The Meaning of Positive Thinking

Positive thinking is a powerful tool that can help us arrive where we want to be in life. When we focus on the positive versus dwelling in the negative, we are uplifted, happier and more effective. If we learn to harness the power of authentic positive thinking, we become fueled with the passion and purpose to realize our dreams.

Yet, in our current “Law of Attraction” culture, positive thinking has become the fast food of the personal development world. Just as that burger and fries will only sustain us for so long, so will positive thinking unless it contains the good nutrients needed for the long term. In some ways, positive thinking can become “empty calories” in our lives – filling, but not fulfilling. How so you ask?

Positive thinking can actually disempower us if we are not careful. This happens at the times when we “pretend” that everything is good with us. This type of so called positive thinking is actually just delusion and very harmful. Did you ever know someone stuck in an unhealthy relationship and refusing to admit or change it? This type of thinking is a “false positive”. It is a setup for disappointment when we arrive at the truth of what we so diligently thought positively about.

To your success,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

If you are in network marketing or you are interested in pursing a network marketing career please contact me on an incredible opportunity.

SEVEN SIMPLE STEPS TO SMALL BUSINESS SUCCESS by Brian Tracy

Many businesspeople achieve their greatest successes in unexpected areas. They begin a business and then they find that it isn’t as profitable as they had anticipated, so they change direction, using their experience and their momentum, and strike pay dirt in something else. The most important thing is to begin, to take action. To move forward one step at a time, learning and growing as you go. There is enough information available in virtually every field for you to become knowledgeable enough to achieve success. But action is necessary.

THE TWO PARTS OF SUCCESS

Success author Orison Swett Marden once wrote, the first part of success is get-to-it-iveness. The second part is stick-to-it-iveness. Every business beginning requires an act of faith and courage, a bold leap into the unknown. Only one in ten people who want to start their own business ever develop enough courage to begin and enough persistence to continue. Get-to-it-iveness. And stick-to-it-iveness. The fear of failure, more than anything else, holds people back. It paralyzes action. And it makes failure inevitable.

BEGIN WITH A DREAM

Fortunately, even if you know nothing about business, you can begin with a dream, a castle in the air, and then build a foundation under it.

SEVEN SIMPLE STEPS

The starting point of many great fortunes has been these seven simple steps. Number one, set a goal and back it with a burning desire. Number two, begin accumulating capital with a regular savings program. Nothing else is possible without this. You cannot move forward until you start a savings program.

USE YOUR CURRENT JOB AS A SPRINGBOARD

Number three, use your current job as a springboard to later success. Learn while you earn. Take the long view. Number four, experiment in business on a limited scale so you can learn the key abilities necessary for success. Number five, search for problems, needs unmet, products or services you can supply of good quality at reasonable prices.

READ EVERYTHING YOU CAN FIND

Number six, read everything you can find on your chosen field. Remain flexible. Be willing to change your mind if you get different information. And number seven, implement your plans with courage and persistence. Have complete faith in your ability to succeed and never, never give up.

ACTION EXERCISES

Now, here are two actions you can take immediately to start moving toward entrepreneurial success:

First, set a goal, make a plan and then launch your plan. Get started. Do something. Begin on a small scale with limited risk and investment but get going!

Second, resolve that, no matter what happens, you will never, never give up until you are successful. Before you accomplish anything worthwhile, you will have to pass the persistence test. And the test will come far sooner than you imagine.

To your success,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

If you are in network marketing or you are interested in pursing a network marketing career please contact me on an incredible opportunity.

Less is More….

Less really is more, if you allow it to be and take the time to find out what you can let go of because it is controlling your life. Because of this, more and more people are seeking simplicity – that thing that we all feel like we are missing and want to get back. Instead of clutter and chaos, we want a flow to life where we can feel on top of things, rested and satisfied. Our “solution” is to try to get it all done now so we can rest or have fun later. But “later” never seems to come!

Do you beat yourself up to do more? Do you feel stressed that you are constantly falling behind? Please do not do this to yourself! It is so unhealthy.

