It’s knowing failure is not a person, but just an event and tomorrow is another day.

“If you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth” Rocky Balboa

I was speaking to a friend of mine who was a little down about life. I listened to what he had to say and then instead of giving him some advice, I showed him this clip.

His mood changed dramatically after he saw this video clip

I hope it does the same for you.

As I watched this incredible Disney movie, (Disney just knows how to make a captivating movie for the entire family don’t they) I was really caught up in the story line.

What caught my attention the most was how the movie, captured to the core, exactly what happens to people when they attempt something new, or have a great big dream to attain.

Here is the main character Tiana, who does not believe in wishes or fairy tales. She believes in her father’s dream (which becomes her dream) to open a restaurant down in New Orleans by the docks. Now keep in mind Tiana is probably around 5 years of age, as her and her father talk about this restaurant and how they are going to open it one day.

She’ll be the chef, her father the maitre’d and owner. They even have a picture of a restaurant, ripped from a magazine, and written in blue marker on it, calling it ‘Tiana’s Place’. It’ll be the hottest spot in the city where everyone visits…one of swingest party places in town!

Fast forward now to present day, where Tiana is grown up, probably around 22 or so. She comes home to her bedroom and puts away the tips she collected from her waitressing job. This is all going toward the fund for her downpayment to purchase the old sugar mill by the dock and fulfill her father’s and her dream.

She then collapses on her bed from exhaustion.

The unfortunate part is, her father has passed away and will not live to see his dream come true.

Yet Triana does not relent, she does not give up, she will see this dream through to the end.

She ends up working two jobs so she can collect enough money for the down payment.

One boss tells her she’ll never achieve her dream and she had best stay where she was.

Her friends want her to come dancing, she must work she replies to their invitation. They scoff at her, talking behind her back that she never wants to have fun.

Still she does not give up, even when it seems hopeless. She collects enough money for the downpayment. She has an agreement between her and the sales agents, she is just waiting for them to get the paper work ready.

When she see’s them later that evening and inquires about the paper work, the sales agents give her the bad news. Someone else has offered more for the place and she should just stick with what she is doing now and not take such a big risk.

Now I am not going to give the whole movie away…but in the end greatness is achieved (it is a Disney movie). Only after many set backs, failures and struggles does she win out in the end.

I know, I know…so how does this relate to my network marketing business you’re thinking? Well consider this for a moment. In my brief summary of the movie, what does Tiana have besides a dream? Think about if for a moment…have you got it yet?

She has FAITH, an undying faith in what her dream is. How she is going to achieve this dream through her dedication to it, her hard work regardless of the obstacles.

Even with all the nay sayers and dream stealer’s wanting to hold her back she continued on. They were too blinded by their own myopic view of their complacent lives.

She held steadfast to her dream.

My point is this…when you began your network marketing business, when you joined the industry, you did so for a reason. You had a dream, a vision of earning additional income to help you achieve certain things. Perhaps it was an extra several hundred dollars to pay the bills, or sock away for the education fund, retirement nest egg, or buy a bigger house. Maybe your dream was even bigger, like replace your full time incomes, say goodbye to your day job and be your own boss.

Maybe it was even bigger still…True financial and wealth freedom. Earning an income on autopilot so you could enjoy doing the things you always wanted to do…like Tiana, live your dream.

Yet along the way…things happened. You came across some friends and family who ridiculed your decision. They said to you things like:

“You didn’t join one of those pyramid schemes did you”

“You’ll never get rich doing that”

“You’re just throwing away your money, it’s a scam”

“Only the people on top make the money.”

You marched on and even sponsored some people along the way. The only thing that occured there was they bailed or gave up several weeks to months later. The only thing you had to show for it was no one returning your phone calls, a few dead legs in your downline and whole bunch of wasted time trying to convince people this will work.

Still determined you move on to buying leads from a lead company or from whoever your sponsor recommended you buy from. That’s how the top guys did it so now you have new life…only to realize after several months this doesn’t work either.

you realize the only thing you’ve accomplished is:
-wasting more time and effort
-increasing the amount of credit card debt you have
-having friends and family say “I told you so.”

You sit rejected and dejected in the Starbucks, getting up the nerve to speak to one more person there about your opportunity. Only to be rejected once again by the guy or gal who was sitting down to enjoy their skinny vanilla non fat latte.

It’s not supposed to be this way.

This is not how it was presented to me you think to yourself:

-Make a list of my warm market
-Buy some leads
-Speak to anyone that will listen
-Get three who get three and I’m living on the beach.

Draw the parallel between Tiana, in the movie, to you here in the reality of life.

How much failure are you willing to endure before you toss in the towel and give up on your dream?

How much faith do you have how deep down inside you?

