Most people set goals … which they never achieve.

Why? What is the difference between people who set goals and reach them, and the people who set goals and never come close?

I see a few differences:

1. You’ve got to have a really big dream, one that totally captures your imagination, that truly inspires you.

2. Choose a model, someone who has done what you want to do. Study every aspect of that person, their skills, their resources, and what they have achieved, so you understand what it takes.

3. Write down every detail of that dream, no matter how trivial it may seem. The more detail you can picture in your mind, the closer you get to your dream becoming reality.

4. Spend time each day picturing your exact dream. After you have built your dream picture, it doesn’t take but 3-5 minutes a day to focus completely on it. That action will drive you to your dream’s achievement.

5. Focus every action in your day on making some part of your dream a reality.

6. Wherever fear or doubt enter the picture, step right into them. Do whatever it is you fear, over and over, so it no longer looms as a stop on your dream.

7. Never ever ever quit.

We have personally found these steps to be very effective.

Your friends for life,

Michael & Linda Dlouhy
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Decide to learn. Every experience, yours or someone else’s, positive or negative, will teach you.
 
Watch how other people fail. That can be worth a fortune. Watch people who achieve their dreams and THEN mess up. Wow! Isn’t THAT a great lesson in humility? 

When you really pay attention to the people around you, you can learn what not to do without the pain of your own failure.

I watched a smart fellow achieve great success in network marketing. And then it all started to slowly, imperceptibly erode. And THEN in a big rush, it all disappeared.

What happened? He started to think he had it made, and he stopped doing all the little things that helped him achieve success in the first place. Pretty tough lesson for him. But he made it easier for you and me.

Your friends for life,

Michael & Linda Dlouhy
1-352-799-8779 Call anytime.
“Be a mentor with a servant’s heart!”
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What is the lifeblood of ANY business?

Answer: Product movement to the end consumer.

Have you read Sam Walton’s autobiography? His vision, the business model he pioneered, was brilliant. Walton started Walmart & Sam’s Club. He said, “We will be the largest retailer in the world.” And he achieved this goal because he found a way to move product to the end consumer at the cheapest price. How did he do that?

Walton said, “Do people care when they buy their groceries whether there’s an acoustical tile ceiling, or if they see roof rafters and white bar joists?” The answer: They don’t care. So he invented a business model where you have shelves with cases and cases and cases of soda pop.

In the evening, they bring that stuff down & fill the shelves. They stock the warehouse for ALL the manufacturing companies, saving those companies a TON of money.

Every Other Retailer Was Left In The Dust

He built massive warehouses around the world. Then he talked to Scott Tissues, Hershey’s, Johnson & Johnson, Levi’s, all these companies: “Hey! Don’t build expensive warehouses all over the place. Ship your products to MY warehouses, I’ll store it. As we sell it, I’ll pay you.”

So when they scan that bar code, Scott Tissues knows Walmart sold 73 cases of paper towels today. The system tracks that sale. At the end of each day, Walmart sends each vendor the money.

Other retail outlets don’t have the space – or the vision – to make that offer to suppliers. Instead, they buy the stuff in smaller quantity, store it in the back, and move it to the front as needed. There’s no tall, tall, tall ceiling with products stacked way up above you. That’s the way it’s always been done. But that’s not how Walmart does it.

Why Customers Choose Walmart

So Walmart & Sam’s Club pay less for identical products than other retail outlets. And they can pass the savings on to consumers, attracting throngs of buyers to their stores.

How does Sam Walton make money with Sam’s Club? Off the membership. Again, that and the warehousing of products allow them to sell at a very low price. It’s in the business model. Whoever figures how to move product to consumers at the best price, wins. Sam Walton proved that point.

How did he do it? He cut the overhead for all those companies, his product suppliers!

How does this apply in network marketing? Look at every company, every compensation plan. Let’s say every company pays out 50% of retail to reps. Each product, no matter the cost, they pay 50% commission.

You can only cut the pie so many ways. If you pay 50% commission on $79.95, or 50% commission on the identical product at $39.95. Do you think a $39.95 product makes it much easier to sell twice as much or 3 times as much?

Cut the overhead, and you have a better chance to sell that product. You’re not just competing against other network marketing products. You’re competing against Sam’s Club & Walmart, too. Your business model better let you make a good offer to the consumer, or you’ll never succeed.

Whatever network marketing company finds a way to move the product to the end consumer at the best price, wins. And that’s definitely who you want to build your future with.

Your friends for life,

Michael and Linda Dlouhy
“Be a mentor with a servant’s heart!”
1-352-799-8779 Call anytime.
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You’ve seen this line before:

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, man can achieve.”

This proposition has been proven time and time and time again throughout history.

How could David possibly beat Goliath? No way! I guarantee you, he saw it in his mind first, then did it.

How could one guy - Michael Dell - sell more computers than Big Blue, IBM, the greatest US company of the 20th Century? Do you think he had a picture? Do you think he had a vision to follow as he built Dell Computer?

How could that bunch of college amateurs on the U.S. hockey team at the 1980 Winter Olympics ever beat the Soviet team of professionals who had been playing together 10 or 15 years … a team considered better than any of the pro teams in the U.S. or Canada? How could that possibly happen? Do you think someone had a picture? Do you think it all began with a visualization somewhere?

I guarantee you it did.

As you listen in on our daily Mentoring For Free phone calls, you’ll hear stories of many people who are finally achieving what they wanted in life. Every one of them has a picture.

How do you think Ebay got started? Somebody wondered, “Hey - what about an online flea market?”

So create the picture of what you want in extraordinary detail. Write it all down, every little bit of it. Then taste it, smell it, hear it, touch it, see it. Once you have all the details filling in all your senses, you won’t need but 3 or 4 minutes a day to put yourself in that full-sensory replica of exactly what you will achieve. The more you experience it, the closer you will get to achievement.

That is how great successes have always begun. You can read more about how to create your best “success pictures” in my ebook, “Success In 10 Steps.” It’s a free download. Just copy that model. It works.

Your friends for life,

Michael and Linda Dlouhy
“Be a mentor with a servant’s heart!”
1-352-799-8779
Success In 10 Steps