In building a stable, profitable mlm organization, you must
1. have a tested and proven lead generation training system for your team to use immediately
2. Expand your ability to coach your team to success with your system
The key element that can coach your team to success is you. You must know and understand your own WHY and focus on it every day. You should know exactly what motivates you or how will you will ever be able to find what motivates them? If they don’t get their WHY hammered out in the beginning, they will sooner or later abandon their business. They won’t be able to keep their commitment, if they don’t understand why they are doing their daily work.
Reread the first chapter of Success in 10 Steps, if you are even the slightest unclear about your WHY. You find at least 20 questions in that section to help you identify your motivation.
Not to mention … You will be much happier and better equipped to help others and lead them to their WHY, which will help you all achieve the desired objectives. That’s what a Coach needs in order to be great.
So you’ve found yourself a coach or a mentor that is doing what you want to do. You want to be able to accomplish what they have. Now what? How can you make sure you get the best out of your experience?
You need to make sure that you are coachable.
What does this mean?
When a person is coachable, they do 2 things consistently. They do what the coach tells them to do without questioning it. And the second thing is even more important than the first. They ask for FEEDBACK!
We’ve all heard the saying, “There is always room for improvement.” I believe that to be true. Sometimes it only takes a little tiny tweek to make a huge improvement to the play. Perhaps by starting on the left foot instead of the right can give a player a fraction of a second that could change a plays outcome.
When we listen to our coach and do what they tell us, and then follow up with asking for feedback then we are truly coachable.
In order for you to build a stable, profitable network marketing business, you must be able to offer your prospects a tested, proven lead generation & training system and develop into a coach that can coach your team to victory in your system.
The most important element of being able to coach your recruits to victory is … you. You must have the same faith and belief and understand your WHY and focus on it daily.
You need to know exactly what motivates YOU. If you don’t know for yourself, how will you ever be able to help your prospects figure out what motivates them? And if they are not able to define their WHY, then sooner or later they’ll drift away .
They won’t be able to maintain their daily commitment if they can’t see exactly why they’re doing it.
Re-read Chapter 2 of Success In 10 Steps if you’re at all stumped over your WHY. You’ll find at least 20 questions in that chapter to help you narrow your focus to find your very solid WHY.
Remember, everything you learn for yourself, you will be able to help others do the same. After all that is the name of the game… duplication.
Have you been working on setting yourself and your network marketing organization up for a success 2009?
A new year is always a time for reflection, resolutions, goal setting and fresh starts. Setting a goal is much more useful to the network marketer than a making a New Years resolution. When you set a goal, one that will require you to stretch a little and you have a specific date to accomplish it. Even if you do not succeed in reaching that goal, you stretched, became more flexible and are now positioned that much closer to that goal.
I have a suggestion for you for a new goal.
Find yourself a Mentor/Coach for your network marketing business. Here are a few things you may want to ask them or think about when choosing a mentor.
Are they successful in building their network marketing business?
Find out exactly what they are doing that works.
Ask them if you can chat with some of their people in their organization and see how they are doing it.
Do they have a simple, proven system that is easy to learn and teach to others.
Find someone that will mentor you with no strings attached. (there should be no agenda on their part)
Are they willing to show you EVERYTHING or do they hide things?
What resources do they have available?
Do they have a functioning TEAM? or are they doing it all by themselves? (HINT: you can NOT do this alone… EVER)
What level of importance do they rate personal development? (should be pretty high on the list)
Can they introduce you to other leaders that can and are willing to help with no agenda?
This is a simple goal and very doable. But if your not used to asking for help, it can be a stretch.
I can make it simple, download my ebook, Success in 10 Steps, written by Michael Dlouhy, and if you feel I can not be of some help to you, I will help you find a mentor who can and will.
This lesson from Chapter 12, Think and Grow Rich. It’s a stand alone lesson as you will soon see.
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The Subconscious Mind
Have you ever had a childhood experience that was
relatively insignificant in the overall scheme of life
and it just keeps popping into your conscious mind
and you wonder why?
It’s an experience that was pretty significant at the
time, but it really doesn’t seem worthy of continuing
to think about it at all. It’s over, it’s long gone, no
body got hurt…let it go! Well, this week, I’ve become
aware of the fact that it’s over, it’s long gone…but
maybe someone did get hurt…me.
I read this chapter right after last week’s mental cleanse call——-normally I wouldn’t get the new
chapter read until Monday or Tuesday of the next
week. I’ve read this chapter many times in years
past, and a time or two since being in this group.