Do you have undying faith in your dream?

Are you willing to suffer through the pain and rejection to reach the promised land of your dreams?

You see here is the funny part…a majority of people say they will do anything to achieve their dream. Yet within our industry of Network Marketing and MLM it suffers from a 95-97% drop out rate.

A majority of people say they will do anything to achieve that dream, not truly realizing what ‘doing anything’ really means. You see the network marketing top earners know what it takes. They encountered the same challenges the other 95%-97% did.

They just never gave up…

and they also had a plan.

This is your time, this is your year…it is time for you to live your dream.

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The plan that will once you implement it will have you on the path to success.

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Here is where you will connect with people on the same wave length, where you can create your own mastermind alliance.

Here is where you will discover how to have people coming to you rather then you chasing after people.

You can be the one enjoying your Starbucks coffee, watching someone else do what you were once doing. Letting them approach you and in the end offering them a solution to their problem.

This plan will offer you the foundation for mindset.

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When I would encounter a challenging time in the early stages of my network marketing career, I would read one of Jim’s books or pop in a CD and take in what he had to say. No matter how many times I would listen to his Network Marketing CD, I would always find another small tidbit of information that would help me or boost my spirits and help me carry on.

Jim Rohn had the uncanny ability to make myself and others look within themselves and realize we are truly unstoppable. The insight to live life to the fullest and to know that anything in life is possible when you set your mind to it. Continuous learning and education in ones self was the path to total enhancement in ones life and developing the leader within us all.

The best piece of advice Jim gave me was this:

“Its not the wind that determines our destination, it is the set of our sail”

It is such a true and obvious statement isn’t it?

A majority of people will blame circumstances or other people for what occurs to them in life, when what is really true is they have made the choice themselves.  We all choose our destiny, and it is within all of us to do so, yet so many allow others to “set their sail”

Take Jim Rohn’s advice, set your own sail today. Look at the circumstances in your life and make the necessary adjustments. Decide to set your own sail to arrive at your true destination of freedom. Freedom of wealth, time, health, spirituality, intellectuality  and emotional well being.

If you do not own any of Jim Rohn’s material, I urge you to pick some up today. It will truly impact you as it has myself and many others.

While he may have gone on now to walk with the angels, Jim Rohn has left us many gifts through his teachings. These teachings have helped improve the quality of my life and many others both in the past and I trust for the future.

My condolences to Jim Rohn’s family and close friends.

What are you to take from this?

Simple, while the man had talent, he practiced and perfected his craft to be the best he could possibly be.  The point I am trying to make is this, raw talent was not enough. He practiced those moves constantly, day in day out. The man probably dreamed about the dance moves in his sleep. You can just tell by how good he was he lived by the cliche “Practice Makes Permanent”

In today’s world of instant gratification, and wanting to be a millionaire by next week let’s really put into perspective what it takes. How many people do you know want to be wealthy and are willing to put in the effort to be wealthy?

How many work at home entrepreneurs do you know are doing what it takes to build a successful thriving business?

Please take a moment to watch this video and think about what it takes to be this good.

It take Desire, Drive and Determination to achieve ones goals. Whether you are the King Of Pop or just your average Network Marketer, Home Based Business Owner you must overcome the obstacles and roadblocks you encounter.

You must enhance your knowledge, experience and personal development on a daily basis. You must practice speaking to people so you can qualify, invite and close your prospect. You must learn the skills of effective presenting, persuasion and communication.

These skills and qualities are mastered over time. The time or the learning curve depends on you and the amount of time and effort you put into it. No one is going to hand you success, you have to fight for it and make it happen.

Think about this for a moment, after Michael Jackson’s breakthrough album “Thriller” and his subsequent tours and albums he was bestowed a title. That title was “The King Of Pop” Not a title that is thrown around or given to just anyone. Think about what he did and sacrificed to attain the title. Just like champions in sport, leaders of industry…Desire, Drive and Determination are all the common denominator.

As for Michael, well hopefully he is jammin away with some of the other greats and legends that have left us far too soon.

A person disappears from our downline, the great prospect is not calling us back, our cashflow may be tight this month…I know you understand where I am coming from.

So when you get knocked down, what do you do?

I know what Nick Vujicic does.

So when life knocks you down…What are you going to do??

The feeling of being overwhelmed.

Anytime we start something new or different we already
have an idea of the end results we desire. That’s where
the excitement comes from, the end result we wish to attain.

So if you desire losing weight, in your minds eye you can
already see the body you wish to have. You derive your
excitement in knowing how good you look and feel.

You look great, you have more energy, you feel more vibrant
and you confidence level is increased.

The feeling of being overwhelmed comes from the steps
required to get to your desired end result. Especially if it
entails learning new skills, techniques and strategies.

