Author: Mentor Ben Drake

David H. Paul- St. Cloud, MN USA

This week we are going to talk about a topic that many people want to avoid, persistence. Persistence requires consistent, daily effort and action. Can the actions be effortless? Sure they can be, as long as we have done the previous 8 steps (chapters) in "Think and Grow Rich".
Michael share the $100,000 Success Formula with us on the Monday Leaders Skills call, and it fit right in with exact what I need to be persistent in doing right now. Here are the 5 Skill Sets that Michael laid out:
1. The number of people we talk to per day.
Not the number of people we email, text message, or Skype with, the mumber of people we actually have a direct voice conversation with, either via telephone or Skype call. (This has been a major week spot for me, and has help me back from growing my business.)
2. The Quality of the people we are talking to
Most of the people who download "Success in 10 Steps" are people who already believe in network marketing and Want Desparately to have success. Pretty good quality of people to talk to. To really push in over the edge, I asked myself "Am I the kind of person who attracts the leaders in network marketing?
3. How much do People Like Me?
Most people either can't stand me, or they are really impressed with my enthusiasm and consistent, truthful message. One thing I have definitely learn from 30 Day Mental Cleanse is that I have become the person that people want to join. (which we cover in more detail in #5)
4. You Skill and Knowledge Level
From what I have learned in Mentoring for Free, there are three major skill bases that I must master in order to become the leader I want to become in network marketing: 1) A working knowledge of my company and products (even a belief in them) 2) A personal development program that teaches me How To Think not What To Think, and 3) the skill of being able to communicate effectively with any personality (we call that the Colors to Success in MFF).
5. You Success Thermostat
How much do I Believe that I Can Have the Success that I want. Can I look myself in the mirror and say, "I Love You"? Those skills, the skills of persistent Self-Development, are what we develop when we fully participate in 30 Day Mental Cleanse.
When we honestly look at these 5 Skills Sets, if any of them are coming up a 0 (goose egg), then That is the area to Focus on with absolute persistence. In order to get that kind of focused persistence it is probably going to be necessary to face some F.E.A.R. (False Evidence Appearing Real). Please, do yourself and you family a favor an ask for help with those fears. At Mentoring for Free, we have a well honed persistence in helping network marketers overcome fear.
To Your Peace and Prosperity,
David H. Paul
St. Cloud, MN USA

Lesson plan from David H Paul on chapter 9 for the 30 day mental cleanse.

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Willena Flewelling - Alberta Canada (Part 2)

Groundhog Day or Karen Killilea? Which will it be?
Have you ever seen the movie Groundhog Day? Morning after morning he wakes up
to live the same day over and over again.  until he gets it right. Day after day he
lives in utter frustration until finally one morning he wakes up to a brand new day.
"Karen" is the biography of Karen Killilea, who was born with cerebral palsy, and was
fiercely independent even as a young child. She would spend an hour and a half in
the mornings putting on her socks and shoes by herself, rather depend on her mother
to do it for her. At age 11, after seven months of coaching, she wrote an original
sentence by herself. It took her 36 minutes. When she was finished, she looked up
at her proud and beaming parents and said, "I can walk. I can talk. I can read.
I can WRITE. Mom Pom, I can do ANYTHING!"
Groundhog Day is a story of frustration and repeating many of the same mistakes
over and over again, always wondering what he was doing wrong, until finally he
gave in and did it right.
Karen Killilea is a story of determination, faith and persistence... a young girl who
refused to give in to what others would consider insurmountable obstacles. Thoughts
of failure never crossed her mind. She lived each day with her eye on her goal of
independence, and everything she did was toward that end.
Groundhog Day or Karen Killilea... which will it be?
I don't know about you, but I know the answer for me!
Willena Flewelling
Alberta Canada
P.S. Mentoring For Free gives us the Recipe, the Formula, the Map to Success.
We don't have to stumble and bumble around in frustration, wondering what we're
doing wrong. We can live each day with our eye on the goal, knowing that time and
effort are not important. Success WILL ultimately come.

Lesson plan from Willena Flewelling on chapter 9 for the 30 day mental cleanse.

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Bob Shoaf Alamogordo, NM

The Eighth Step toward Riches
Persistence is the POWER OF WILL.
An example of some who were effective in their use of persistence were the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, Napoleon Hill and Edisons.  One might be inclined to think the average person couldn't be included in that group.
We can be included if we apply PERSISTENCE to Napoleon Hill's 13 factors.  We must have a definite goal and a definite plan to reach that goal.  The amount of PERSISTENCE we have is directly proportional to the INTENSITY OF ONE'S DESIRE.
I can relate to this INTENSITY OF DESIRE.  When I met my future wife, Lucy, I'm not sure of the exact moment, but sometime early in our relationship I knew I was going to marry her.  The possibility of that not happening NEVER entered my mind.  I just knew it was going to happen.
I'm working toward that same PERSISTENCE mind set in my MLM business with the help of the MFF mastermind group.  Finally, I have found a system that will help me achieve any goal I set.
I have already experienced self-talk being able to get me back on track when I stray off a bit.
There is no substitute for persistence:
"EVERY FAILURE BRINGS WITH IT THE SEED OF AN EQUIVALENT ADVANTAGE."
Those of us who accept this rule know from experience the soundness of persistence.  My marriage of 48 years is a good example.
Success of our MLM business is based on the 8 elements of persistence:
Definiteness of purpose
Desire
Self-Reliance
Definiteness of Plans
Accurate knowledge
Co-operation
Will-Power
Habit
Several of these elements have already had a positive effect on my life by improving my relationship with others.  The road is long and narrow, but now I know there is a roadmap that will get me there.
Thanks to all in the MFF mastermind group.
Bob Shoaf

Lesson plan from Bob Shoaf on chapter 9 for the 30 day mental cleanse.

