Month: November 2012

From Willena's blog a wonderful post on a wonderful mentor Michael Dlouhy who is such a insperation. Thank you for the wonderful post Willena.
11 Major Attributes of Leadership:
Defeat is only temporary, and temporary defeat should mean only one thing. There is something wrong with your plan. Build other plans. Start all over again. Only this time, do it right. Choose your leader and follow him! ~ Napoleon Hill
Hill tells us most great leaders began as followers. INTELLIGENT followers. They became great leaders by following in the footsteps of their leaders, not just by gaining endless knowledge about how they do it.
I have spent three years of watching and following my own mentor, Michael Dlouhy. Here are my observations about the eleven major attributes of leadership, as outlined by Napoleon Hill.

THE MAJOR ATTRIBUTES OF LEADERSHIP

1. UNWAVERING COURAGE

Don’t be afraid to call it like you see it, even when it means losing a friend. Real love means speaking the truth when the person needs to hear it, and not letting fear of hurting the person temporarily stop you from doing what that person needs.

2. SELF-CONTROL

My mentor is a Blue personality type, but he doesn’t let his spontaneity and desire for fun cloud his sense of responsibility when someone needs him. He sees the big picture right away, but curbs his desire to blurt out the solution, choosing instead to help the person to discover it for himself.

3. A KEEN SENSE OF JUSTICE

Be open and above board in what you do. Purpose never to do anything that will hurt someone else or hold him back.

4. DEFINITENESS OF DECISION

Slow down the negative and useless chatter in your mind, so you have the clarity you need to make decisions swiftly and definitely. Act on those decisions immediately.

5. DEFINITENESS OF PLANS

Keep your goals clearly in mind, and make definite, measurable plans for achieving those goals. Put a time frame on it, and work within that framework.

6. THE HABIT OF DOING MORE THAN PAID FOR

Go the second mile–and the third and the fourth!–for your prospects and team members. If they are coachable, do everything you can to help them reach their goals.

7. A PLEASING PERSONALITY

Understand the personality colors so you can speak the language of your prospects and work well with members of your team. Learn to be a chameleon, adapting yourself to the person you are speaking with at this moment. Talk to people and respond to them in they way they will best understand, never letting your own primary personality colour overwhelm them or get in the way.

8. SYMPATHY AND UNDERSTANDING

Never allow others to suck you into their drama. Truly listen to them, but remember that true sympathy and understanding means throwing cold water on someone occasionally so he is shocked into seeing the lifesaver he needs to grab, to pull himself out of the muck and mire.

9. MASTERY OF DETAIL

Provide a simple, duplicatible system your team members can plug into, to help them build their business. Detailed enough to cover all the bases, but easy to learn and implement. Know the system well, and be able to guide your team members and point them to where they can find their own answers to problems.

10. WILLINGNESS TO ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY

A person’s success or failure is not dependent on you. It is inside of him. Where he is today is a direct result of choices he has made along the way. Know that! At the same time, you want to do everything you can to teach your team members how to think critically, and how to make responsible decisions so they will succeed.

11. COOPERATION

Never let people feel like you are ‘way up there looking down on them from some lofty height. Come alongside them, get down in the trenches with them, and work with them like team members.
That’s what I aiming for in EVERY area of my life, not just in network marketing. And above all else I will remember:
A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS!
© Willena Flewelling

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1. The Art of Leadership
2. The Fall of a Leader
3. One Size Does Not Fit All
4. Power of the Mastermind – What is Your Mindset?
5. It Wasn’t His Imagination

A wonderful post as appeared from Discover good fitness and nutrition by susan bowerman. thank you
4 barriers to good diet behavior:
From Herbalife's Discover Good Fitness & Nutrition Blog

Want to change your diet behavior? Break through these diet barriers first! Getting out of your usual comfortable routine is hard and the first step is figuring out why you’re resisting change in the first place.
When my son turned 5 years old, we had an “inside-out, upside down, backwards” birthday party for him.  We handed his friends their goodie bags and waved goodbye as soon as they arrived at the house, and we ate cake and ice cream before the pizza.  The parents had a lot of laughs, but the kids were totally bewildered – in no small part, I’m sure, because we were also wearing our underwear over our clothes.  So why am I telling you this?  Because sometimes when I’m talking to clients about the lifestyle changes they need to work on, I see that same bewilderment – as if I’m suddenly turning their world inside-out, upside down and backwards.  Why is change so hard for some people?
Think about your daily routine – how many things do you do without even thinking about them?  When you’re getting dressed in the morning, which shoe do you put on first?  You’ve probably never thought about it.  But if you always start with the right, try putting on the left shoe first – it might feel a little strange and unfamiliar.  Now imagine that you’re faced with a multitude of things you need to change.  Everything you do throughout the day is affected, and you’re constantly reminded that you’re doing things differently. It takes some getting used to.
Change is hard, and it takes time to develop new, healthy habits to replace the old ones.  But in order to get there, you first have to identify the barriers that are getting in your way.  People resist change for many reasons, but here are some of the most common ones.

Good diet barrier #1:

You feel fine, so what’s the problem?

I can’t tell you how many times patients have said to me, “there’s nothing wrong with me, I’m just fat.”  Maybe it’s because being overweight doesn’t exactly hurt the way a headache does – it could be that since the weight comes on little by little, you sort of slowly adapt and don’t notice how it’s affecting you.  But those who tell me that they feel “fine, just fat” before they start on a diet and exercise program are the same ones who come back months later – trimmer and fitter – admitting that they had no idea how bad they really felt when they were heavier.  With a loss of weight and a gain in stamina from regular exercise, they’ve got more energy, they sleep better and they feel ‘like a new person’.   There’s nothing more motivating than really feeling the results of getting healthier.

