But how do you know when the horse is dead? In other words, how do you know when things are not going to improve and continuing to stay with your current mlm team and company is akin to riding a dead horse and wondering why you aren’t getting anywhere.

I sincerely hate to say this, but it is my personal opininion that the consumable product industry, lotions, potions, and pills is over. The Market, Customers, simply don’t care as I share in detail in the podcast here.

In the real world spending your time on the tread mill not progressing, not advancing is never stood for, by ambitious people.  Unfortunately, in today’ mlm world the mlm hamster wheel is the accepted norm.

As a recruiter and team builder that is always looking for career minded people who want to replace their current fulltime income, it’s always amazed me what “event” triggers a person to finally start to look for a new opportunity.

For some, it’s the feeling of not being appreciated by their predatory mlm upline. After working hard to help them reach their next rank promotion and not getting so much as an ‘atta boy.

For some it’s the feeling that their skills and potential abilities are not being developed and feeling like they have no mentor that understands how to help them progress in their business.

For others, it’s the lack of a true career path or examples on the team of those that have gone before them and created full time incomes with their current opportunity. If others on the mlm team are not creating success and progress why do people feel the path will be different?  (Real Examples of MLM Success here)

The sad truth is network marketing is more of a giant social club than it is a real business.  Most distributors are content to hang out in a constant state of stagnation until someone with a leadership title jumps into the new hot deal that is going to make everyone financially successful.  To say the industry has become delusional is an understatement.

So how do you know when it is to pivot from your current mlm company? It usually starts with that slightly sick feeling you get when a friend or relative asks how is your business is doing and you know in the past ¼ you have added only 3 customers and 5 teams members and none of them are doing a thing.

We all get to a stale places in our career and sometimes you just need to look at things differently and shift our paradigm. Sometimes, it’s sitting down for a few quiet minutes to really examine what is the real upside potential of the company you are working?

The truth is, the longer a company has been in the market, the less of an upside potential exist with that opportunity.  I actually had someone try to pitch me on Isagenix last week and asked me if I have ever heard of them?

They were a newbie who simply didn’t know any better. I am shocked at the number of people who are involved in strong credible companies that have peaked and are over.  The growth has come and gone, never to return.  Usana, Melaleuca, Shaklee, Mary Kay, Herbalife, immediately come to mind.

Why would someone attempt to build with these old, established, and credible companies instead of riding the wave with a new growing thriving opportunity?

I understand, now all companies that are growing and thriving have long-term upside potential, Live Good is a great example at the time of this writing, but about 5% do have huge upside potetial!

Honestly many people realized years ago, that they were in the wrong company with the wrong mentorship a LONG time ago,  but the pain of leaving is greater than the pain of staying: in other words, you are mired in your comfort zone with other people just like yourself where lack or progression and advancement has become the acceptable norm.

So what can you do? Ask yourself these questions:

1.   What do I really want to accomplish from my MLM Business?

2.     Is there a proven team in the market that is currently developing full time incomes and skilled leaders?  Can I plug into their culture?

3.  If I don’t make the pivot and get off the dead horse, what are the chances that my current situation will change?

4. What am I most afraid will happen if I take the time to at least explore another opportunity?

Sometimes our discomfort is sign that we are not growing.  My wife recently transplanted a few flats of potted annuals and if you have ever gardened you know that a plant will grow and thrive with the proper conditions.

It can go through a growth spurt and all of the sudden for no good reason, the plant starts to look a little yellow and wilty. Once you transplant that plant into a larger pot with room to grow, it thrives because it was root bound. Our network marketing careers are like that too.

Find the right opportunity at the right time in history with the right team culture and your upside potential is endless.

Believe it or not, I think I have found a Horse that can never die!  This video explains why.  THE  MLM HORSE THAT WILL NEVER DIE.

Yes, Success stories are being created in 2023!

The real product in network marketing is people.

