The mind is a powerful thing.  It can be utilized in many great ways, taught many great things and also fooled very easily too.  There are many things you can be doing “in your mind” that make you think you are working your business, when in fact, you are not working at all.

The easy ones are …

• Spending too much time on Facebook.  This is an effective business building tool IF worked properly, but most people waste time on it rather than build relationships – that’s a whole other post!
• Email … another time waster and not business builder.  The #1 goal of most people with email is to ELIMINATE it!  Think about how you read your email …. ‘Glance, glance, glance, delete, delete, delete and delete!”  Email is necessary and used to communicate and if used properly can grow your business.
• “Talking” about your business with others who are already in your business.  Sure, a necessary thing to do is to collaborate with associates, but rule that out of your “active business building activities”.

The above are common sense, however many confuse the above with actual “working” business time and activities.  Think about what activities produces you income?  In my profession, what makes me MONEY is one of 3 primary activities:

1. Meeting someone NEW and scheduling an appointment
2. Conducting an appointment and sharing my company, product and opportunity
3. Making phone calls with my existing contacts to either a) schedule a first-time appointment or b) a follow-up appointment to gain their business.

Keep success simple!  Find your 1-2-3 and work your business in reality, not just in your head.

To your continued success in your business and life every day,

Linda Thomas
‘aka’ WebBizGirl

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Network Marketing is a 30.5 Billion Dollar Industry

85% of Network Marketers are Women!

Ladies! Are you listening?

Men! I’m telling you something!

  WOMEN ARE THE OPPORTUNITY!

Why?  Women are…

• …the primary decision makers of the family purchases.
• …focused on customer needs (they make great reps!)
• …love to socialize, which makes them great at building relationships and teams.
• …in need of time flexibility for their family.  Network marketing provides the best of both worlds – time and money!
• Collaborative thinkers which builds a community of individuals working together for the greater good of everyone.

Want to INCREASE your income?  Find some great women to team up with you!

I have been blessed by generations of great women who have led me on my journey of success in my life.  I am honored to continue to share the legacy for future generations.

You have a choice and the result is a world of difference.     

1. Do you think golfers would love the game better if there were no challenges?  What would the game look like and how fun would it be to play (and watch) if there weren’t sand traps, lakes and uneven greens to navigate?  Would a PGA champion feel like a champion if predictable and attainable by many?

1. ‘Better’ teachers face the same obstacles of the ‘structure’, yet some shine and empower their students to excel while others just get through the school year because it’s just easier to show up and do what is required, rather than go the extra mile.

1. I think we can all agree it is not easy to lose weight, yet some succeed and others do not.  WHY is that?  When someone decides they are going to be better at making choices of what they put into their body, and decides to be better at consistently working out a couple days a week and they decide they want a better life, they realize it is not easy, it takes effort over time.

Today is November 1st (2011) and we enter into the 11th month of yet another year.  Did it go fast?  Did you keep your New Year’s Resolution?  Do you even remember what it was?

I challenge you to GIVE UP on making resolutions and GET BUSY living on purpose EVERY day while you are here and while you have a chance to do something with your life.

Life’s BIG Questions …

1. What do you stand for?
2. What would you die for?
3. Who do you love?
4. Who loves you?
5. What makes you feel alive?
6. What is your personal mission statement?
7. What are you passionate about?
8. What motivates you?
9. What interests you?
10. What do you want the message of your life to be?

These questions are NOT difficult, but what is difficult is living a life without these questions being answered.

To your continued success in your business and life always,

Linda Thomas

aka ‘WebBizGirl’
realcards@gmail.com

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Personally, I’ve never been a huge fan of the word “failure”.  It is like another bad “F” word.  However, I have learned to accept it in my vocabulary because in life and in business, those who see the most success are those who actually have failed!

• Babe Ruth set the world record for the most home runs.  He also led the league in strike outs.
• Michael Jordan won 6 NBA Championships.  He also was cut from his high school basketball team because the coach said, “he wasn’t good enough”.    
• Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb (which we know as electricity today).  He also found 10,000 ways that didn’t work first.
• Colonel Sanders at the age of 64 hit the jackpot with his “secret recipe” for KFC.  He was turned down 1,005 times before he found a restaurant to use it.
• Forbes named J.K. Rowling the first person to become a U.S. dollar billionaire by writing books.    Her first book – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – was rejected by 12 publishers before the 13th said yes.  

I am not saying failure is fun.  However, I am suggesting that you don’t be afraid to fail.  You learn from the experience and/or the challenges it brings, you grow from it (if you are open to the lesson you are being taught) and ultimately over time will see success.

Face your fear head on!  You will be surprised that it (what you feared) wasn’t as bad as you thought and the reward of your efforts will far surpass the result of the actual outcome.  Go for it!

To your continued success, wealth, health and abundant life,

Linda Thomas

aka ‘WebBizGirl’
realcards@gmail.com

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Take a swing!

It’s OK to miss sometimes!

Embrace the “Law of Averages”!

Babe Ruth @ .342        Derek Jeter @ .312

The GREATS of the game went to bat all season long and 7 times out of 10, they struck out!  Did they go to the dugout and cry and/or quit?!  No way!  They knew the law of averages and the more you swing, the more you learn, grow and ultimately succeed!

The GREATS in business also know the law of averages and here are a few places to spend your time working  through the numbers!

1. Making NEW contacts.  Successful people talk to more people.  Keep your pipeline full of NEW contacts.  When you are not adding new to the pipeline you end up chasing those who aren’t ready yet.   Keep a steady flow of NEW contacts while you follow-up with previous contacts.
2. Consistently schedule  NEW appointments.  I learned years ago a simple exercise.  EVERY Monday and Friday, schedule 5 NEW appointments.  When your list is always being added to, you can do this easily!
3. Consistently follow-up OVER time.  80% of business happens between the 5th and 12th contact.  From the first phone call, to the appointment, to the many touches in between the result of you gaining business can be several ‘touches’.  Most people don’t even make ONE follow-up attempt let alone a second.
   

WINNERS keep stepping up to the plate!

To your continued success, wealth, health and abundant life,

Linda Thomas

aka ‘WebBizGirl’
realcards@gmail.com

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