When you overbook, you actually get LESS done than if you had undertaken a more modest amount of responsibility. That is because in trying to do too much, your energy depletes to the point that you incapacitate yourself. Pretty soon, you are so fraught with fatigue and frustration that you are slipping up on things you are typically great at – and it is a result of exhaustion and overwhelm. Before you know it, it is another day, with more of the same… the never ending story of your stressed-out life!

Instead of racing around to catch up, stop and take a breath. Recognize that you simply cannot do it all. Acknowledge that when it comes to feeling good, getting things done, and living richly… less really is more! It may seem hard at first to embrace this concept and make it work for you, but as you practice and see it working it will become more and more effective and will eventually become second nature to do.

Once you realize this, you will probably be wondering just how you can create less from the piles of “more” that you have accumulated over the years. The secret is learning how to trim away the excess. Rid yourself of that which does not serve you or help you move closer to your goals and aspirations. Here are some tips to help you get started on “closet cleaning” your life from top to bottom.

Identify what is important to you. What are your values? What do you believe in, and wish to live in support of, through your actions and words, each and every day? The key is to identify what it is that you hold in highest regard, so that you may actively bring these things into your life, instead of the things that you do not want or need.

To your Success,
Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com
If you are in network marketing or you are interested in pursing a network marketing career please contact me on an incredible opportunity.

The truth shall set you..by James Ray

If you automatically answered “free,” you are probably in the majority. The key distinction that came to me this week is that an important piece is missing from this equation.

What the verse says is, “You shall KNOW the truth and the truth shall set you free.”

More and more I am reminded that there is a big difference between “knowledge” and “knowing.” There is a MAJOR difference between reading a book and “living” the book.

Another common misnomer is that “knowledge is power.” Once again, untrue. Knowledge is nothing more than organized information – organized information will do nothing for you in and of itself. How many know what to do and yet…they don’t do anything with what they know?

Knowledge is an intellectual process – knowing is a spiritual/emotional process. Knowledge comes from acquiring information – knowing comes from ownership.

How can you and I continually move from knowledge to knowing – from education to ownership?

Maybe you, like me, have learned and owned much more since you have been out of school than you ever did in school. Ownership comes from 3 keys:

Study
Application
Repetition
I will make the assumption that as you read this you have at least 20 years or more of life experience. That means you have 20 years or more of programming. For this reason, it will take aggressive and proactive study as the first step to reprogramming your mind for success. But that is just the first step.

Second, after study and acquisition of new information you MUST go out and immediately apply the information into your life. From application comes experience, context and results (ECR). From ECR comes the ability to obtain and reflect upon the information, followed by the ability to condition new actions into new habits. Since this is often the most difficult of the three keys, once again, you absolutely MUST put new information into action within 24 hours or less of exposure (this is the mark of a champion). I am sure you will agree that if the 24-hour step is not engaged, the likelihood of it ever occurring is slim to none.

Third, I suggest that you study and re-study the same material until you own it (I make a practice of reading each book a minimum of 3 times). You will continuously find that each revisit exposes something that you didn’t see before. This is not because the material has changed…but because you have changed.

I often have participants read my book, or come through my “Science of Success Weekend” multiple times (some 4 or more) and without exception they always say, “I got so much more” or “This was better than the last time”. Once again, you see something different because YOU ARE different.

Repetition is the first law of learning and the mother of all skill.

Where in your life do you need to KNOW more truth? Where do you need to utilize the keys of study, application and repetition?

Pick one area, one thing you have been exposed to recently and work on that one thing this week. With this approach you will surely begin to KNOW the truth…and the truth will set your life free!

Commit to WRITING AND LIVING the book of your life, and make your life magnificent.

To your success,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com If you are in network marketing or you are interested in pursing a network marketing career please contact me on an incredible opportunity.

As I share with everyone one of my favorite books of all time is the Science Of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles. This is a excellent article titled The 30 Day Challenge by James Ray on this topic. Here is what Mr. Ray has to say.

One gentleman I consider to be a great mentor (although I have never met him) is Wallace D. Wattles. Wattles wrote a trilogy of books in the late 1800s entitled The Science of Getting Richs, The Science of Well-Being, and The Science of Becoming Excellent. They are ALL outstanding!

If you have read my book The Science of Success, it is probably evident by the title that Wattles has had a strong influence on my thinking.