At it’s core network marketing is a personal development program with a compensation plan attached, or it least it was before the profession had fallen into the state of delusion it is in today as I speak about in the recorded webinar training here.  www.mlmhelp.com/critical

Network marketing is no longer treated like a viable business, it has become a social club.   Lead not by team leaders but more by those that act as social club directors. There only goal seem to be to keep their followers excited and on autoship, it is sad.

The ultimate goal in network marketing is to replace or duplicate yourself, not gather as many Followers and Wannaprenuers as possible.

For these reasons, many business-minded people want nothing to do with it, and I don’t blame them.  However my team building network marketing culture and what they see all around them are completely different.

I understand it is just as important to run off the wrong person as it is to make sure the right person is progressing, building their income and moving forward.

The only way I can personally deal with the “Guilt by Association” blow back I get daily in all my businesses is to build my teams the same way I would if I were building sales teams for a Fortune 500 company.  The blow back is something that would be hard for many to understand.

Some of you know Dawn, my wife is one of the largest Hallmark collectible dealers in the United States.  We buy collections and buy out Hallmark stores that are going out of business and it is good business and she loves it. I effectionately call her my Christmas nerd.   There are people that literally would not purchase Hallmark ornaments if they saw we were also involved in building MLM teams.  How whacked out is that?  That is the state of the profession today, so why fight it?

Many network marketing companies and teams have become very preditory.  However when you do it right, based upon wisdom of the ages success principles, and you truly believe.

There is simply not a better business model on the planet.

The ultimate goal is to replace myself.  I believe in the concept of team.

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I have always believed that in network marketing our real product is PEOPLE. I believe we are in the leadership development business not the gather followers business. 

My job has always been to help people grow in every area of their life and give the tools and the training to progress and maximize their personal upside potential.

This approach takes an enormous amount of emotional strength, because so many people do not have the internal fortitude to get on the right path, what I call “The Wisdom of the Ages” path and stay on it.

There are just too many shiny objects and distractions.  The right team culture will constantly challenge you and most people don’t want to change, they don’t want to be challenged.  They would rather hang out in the social club and let the social club leader hype them up.  They just want a little card that says they have a business so they can show it to relatives and family get togethers.  Delusional people that can’t even be true to themselves, it is sad.

People have called our approach to building teams innovative, for me I have always looked at it like common sense, based upon Wisdom of the Ages success principles, that ultimately will never fail.

Everything we do, and everything we teach takes a unique approach, utilizing the power of the subconscious mind to overcome the fear of change and uncertainty. Our team recognizes that the subconscious mind often drives our thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors, and it is often the root cause of resistance to change.  When people can start to understand the Fight, Flight or Freeze mechanisms that have been built into all humans DNA, personal progress can happen quickly, very quickly.

As you listen to the podcast we feature at MLMSuccess.com and you hear about so many of our team members breaking out and creating wealth, this is why.  We focuss on mindsets.  If you build people, people will build the business.   Losers call if fluff, and hype, but winners understand it is Wisdom of the Ages TRUTH.

By consistently inspiring and educating the subconscious mind with thought-provoking content on future trends and innovative perspectives, we create a new reality for our teams, one where they approach change with excitement and open-mindedness.  Does this make sense?

I don’t do this intintially, it is just where I have always lived, and always will, it is who I am.  Normal humans don’t like change, winners thrive on it.

As i shared in the recorded webinar training here.  REAL LEADERS PIVOT!

However the foundation will always be on Wisdom of the Ages principles and focusing on the 7 key areas of life THE WHEEL OF LIFE.  Our team understand the fact that nothing can stop a team of people where nobody cares, who gets the credit.

When you build people, people will build the business.  We are not just focussing on the Financial part of the wheel.  However life with financial stress is not much of a life.

I feel it is my responsibility to put people in front of opportunities where they can profit the most from the time and effort they devote in their business.

