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msmelanie
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Posted: Mon Sep 1st, 2008 01:13 am |
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You cannot afford to watch TV. Really, you cannot. Do you have any debt? If so, sitting on your butt in front of the boob tube is not going to get you out of your predicament any faster. You can be certain that you are in fact cheating your family out of thousands of dollars in residual income, and a lifetime of fun and freedom! So what will it be ?... the brain numbing telly... or living up to your full potential?
The sad fact is that for many, it will be the telly. In 'the Strangest secret", by Earl Nightingale, it is said that a full 95% of people are content to just get by. Only 5% of us are true entrepreneurs, willing to learn and apply and grow into our full potential. Of the 5% who will become financially independent, only 1% become wildy successful and truly rich.
Where do you see yourself? Do you have a burning desire, huge dreams and an imagination that keeps you awake at night? Or are you sitting on your butt, living vicariously through the characters on the screen. Or worse, letting your beautiful mind be poisoned by the violence and trash that passes for entertainment?
You truly must change your mind before you can change your bank account. One of the most glorious aspects of a network marketing business is that you MUST grow in order to earn. You must change your stinkin thinkin, you must learn to use the master key.
One of my friends says it this way - "you've got to stop being right if you want to be rich."
In other words, it's time that you listened, learned and applied and simply got down to work.
I know that many of you are out surfing for the 'magic dust' that is going to make your business run on total autopilot so that you don't have to actually work...
Folks, this isn't like your job where you work as little as possible and will get paid regardless. If you treat your network marketing business the same way you do your job, your dreams will continue to be just that. Dreams, wishes, could have beens.
Your business requires massive exposure. That means that each and every day you must work to put more prospects into your pipeline. I'll bet that your upline has given you some ways to get that done? If not, have you gone further upline to find the answers you need? Are there people making money in your company? I'll bet there are, and if you aren't its not the company or the comp plan or your sponsor's fault. It's yours. You need to keep going upline till you find the answers you need. I said the answers you need- not the answers you WANT. The successful people in your upline will tell you what they are doing to succeed. Just DO it. You may have to step out of your comfort zone to begin to make true change in your life. You may need to learn new skills and apply them on a daily basis until you become at least proficient, if not professional.
You didn't buy a lottery ticket, folks. You bought a business. Just because it was cheap, doesn't mean you don't have a million in potential earnings waiting for you.
Get to work. Turn off the tube.
Generate prospects (time)
or
Buy prospects (money)
Connect with them via the phone and use the system your upline has taught you. If the timing isn't right for them, let the system you have in place follow up and keep them in the loop.
How many people should you expose to your biz on a daily basis?
3-5 a day is part time
10 a day is full time
15+ a day is big time.
Have you made that many connections yet today? No? Turn off the tube.
Consistently fill your pipeline and know that this is not a slot machine or a microwave. Your prospects will join when the timing is right for them. That may not be today - but if you stick with your business long enough, you may find that an extraordinary number of them join you sometime down the road.
So are you ready to make this a day of extraordinary change? Just decide, and it is DONE!
I wish you the utmost success!
Melanie Milletics
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PMHayes
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Posted: Mon Sep 1st, 2008 10:08 am |
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All I can say is AMEN SISTER, PREACH IT!! There were too many good things in there to quote. Allow me to add my 2 cents worth, though.
I have little use for TV. Even if I were not trying to grow a business so that I can retire from my j.o.b. with a enough residual income to be financially free, I still could find better things to do with my time and my mind than to waste them on TV. Reading a good book, exercising, going fishing and enjoying the outdoors, just to name a few. I don't even watch the local news. It's all about stabbings and shootings and robberies, that I already know are going on. I will watch enough of the national and world news to be abreast of current events. I will watch my Red Sox or my Carolina Panthers "whoop up" on whoever they are playing (can you tell I'm a southerner?). Other than that. TV is a waste.
You said "you have got to stop being Right if you want to be rich." Well said. I have heard it put this way, referring to relationships, "would you rather be right or would you rather be happy?" Sometimes having to be right is detrimental to us. Sometimes in relationships we need to live and let live. Sometimes in business we need to listen, learn, apply. The people who are teaching us have already been there. Let them show you how to avoid the same mistakes. Let them shorten your learning curve.
You said "you didn't buy a lottery ticket, you bought a business. Just because it was cheap doesn't mean you don't have to get to work. Turn off the tube." I could not have said it better. Michael aka FreedomFire says it this way, "if you treat your business like a hobby, you will get hobby sized results!" The Good Book says it this way, "what you have sewn, you will also reap." Plant seeds of laziness, mind wasting TV time and you will reap failure. Plant seeds of hard work and massive action and you will reap success. It's a numbers game. It always has been. Enrique Garibay says that if you want success you simply have to talk to enough people and you will realize success. It's not complicated. It's simple, not easy, but simple.
Change is hard. It sometimes causes pain. No, it almost always causes pain. It stretches your boundaries. It requires a huge paradigm shift. It will cost you your precious comfort zone. Heck, you need to flee your comfort zone! It's your enemy if you want to know success in life. Yes change is hard, It changes who you are, how you think, what you think is important and what you think is not. But change must be undergone if we are going to grow in the direction of achieving, of realizing our dreams.
