Why would you choose Network Marketing?  Think about this.  One of the greatest joys in life is to be able to travel – to see the beautiful places, and enjoy the thrill of the exotic. What a great opportunity for fun and relaxation!

Now I’m not talking about the weekend camping trips here (the kind that come complete with mosquitoes and pay showers). I’m talking about vacation-of-a-lifetime trips. The kind most people only dream of. Distant lands, sunny beaches, majestic mountain vistas, you name it!

Have you been able to treat yourself or your family to that kind of a dream vacation? The kind where you fly or cruise off to big fun, new faces and exciting places? The kind that you proudly show photos of to your friends and neighbors? Better yet, have you been able to take that kind of a vacation on a regular basis? If not… why not?

You’re probably thinking that as soon as you win that big lottery, the first thing you’ll do is book a cruise around the world. Great idea, but winning the lottery probably isn’t going to happen.

Don’t be foolish by spending your days just dreaming about treating yourself and your family to vacation adventures, while you’re stuck in a job that is getting you nowhere, or waiting to hold the winning lottery ticket in your hand! There is a way that you can make taking the ultimate dream vacation a reachable goal.

Take a moment to imagine yourself on a skiing vacation in the Alps, the frosty air kissing your face as you whisk down a slope. Now, think about Paris, or Rio De Janeiro, or the Scottish Highlands. Imagine visiting places such as these, learning about people in different countries and enjoying all the wonderful sights and moments that would come with visiting the vacation destinations that you fantasize about.

To get there you have to be ready to take action and to not give up until you see your fabulous dreams of vacations and so much more become a reality. If you’ve got the drive to start taking charge of your own financial life, to become a go-getter entrepreneur, you’ve got what it takes to make your dreams a reality.

You have to be ready to turn your ultimate dream into a reachable goal!

You’re not going to be able to achieve these dreams just by working in a regular job, for a regular wage. You need to do something differently. To get the dream vacation every year, you need to stop working on a wage and start working on a fortune.

One of the easiest ways to build a second income from home is with Network Marketing.   Network Marketing is the idea that a company will pay you to recommend and promote their products, just like how you already recommend the good books you read and good movies you see. With the power of network marketing you get paid for doing what you already do, and you get to build up an income stream that will take you and your family on all the dream vacations you can handle.

Think about the possibilities …

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792

Today in our economic downturn, the only job that you have any guarantees about keeping is one where you are your own employer. Trust me that is the truth!   Working for yourself has been the American dream for far longer than scaling the corporate ladder has, so it is no surprise that the job market is coming full circle, with self employment being the best bet. To succeed at running your own business it is vitally important that you invest ample time and resources into both your developing leadership and network marketing. You may think that you don’t need leadership skills to be your own boss, but that could not be further from the truth. Network Marketing is all about becoming the leader you can be.  The skills you can gain will help you to lead even yourself to success.
Many people in corporate America have the mistaken idea that the highest ranking person in a company is its strongest leader. This is often not true.  Many of the best leaders that anyone has ever worked with didn’t actually have anyone reporting to them.  These people understood that leadership means more than just telling people what to do and when to do it.   A true leader is tuned into the people and market around them, and knows how to read the situation correctly.  Focusing on leadership development and network marketing can only help a fledgling leader to succeed.

Leadership development and network marketing really go hand in hand.  Understanding your networks, both personal and professional will enable you to make smart decisions about presenting ideas, products and strategies to them.   Knowing when to say something is often just as important as knowing what to say, so having that focus and understanding of your network can only serve to improve your chances at success.   People are eager and willing to follow those that are successful, so making sure that your leadership skills are as finely honed as your networking skills is vitally important to your success.

Through proper leadership development and network marketing an entrepreneur can succeed, even in these uncertain financial times.   Being accountable to yourself and those around you and emanating an example that you would want to follow yourself can help you to attract the sort of positive energy that the most successful businesses all share.   Knowing how and when to share and spread that energy with your network can be the difference between struggling to survive and building momentum.  Invest in yourself and watch your business rise.

If you have interest in creating residual income for yourself please contact me.

To your success,

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

Here are Stats on Success others may give you, but read on.

You can’t do it. Look at the facts.
You aren’t smart enough. Look at the facts.
You aren’t talented enough. Look at reality.
You cannot achieve it. The numbers are against you.
You will never win. The odds are against you.
You should consider the history. It cannot be done.
You will never learn. Look at the past.
You can’t do it. Look at the facts.