I am going to apply the next example to a network marketing or
direct sales scenario

Most people will look at what must be accomplished as a whole.
The feeling that follows is a sense of overwhelming dread.

Your mind begins saying things like

* “This is more than I expected”
* “I can’t learn how to use a computer at my age”
* “I don’t want to sell to my friends”
* “This is way too much to do so I’ll just try to to my best”

Already some people will put themselves at odds over what must
be done.

Why?

They have become overwhelmed at the enormity of the
tasks at hand. For some reason we as human beings look at the
tasks we need to accomplish and think it needs to be done all
today. Right away anxiety develops, we tighten up and the
end result is no work is done.

The best way to overcome this is to not focus on the entire
project. The main thing is to focus on just the opening tasks

For example, you just began your network marketing business.
Your goal is to produce a yearly income equal to or greater then
the income from your job.

Essentially the overall goal is
“You want financial and time freedom”

How do I get there you ask yourself. Well a planned must be developed
on what must be done to achieve this goal.

Now your upline will want you to get going quickly, so that you can
achieve some minor success fast. Little successes assists you in realizing
bigger successes are just around the corner. It keeps your confidence
level on the high end of the scale.

Unfortunately as you move along and success does not come as fast,
the tasks increase you become overwhelmed. It gets to the point where you
end up slowing down and eventually stopping or quitting your program.

The following five steps will assist you reducing or perhaps eliminating your
overwhelming feelings.

I am going to keep these steps in the area of business and specific to
network marketing. These particular steps will work with any goals you
wish to achieve.

Step 1
Define Your Goal

Write down the your goal or the end result you wish to achieve

* How much income do you wish to generate?
* What kind of time frame are you looking achieve this goal?

Keep in mind these goals and time frames must be realistic to you
If they are unrealistic to begin with, your subconscious will not accept
what you proposing.

Post the goal where you can see it daily. Post it in the car,
in the bathroom etc… where ever you see fit.

Read it a loud several times a day, preferably in the morning, midday and
prior to going to sleep.  Before going to sleep is especially important,
as it embeds the goal within your subconscious mind.

Step 2
Setting Up The Plan

This to me is the most important step. Picture going on a trip and
the goal is your destination, Setting the plan is the direction you
are going to take to arrive at your destination.

Write down all the tasks you can think of to achieve your goal.

* How am I going to make 50k per year?
* Will I use traditional network marketing or modern techniques?
* Will I use a mix of both?
* Do I know how to set up a website or blog?
* What must I do to learn these new skills?

You see as you write these questions down, your brain works to answer them and
in some cases it will raise additional questions. This is good because
the more detailed your plan, the more concise the steps are in achieving your goal.

Once you complete this step, it is now time to prioritize all the tasks
from the starting point to the end. This may take some time and require some rework,
but that’s okay.

Upon completing the task list, you must now contemplate the time to perform and
complete your plan. Some task will require little time while others my require
hours or days. Be realistic with your time frames, take into account what else
is going on in your life at this time.

This is your blueprint to success.

Step 3
Work The Plan

Now each task is listed and prioritzed. Here comes the best part…start working
your plan

Focus only on the first three tasks. Other then these first three
steps, the remainder of your plan does not exist. No other part of your
plan can be started until the first three things are completed. Remember the old
adage:

How do you eat an elephant? One chunk at a time.

Working your plan in this manner is referred to as “Chunk it down”

Step 4
Avoid distraction.

Perhaps the first task is to learn about your company, how they do business
the benefits of using your company’s products or services. You anticipate it will
take 4 solid hours to learn. You decide to break this up into 2 hour intervals
over 2 evenings. During these 2 hours, email and internet is off, cell phones are
on silent, you lock yourself in your room and you learn about your company.

Upon completion of the first three tasks of your plan, proceed to the next
three tasks to be accomplished.

Step 5
Re-visit Your Plan Often

Go back to your plan and ensure you are following it to a tee.
Are you completing each task? Are tasks done on time?
Do you need to adjust your timeframe (shorter or longer)

Keep this analogy in mind. When a rocket is fired, millions of calculations
are conducted to ensure it reaches it destination. When the rocket begins
to go off course and it will, more calculations are done and then implemented
to put the rocket back on course.

This is what you are going to do by re-visiting your plan and making minor
subtle adjustments to it.

Here is a tip that works very well. At the end of the day prior to retiring for
the evening, write out what must be done the next day. What tasks must be done
to keep you moving in the direction of your goal.

By writing down the tasks, while you’re sleeping your sub concious mind will
be at work figuring out what to do and how to do it. When you awake in the morning
and start your day you are more apt to jump right in and do the tasks.

Follow these five steps and it will provide you a solid foundation for your
business goals.