A good salesman can have you picturing your dream life in moments, and then actually LIVING that dream life, because he’s going to leverage YOUR mental image to sell you HIS product or service. The better he can link what he’s selling to your dream, the sooner you’ll make that buying decision.

That’s how sales works. The best salesperson gets you to visualize exactly what you want, in all its detail. Knowing that, why not use this technique on yourself?

We talk about visualization a lot. But do you actually ever DO it? And if so, are you doing it effectively?

Why not model the successful sales pro? YOU call the shots. Bond with your dream using all your senses - sight, sound, smell, touch, taste. Make it 100% vivid, just like you are really there now. Write down the details of the dream you are picturing, so you can use those details over and over.

Do it every day. The sooner you bond with your dream every day, the sooner you will pay the price to achieve it.

That is how life works.

Your friends for life,

Michael & Linda Dlouhy
“Be a mentor with a servant’s heart!”
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MLM pros know that success requires persistence and hard work. It takes discipline and commitment to success to ALWAYS complete any work that is important and related to their goals.

It pains me to say this, but at times, you’ve got to choose work over fun. (Of course, if THIS work isn’t fun, you’re not doing it right!) When you get things done, that connects your motivations and your goals. Unfortunately, most of the population would rather watch the 142nd rerun of “Gilligan’s Island.”

If you are truly on the success path, then you will take full responsibility for their actions. You realize that what you are today, and what you will be tomorrow, depends 100% on YOU! Your results come directly from your choices & decisions. You are proactive, and you go the extra mile, using your own resources & abilities - and your team’s - to reach your goals.

The only way to identify an MLM pro is by their results. The world is constantly changing. Nobody stays the same for long. They either get better, or they get worse. The only sensible choice is to work your butt off until you can see the results you want … and then keep working until those results are overwhelming. THEN you’ll know you’re on stable ground, and it’s safe to take some R & R.

Your friends for life,

Michael & Linda Dlouhy
“Be a mentor with a servant’s heart!”
1-352-799-8779 Call anytime.
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Focus on what you want - NOT what you don’t want

I remember 50 years ago, hearing Earl Nightingale on the radio, talking about “The Strangest Secret.” This inspirational recording became a huge hit back in the day.

It was the first time broadcast media was used to communicate this simple message to millions of people:

“You become what you think about most.”

THAT is, of course, true, and that was Nightingale’s “Strangest Secret!”

The point is simple. You should consciously choose and be aware of everything you think and talk about. Everything in life is a test … so test this:

For the next 6 hours, choose to focus your thoughts and your spoken words ONLY on what you really want in your life. If bad thoughts start to creep in, then you need to flesh out the positive thoughts in more detail. Get vivid colors, smells, sounds. Get all your senses involved.

As Earl Nightingale said, your mind can only hold one thought at a time. The more vivid you make that picture, the more detail you can put into it, the less and less troublesome negative thoughts will be for you. There just won’t be any room for them.

You’ll find this training I recently did on “visualization” especially helpful in focusing on the positive and getting rid of the negative:

Visualization
So do this little test for several hours every day … until it is second nature to you, and it is standard operating procedure for you. Your life will make a major positive change when everything you see is positive.

Your friends for life,

Michael & Linda Dlouhy
“Be a mentor with a servant’s heart!”
1-352-799-8779 Call anytime.
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HAH! I’ll bet you’re saying, “That’s easy. The opposite of achievement is failure.”

Not so fast, pal!

Oh, I can see your point. Failure is definitely the opposite of achievement. But think about this one for a minute:

“The opposite of achievement is perfectionism.”

OO-oo-ooh! The more you insist on perfection, the less you will get done. The problem with perfection is, it takes FOREVER to achieve it. There is always, always, always one more thing you can do to get closer to perfect. And there are a ton of MLMers always looking for that “one more thing.”

Do you have “forever” to reach your goals?

I’m a big believer in the 80/20 Rule which says that “80% of the result comes from 20% of the effort.” In network marketing - or anything else - you are way better off to act now and get 80% of the result, than to wait a day or a week or a month or a year, until everything is perfect.

In the time that passes while you are getting everything right, somebody else will have blundered on ahead and completed 20 or 50 or 300 or 1000 actions, and you will be eating their dust.

Perfection would be great, but here is the price you must pay for it: nothing ever gets finished. The road to success lies in doing lots of the right actions and finishing them - not perfectly, but sufficiently. The more you act on your logical plan, the more achievement you will have.

Perfectionism truly is the opposite of achievement. If you recognize that irony, you’ll be a lot closer to reaching your goals.

Your friends for life,

Michael & Linda Dlouhy
“Be a mentor with a servant’s heart!”
1-352-799-8779 Call anytime.
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