Tell that to Bill Gates.
Tell that to Henry Ford.
Tell that to Steven Spielberg.
Tell that to Shania Twain.
Tell that to Thomas Edison.
Don’t dare tell that to Sammy Sosa.

The only statistics that can stop you in any endeavor are the statistics that you accept as TRUE. The statistics never measure:

The Heart.
The Desire.
The Belief.
The Determination.
The Decision.
The Focus.
The Resolve.

All statistics do is give a general overview of what someone thinks is happening…when it comes to what you can do…the only thing that matters is what is happening inside of you. (CLUE!!!!)

STATS…you know what that stands for?

Stopping The Ascent Towards Success

The only statistic that matters as far as success is concerned…

Is the WILL TO WIN.

That is the Final Statistic…that will always overshadow all other statistics…

oh…STATS also stands for…

Stop The Accepting That Success…(can’t happen.)

It WILL…if YOU WILL…I hope and pray you caught that…

This article was written by Doug Firebaugh. I hope you enjoyed it.

To your success,

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

A good friend of mine recently came across the Positivity Blog by Henrik Edberg and sent it to me. I just love it! He has great content – one post I wanted to share is about one of my favorite leaders – Abraham Lincoln. This may be a little long  – but the advice is fantastic!

“Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”

“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.”

Even if you are not an American – as I – you’ve probably still heard of Abraham Lincoln. He was the president who introduced and worked on measures to free the slaves and led the country through the Civil War. A war that had just ended when Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in Ford’s Theatre.

But what can Abraham Lincoln help us with today? Well, here are 10 powerful and timeless fundamentals. I hope you’ll find something helpful.

1. See the positive in people.

“If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.”

“The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.”

What you focus on you will find. In a situation, in a person. There is always plenty of good things and plenty of bad things to discover.

So you need to keep your focus steadily on what you want to find. Don’t let it waver just because you are in a “negative” situation or someone just said/did something “negative”. If your focus gets scattered, try to get it back into a more useful place as quickly as you can.

You can develop whatever view of the world and people that you like. You can go looking for the negative in people and feel a short burst of good emotions as find something negative about a person and feel like you are “right”.

Or you can develop a habit of looking for the positive. A habit where you can expect people to treat you in a positive way.

Because we do to a large extent teach people how we want to be treated. If we expect other people to help us and treat us well then they are more likely to do so than if we are negative and expect to be treated poorly.

This may sound a bit weird, but how we expect to be treated can have a big effect on how the world sees us.

2. Be honest.

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”

This is a pretty practical thing. Being honest will for several reasons work better in the long run. Of course, you don’t have to go out of your way to be honest and hurt people though. You can just as well choose to be silent if you like. Here are just a few practical reasons to minimize or just stop lying altogether.

* Your words aren’t everything. Words are only 7 percent of communication. The rest are body language and your voice tonality. And it’s through those channels that the real you will shine through. People will in some way sense that something is wrong, that you aren’t being honest and authentic if those 93 percent of how you communicate aren’t in alignment with your words. So lying is just a short term solution. Sooner or later people will pick up on it.
* Poor self-image and stress. Cultivating a self-image as someone who lies will make you feel worse about yourself. You’ll feel like a fake and your self-esteem plummets. And if you on the other hand are honest you don’t have to feel like someone that is trapped or on the high-wire all the time.
* People really appreciate authentic communication. What separates people is to a large extent the walls that they build up between themselves. When you put aside personas and lies you can build real connections between you and other people. If you remove these walls of insulation then the people or you are interacting with are likely to reciprocate. And so your relationships can improve and are less likely to be damaged by miscommunication.

3. Unite.

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

Ego excludes and divides. The ego loves to make someone “the other” to strengthen its own power. It want’s to feel “more” than someone else. More clever. Prettier. Cooler. Wiser. Or more like a victim.

And by making the other even more wrong in your mind the ego grows stronger. However, the ego boosts of good feelings are just temporary. You have to reinforce them continually, just like a caffeine habit.

Consciousness and intelligence includes and accepts. You don’t have to be seduced by your ego’s wish to make people other than you. You can look at the positive in them and at the things you agree about. And be accepting.