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Ben Miranda - Los Angeles, California

CHAPTER 9
PERSISTENCE: THE SUSTAINED EFFORT NECESSARY TO INDUCE FAITH
The Eighth Step toward Riches.
My experiences.
On my past lesson I said, “Many times my decisions were or are controversial and had or have to overcome third people’s opinion because, at the end, is my reality. Feeling scare? Of course but I knew that I had or have to do or make it. My crucial decisions that I took were, and to me they are examples of persistence, viz,
• When I came to The USA, To SUCCESS, with US$ 120.00 in my pocket
• When I got to resign of a job because of discrimination, bullies, etc. attitudes, and I didn’t have any kind of job opportunity offer. Friday August 06, 2010
• When I started two years ago, step by step, my Networking Marketing Business’ knowledge. Either General Knowledge or Specialized Knowledge, my focus has been always to get knowledge and apply it.
• When I enrolled to MFF, 30DMC, again by myself, on Saturday, April 02, 2011
• When I took many turning points in, on, at several aspects of my life on Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 with my English Tutor’s help.
• When I enrolled to MFFPro by myself on Monday September 26, 2011 because to me it is a unique System.
• When my Networking’s Mentors left me alone because of they tried to enroll me to their business opportunity, and I didn’t accept.
• When I decided to work with a Mentor who, for the first time, was the only one who listened to me and resonated with the Success in 10 Steps’ philosophy and teachings. Tuesday June 19, 2012
• Now, I am on the road as networker with a NMB, since Monday, July 16, 2012, as partner and with a heart of service doing it steadily, persistently, relentlessly in a smart way. And using the STB platform.
• And much more.
But, at this point, what persistence is? What it means? What Persistence means to each of us?
Dictionary defines it:
1. The quality, act or fact of persisting; tenacity
2. The act of persisting; continued effort or existence or occurrence
3. The continuance of an effect after the cause of it has stopped
4. The continuance of an effect after its cause is removed.
Master Napoleon says,
• PERSISTENCE IS AN ESSENTIAL FACTOR IN THE PROCEDURE OF TRANSMUTING DESIRE INTO ITS WEALTHY EQUIVALENT. The basis of persistence is the power of will and love in, on and at you do or make
• Will power and desire properly combined make a resistless pair
• Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of FAILURE. Indefiniteness of organized planning, lack of decision and procrastination as well.
• If we find we are weak in persistence, we must carry out consciously the instructions given with regard to the six steps in the chapter “Desire,” also we must center our attention upon the instructions contained in the chapter “Power of Master Mind” group. Besides, we will find additional instructions in the chapter “Autosuggestion,” and in the chapter “The Subconscious Mind”
My point of view about this chapter is that we must get an "Organized Persistence" in order to we can develop the necessary “wealthy consciousness.” How? Well, Master Napoleon says, “The building of a fortune, generally, involves the application of the entire thirteen factors of this philosophy. These principles must be understood, they must be applied with PERSISTENCE by all who accumulate wealth.”
At this point, I am totally focused to improve and follow my English skills, My Why’s, My Three Reasons. I have learned How to Think, not What to Think but being a critical thinker. I have learned I must “empty” my mind and “fill it up” via Success in 10 Steps-book, MFF System, 30 Day-Mental-Cleanse Program, any other personal development information, (…), and doing them steadily, persistently, relentlessly in a smart way.
Allow me to put on your consideration this shuffled - cyclic sequence to learn Master Napoleon’s factors and teachings that I’m trying out now:
1.   Chapter 1: Thoughts are Things
2.   Chapter 15: The Six Ghosts of Fear
3.   Chapter 2: Desire
4.   Chapter 3: Faith
5.   Chapter 4: Autosuggestion
6.   Chapter 5: Specialized Knowledge
7.   Chapter 6: Imagination
8.   Chapter 11: The Mystery of Sex Transmutation
9.   Chapter 8: Decision
10. Chapter 9: Persistence
11. Chapter 10: The Power of Master Mind
12. Chapter 7: Organized Planning
13. Chapter 12: The Subconscious Mind
14. Chapter 13: The Brain
15. Chapter 14: The Sixth Sense
16. Self Analysis: Chapter 15
“You may find it necessary to ‘snap out of’ your mental inertia through a similar procedure, moving slowly at first, and then increasing your speed, until you gain complete control over your will. Be PERSISTENT no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move.  With Persistence will come success”
- Napoleon Hill
Sincerely with love, honesty and gratitude,
Ben
Los Angeles, California

Lesson plan from Ben Miranda on chapter 9 for the 30 day mental cleanse.

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