Currently we are involved with the number one income generator I have seen in my 40+ year career.  Nothing like this will probably ever happen again.  This is a true once in a lifetime opportunity.  You can learn more here if you want www.HalleysCometBiz.com   The sad but true fact is you can have the greatest income generating opportunity that has ever existed drop in your lap.  However if you have not developed the proper skill sets and mindset you will not be ready to take advantage of it.

This is the real tradgedy that is happening in the MLM Social Club enviroments of today.  We are not helping people develop the proper skillsets and mindsets that will allow them to maximize their potential when they find themselves in the right place at the right time, with the right company.

Build people and people will build the business.

As our emotional intelligence, and self-awareness grows we will tend to ask ourselves deeper and more intelligent questions.

In network marketing the real product is people.  A well trained team member who will become a future leader and eventually a leader on your team.  We are in the leadership development business.

Do people steal your energy or give you energy?

All of us either get energy from others or we don’t.  Do people drain your energy or give you energy?  Or do you take the easy path and just follow the energy of the herd?

Network Marketing is a people business; your long-term income is in direct proportion to the value you provide to the market that you serve.  

You can have anything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.

This is wisdom of the age’s truth!

However there are dozens of business models that don’t require you to deal with people, so if people drain your energy, why would you choose network marketing and put yourself through such a daily energy drain?

WHAT IS THE ANSWER?

The truth is some people are blessed or cursed with the need to make a positive impact on the lives of other people, it is in their DNA.   They can’t help it.   There are those in the world that sincerely want to make positive impact.  However as Jim Rohn also told us “never mistake sincerity with truth, because some people are sincerely wrong”.

All of us are who we are based upon what was programmed into our mind from birth to about 12 years old by our parents and other authority figures in our life. The culture or environment in which we were raised in.    

Then the rest of our life we reinforce this program with our own self talk.  Sometimes we need to stop and ask ourselves is the programming we were given as a child the programming we want to live the rest of our life with? If it is not we are the only one that can change it.

That is a difficult process, however I believe TRUTH never leaves us, it never goes away, no matter what we do … in our gut we know truth.   In my opinion, rejecting truth creates many emotional and mental problems.

People try to remove truth and replace it with all kind of drugs and anti-social behavior.

Another seminar, course, network marketing opportunity or business model will not change programming only we can do that, and yes it can be done with 15 focused minutes a day as I explain in detail in my programming your mind for success program.  The sad truth is most people will not take the time to implement this science base reprogramming process.

It may sound deep, but it is really quite simple.

Every time I think I have things figured out, I am reminded that life is a daring adventure or nothing all as Helen Keller told us.  

If you listened to this podcast you know that I pay absolutely no attention to how long any session runs. It may be 15 minutes, it may be an hour and 15 minutes and if the podcast content is not providing you value, you should turn it off.

There is no doubt that we are living in a time of more uncertainty than any of us have ever seen.  More people are living in a state of fear, frustration, aggravation, distrust, and uncertainty more than at anytime in our history, and for good reason.   There are solid people that are starting to doubt themselves, and that is not good. To you I will say get regrounded in your faith, family, true friends and wisdom of the ages principles.  Whatever reground may mean for you. 

While I am thinking it about you there is a chance that some of you may have never sequentially, consciously,  intentionally worked on programming your mind for success.   If I am speaking to you, then please for you, not me, check out this website.

Honestly the only reason the network marketing profession is not exploding in my opinion is lack of leadership within the profession. 

We are experiencing the unintended consequences for the decisions that have been made over the past 15 years from the good ole boys and girls network and corporate officers.

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Network Marketing is the best passive income generating business model on the planet, but the world and ALL BUSINESS is getting ready to change over the next few years in ways that is very hard for most of us to even imagine.

METAVERSE if you have never heard that term before, remember you heard it hear first, and I will briefly talk more about that at the end of this article. Millionaires will be made quicker than ever because of the Metaverse.

