional looking. They approached Mrs. Miller,
standing smiling and composed, by her husband's casket. Each of
the young men hugged her, kissed her on the cheek, spoke briefly
with her and moved on to the casket. Her misty light blue eyes
followed them as, one by one, each young man stopped briefly and
placed his own warm hand over the cold pale hand in the casket.
Each left the mortuary, awkwardly, wiping his eyes. Our turn came
to meet Mrs. Miller.
I told her who I was and mentioned the story she had told me about
the marbles. Eyes glistening she took my hand and led me to the
casket. "Those three young men, that just left, were the boys I
told you about. They just told me how they appreciated the things
Jim "traded" them. Now, at last, when Jim could not change his
mind about color or size...they came to pay their debt.
"We've never had a great deal of wealth of this world," she
confided, but, right now, Jim would consider himself the richest
man in Idaho."
With loving gentleness she lifted the lifeless fingers of her
deceased husband. Resting underneath were three, magnificently
shiny, red marbles.
We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds.
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Breakthrough Discovery - Checking Your Thinking On This Could Mean The Difference Between Success and Failure
Recently while listening to one of my many personal development audios I focused in on one very important topic discussed. The speaker was talking about the essentials of taking full financial control of one's life. He said that in order to have everything that you want you have to help enough people get everything they want. I think Zig Ziglar said this first. Simple concept.
But then I searched deeper.... and this hit me square between the ears.
It's not necessarily the quality of the service rendered to others that we have trouble with, but rather the QUANTITY.
This was huge! T his truth struck home with me because as I've watch my team grow and leaders begin to emerge it's not the ones that are meticulous about every detail of the business that do the best it's the ones that take massive action that make the big things happen.
You might want to re-read that last paragraph a few time.
It's all about your frame of mind.
For instance . . .
We do training calls every week and I get asked these questions all the time:
"What should I do with the leads that don't join? Is there any way to get them to join?"
I always reply the same way.
"Don't worry about them . . . Go get more prospects."
I think sometimes we get caught up in the singular interactions of network marketing to realize that it's NOT so much about doing every little thing perfectly, but rather getting your message out to as many people as possible.
My whole theory is . . . Why waste time trying to change someone's mind when you can in that same period of time and with the same amount of energy find 20 more people that may be interested in what your doing?
So for today I want to leave you with a little homework.
Ask yourself NOT how can I do it better but how can I do MORE?
Let me know what answers you find.
Steve Peck
DigitalSuccess.info
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