I'm with you Melanie. Said with all the fervor of an evangelist or one of the prophets of old "Let this day be your day of extraordinary change and the beginning of extraordinary achievement!"
Mitch
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Posted: Thu Sep 4th, 2008 06:29 pm |
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| Great info,i hate to admit i have been watching tons of tv. [PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTIONS} I cant decide who to vote for ... cheers b.bryan
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PMHayes
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Posted: Sat Sep 6th, 2008 03:28 am |
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Hey Bryan,
I think that's a bit different than wasting time vegging out in front of the tube for no reason. I watch world news, national news, presidential debates, etc. I want to be informed on things that are going to affect us all. And, as stated, when the Sox or the Panthers or the Wolfpack are playing on tv, yeah, I will stop and watch.
mitch
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Dave701
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Posted: Mon Sep 15th, 2008 01:43 am |
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Well said, Melanie.
I personally don't have anywhere near enough time in the day to do everything I want and need to do. And I don't watch any TV at all. I don't see how people can possibly give up several hours every day to it.
Of course, they aren't really living, not in the sense that they're creating their own lives. Because TV not only takes away your time, it conditions the thought processes of your mind. If you want to be in charge of your own life, the first thing you have to control is your own mind. Long ago I sensed what TV was doing to my mind, and I just turned it off.
I've advocated the same to a lot of people, but most of them have looked at me like I was crazy.
Dave
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Kurt Henninger
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Posted: Mon Sep 15th, 2008 06:16 am |
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You are right on Melenie. If you are in debt, you need to WORK to get out of it. Hope is not a method of achieving success. Even if your work does not prove fruitful, take a step back, look at what you might have done wrong, and try something else.
TV can just suck you in like a vacuum and keep you from being productive.
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PMHayes
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Posted: Mon Sep 15th, 2008 08:02 am |
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Dave701 wrote: Well said, Melanie.
I personally don't have anywhere near enough time in the day to do everything I want and need to do. And I don't watch any TV at all. I don't see how people can possibly give up several hours every day to it.
Of course, they aren't really living, not in the sense that they're creating their own lives. Because TV not only takes away your time, it conditions the thought processes of your mind. If you want to be in charge of your own life, the first thing you have to control is your own mind. Long ago I sensed what TV was doing to my mind, and I just turned it off.
I've advocated the same to a lot of people, but most of them have looked at me like I was crazy.
Dave
I agree Dave. Most of what is on TV is poison. It will condition your thought processes and it will condition you to lower your standards of morality and of right and wrong. This is not just coincidence, there is thought and intent behind it. The media, Hollywood, Program executives have an agenda. That agenda is to gradually get us to lower our standards of morality, of what is good and acceptable while at the same time pushing their Godless and mindless values upon us. One only has to look back at the evolution of TV programming to see that this is true. The sad thing is, society has bought into it, hook line and sinker.
Just compare some of the TV shows of yesterday to those of today. There is a huge moral drop off from "Andy Griffith" and "Dick Van Dyke" to "Desperate Housewives" and "Greys Anatomy." Look at cartoons. I realize animation has come a long way and has certainly become technically superior to the simple cartoons we grew up with. But, look at the values being pushed on us by "The Family Guy." Walt Disney would roll over in his grave!
I agree with you, I have no time for TV, other than news and an occasional ballgame or a special event like The Olympics.
Mitch
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Megs the Wealth Warrior
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 03:18 am |
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I am just thrilled with this topic and this whole forum site in general. Finally, to hear other folks speaking up against the idiot box. I live in a town that has a love affair with bumper stickers and occassionally i see the one that says, "kill your TV". Harsh, maybe, but really, that's what needs to be done. Imagine a world where there was no TV. Neighbors would still hang out on their porches in the evenings and have real community. And people would have more satisfaction in their lives b/c they are DOING things instead of absorbing propaganda on their butts.
I was in very rural China a few years ago, and when i walked down the couple of dirt streets at night, lacking street lights, all I could see was the blue glow from each home's TV!! It was sad to me. I talked to some folks there and they said that people did used to hang out at night, but now people are more isolated. No where is immune to its robotic wrath!
I am TV free since I graduated high school 9 years ago. It's actually weird to me to go to someone's house and have a TV on. I wish that would be the norm in the world.
So, thank you Melanie for initiation of this topic. To entrepreneurs out there: you get what you put in! By all means, make time to relax and have fun, but you can have fun and be productive and healthy. It takes creativity, and the TV loves to zap that outta people.
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Dave701
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Posted: Fri Oct 24th, 2008 01:00 am |
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Megs,
That's a sad story about rural China. The "blue glow" says it all. I love rural areas, largely because there is still a communal sense to them. I don't understand how people can trade the company of real people for the flickering image of people created for mass appeal.
Dave
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Cash247
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Posted: Tue Oct 28th, 2008 06:00 am |
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Good stuff guys!
I remember when I fist got into the Industry 10 years ago my mentor (who was making $300,000 a month at the time) used to always talk about how he stopped watching TV for his first 5 years....
Right on the money guys...
Jaime
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