I think if you are going to be in the people business the most important concepts that I have been talking about for years, and it is something that I think those in the personal development world have not picked up on as much as I wish they would is just a concept or idea I coined ……..

“As human beings we see things not as they are, BUT AS WE ARE”

It is easy for personal development teachers, network marketing teachers, or those teaching any business model to tell people what they need to be doing.

It is another thing all together to lead by example and do it yourself.  So no wonder the masses are confused. But who should career minded network marketers be listening to?

Any of us can attend a dozen webinars this week or live zoom meetings in any business niche we choose and listen to a dozen different gurus in that niche tell us a dozen different things we should be doing.   Most of the methods will probably work at some level, or have at some point in history, but does that mean you should be doing them now?  It may, but what did you do with the info you received on the last 25 Zoom meetings you have attended?

So in my opinion the real questions you should be asking yourself is.

WHAT DO I REALLY WANT?

Sometimes what you really want and what you should be doing or may be called to do can be a conflict in your mine.  But it there should never be a conflict in your soul.

#1 Who is this person and why should I be listening to them?

#2 Who have they personally taught these systems and what have their results been?

#3 The most important question I had to ask myself years ago was why are people not doing that which we are teaching them to do?   They are clearly surrounded by others who are progressing and moving forward following the same systems.

It always comes down to the way their mind is programmed.  You cannot expect people to do that which they are not capable of doing.  

Until people re-program their mind, they can sit in every seminar and zoom meeting from now till the end of time and nothing is going to change.  

If they don’t believe it can happen for them, they will not take action.  As Henery Ford said ….

 If you think you can or you think you can’t your right.

BECAUSE …………..    People see things not as they are ……….. BUT AS THEY ARE, and that includes you and me.

I know I am strange, I accept that, and I understand exactly how that happened.  Some of it is DNA but most of that is because of intentional, conscious, daily mind programming and my spiritual beliefs. 

I also know that I am programmed to play the game, I love the game, I am programmed for success, I get up every day knowing I am going to win the day, and that I have the developed the ability to take consistent action and work towards worthy dreams.  

I don’t have to motivate myself, I don’t have to stop wasting time on stupid stuff and I no longer need to convince myself to take action. I don’t have to worry about getting my yard mowed or changing the oil in my car.

IF YOU ARE SERIOUS ABOUT SUCCESS, AND PROGRESSING AND MOVING FORWARD IN YOUR LIFE, HOW LONG SHOULD IT TAKE YOU TO GET THE GOOD STUFF FROM YOUR HEAD TO YOUR HEART AND MAKE IT PART OF WHO YOU ARE?  

SO THE MAIN POINT I HOPE YOU WILL GET FROM YOUR HEAD TO YOU HEART AND REALLY THINK ABOUT IS AS HUMANS WE SEE THINGS NOT AS THEY ARE, BUT AS WE ARE.

I am going to share with you some random experiences from this week that I hope drive this point home, and then attempt to bring it together at the end of this article.

I had an interesting call this week with an old friend and former team member, who has experienced create financial success in his life.  He has a very high level understanding of politics and we were talking about how encouraging what happened in Virginia last week was and how proud we were of the parents there that got in the face of school board officials for the crazy curriculum that was being used, and the negative programming their children were receiving.

We laughed about how all the talking heads where talking about dog whistles and racism was the reason Virginias elected their new mayor, ignoring the fact that Virginians elected their first woman of color  Winsome Sears will become Virginia lieutenant governor.  Are these people really that ignorant or do they just think everyone else is?   Quality people want to support quality people and their background or race never enters their minds.

So the question is when these news reports and other talking heads ignore the facts that are right in front of them, what does that say about them?  I believe it says, they see things not as they are, but as they are. 