But this time was different…the first two paragraphs
wouldn’t let go of me…
Dr. Hill said, “The subconscious mind consists of
a field of consciousness, in which EVERY impulse
of thought that reaches the objective mind through
any of the five senses, is classified and recorded,
and from which thoughts may be recalled or with
drawn as letters may be taken from a filing cabinet.
It receives, and files, sense impressions or thoughts,
regardless of their nature. You may VOLUNTARILY
plant in your subconscious mind any plan, thought,
or purpose which you desire to translate into its
physical or monetary equivalent.
The subconscious acts first on the dominating
desires which have been mixed with emotional
feeling, such as faith.”
So as I kept getting yanked back to these two
paragraphs and pondering what Dr. Hill was telling
me, I realized that the childhood experience that
kept coming back to my conscious thoughts 43
years after the fact was just like Dr. Hill said…it
was just as if the experience was filed away in
my mind at age 10 and for some odd reason, I
kept pulling that “folder” out of the file cabinet
of my mind with some regularity over the years–
not really dwelling on it, but just pulling the
“classified and recorded” file out of my “mind
cabinet” and leaving it lay on my desk of life for
a bit and then I’d file it away again and wouldn’t
give it another thought for a period of time.
Then, without warning, I’d find myself pulling that
same thought file out of my mind cabinet again.
I could never figure out why.
Another experience that flies out of the “file
cabinet” of my mind has tapped me on the
shoulder with a little more regularity through
out my adult life. To put it bluntly, I’ve always
had an underlying distrust of most women–an
uncomfortable feeling when I had to be around
a group of women or even in a conversation that
lasted very long with one woman.
I’ve always believed it was because I got married
when I was very young; I had three children by
the time I was 25 years old–I was busy; I grew
up on the farm…my mother never taught me to
be a shop-a-holic with your girlfriends; I never
had a group of girlfriends that I hung out with
other than at school…yadda, yadda, yadda!
I’ve always believed most women were judg mental and critical and controlling and my
instincts were always focused on: do what
you’ve got to do and get out.
And I functioned that way in my life being a
very active mother of three children all involved
in many school activities; an active church life;
and a full time career for over 25 years.
Oh, I could function and participate quite
successfully on the surface, but at age 53
now, I could definitely count on one hand
with several fingers left over, the number of
women I have really trusted over my lifetime.
In fact, as I’m trying to remember who they
are, I think I may have 4 or 5 fingers left over
as I count them. But I never really experienced
that same anxiety and apprehension around men.
I’ve always wondered if I was some kind of real
weirdo or something because I just never ever
felt any kind of girlfriend comraderie going on
in any circle of friends–I just would not let my
self get that close to anyone. And “being very
busy” always gave me that excuse I needed to
“escape” when I wanted to.
On May 13th, Richard Dennis’ Tuesday skills
call on marketing was about a chapter called
“Giving Up Resistance” from a book by John
Gray titled “How to Get What You Want and
Want What You Have”.
As Richard was sharing this chapter, a few key
points were grabbing me. After the call, I ran
upstairs to my vast library of self-help books
and there it was on the shelf. I turned to re-
read the chapter Richard just shared on the
call.
John Gray said, “By linking present negative
feelings to past situations, you can relive your
past and enrich it with your more mature and
loving perspective. When you were a child,
you were dependent on your parents to know
the truth.
As an adult, you can go back to experience
the feelings you had as a child and make
corrections. As children, we did not have
fully developed brains capable of reasonable
thought.
At that fragile age, we formed beliefs that were
incorrect, yet they continue to shape and mold
our lives Although we can’t change the past,
we can change the beliefs we formed.
We can reevaluate what happened and how
we felt. Our limited and incorrect beliefs can
be corrected by going back and revisiting the
past and using certain processing techniques
described in another chapter.”
I’ve read both of these books before…this one
and “Think and Grow Rich”…I’ve read them
both more than once…I’m green…they’re all
highlighted and have notes in the margins.
As is said…”when the student is READY,
the ‘teacher’ appears.”
This week, I became aware of my 10-year-
old perspective of an emotional experience
when I accidentally overheard my mother
telling my father, “Oh, for pete’s sake…
she thinks she’s bleeding to death!” .