I have a laminated quote from Wattles that has been sitting on my desk for AT LEAST 2 years. This week I will give you the quote, along with a 30-day challenge.

If you accept the challenge, it must be done first thing in the morning before you start your day. Pick a goal and do EXACTLY what the quote says. Then take action and EXPECT MAGIC to happen in your life.

Here’s the complete challenge:

1. Pick a goal that you want, and truly believe, you can achieve in the next 30 days. Make it specific and clear. Create a “spiritual prototype”/picture of this goal in your mind. Remember, you must be IN the picture — looking through your own eyes.

2. Commit to visualizing your goal first thing in the morning and last thing at night every single day for the next 30 days.

3. As a part of your visualization process (either before or after) read the Wattles quote OUT LOUD every single day for the next thirty days.

4. It must be read FIRST THING in the morning before you begin your day (if you want to read it at night as well — more power to you).

5. This must be read with PASSION. In other words, on a scale of 1-10 you have to be at least at a 20!

6. Follow the instructions of the quote.

Are you ready? Are you committed? Do you have the spiritual prototype of your 30-day goal? Here’s Wattles’:

“There is a thinking substance from which all things are made, and which in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.
A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.

I can form things in my thought, and by impressing my thoughts upon formless substance, can cause the thing I think about to be created.

In order to do this, I must pass from the competitive to the creative mind. I must form a clear mental picture of the things I want. And, I must hold this picture in my thoughts with the fixed purpose to get what I want, and the unwavering faith that I will get what I want — closing my mind to all that may tend to shake my purpose, dim my vision, or quench my faith.

I am ready to receive what I want when it comes, and I AM ACTING NOW upon the people and things in my present environment.”

To your success,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

If you are in network marketing or you are interested in pursing a network marketing career please contact me on an incredible opportunity.

Have you ever heard this in your business.. You need Tools, Tools, Tools.. Don’t get trapped into thinking you need all this stuff to be successful. I agree some tools are great to have but you don’t need them all. The most important thing you need is your image. You should also have your own personal auto responder, but don’t fall victim to the tool trap.

Here is a great video by Kim Shahan that illustrates the point.

To your success,
Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com
If you are in network marketing or you are interested in pursing a network marketing career please contact me on an incredible opportunity.

Here is another great article by one of my favorites Michael Force that I titled, Effective Use Of Videos In Your Marketing. The content of the article is excellent.

You don’t need me to tell you that text alone is boring. If you’ve spent even 5 minutes on the Internet lately, you know that websites use all sorts of visuals. Web designers don’t just include photos and videos to make their sites pretty, either.
Photos and videos are an aid to people who learn visually instead of by reading, for one thing. For another, they break up the text and add color and interest. For our purposes as Internet marketers, videos in particular give us a vital way to reach out and connect with our prospects.

One of the first things that people who have been in traditional sales for awhile ask me about Internet marketing is how we make up for the lack of a personal connection. Trained salespeople know how important it is for the prospect to get to know, like, and trust them—that’s how both first sales and repeat sales are made.

When I’m asked, I tell them a few things. One is about the importance of good, solid copywriting. But then I tell them how I use videos to sell my message. In this article, I’m going to talk about a specific video you should be using—your introductory video.

The first thing you should do with your videos is to make a personal connection with your prospects. Do a video where you introduce yourself and your product, service, or opportunity right on your landing page with another like it on the home page of your website.

Your introduction videos should tell viewers something about you that they can relate to. If you’re into the outdoors, shoot the video somewhere scenic. If you enjoy golf, do it at your local course. And so on. The idea is to show you in an environment that your target market will identify with.

In this video, you talk about yourself first. Basically, you give the kind of details that you’ve chosen to make a part of your brand. Your life experience, whether you have a family, how excited you are to be able to offer whatever it is you’re selling. Now, some of this isn’t going to take the form of talking—your spouse can be in the video, too, if she or he is willing.

You shouldn’t get into too many specifics in this video. This is just you, introducing yourself and your opportunity to your prospects. The whole point of this video is to interest people in signing up for more information or to try a trial sample of your product.

And don’t just put your introductory video on your website! You can use versions of this video on YouTube and provide links to them on social networking sites to help create more buzz about you and your business.