From a business perspective he said Dale for years people have looked at you as the old school guy, myself as well, but as the world gets crazier people are starting to wake up, and things are coming in your direction, because as you have always said, truth is truth, wisdom of the ages is wisdom of the ages, you can try to shortcut it, but in the end when you speculate away from wisdom of the ages principles there is always unintended  consequences.  

So that was an encouraging conversation for me this week and confirmation that people see things not as they are, but as they are.

The last couple of weeks Dawn and I cheered on the Atlanta Braves in the playoffs against the LA Dodgers and then the Houston Astros in the World Series. 

If you have listened to this podcast anytime at all you know that baseball is my favorite sport.  Growing up I thought I was going to be a major league baseball player.

I love the game of baseball and I am a fan, but I am a fanatic about the University of Kentucky basketball.

There have been a couple of summers when Dawn and I first got married where we didn’t miss a Braves game.  Literally every night we watched the Braves and would go to the stadium and watch them live when time permitted.

That was when I was in my coasting mode and before I ever started my MLM Success podcast. Honestly that was before the 4 stints were put in my heart. When I was forced to ask myself some very serious questions, about what I was suppose to be doing with the rest of my life?  

As I have shared over the years, when your reality surpasses your wildest expectations and you feel like you have lived a dream, your focus was never on money or stuff, it can mess with you when you feel selfish for setting worthy goals.

So we cheered on the Braves the last couple of weeks and it was awesome to see Freddie Freeman who is a tremendous person, and team mate who has been a Brave his entire career.  He was called up to the big leagues in 2010 finally get his world series ring this year.    The Astros were picked to win the world series, but the Braves prevailed. 

I have had many flashbacks over the past two weeks to the summer of 1990.  That summer my brother and I operated our baseball card & sport memorabilia shop and how much fun we had that summer doing card shows all over Ohio & Kentucky.  We went to dozens of Reds games after those card shows.  

We also had the opportunity to attend the play offs and the World Series that year.    Remembering how the Reds where such and underdog going against the powerful Oakland A’s and the Bash Brothers Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire.   

How exciting it was to follow them so closely that summer and then watch them sweep the Oakland A’s in 4 games.     That year we weren’t fans, we were fanatics.  We listened to every game and we were totally plugged in which is the way I spent most of my childhood.  

From the time I was six to probably 14 I could count on two hands the number of Reds games I didn’t hear live on the radio or watched on TV.  If they happened to be on TV  I was a plugged in fanatic.

I have said all of that to say this.   My Smart Alec neighbor who is and has always been a Braves fanatic. asked me,  “when did you decide to be a Braves fan again?”  This came up we were talking about the home run Freddie hit his last time at bat in the World Series.

For a minute, I thought Dale have you become part of the heard and just jumped on the band wagon like MLM distributors scrambling to the big seminar in Vegas?, because everyone in Atlanta was doing the Tomahawk Chop for a couple of weeks.  Even former President Trump who was in the stands during game 4 here in Atlanta.

 Dale you have never been part of a heard.   Then I had to remind myself, he doesn’t really know me, my history, or why since my heart challenges I no longer am a baseball fantatic, so let him think whatever he wants, I don’t owe him any explanation.   He sees things as he is, not as they are.

Before we leave this topic.  Yes former President Trump was in the stands at game 4 doing the Tomahawk chop, and mainstream media NEVER PUT HIM ON CAMERA?   Think about that.  If Clinton, Obama, or one of the Bushes had been there do you think that could have possibly happened?  

THEY NEVER PUT HIM ON CAMERA.  Who is making those decisions, and more importantly why? Does mainstream media really think they can influence the masses?  I guess they do, I guess they have. 

I had a busy day Saturday, it started early with some research I had to do regarding a new lead generation system we are hoping to implement within our APLGO Team.  I had a couple of calls scheduled.

Then the rest of my day was going to be spent watching the IHub Global virtual kick off event that was happening in Vegas and then watching the Kentucky – TN football game Saturday night.

The IHub Global event was good for what it was. 