…after I woke her up in the middle of the
night scared to death about the mess that
had awakened me. I don’t remember any
thing that my mother said to me as she
came to help me; I only remember what I
heard her saying to my dad as I approached
their bedroom door to say something else
to her–I don’t remember what that was either.
And as I sit here writing this at age 53, the
tears are pouring down my cheeks, partly
out of sadness for how I felt then, partly
out of anger for how it’s likely played into
my misperception about trust over the
years; and partly out of sheer joy that I
can now understand the connection and
relativity of it all.
I can now see a 10-year-old child who did
not know that Moms and Dads talk about
EVERYTHING and what appeared to be
total betrayal of my most private experience
in a way that felt like judgment and criticism
and mockery were all filed away in my 10-
year-old file cabinet of my subconscious.
They weren’t given adult labels at that point,
but likely were labeled as hurt, embarrasment,
fear, and the fact that I shouldn’t have trusted
my mom with my “secrets”–my most private
moment of my life up to that point. And all of
that was definitely steeped with emotion for
me and as Dr. Hill said, “the subconscious
acts first on the dominating desires which
have been mixed with emotional feeling.”
So, now that the “Teachers” have appeared
because the “Student” is ready, I have been
back over it all this week with my adult “eyes”
and can re-write the story at age 10 the way
I SHOULD have filed it away in my sub
conscious mind with emotions of: love,
understanding, compassion, appreciation
of my 10-year-old concerns, comfort,
reassurance, specialness, respect, support,
caring, bonding, and joy to welcome my
womanhood into being.
And rewriting that story, I believe, has changed
my life from this week forward. I’ve cried over
what’s needlessly been lost and I smile about
my mom’s continued lack of patience with my
“green personality”, but I rejoice over the fact
that I am learning to know and love me…may
be for the first time in my life.
It’s an ongoing journey, but thanks to Michael
and Linda’s belief in me, and Sarah’s belief in
me, and the awesome support and love that
this group gives to everyone, I am beginning
to see the light at the end of the tunnel where
the success curve starts turning upward and
I know that if I keep VOLUNTARILY planting
my positive desires in my subconscious mind
through my self-talk, the MFF Recipe, stay
“close to the fire”–the MFF calls which is the
best campfire in the Universe, this business
and personal growth journey can take only
the road called “Success”.
Thank You, Michael and Linda, and Master
Mind friends for blessing me with your presence.
You are changing lives…and I appreciate you
so much!!
I will always believe that Leaders Read and are constantly working on themselves. It’s our duty to ourselves, the world, our family and to ourselves to be the BEST we can be. That doesn’t happen overnight or without a little effort.
Here are a few leaders that are putting in that effort.
The transmutation of sexual energy
What a cool chapter and now that the “chatter in my
mind” is showing signs of shutting up I can begin to
enjoy the book. I kept stopping after each couple of
pages and thinking about adrenlin and how it effects
people that have public safety jobs.
How nice for me to stop reading, collect a thought,
then go back to reading!…….Prior to reading the
chapter I thought “fear” was the most powerful
emotion.
Police officers and soldiers who learn to use fear,
or tansmute it, understand what an awesome tool it
can be. Its natural to be afraid, if you learn to
use that energy to your advatage it could save your
life or someone elses.
I am positive that this works.
I finished the chapter early this morning. My wife
left to travel to New York, her grandfather passed.
I sent a text to her phone, “U lift me to heights
of creative imagination” She does, everyday and I
didnt even know it until now.
I mean I knew it, but I better understand why she
does now….Like the able businessman that that
confessed this of his secretary.
I am almost certain that today we could find
countless of successful women that would say the
same about a man in their life.
I turned 40 this year and was glad to read the
part about why people seldom scceed before 40.
I laugh for a moment while I typed this. I have
so much to be thankful for in my life and feel
that I have succeeded in so many ways.
Family, children, marrriage, job…. I am so
excited for the times ahead.
The chapters in my life are no longer about me
or for me. I believe that what I am doing now
will effect my childrens children.
Michael, it
has moved from my head to my heart…..I guess
I didnt even know it. For me, success with my
business is buried deep within my “WHY”
Todd Bobal
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I believe in the 6th sense is the faculty of
creative imagination. In order to tap into it
we must be STILL and know.
Some call the force God, others the power of
the universe, but when we quiet the mind and
are lifted to the higher level of thought the
mind is freed. It clears and becomes receptive
to ideas.
When he talks about highly sexed people and that
energy I think passion. A passionate person does
not get up and just go through the motions, then
to crawl in a recliner and watch TV.
