​Don't be afraid to fail.
You've failed many times, although you may not remember.
You fell down the first time you tried to walk.
You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim, didn't you?
Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat?
Heavy hitters, the ones who hit the most home runs, also strike out a lot.
R.H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on.
English novelist John Creasey got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books.
Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times, but he also hit 714 home runs.
Don't worry about failure.
Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.
At birth, we are as seeds to be planted.
The seed itself is not what we are,
But rather the place for us to start growing.
As a great tree, we see the seed's potential to grow.
So it is with our lives.
Birth is but the beginning.
Life offers us the chance to grow into great trees,
Or to die as the undeveloped seeds.
The greatest gift we have in life,
Is the opportunity to make up our own minds.
Whether to learn and grow from those who know,
Or wither and die as seeds unfulfilled.
The Value of a Penny
by Vicki Opfer
What would you say if I gave you a choice - I'll give you a penny today, and then double it's value every day for a month, or, I'll write you a check for $1,000,000 right now. Which would you pick?
The following model will help you to understand the financial possibilities of network marketing, also called a business of duplication.
Day: Value of your penny:
1. .01
2. .02
3. .04
4. .08
5. .16
6. .32
7. .64
8. $1.28
9. $2.56
10. $5.12
11. $10.24
12. $20.48
13. $40.96
14. $81.92
15. $163.84
16. $327.68
17. $655.36
18. $1,310.72
19. $2,621.44
20. $5,242.88
21. $10,485.76
22. $20,971.52
23. $41,943.04
24. $83,886.08
25. $167,772.16
26. $335,544.32
27. $671,088.64
28. $1,342,177.28
29. $2,684.354.56
30. $5,368,709.12
31. $10,737,418.24
By day 7, the value of the penny is only $.64 - not very interesting is it? If this model duplicates network marketing, can you understand why so many people give up building a business right away? By the middle of the month, on day 14, the value of the penny would only be $81.92. Well, again, that's nowhere close to the $1,000,000 check that I offered to write to you.
Even by day 21 - basically 2/3 of the way through the month, the value is $10,485, which is a lot of money, but, again, nowhere close to $1,000,000. But then watch what happens in that next week, and you'll discover the true power of not only this model, but of network marketing which duplicates this model...
This is the power of "duplication" and the power of the network marketing model - it's fascinating.
Now look at the model as the check you will receive on your business, once it has grown... Perhaps $10 million a month is very unrealistic, but realize, that in the industry, those who have built large organizations over a period of several years can earn $25,000 - $150,000 per month. Their secret? Simply continuing to share and not giving up... It's sad to realize that most people will become discouraged long before their business has a chance to become large.
In Young Living, many of the leaders have become successful because they loved the oils and products so much, that they were willing to continue sharing them, even if it appeared that they weren't earning any money on their efforts. Eventually, their checks began to exceed their dreams, and they had to learn to dream bigger...
So have fun, learn a lot, share as much as you can, dream big, and realize that even though we're only one person, that each one of us can make a major difference in the health of those in our communities and those who come behind us in future generations -- and we can achieve financial abundance -- it's all in the value of a small, shiny penny..
Show Them The Money
By Jim Lynn
"I never have enough money at the end of the month. My husband and I always end up fighting; and my bills are too complicated."
Sound familiar? It should because half (50%) of all American households have problems making even the minimum payment on their debts. They simply do not have enough money to meet their obligations.
What Most Americans Are Dealing With:
The cost of one late payment can be extremely large when you add in the penalty interest rates. If you have one credit card with a $2,500 balance at a regular 14 percent interest rate, and you only make the minimum 2.5 percent monthly payment, it would take you almost 16 years to pay off the balance and cost you an additional $1,980 in interest. If you take the same balance and monthly payment but use a penalty interest rate of 28 percent, it would take 101 years to pay off the balance and cost an additional $30,165 in interest. (Source: http://myvesta.org)
What's worse. Many creditors monitor credit reports looking for late payments and problem accounts. So if you're late on one account, it sends a signal to other creditors that you've become a bigger risk so they jack up the interest rates on your credit cards even if you've never been late with them.
Why am I telling you this?
To achieve success with your own homebased referral marketing business you need to Show Them How:
Begin by showing them the huge tax advantage they gain by owning their own home-based business. Show them how they can increase their take-home pay by hundreds of dollars a month to fund their new business and product purchases. Show them how owning a business can mean keeping several thousands of tax dollars they would otherwise pay.
Offer a partnership with them and explain how by partnering you can assure them of building life-long residual income. Show them a no-nonsense, proven business-building model. Trust those who know from experience. Prospects get excited when you
"show them the money."
What is happening now in America is a tragedy. People are trying to fix their financial troubles by borrowing their way out of debt and creditors are happy to let them get in deeper. You and I have the opportunity and responsibility to show people how they can help themselves.
