Your mind is being programmed everyday. Either you’re doing it yourself, or somebody else is. If you’re not in charge, then you’ll really struggle for success in network marketing.

Are you letting the radio, the TV, the internet, the newspaper, or friends & family program you? If you are, then you are definitely being programmed for lack & limitation.

If you’re in your car with the radio on, that radio has a tuner. You can tune in hundreds of radio stations. Those radio waves bombard you with negativity all day long. You are being programmed.

Do you turn the TV on and just leave it on while you’re home? Again, you’re getting constant programming. This stuff, at best, is trivial. At the worst, it’s very, very negative.

And when you’re programmed with negative garbage by radio & TV several hours a day, 7 days a week, 4 weeks a month, 12 months a year, year after year after year … it takes a toll. You develop a negative outlook on life and your MLM business … often without even knowing it.

Learn To Program Yourself

What happens with your mind, subconsciously, when negative friends & family members are talking to you? You are being programmed.

For you to have the success you want and deserve in life, it’s critical that you learn to block out this garbage. That’s why when we coach people, we have them plug into a 30-day mental cleanse, so you can turn off the chatter.

We started this mental cleanse not too long ago. And yet, I have had many, many dozens of emails from participants, telling me that it has totally changed their lives. You can get more details on the 30 Day Mental Cleanse at 30 Day Mental Cleanse .

Success Requires That You Get Rid of the Negativity Forever

It’s critical that you be honest with yourself. Do you want MLM business success so much that you’re willing to pay the price of giving up TV, giving up radio, giving up negativity for 30 days?

If you participate in this process for just 30 days, it will change your life. You will learn to stop the both the constant external chatter and the constant internal mental chatter … and to start reprogramming yourself with positive self-talk.

How Do You Stop The Negative Chatter In Your Brain?

First, you learn to train yourself to turn off that external negativity. That bit of negative programming you run into everywhere can bring you down for days and make you doubt yourself. You’ve got to stop that from happening.

Next, you learn to re-program your brain with positive self-talk. For instance, here is what I use:

“I am having fun, building the largest, most profitable, highest-retention organization ever built in the history of network marketing, easily and consistently through education and teamwork.”

That’s my self-talk. When I’m out in the field mowing, bush-hogging with the tractor, that’s what I’m saying to myself. Anytime I’m driving somewhere, that is my self-talk.

When I first started using this particular self-talk, I probably said it 100-200 times a day. Now, the whole 27-word phrase is just a subconscious thing, repeating in my mind, over and over and over. It blocks out all the other chatter.

And the reason that’s so powerful is, when you stop the chatter, you can truly, truly listen to people. And THAT is the skill that is so critical to your success in both business & personal relationships.

I will believe in you until you have the strength to believe in yourself.

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Watch out for your viperous MLM upline! They can get you good.

You need to make it a point to know who your upline is. I just spoke with a lady last night on a 3-way phone call. She was the first woman in this network marketing company who built so quickly that she went to the top of the payplan in 4 months.

Her upline was envious and jealous. And part of her network marketing strategy was NOT to read the company Policies & Procedures. Bad, bad combination.

Before You Ever Join Any Company, Thoroughly Read Your P & Ps

Before this lady built the program, she did tell the company that her fiance was promoting another MLM company.

But guess what? Her company’s Policies & Procedures state that you cannot make any money from another network marketing company - not even an affiliate program! If you violate this provision, you can be terminated.

And these restrictions apply to everyone living in YOUR household!

Now to me, that sounds like you’re an employee. If you’re an MLM independent contractor, how can they put those kinds of restrictions on you?

Anyway, this lady build to the top of the payplan. She was rocking and rolling. Everything was great. She was about to receive a $7,000 bonus check for reaching the top of the payplan … first woman to ever do it …

… and all of a sudden her website is turned off. Everything is shut down. The company didn’t even send her a letter.

Bad News From the Viperous Upline!

Her upline called and told her she was terminated because her fiance was in another program. She had already told the company they weren’t married and that he was in another program. So it had nothing to do with her or her network marketing strategy, but because they lived in the same household, the company used that lever to get her out of the line of compensation.

The company views 2 people living in the same household as if the two people are the same. And they can do that because it’s in the Policies & Procedures.

Isn’t that amazing?

What are the chances the company would ever find out about this if not for the viperous upline? Because this lady just got terminated, her sponsor inherits her entire organization. It all rolls up.

The Upline Couldn’t Build It Themselves – And Now They Don’t Have To!

I know a number of network marketers who have lost everything, because they never read their Policies & Procedures. Go to your company website right now, and read your P & Ps. You may be astonished at what you find.

FACT: When you joined your company, you checked a box stating that you agreed to abide by each of those P & Ps. But I’ll bet you never actually read them!

Which reminds me of a trap that a lot of network marketing reps fall into. They think, “Well, everybody I know is violating this rule. The company must not care.” Believe me, you can violate any rule you want, so long as you’re not making any money. But once you start to build a significant income, THAT is when it’s worthwhile for your viperous upline - or your company itself - to terminate you for violation of your Policies & Procedures.

What’s in there that YOU don’t know about? Go find them and read them. Now!

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Michael & Linda Dlouhy
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A caller recently told me he’s joining an MLM company because they promised him spillover. I said, “They are lying to you!”

The guy called me back later and said, “I point-blank asked them if I’d get people put underneath me, and the guy said, ‘Well, we can’t guarantee that.’”

Spillover – Creating a Welfare Mentality

Good people don’t want welfare. They want to build it themselves. They just want to learn the skills they need to build this business and create residual income, money that’s coming in week after week, year after year, and they can will it to their children’s children.