A passionate person must have meaning in their
live and they set goals and strive to be bigger
and better.
Involvement and time spent in creative imagination
is not a waste or something to be scorned or has
no value. I have value and I will not allow my
enthusiasm to be snuffed out.
I realize now that there are men who are capable
of love, sex and romance.I see the evidence around
me. The harmony between men and women. It prepares
my heart for a greater love.
This was a good chapter to read, I don’t fully
understand, but I want to. I know it made me feel
better about myself and what is possible, if only
I have the burning desire and effort.
Connie Loeschen
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Hi Michael;
Hill is telling me that if I can harness this power,
be aware of it and use it in a positive manner, it
is a means of tapping into my creative imagination.
Infinite wisdom. The universe. And use that higher
vibration to achieve what I truly desire.
In the course of my life I have risked life, limb,
physical harm and reputation for sex, love,
intimacy, and sensual pleasures.
I have been through marriages, relationships, and
encounters. Never realizing until a few years ago
what exactly I was seeking but could never find.
Hill describes it clearly in this chapter.
Several years ago, in disgust, growing tired of
the demolition trail of relationships behind me,
I made a conscious decision to stop seeking and
resign myself to living alone, with a little
peace and quiet.
When I recall the energy that I expended, the
creativity I demonstrated, the shear will of
getting what I wanted, I have to marvel at this
power.
I had not been able to name it prior to reading
Hill. I had used my power indiscriminately.
I live alone. I have carried with me for many
decades now a vision, of the woman that I dream
of, both her physical and emotional make up.
Having never met her, but knowing that I would
know her on sight, I’ve come to a theory after
reading this chapter.
Knowing that my mind is a creature of habit,and
knowing that my dominating thoughts can be my
self talk, then attracting this desire of mine,
can be built into my self talk.
I am very conscious of this belief; that I must
be successful in order to attract her to me,the
woman that I dream of. I would otherwise be
shamed, and incapable of the belief that I am
worthy of her.
So this begs the question:
Can I transmute this desire,this energy,into
reality?
Can I change my mediocrity into the sterling
performance that would bring to me not only the
business success I desire, but even more im-
portantly, the woman I desire?
The love that I desire and believe I am worthy of.
…….It seems to me that one does not have to be
actively involved right now, in one of those truly
wonderful relationships that generate this kind of
energy.
Not if I believe that I can reprogram my sub-
conscious mind to believe what I want it to believe.
My mind could believe that I am already in the
relationship with my dream woman. In my mind I’ve
always known know her anyway, and have spent years
looking for her.
If I accept that this is possible, then I have to
accept that I can use this energy to tap into that
creative imagination that can take me over the top
in my own business.
I can use my self talk, belief and faith, to not
only attract to me the people that I want and need,
the business success that I want and need, but the
love that I want and need.
What a concept! What a fantastic belief! Talk about regenerating hope! All from my mind and my active
choice of thoughts.
I’ve read and re-read this chapter. It’s 4 Am
again, and Hill has my wheels turning again.
I have a road trip I’m leaving on tomorrow. This
will be occupying my thoughts as I travel for the
next 6 or 7 days.
Hugh Ervin
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Join us for the next Mental Cleanse call. We would love to have you grow with us
No matter how we try to evade the past, it affects our futures. Until we look it in the eye and deal with it, it will never lay to rest so that we can focus on the here and now.
These are just a few lessons from true mentors. They do not just talk the talk, they are walking the walk!
Chapter 9.
Again, this book forces me to examine myself…
My husband started this mental cleanse almost
three months prior to me. He asked me to do it
with him and I refused at first….. He spoke about
joining a network marketing company and it made
me cringe.
For three months , my husband was out there doing
the mental cleanse and building a network marketing
business……without me. This was not normal for us.
In life, we MASTER MIND together. Yet, here I was,
unwilling to participate. Unwilling to believe. Even
becoming jealous that he was on the computer all
the time.
Jealous that he would not sit and watch TV with me.
How silly this all sounds now. Here was this man,
who had helped me with my own business for ten
years.
A man willing to constantly sacrifice for his family.
A man who was only guilty of trying to make a better
life for his family. And there I was….stubborn, un-
supportive and quite honestly, selfish. THANK
GOODNESS I GOT OVER MYSELF.
I am writing all this to say that guys, we do need
each other. Your spouse needs you. Like Napolean
Hill says in the book.