Remember, when your thoughts are buzzing around in your head and telling you to exclude or divide in some way then you are listening to your ego. It may tell you that paragraphs just above this one are cheesy and stupid. You may not want to take such thoughts too seriously. You don’t have to.

The most useful advice I’ve found so far to get a handle on the need to divide is to not identify so much with my thoughts or feelings. That doesn’t mean that I stop thinking or feeling. It just means that I realize – and remember in my everyday life – that the thoughts and emotions are just things flowing through me. And that I am the consciousness observing them.

When you realize and remember this it enables you to control the thoughts and feelings instead of the other way around. It enables you to not take your thoughts too seriously and actually laugh at them or ignore them when you feel that your ego is acting out.

When you are not being so identified these things you become more inclined to include things, thoughts and people instead of excluding them. This creates a lot of inner and outer freedom and stillness. Instead of fear, a need to divide your world and a search for conflicts.

4. Create a friend where there is none.

“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”

“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”

This is similar to tip #1 and # 3. But slightly different, seen from a slightly different perspective. It is a helpful and a bit unusual way of looking at people who you might perceive as different or other than yourself.

Turning an enemy or someone we don’t like into a friend is difficult because first impressions can be powerful. Our concept of a person can remain intact if we don’t push further and question and explore it. But if you get to know someone better you can often find out quite a few positive and interesting things about them. People are often more intriguing than your first impression of them.

Of course, since the ego needs to tell you that you are right and someone else is wrong then it can be hard to change your opinion of someone. That opinion of him/her is tied up in your ego and fuels your sense of being “right”. Again, the key and the way out here is to not take your thoughts or emotions too seriously. To stay on top of them instead of letting them overwhelm and control you.

This can allow you to open your mind to a change in the relationship.

Now, how can you make him/her your friend? One suggestion would be to follow tip # 1 and start looking for the positive in the person. Then to take the first step and give some kind of value – like help for instance – to that person. And then to take more steps if s/he is not convinced that you want to change the relationship.

5. Believe in and go after your own success.

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

If you think you can succeed then you can. Your belief in your own ability to succeed is essential and does not only motivate you to keep going.

It will also tune your reticular activation system – a system within your mind that focuses on things in your surroundings based on what you are thinking – into finding opportunities and solutions in all the those things that are in the background of your world right now. It can become a little bit freaky as things that have been there for a long time start to “pop up” as you change what you are focusing on.

You may have heard that you just have to believe that you can achieve something to do it and that the how you will do it will then present itself along the way. Well, this is how that works. Whatever you focus on persistently you will find in your world. So be careful what you focus on. Remind yourself to keep your focus on what you want. Not the opposite, as is often popular but ineffective.

And don’t wait for too long. Procrastination may just leave you with the crumbs or sometimes nothing really. Taking action is awesome. But taking action with little delay will increase the probability of you actually getting what you want before the window of opportunity closes.

So develop a Just do it! habit. Learn to do some planning but then to take action quickly despite what excuses or other negative things your thoughts and emotions may put up in your way. Know that they may just want to protect you from uncertainty and risks. But also know that you are in charge of them and not the other way around.

6. Persist.

“Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.”

Persistence might not exactly be the sexiest sounding quality. It might not sell a lot of products to people looking for the magic pill. But it is an immensely helpful quality to cultivate and put to use.

If you fail, what do you do? You dust yourself off and try again. If the success you are looking for won’t come that quickly – a pretty likely scenario – then you have to persist. Persistence may be one of the most useful qualities one can have. Not only because you will still be out there in a less competitive playing field as lot other people have given up and gone home. But also because developing patience and being persistent will enable you to get what you want. It may just take a little longer than had hoped for.

7. Sharpen your ax.

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.”

Instead of just starting to chop with a blunt blade for hours on end it’s a whole lot smarter to first sharpen the blade and then take on the physically harder task of bringing the tree down. This goes for everything.

If you are prepared then it will often be a whole lot easier to get something done. Sometimes it can be the thing that separates people that either keeps chopping until they can’t take it anymore and give up and the people who could get the job done.

So success is not just about doing hard work. It’s also about sharpening your ax at regular intervals and learning new and better ways to take down the trees in your life. And it’s about remembering what trees you want to take down rather than just any tree. However, you don’t want to get stuck in this stage and never take action. As with all things, you have to find a balance by experimenting.