Finally—and I can’t stress this enough—make sure you have your videos done professionally. This means hiring a copywriter to write the script and making sure you’re using a videographer who has done videos for websites. You don’t want to go to the time and expense of shooting videos and then not be able to use them. And a poorly-lit, unscripted, and rambling video is worse than no video at all.

To Your Success,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

If you are in network marketing or you are interested in pursing a network marketing career please contact me on an incredible opportunity.

This is a great and creative marketing idea that works. I used this for many years in traditional business.

How an Object Can Travel the World That Cost You Ten Cents

In today’s age there are websites and companies that are going online daily. Many of these websites that are going live are new entrepreneurs that have the idea of owning their own online business. As more and more of these entrepreneurs get online they are in need of the same thing as everyone else…traffic! Just like a traditional business needs foot traffic or customers walking through them, an online business needs traffic as well. While I have been an online entrepreneur and do much marketing online that we are all familiar with like article marketing, video marketing, and PPC. This is not one of those types of marketing strategies; this is one outside the internet arena.

People Steal These All the Time

What I consider one of the most powerful marketing tools you could invest in is one that people get stolen all the time. It is something that you always need many times a day and most people have hundreds of them around the office or home. It is a pen! A pen is an item that many people borrow but never give back, and it could potentially travel the world within a week or two. I really think that would be an interesting documentary. What if a tracking device was installed in a pen to see where it went? Think of the last time you lent a pen out and never got it back. Think if that pen had advertising on it for you business, how powerful could that be and how far could it go?

Where Could it End Up?

Now if you have the mindset like I do and also many other entrepreneurs, we think BIG. You have always got to think BIG or otherwise you will get left behind. Okay, follow me here….

You buy one hundred ball point pens for ten dollars, and you find a way to leave two in public reach for about 45 days. You have now got 90 traveling silent advertiser for you business, and what did you have to do….not much. Your pen has the potential to be in hundreds of different people’s hands by the end of the month. This will leave you with about 10 extra pens to do other things with.

Can You Follow the Pen?

Where does it go? Ok, say you are taking your spouse out to dinner at Applebee’s in Kansas City, MO. At the end of the dinner your waitress brings you the bill and a pen. You could accidentally switch her pen with one of your business pens or her leave her both. You then leave after signing the bill of course and then the rest of the night other patron’s are using your pen. Let’s say one patron is a school teacher that takes the pen and then it takes it to work with her the next day. Then she accidentally leaves it in the teachers’ lounge. The pen is then used by a few other teachers and one picks it up with all their papers and takes it to their night class. They just so happen so happen to sit next to someone who forgot their pen, and it is passed off as a “favor.”

This is Where it Gets Fun…

The fellow student that borrowed the pen as a “favor” takes it home and lays it on the counter at night. The next morning the fellow student’s spouse takes it to work at their car rental business. The spouse rents a car to a traveling business man from Hawaii. This business man “borrows” the pen only to slide it into his pocket; never to be returned. He gets back to his hotel for the night and looks at the pen, and then goes to your website. After being on the run for 14 hours he is tired and throws your pen in his briefcase. The next day he hops back on a plane to Hawaii to meet up with one of his business partners in Maui. It just so happens that his businesses partner is originally from Japan and travels home once every two months to see his mother. During the quick 30 minute meeting at the airport, his business partner “borrows” the pen and is off to Japan.

So What Did It Cost You?

Following the pen through about ten different people, the pen cost you ten cents and ten people wrote with it. If you know human nature like I do, they read the writing- we are all very inquisitive. Ok, I agree it cost you a dinner with your spouse, but you needed to do that anyways. So breaking this equation down into getting your business in front of people could be as low as one cent a person.

What Am I Doing?

I am reaching out to a great friend of mine, Ronni Sherman, which owns Creative Images or actually Cre8iveimages . I will tell you first of all, Ronni is a high class lady that considers customer service her top priority and goes the extra ten miles for every client. With Ronni’s business she not only offers pens but also:

Bags
Breath mints
Adhesive notes
Caps
Calendars
Golf balls
Badges
Buttons
Water bottles
And so much more!!!

So what I am trying to tell you is quite simple. A great way to get your company name out in the world at a low cost is promotional products.

If you are truly tired of the mundane 70+ hour work week, lost time with the family and feel there has to be a better way – I’m here to tell you there is !