” When a group of individual brains is coordinated
and functions in harmony, the increased energy
created through the alliance becomes available to
every individual brain in the group.”
We are all feeding off each others energy. If I am
a spouse who is not supporting her husband, what
kind of energy am I feeding him?
In a marriage , is harmony not crucial?…. With
harmony comes peace. If we are not harboring,
protecting and supporting our spouses dreams..
…how will a marriage survive in the long run?
How will there be peace in a marriage where two
people are “doing their own thing,” …….and not
MASTERMINDING together, sharing ideas, and
feeding off each others energy?
Working together will only get us to our goals
that much sooner. We will be that much more
powerful because we feed off each others
“phenomenal energy.”
I am talking about all of us on this call. We
motivate each other to succeed. We inspire
each other as we go, listening to and reading
each others lessons plans.
Giving words of encouragement. We surround
ourselves with people who are working towards
the same goal. We MASTERMIND together on
these calls. We all realize, that we CANNOT
BE SUCCESSFUL ALONE.
It took me longer then it should have. The
Mental Cleanse is one of the best things I
have ever done for myself. It has made me
really look at myself and think about what
exactly I want out of my life and out of my
marriage.
Chapter 10 hammered it home. I will never
get those three months back, where my
husband was out there without me.
However, I will make sure that from now on
that I am his “phenomenal energy.” After all,
when we take those vows are we not promising
to MASTERMIND through this life together?
Angela Bobal
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Chapter 9 – POWER OF THE MASTERMIND
The Driving Force
Power of knowledge. I have access to many
resources of accumulated knowledge – especially
via the internet. But such knowledge is static -
itconveys no energy.
Two or more living MINDS, working together in
HARMONY, amass not only knowledge from
experience – but generate LIVING ENERGY, a
force which creates new things. This energy,
this FORCE, is greater than the sum of the
minds creating it – the MASTERMIND.
All individual parts of the group benefit and
draw from this force to propel them to higher
levels of capacity.
I and a good friend began a project to create
new training tool web-sites. We have the ability
to create attractive and functional web-sites, but
we lacked the knowledge we wanted to produce
the content.
We assembled a team of advisors —- all with
different background experience, with different
personalities, and different levels of achievement
within our organization.
A few members of our group are new to the
organization – they have the perspective of
trainees, our target audience.
All of us in the group are learning from each
other, and the group itself has taken on a life
of its own as a source of energy and inspiration.
Individual members are creating text, recording
audios and videos, and assembling resources to
create a complete system to guide the trainee
and the COACH. The process is amazing,
exhilarating and rewarding!
All members of THIS Mastermind Group of
Personal Development can experience these
things as they PARTICIPATE in the group.
The DRIVING FORCE, the ENERGY, and
also the PSYCHIC aspect of this Group!
Your Friend Always,
Ken Klemm
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Chapter 9.
In many ways this Chapter IS Mentoring For
Free and our Mental Cleanse call.
When I escaped – I didn’t quit – from my last
MLM endeavor I felt very much alone. The pay
plan was an Aussie 2 up (didn’t know it then),
I had no real up-line and no way to contact
anyone cross-line.
The “training” was one sorry phone call every
Tuesday at noon. And they tried to sell me
leads -at least I knew THAT was a scam from
another previous MLM.
I was alone and had no one to guide, train or
direct me. I guess you could say I was ready
for MFF.
I’m saying all this because much of it came
back to me this week when I reread Chapter 10.
I also reread my notes from Hill’s chapter the
first time around: Power can be defined as
“ORGANIZED and INTELLIGENTLY directed
KNOWLEDGE; ORGANIZED effort, sufficient
to enable an individual to transmute desire
into its monetary equivalent.
“If Power is ORGANIZED knowledge, let’s
examine the sources: Infinite Intelligence
/Accumulated Experience/ EXPERIMENT
& RESEARCH.”
The first is clearly Creative Imagination; the
second is clearly the 30 years of experience
Michael and others bring who contribute to
all our calls; the third is the most salient and
meaningful for me.
Hill says: “Examination of these three
sources of KNOWLEDGE will readily
disclose the difficulties an individual would
have if he depended upon his efforts ALONE,
in assembling KNOWLEDGE and expressing
it through definite plans in terms of ACTION.
He goes on: “When plans are comprehensive
and if they contemplate large proportions, the
individual must induce others to co-operate
before injecting into them the necessary
element of power.”
