Keynote Jack Canfield

New Manager Celebration

Panorama at the Party. You come next year!

These are fun and you can generally figure out what’s going on.

NTC Countdown

Fun with Rita

New Prospecting Tool

FYI Launch

From the 25th floor of the Signature, you can see a great deal of the Las Vegas strip. Everything is in a different perspective from walking ground level.  For instance – from here, you can see a storm coming in.  You can see the sun setting.  You can see further and that has a huge advantage.

You see, until you get above it all, it’s difficult navigating.  You don’t know when a storm is brewing.  You don’t know that a period of time is coming to an end.

So what can you do?

Get plugged in.  It’s vital to get the advice of someone who is seeing it from above.  Someone who can guide you and keep you from running aground.  Many teams have phone calls – conference calls.  Others add a weekly or monthly team meeting onto that.

Is that for socializing?  Well – yes, but what you take away is much more important.  You take away a forcast – a map – a plan that will help you.

It boggles me to hear how many say they are on the team but never plug in.

Get plugged in.  Make it a must that you are on ALL of your team calls and as many of the team meetings as you can.

And then watch your business grow.  Now you have a roadmap with someone to show you the way.  All you need do is show up.

Now on the fun side – a couple of videos from NTC in Las Vegas.  Enjoy!

In a few moments, we pack the car to head to the airport to Las Vegas.  I’ll be taking a ton of pictures and sending you the link.  If you didn’t get a chance to go this year, that’s fine – plan next year.  What I love are the chances to network.  I think that helped us get further than any training.  I’ll explain more, later.

In the meantime, I did try out the video and while we got audio on the webcams, there wasn’t any audio on the streaming movies.  Might have to work that out there.  If that doesn’t work – I’ll upload them to YouTube and you can watch them there.

Keep up your hard work ethic!  Talk to you soon!

This whole week has been exciting with the anticipation of going to Las Vegas on Monday.  I plan to report throughout the week and post pictures as always.  Today, Adri’s making last minute purchases of a small silver purse that will go well with what she plans to wear at a Grand Awards ceremony we’re attending.

I’m searching for good streaming video software so I can stream some video to you while away.  Stay tuned.  Still working out the bugs.

And I have good news on a some small reports I’ve been working on that should help you in prospecting.

Okay, we’re off to the shops…

It floored me how many people wrote about my post on Millionaires. What a flurry of replies. It wasn’t until I got into business myself that I learned firsthand that it takes money to make money. That’s the way I always thought about my Read the rest of this entry

At my wife’s recent Arbonne car presentation we began our plans with 100 guests. RVP Linda Leitel mentioned we might try using Acteva to register the guests.  But with so few, I didn’t think it would necessary since Acteva takes a nice share when you have few guests.  But what happened surprised us all. Read the rest of this entry

One of your goals for the new year was to accumulate enough money to allow you to build an orphanage, to set your husband or wife free from the corporate world, in short, to gain enough money to accomplish what you must.

Some people have a hard time with wealth.  I know I certainly did.  My dad was a minister, on the mission field for over 30 years in Brazil.  Money?  What little we had was to be used in the work, and if there was any left over, my parents always felt bad about buying anything for themselves.

Boy, is that messed up thinking.

So scrap that thought and let’s agree that money isn’t the root of all evil and that God’s kids should have as much of it as anyone else and not feel guilty about it.  Are you with me?

Most people I run into at meetings and conventions talk, but, they aren’t serious about becoming wealthy.  There are five main ways fortunes are made in this country; see if you fall into one:

First, self-owned businesses.  Entrepreneurship of all kinds.  74% of self-made millionaires in America – not only in this generation and in this century – but last century, too – were self-employed.

A few people inherited their own businesses, but if you started yours from scratch, you’re in good company.  In the 19th century, great fortunes were made by Andrew Carnegie, Jacob van Astor, Thomas Edison, Commodore Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan, not to mention thousands of others who did not receive celebrity status.

Man, in the last few years, we’ve seen people like Bill Gates, Steve Case, Larry Ellison, Ross Perot, and Sam Walton start businesses from scratch – they started with nothing!

Second source of millionaires are corporate types.  People who rose through the ranks and were given stock options.  Some of these made so much – Michael Eisner of Disney – $126 million in a single year.  Lee Iacoca of Chrysler, $26 million.

Thirdly we have doctors, lawyers and other professionals.  People who are very good at what they do and get paid very well.  The top five earn 10 to 20 times as much as the average in this field.

Fourth are sales consultants.  Five percent of self-made millionaires are men and women who are tops in sales in their field.

Finally, one percent come from people in all other areas.  Inventions, show business, sports, authors, books, songs, lottery winners, inheritances.

Bottomline, there are so many ways to become self-made that if you are really serious, you will make it.  I love the self-employed group.  I walked away from corporate America in 1998.

Okay – time for some work.  If you’re serious – decide what it is you really enjoy doing and then throw your whole heart into doing it extremely well.  There is a direct relationship between excellent performance and big income.

Secondly, be brutally honest with you – on an ongoing basis.  Is what you are doing right now going to lead you to the financial place you can afford to fund your goals?  Or, do you have to make some serious changes?  Whatever you answer here – act on it right now.  And then write me about it.  I love to hear your stories.  I promise to help if I can.

I’m not sure who came up with it, but the first time I heard “think outside the box”, I thought – man, that is “good.”  We really “do” need to see things from a different perspective.  For instance, wouldn’t it be telling if you could see Read the rest of this entry