This Article was written by Robert David Strong.

To your Success,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

If you are in network marketing or you are interested in pursing a network marketing career please contact me on an incredible opportunity.

Do you ever feel like Homer Simpson in your networking business? We all have those days. Read the article below to see how to avoid it.

D’OH!”
That’s exactly what most Network Marketers end up saying to themselves as they bump their hand against their head, when they find out the MASSIVE mistake they’ve been making in their business this whole time.

But unlike Homer, who will never be able to figure it out even if you drew it out for him step by step…. you can do something about it!

So what the heck am I talking about here?

Mistake?

What mistake?…

In order for you to really understand why THIS mistake is the MOST pressing problem right now with the majority of newbie entrepreneurs who are testing their luck, trying to bring their business (MLM, Affiliate Marketing, Direct Sales, Network Marketing etc…) online, we have to go back to the basics.

Remember, there are really only 2 ways to grow your business.

It’s either offline (traditional methods like friends and family, cold calling etc.) OR it’s online (using the Internet to reach millions…)

By now, most people have realized how difficult it can be to speak to an untargeted group of people like your friends and family, or to have the super “salesman” personality you need in order to recruit people off the street. And instead, see the MASSIVE potential in bringing their business online.

However what they don’t realize is that marketing offline and marketing online are 2 completely different worlds.

You see, marketing offline is very simple.

You find the closest human being. Grab them for a company presentation. Show them your “wonder” drug. If they like it, they’ll join you. If they don’t, then “Bye bye”. And the process starts all over again.

Simple.

Now online marketing however does NOT work this way. And it doesn’t because it is a completely different platform with a whole different set rules.

Remember there is no face to face human contact. There is no warm fuzzy feeling when people see your smile or shake your hand. There is no touching or sampling of your product.

Instead, what you have online is a bombardment of “offers” and advertising that we have kept out of our lives by building a wall around ourselves and have conveniently coined — SPAM!

So if you’re online for 5 hours a day, adding 5000 friends on Facebook, blasting promotional product/business emails to everyone you know, writing an article a day about how amazing your product is and how it’s changed your life…

And you’re still only generating 3 leads a day (if any at all) and spend more each week than you earn…

And are wondering why you’re getting these types of results?!

It’s because you’re feeling like Homer Simpson on a bad day…

“D’OH!”

You’ve jumped the gun.

You’re not equipped.

You have no idea what you’re doing.

You see, to be a good marketer requires you to understand the fundamentals of what really works online. It requires you to be equipped with the right tools and websites so that you can actually run a “proper” business.

Ask yourself, would you open a restaurant without a kitchen, menus or a chef?

Or would you open a magazine company without investing in proper paper or good writers?

Pretty obvious isn’t it?

Absolutely NOT!

So why would you try to bring your business online if you don’t have all the things you need to make it successful? And one of the most important things that will increase your chances of leveraging these tools successfully is — YOUR EDUCATION…

Your education is something that I also like to call your “Foundation”. Without a good foundation, your business will crumble to the ground quicker than you can build it.

Your foundation not only encompasses the knowledge you need to generate leads, and turns leads into sales, but it also includes all the websites, tools and resources you need for this to happen.

Now I know this doesn’t sound sexy at all.

Focus on my education? Who wants to waste time doing that?!

Let’s get to work. Let’s take action!

And I applaud your enthusiasm. But recommend that you take a step back, regroup and focus on the one thing that will help you solve the problem that 98% of OUR industry experiences on a daily basis.

Problem = “Being unequipped with the right tools to get the job done, and getting the right

education to use those tools properly”.

Remember that education is power. And it is no different when it comes to building a successful business online.

This article was written by Aaron Chen.

To your success,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

If you are in network marketing or you are interested in pursing a network marketing career please contact me on an incredible opportunity.

If you are going to use social media to grow your business you really need to understand you must use Social Skills In Social Media Marketing. In every social situation there is a pecking order…if you do not understand how this works you can be TRULY shooting yourself in the foot with your marketing. Below is a great video by Diane Hochman that you can benefit from.

To your success,
Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

If you are in network marketing or you are interested in pursing a network marketing career please contact me on an incredible opportunity.