This is the Mastermind: “CO-ORDINATION
of KNOWLEDGE and effort in a spirit of
harmony between two or more people for
the attainment of a definite purpose.”
This is exactly what I didn’t have prior to
the beginning of this year but what is
consistently available to me now.
If I take advantage of it.
Because I didn’t have this Mastermind
available to me before, I felt very much
ALONE.
Now I must plead guilty because for the
last 3 weeks I have been feeling overwhelmed
and realize now that I have been going through
the motions with my lessons. I have reread the
chapters but I have not rewritten any lessons
nor have I spoken on any of the recent calls.
I have only half-heartedly been here participating.
I’ve been kidding myself with “I’ve been over this
material before.” WRONG.
It is not about the material; it is about the
Accumulated Participating KNOWLEDGE of
the Mastermind group every Wednesday at 3
and 8PM that yields any benefits.
Finally this point: I have deliberately capitalized
some words through out this lesson. They are
all Green words.
Without other people joining together and
PARTY-cipating (a very Blue word) there is
no Power.
Teal is the Ideal.
Thanks to you Michael, Linda and all participants
of the weekly Mental Cleanse Mastermind call.
Tony Lauria
Would you not like to be like them? Dealing with their “stuff” so they can move on to create a beautiful future?
Chapter9 of Think and Grow Rich Enjoy some of the lessons learned by some of the wonderful mentors that make up Mentoring for Free.
Again, this book forces me to examine myself…
My husband started this mental cleanse almost
three months prior to me. He asked me to do it
with him and I refused at first….. He spoke about
joining a network marketing company and it made
me cringe.
For three months , my husband was out there doing
the mental cleanse and building a network marketing
business……without me. This was not normal for us.
In life, we MASTER MIND together. Yet, here I was,
unwilling to participate. Unwilling to believe. Even
becoming jealous that he was on the computer all
the time.
Jealous that he would not sit and watch TV with me.
How silly this all sounds now. Here was this man,
who had helped me with my own business for ten
years.
A man willing to constantly sacrifice for his family.
A man who was only guilty of trying to make a better
life for his family. And there I was….stubborn, un-
supportive and quite honestly, selfish. THANK
GOODNESS I GOT OVER MYSELF.
I am writing all this to say that guys, we do need
each other. Your spouse needs you. Like Napolean
Hill says in the book.
” When a group of individual brains is coordinated
and functions in harmony, the increased energy
created through the alliance becomes available to
every individual brain in the group.”
We are all feeding off each others energy. If I am
a spouse who is not supporting her husband, what
kind of energy am I feeding him?
In a marriage , is harmony not crucial?…. With
harmony comes peace. If we are not harboring,
protecting and supporting our spouses dreams..
…how will a marriage survive in the long run?
How will there be peace in a marriage where two
people are “doing their own thing,” …….and not
MASTERMINDING together, sharing ideas, and
feeding off each others energy?
Working together will only get us to our goals
that much sooner. We will be that much more
powerful because we feed off each others
“phenomenal energy.”
I am talking about all of us on this call. We
motivate each other to succeed. We inspire
each other as we go, listening to and reading
each others lessons plans.
Giving words of encouragement. We surround
ourselves with people who are working towards
the same goal. We MASTERMIND together on
these calls. We all realize, that we CANNOT
BE SUCCESSFUL ALONE.
It took me longer then it should have. The
Mental Cleanse is one of the best things I
have ever done for myself. It has made me
really look at myself and think about what
exactly I want out of my life and out of my
marriage.
Chapter 10 hammered it home. I will never
get those three months back, where my
husband was out there without me.
However, I will make sure that from now on
that I am his “phenomenal energy.” After all,
when we take those vows are we not promising
to MASTERMIND through this life together?
Angela Bobal
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Chapter9 – POWER OF THE MASTERMIND
The Driving Force
Power of knowledge. I have access to many
resources of accumulated knowledge – especially
via the internet. But such knowledge is static -
itconveys no energy.
Two or more living MINDS, working together in
HARMONY, amass not only knowledge from
experience – but generate LIVING ENERGY, a
force which creates new things. This energy,
this FORCE, is greater than the sum of the
minds creating it – the MASTERMIND.
All individual parts of the group benefit and
draw from this force to propel them to higher
levels of capacity.
I and a good friend began a project to create
new training tool web-sites. We have the ability
to create attractive and functional web-sites, but
we lacked the knowledge we wanted to produce
the content.