There were a couple of tiny Red Flags but nothing I can’t ignore or work through; you know what they say it is what it is. Basically, introducing new “distributive” services I just need to learn more about.

They introduce an investment group, their name escapes me at the moment but they brought them all on stage, and they talked about how they will be funding the millions of dollars that are going to be required to get the Helium Hotspots in the market.  They were a very, very impressive group of corporate people.

So like most events this was fast paced with multiple speakers talking about a variety of topics.  They tried to have a sequential flow to the event, and honestly the flow was much better than 90% that I have attended.

Anyway, they announced the 3^rd tweak to the compensation plan in 10 months which is never good, but sometimes necessary and for me personally, understandable.

I had shared with our group a few weeks ago that I felt like they were going to have to make some kind of change.   So let me give you the details then I will give you a perfect example of people seeing things not as THEY ARE, but as they are.

Originally they had a business model where you could become a founder by investing $3,000. You could get six hotspots do a puppy dog type sales approach, set these hotspots let them make money for a friend or family member for a couple of months, and then decide if they want to invest in one for themselves and keep all the money.

I LOVED IT, I felt like this would attract a lot of business minded people.  During their fist few months they enrolled 18K people.    The day before I was planning on talking with Dawn and explain to her why we were ordering six hotspots from IHub Global right when a few months earlier we ordered 6 directly from Bobcat, they did away with the 6 pack program and introduced this free miner deployment system.

I believe they started to realize that this unknown Helium mining niche had huge upside potential, and was creating a tremendous amount of curiosity with people and probably getting push back on the six packs so they decided to bring on an investment group and offer free hotspots.

Honestly, I was concerned, and didn’t know how this would play out.  I felt like the 3K six pack program would attract business minded people the free deployment, FREEBIE Seekers, so I set back waited and watched, then a couple of months later I was in bed with covid for two weeks and watched them grow over the next few months from 18K affiliates to over 800,000 around the world and become the fastest growing affiliate program in history. 

Sept. 1^st I jumped in, as I have talked about it in this podcast, but make no mistake, my primary focus is APLGO, but I saw this as a short term project that could pay long term, significant residual income and I didn’t want to miss the wave. So we put together what I call the perfect promotion system.

I have enrolled 175 people most of which I don’t know and have never met and more importantly I am seeing team member have a level of success with this copy and paste perfect promotion system like I have never seen before.   Literally it is indescribable and unbelievable what has happened, we have grown to well over 1500 team members in a couple of months and the vast majority have of these people have never been in mlm or direct sales.  When you stop and think about that when was the last time you saw that happen, like never, right?

So here is the challenge the company has experienced. Of the first 18K affiliates that ordered got in early with the six-pack program, 2k have never plugged in their box.

The investor group said look, we can’t send free $500 boxes to people that are not going to take the time to plug them in.  I get that, I don’t blame them, I would say the same thing if I was putting millions of dollars into this type of project.

So yesterday, they introduced some kind of new program where you can lease a box, I don’t know the exact numbers, because in my mind it really doesn’t matter, what it is.    But something like $99 down then $19 a month to lease the box.  Or you can buy the box with a $500 deposit.

The bottom line here, is there are a lot of unanswered questions and the way it was presented and explained was not good.   They really dropped the ball.

Honestly for me, personally, I didn’t think anything about it, it is what it is.  I was prepared to invest 3K so if the average box is creating about $700 in Helium a month and the price has gone from $14 to over $33 since I have been following it with projections as high as $600 a coin, it just doesn’t concern me.

I know the owners and investors understand for them to be profitable the field must be.  So again, I see things as I am, not as they are.

Then I got a phone call from one of our IHub Team members and asked me if I was seeing any of the comments in the chat.  Honestly, I saw the chat was active but I never read chat comments, and the computer I was watching it on was several feet away so I couldn’t read them if I wanted to.   The event was going on, on that computer while I was working on my laptop.