Good diet barrier #2:

There’s so much you’ll have to give up, it’s just not worth it

You’re envisioning that you’ll have to give up your favorite foods, that you won’t be able to go out and enjoy meals with friends, family or coworkers, and that you’ll have to set aside way too much time for exercise and meal preparation.  Sounds like a lot to give up, and you’re not sure you want to.  But you can learn ways to lighten up your favorite recipes at home and make better choices in restaurants, and you can be just as sociable with your friends over a healthy meal as you can over a cheeseburger and fries.  Focus not on what you’re giving up, but what you stand to gain.  Yes, some things will have to change – but if you keep your “eye on the prize” of better health, you’re more likely to make adjustments.

Good diet barrier #3:

You don’t have the self-confidence to think you can succeed

Maybe you’ve tried a variety of things in the past, but you haven’t ever been able to make much headway.  If you’ve tried everything under the sun but nothing’s worked for you, it’s going to be hard for me to convince you that this time will be any different.  So it helps to look at why you might have failed.  Was the diet too strict and hard to follow?  Did you get too aggressive too soon with your exercise and hurt yourself – rather than easing into it slowly?  Do you eat when you’re not hungry and use food as a reward or a comfort?  Gaining confidence takes time, and you might need to take baby steps to get to where you need to go.  But when you take those same steps over and over again, you’re on your way to establishing new, healthier habits – and to building your confidence.

Good diet barrier #4:

You don’t think anything you do will make a difference

Some people just aren’t convinced that there’s anything they can do to impact their health in a significant way.  They’ll say they inherited their hefty build from their parents, or chalk up a high cholesterol level to ‘bad genes’.  When you believe that there’s nothing you can do that will make a difference, that’s exactly what you’re likely to do – nothing. But you’re just providing yourself with an easy way out.  As it’s been said, “genetics loads the gun, but environment pulls the trigger”.  Genetics alone doesn’t determine how healthy you’ll be – your health is greatly influenced by how well you take care of yourself, too.  And small changes, taken together, can definitely add up.
Written by Susan Bowerman, MS, RD, CSSD. Susan is a paid consultant for Herbalife.

From Tom Big Al’s newsletter thank you for a powerful story tom,
I take a flight from Houston, Texas to New York City. I pay $500 for my ticket.
You also take a flight from Houston, Texas to New York City. You also pay $500 for your ticket.
We both arrive in New York City, but because you filled out a simple one-page form to join the airline's frequent flier program, you received some frequent flier miles and I didn't.
We both did the exact same thing, you got rewarded, I didn't. You received frequent flier miles, they added up and eventually you got a free trip to Hawaii.
And what if the airline told you that if you told your friends to join their frequent flier program, they would give you some extra frequent flier miles every time your friend earned some frequent flier miles?
Wow. You would tell everyone you knew.
And get this, what if you got frequent flier miles every time you flew ... and you got frequent flier miles every time your friends flew ... and if your friends recommended the frequent flier program to their friends and you got frequent flier miles every time their friends flew ... and so on, wow!
This would be the frequent flier program on steroids!!!
Well, network marketing works the same way, except we don't give you frequent flier miles, we give you cash!
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Isn't that how network marketing works? You have a product or service you like, and you get paid for using it. And you get paid for telling others, because you filled out the one-page form to be a distributor.
I love this story because it helps your prospect see that he does network marketing already! And if your prospect sees that, the rest of the presentation is easy.

From Tom Big Al’s newsletter a wonderful lesson from Tom.

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The following is from Success in 10 steps by Michael Dlouhy on

Listen carefully.

I’m well aware your intentions were gallant: to provide for your family all the things YOU never had, to spend more quality time with them, to help others like yourself grow & prosper.

And remember what happened next?

You were lied to. You were “leveraged”. The Heavy Hitters used you for batting practice. You got thrown in the muck, untrained, unprepared. Your checking ac- count was drained. Your credit cards were maxed out. Friends & relatives screened your phone calls.

Then you looked in the mirror and called yourself, “Loser!”

I know, I know. It started because you want the same things I wanted.

You want to be your own boss, answer to no one … and earn a good living doing it. You want to go where you want, when you want. You want to spend $200 on dinner without batting an eye.

You want precious time NOW with those you love. You want the money & free- dom to take a day off – or 2 weeks off – and maybe fly to some faraway island on a whim.

You want to work and socialize with people you like & admire, who share your outlook on life and your goals. You want the self-satisfaction of achieving your goals, and the self-fulfillment of helping others reach theirs. You want financial independence.

You DON’T want more rejection.

You DON’T want to have to sell anything to anyone.

And you sure DON’T want another MLM.

Good stuff. Holy mackerel, sounds just like ME!

So here I am. I have no choice but to write this book. Truly, no control. You’ll read why in Chapter 2.

But here’s what I do control: This book is free. No company is mentioned or pro- moted. No opportunity is mentioned or promoted.

You’ll find 20 tons of ebooks all over the internet, full of affiliate links. Trust them at your peril, because they profit on every recommendation they make.

My purpose is to share what I’ve learned in nearly 30 years in network market- ing, and present a 10-step success plan you can use with ANY network market- ing opportunity.

The plan is NOT easy.

But it’s simple.

It’s NOT “I’ll do all the work FOR you.”

It only works if YOU do.

It’s NOT “get-rich-quick.”

But you can create a lifetime residual income.

What’s in it for me, you ask? That question is answered in Chapters 2 & 5. Don’t worry. Helping you helps me. It’s part of my giving back to this great industry.

I wish you the absolute best, and I hope you use this information. It could change your life. Are you game? Then read on!

From Success in 10 Steps by Michael Dlouhy, a wonderful introduction to the ebook and as Michael say’s its his way of giving back to the industry and helping people become successful.

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"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

-- Zig Ziglar, Author

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