We assembled a team of advisors —- all with
different background experience, with different
personalities, and different levels of achievement
within our organization.
A few members of our group are new to the
organization – they have the perspective of
trainees, our target audience.
All of us in the group are learning from each
other, and the group itself has taken on a life
of its own as a source of energy and inspiration.
Individual members are creating text, recording
audios and videos, and assembling resources to
create a complete system to guide the trainee
and the COACH. The process is amazing,
exhilarating and rewarding!
All members of THIS Mastermind Group of
Personal Development can experience these
things as they PARTICIPATE in the group.
The DRIVING FORCE, the ENERGY, and
also the PSYCHIC aspect of this Group!
Your Friend Always,
Ken Klemm
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter9.
In many ways this Chapter IS Mentoring For
Free and our Mental Cleanse call.
When I escaped – I didn’t quit – from my last
MLM endeavor I felt very much alone. The pay
plan was an Aussie 2 up (didn’t know it then),
I had no real up-line and no way to contact
anyone cross-line.
The “training” was one sorry phone call every
Tuesday at noon. And they tried to sell me
leads -at least I knew THAT was a scam from
another previous MLM.
I was alone and had no one to guide, train or
direct me. I guess you could say I was ready
for MFF.
I’m saying all this because much of it came
back to me this week when I reread Chapter 10.
I also reread my notes from Hill’s chapter the
first time around: Power can be defined as
“ORGANIZED and INTELLIGENTLY directed
KNOWLEDGE; ORGANIZED effort, sufficient
to enable an individual to transmute desire
into its monetary equivalent.
“If Power is ORGANIZED knowledge, let’s
examine the sources: Infinite Intelligence
/Accumulated Experience/ EXPERIMENT
& RESEARCH.”
The first is clearly Creative Imagination; the
second is clearly the 30 years of experience
Michael and others bring who contribute to
all our calls; the third is the most salient and
meaningful for me.
Hill says: “Examination of these three
sources of KNOWLEDGE will readily
disclose the difficulties an individual would
have if he depended upon his efforts ALONE,
in assembling KNOWLEDGE and expressing
it through definite plans in terms of ACTION.
He goes on: “When plans are comprehensive
and if they contemplate large proportions, the
individual must induce others to co-operate
before injecting into them the necessary
element of power.”
This is the Mastermind: “CO-ORDINATION
of KNOWLEDGE and effort in a spirit of
harmony between two or more people for
the attainment of a definite purpose.”
This is exactly what I didn’t have prior to
the beginning of this year but what is
consistently available to me now.
If I take advantage of it.
Because I didn’t have this Mastermind
available to me before, I felt very much
ALONE.
Now I must plead guilty because for the
last 3 weeks I have been feeling overwhelmed
and realize now that I have been going through
the motions with my lessons. I have reread the
chapters but I have not rewritten any lessons
nor have I spoken on any of the recent calls.
I have only half-heartedly been here participating.
I’ve been kidding myself with “I’ve been over this
material before.” WRONG.
It is not about the material; it is about the
Accumulated Participating KNOWLEDGE of
the Mastermind group every Wednesday at 3
and 8PM that yields any benefits.
Finally this point: I have deliberately capitalized
some words through out this lesson. They are
all Green words.
Without other people joining together and
PARTY-cipating (a very Blue word) there is
no Power.
Teal is the Ideal.
Thanks to you Michael, Linda and all participants
of the weekly Mental Cleanse Mastermind call.
Don’t write off a new prospect on the first meeting. Give the relationship some time to grow.
By now, reading my blog should have given you the idea that I strongly believe that building a network marketing business is mostly about building relationships not selling the product.
A few months ago, while coaching a guy, I will call him, Jack. Jack was just starting learn how to contact his leads. He called me up to tell me about a lady that he spoke to over the phone. He told me she was difficult to talk to, that she barely answered his questions and she actually made the conversation quite difficult. He was about to write her off and huffed that he wouldn’t want this woman to work with him in his business.
I congratulated him on his decision and asked him if he would mind letting me take over with her from here on out. My client was taken aback by my asking for his lead’s contact information.
He questioned why would I want to work with this woman. I told him that I didn’t think that she was being intentionally difficult, but instead if he would look at things from her point of view he may better understand why she had taken on that particular attitude with him.
Perhaps she expected to be sold or pitched a new business opportunity. Perhaps she expected a bill collector. He really had no idea why she behaved the way that she did.