Four suggestions for sharpening your ax are:

* Educate yourself. Do some research into the whatever you want to achieve. Look for the most common mistakes people make. Read books and online. Talk to people who have already been where you want to go.
* Do. Fail. Learn. Do. Knowledge from external sources is great. But the best way to really understand is by doing things. And by learning from your own failures. And then doing again with your new understanding in your mind.
* Manage your energy levels. You don’t just have increase your knowledge and understanding of things. You also have to have the physical energy to get things done when you find your opportunity. Otherwise you may just fall into a procrastinating pattern or back down. So workout. Eat enough. Sleep enough. Basic stuff of course. But if you do it consistently then you’ll increase you chances of succeeding when it’s time to start chopping down your trees. With a high energy level it will be easier to persist until you are done.
* Remind yourself where you are going. A lot of not so important busy work can dull your ax. You need to regularly review your plans and remind yourself of your goals and what you really want. If you don’t keep your eyes on where you want to go you might wind up somewhere completely different.

8. Take a responsibility for your own life.

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

“You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”

When we are kids people take care of us. They take responsibility. But to become an adult – and not just a kid in a grown up’s body – one has to take responsibility for oneself. There is no other way. Sure, letting someone else take the responsibility may be easier on you.

But without taking responsibility for yourself how can you be free?
How can you really live up you own potential and dreams?

It can be hard to break out of the comfort zone of having other people taking responsibility for us. But if you don’t then you will be trapped by other people’s standards, expectations and limitations. You have to set your own rules for your life. And not fall back into old patterns. A bit scary. But also liberating.

9. Happiness is optional.

“Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

One big upside of taking responsibility for yourself is that it lets you decide where the standards and limits are set. When you take responsibility for what you do you will also feel an entitlement to do what you feel is right for you, in your life.

And as you delve into the field of personal development you may start to realize that your control and responsibility not only goes for what you do out in the world. But also for your thoughts and emotions. You are to a large extent in charge here too.

When you realize this then you realize that you don’t have to play along with your old patterns of thinking and feeling anymore. You don’t have to play along with is “normal” or common thinking. You don’t have to take your thoughts so seriously. You can choose to not feel insulted when someone says something. You can choose to not to be angry whilst stuck in traffic. You can choose to see the positive in people. And you can choose how happy you will be.

Pain is inevitable in life. But how you choose to process or think about things – and if you let them get stuck in your mind or not – is up to you. Suffering is therefore to a large extent optional. And so is happiness.

10. Live your life fully.

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

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

Entrepreneurs Are Alive And Well!

This is the cover of the most recent issue of Inc. Magazine. And a darn good one I might add.

My favorite quote from the article inside is: “We need Entrepreneurs, not just M.B.A’s.”

I couldn’t agree more. Somehow, we’ve lost our way, and have this mentality that “more school” is the answer. Contrary to popular belief, “more school” is rarely the answer. In fact, the American educational system does a marvelous job selling the public on “more school” and “more degrees” as the answer.

Few realize there are a massive amount of highly educated people with multiple degrees on their wall who are barely surviving in business, just eeking out a living at best. The numbers are staggering in fact.

It was the late, great Jim Rohn who said: “Traditional education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.”

New ideas, innovation, creativity, business start up, Entrepreneurship… is the answer. Always has been, always will be…

It’s Entrepreneurs who create jobs, not Government…

It’s Entrepreneurs who create wealth, not Government…

It’s Entrepreneurs who create optimism and “hope,” not Government…

And, the BIG one… It’s Entrepreneurs who Get Paid First, not Government…

Most don’t realize this little secret but… if you are a W-2 Employee (paid a salary by a company), YOU, my friend, are paid dead last…

First, your company get’s paid, then the Government gets paid (federal taxes coming out of YOUR check), then the state gets paid (state income tax), then Social Security gets paid (YOU funding someone else’s retirement), then, if you have one, your retirement plan gets paid (401k and/or IRA aka: Wall Street gets paid). Ohh, and then, by the way… YOU get paid a week or two later. Almost forgot about ya there. Sorry….

Goodness, that alone would make me want to be Entrepreneur, if for no other reason than NOT to be a W-2 Employee. But there are plenty of other reasons. And this particular article in Inc. Magazine does a super job laying out specific plans, ideas and concepts as to why now, Entrepreneurship is the answer. I suggest you grab a copy.

This article was written by Andrew J. Cass

To your success,

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

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