When you look at a lot of network marketing websites, you often see that word “spillover.” The proposition, more or less, is, “get in now, today, and you’ll get all this spillover.”

In 27 years, I have never, ever, ever seen anybody get spillover, having somebody build it for them.

And if you look closely at the compensation plans of the companies that promote spillover, you’ll find out that those who get spillover usually don’t get paid on it. There are other hoops to jump through to get paid on that spillover, and these people rarely ever qualify.

So it’s the person who actually does the work who gets the pay … what a novel idea!

Companies & reps use “spillover” as a tool to drag in people who think they can build a business without doing any work. In other words, no sponsoring, no recruiting. It targets that type of person.

When You Say “Spillover”, You Are Targeting Quitters!

When you see a network marketing company that promotes spillover on their website, they’re looking for welfare-minded people. The problem for you is, you can’t build with these people, unless YOU do all the work! That’s what they expect. And when you don’t build their business, they’ll be off somewhere else, looking for a better welfare plan.

So really, when you or your company promote spillover, you are targeting people who will not be with you long-term. And in network marketing, that makes absolutely no sense. The failure rate will be 100%.

And Here’s Why The Leads You Buy Tell You To Go Pound Sand!

The quickest way to build a huge list is to offer the moon and require nothing (no money, no work, no purchase) in return. You’ll see companies promoting “we’ve signed up more people faster than anybody else in the history of network marketing.” Problem is, there’s nobody ordering any product. It’s just a bunch of names on a list … but now they can call these people “network marketers.”

Then they turn around and sell this huge database of worthless names (an “MLM geneology list”) For $10,000 each to 10 different list brokers. BAM! That’s $100,000 profit! And then the list brokers sell these “leads” to all the people in network marketing who want to build their business … including YOU!

So you pay $2-$3 a lead for these people, you call them up, and they tell you, “Hey! You’re nuts! I’ve never been in network marketing!” They don’t even know what it is. They just opted in to some pie-in-the-sky list, hoping to get something for nothing.

Conclusion? Run like heck from any company focused on “spillover” … and ALWAYS generate your own leads.

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Michael & Linda Dlouhy
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EVERY Olympic athlete has a coach. The top ones hire their own personal coach.

I’ve had my own mentor-coach in network marketing since 1991. One person actually once told me he thought it was a weakness for “people like you to admit that you need a coach to help you.”

A weakness???

I replied that having a coach was (and is) one of the smartest things I have ever done.

A coach keeps you accountable and focused. There are just soooooo many opportunities in life to get sidetracked.

Pro athletes like Tiger Woods, Bobby Bonds, Peyton Manning, all the big stars, have several coaches. Each coach teaches their own specialty.

How To Choose A Coach

I’ve been married almost 35 years. If I wanted marriage counselling, would I talk to someone who’s never been married? How about someone who’s graduated from college with 3 or 4 degrees and never been married? Would I go to someone who’s been married for 2 years or 5 years, when I’ve been married for 34 years? Would I go to someone married 10 years, with no children?

Or would I talk to someone who’s been married 30 or 40 years or more and who has raised a couple healthy, happy kids?

Who would you want to get your coaching from? Somebody who has experienced it, or somebody who hasn’t?

Many of the coaches today in network marketing have never built an organization. Or they built it 5, 10, 15 years ago, but they can’t build it today.

As the old saying goes, “if you can’t do, teach.”

So these network marketing coaches go out and teach people how to do what they can’t do. What they did 10 years ago worked 10 years ago. But it doesn’t work today.

So instead of being on the cutting edge of technology and learning (and USING!) the state-of-the-art in network marketing business-building, they hold themselves up as a coach!

I’ve even seen one coach who shows you his huge downline geneology. If you look closely, you’ll notice it’s from 12 years ago. He hasn’t done anything since.

If you’re going to be coached, you want to be coached by somebody who is doing it NOW, someone who is active today.

It’s crazy, but there are even ”coaches” who promote it as a virtue that they no longer do network marketing. They’ll tell you this lets them be objective. They’ll tell you that you don’t need to worry about them recruiting you into some other business.

Here is the truth: there’s a lot more money in network marketing than there is in coaching … IF you can actually do network marketing, AND you can do the coaching anyway, while you’re building your business.

So why isn’t this person in network marketing anymore?

Easy. It’s because they can’t do it. Plain and simple, they can’t build it.

It is completely insane to choose as your coach someone who is not currently successful at network marketing. You are being ripped-off, plain and simple.

I’ve even talked to a couple of these “unbiased” network marketing coaches who actually don’t like network marketing. They don’t believe in it. Yet they will gladly take your money to coach you to success in network marketing!

One more thing … 90% of these coaches tell you that YOU have to change. They say you have to get out of your comfort zone, become this “A” type personality. And THAT is the reason it doesn’t work.

Those “A” personalities can go out and do anything and be successful at it. But 92% of the world can’t do that. And when you go out there telling them they have to change, it’s no wonder there’s such a high failure rate in network marketing.

Here’s what I think:

1. You’re perfect just the way you are.
2. You need belief in yourself, belief in the business.
3. Learn some skills.
4. Take action.

And to coach somebody in network marketing, the biggest thing they need coaching on is their belief. They don’t believe in the industry, their company, or themselves.

Most top business people have (or once had) a true mentor, someone who’s done it before and knows what to do. The person with a mentor has a big advantage. Tom “Big Al” Schreiter was my mentor for 15 years, and I never even joined his business! I would be honored to be YOUR mentor, no matter what company you are in.

As your coach, I will believe in YOU until you can believe in yourself!

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Michael & Linda Dlouhy
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