Once he realized that he was approaching this woman with an agenda instead of trying to reach out to help her, he decided to call her and try again. This time his results were the exact opposite from his first attempt. Over a period of time of a few months, she started to opened up to him and she told him her history in network marketing.
She told him how she spent thousands of dollars on useless leads that her upline sold her and who made a small fortune from her alone. She told him how other people who told her the same things that he did, didn’t really help her at all but were ready to ask for her credit card information and sign her up to their business.
Jack called me up and thanked me for showing him how important it is to be patient and to have compassion for people. That lady has risen to awesome heights in Jack’s organization. Can you imagine if he would have just thrown out her contact information and forgot about her?
I just recently received this email from a friend of mine. It reminded me of Jack and how far Jack has come since learning a few important people skills. It also reminded me how important it is for all of us to think about the other person we are reaching out to and to realize that they have more going on in their life than we think. I hope you enjoy the follow life lesson as much as I did.
A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a 20 dollar
note. In the room of 200, he asked, “Who would like this 20 dollar
note?” Hands started going up. He said, “I am going to give this to
one of you but first, let me do this.”
He proceeded to crumple up the 20 dollar note. He then asked, “Who
still wants it?”
Still the hands were up in the air.
Well, he replied, “What if I do this?” And he dropped it on the ground
and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe.
He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. Still the hands went into the air.
“My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter
what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not
decrease in value.
It was still worth 20 bucks.
Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the
dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way.
We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or
what will happen, you will never lose your value.”
Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to
the universe and those who DO LOVE you. The worth of our lives comes
not in what we do or who we know, but by WHO WE ARE. You are special -
Don’t EVER forget it.
Do you know what your life would look like if it was The Perfect Life?
Can you see what kind of home you would live in? Do you see the people you would surround yourself with? Can you see the clothes you would wear, the vacations you would take? What would you do with your time? Can you feel the peace and serenity in everything you were doing?
Many people go through life and have never felt what it was like to have control of their own lives. They believe that they are being driven around by a driver who controls where they go in life rather than being the driver of their own destiny.
I can understand how they feel. It is difficult to try to succeed at something just to see it collapse. They try again; and again it falls.
Then to have someone say to you that you can change the outcome just by changing the way you think.
WOW! Doesn’t that sound easy.
Yes, it sounds really easy, but in truth, it takes quite a bit of effort to change your thinking.
Just think, how old are you? Let’s say 40 something.
You have spent those 40 yrs thinking one way. For 40yrs you have thought the same things over and over. Repeating the same beliefs over and over, programming every brain cell to again repeat the same thing again and again. Do you think that you could just switch it over?
Let’s look at it this way. A tennis player, they practice for hours to get the perfect serve, to hit that ball exactly where on the court they want it. Even after they have successfully mastered it, they continue to practice it over and over. It becomes a language that their body learns until they don’t even have to think about it anymore. When they step up to serve, toss the ball up, they can depend on their serve.
Our thoughts work in the same manner. What we think over and over becomes a the usual way our minds think. Sometimes we pick up thoughts of others and they may not be our beliefs but they may become part of them if we allow our minds to do as they will unmonitored.
How does this apply to you having “The Perfect Life”?
Have you listened to your own thoughts? I mean really listened? What is the most dominate thoughts you have? Are they thoughts of failure, not succeeding, not having, or never having what you want in this lifetime? Have a real good listen one day. Become very conscious of your thoughts and what you tell yourself.
Consider your thoughts to be your Navigator. Where your Navigator tells you to go, is where you will end up. If your Navigator tells you that you will always be broke, or that you have too many bills, guess what? That is where you will end up.
You can change your thinking if you want to change the direction of your life. I am in the process of reprogramming my thoughts so that I can have the life that I dream. You can to.
With Mentoring For Free we also work a lot on personal development. You will often hear Michael Dlouhy say, “If you want to earn more, you have to become more.”
That’s not to say that you need to change who you are, but remove all the rubbish that has stuck to you during your journey of life. I like to think of it as polishing the diamond that was found in the coal mind. Even a priceless gem has grim on it that was collected through its development. Once you clear away the grim, what will you have to show for your efforts? You got it. A priceless gem that can not be easily destroyed.
Your personal development does not have to cost you a fortune. Mentoring for Free is just what the name says. The mentoring and coaching we provide is no cost what so ever. If you are coachable and really desire to see changes in your life then contact me for details today.
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