He said people are freaking out and coming unglued.

Yelling Bait and Switch

I knew this was too good to be true

I need the $500 to buy gas and groceries not give it to them for a hotspot.

My upline bailed on this program 2 weeks ago and now I know why,

and on and on and on and on.

So much so that I had to do a quick zoom with our team during the half time of the Kentucky Tennessee game & then a FB live after the games was over basically saying cool your jets we will get the details this week.

Look, you either trust the people you are doing business with or you don’t.  You either believe they understand that for them to be successful the field must be or they don’t.  In general, I am the most skeptical person I know. I turn over every rock and look behind the curtain.

Honestly, myself, or nobody at this point has enough information to make any kind of assumptions or decisions at this point.  

The truth is, if I put a $500 deposit on a box and I can get back the deposit and I make $700 the first month it is plugged in or honestly from my perspective recoup my investment within a YEAR ……………..SEND ME EVERY BOX YOU CAN. 

So it goes without saying that if the numbers work with a $500 deposit then they will work with a $99 down and $19 a month lease of whatever it is.

But again, I see things from my perspective, and as I am.

Honestly, this was the most important announcement at the event as it was not handled well at all.   Far too many questions remain.  They did say everything would be answered with a couple of webinars that were going to happen this week, but they should have done a better job.

Whatever it is, it is, when the questions are answered then I can figure out what is the best way to move forward.   In my mind this is just business, it doesn’t phase me, I have walked away and left 10K a month, even 25K a month on the table a few times over the past 40 years.  

I hope I never feel the need to do that again, but if I do I will.   MONEY IS SUCH A NON-MOTIVATOR FOR ME, and every time I say that I know 90% of people have know idea how that could be true.

The truth is when people are squeezed or feel pressure, who they really are and how they really feel about themselves and others is always revealed.
 

Unfortunately, or fortunately on some level that is what has been happening around the world the last couple of years with covid and all the political grasp for power that is happening all over the world.  People are feeling squeezed, so it doesn’t take much to flip their trigger.

A few weeks ago on this podcast I was riding high with my 6-0 Kentucky Wildcats who were getting ready to play 6-0 Georgia.  I knew there was a small chance to win and if we played 10 times Georgia would win 9.  But the small hope still existed.  Kentucky got beat 30-13 but there was one play a forward pass that was called a fumble the swung the momentum of the entire game.

 Would Kentucky have won if the correct call had been made, probably not, but you never know, and that is the way the ball bounces in sports.

However many positive University of Kentucky fans said you know what, we could still end the season 11 -1 if we win our last 5 games, and we have a real chance to do that.

We then proceeded to go to Mississippi State and play the worst game of the year and state had their best and kicked out rear in every aspect of the game beating us badly 31-17  So now we are 6-2

On the call in show after the show fans were very disappointed and understandably so, if was a very disappointing loss.   Never the less many of us remember what it was like being a Kentucky football fan before Mark Stoops got here.  

We remember when our best hopes for the football season was to be at 6 wins by the end of the year so we may be invited to a bowl game.  So being bowl eligible after the first six games of the year is something most UK  football fans have never experienced, so all is good.

So last night with people freaking out about IHub and I am trying to watch the Kentucky – Tennessee football game and found myself asking myself, tell me again Dale why you decided to come out of coast mode?

In Kentucky there is real hatred, and I know that is a strong word but we aren’t talking about people we are talking about sports teams for Louisville, DUKE, and Tennessee.   Tennessee is a boarder state and the rivalry is real, very real.

So last night the game was back and forth all night.  It was 24 – 21 at halftime.  For the game Kentucky had a season high over 600 yards of offense.  In the final minutes of the last quarter Kentucky was driving down the field and a touch down would put them ahead and probably seal the win.

 Our quarterback was tackled to the ground when a defender grabbed his face mask.  This was not questionable at all it was clear on the replay as possible.

 The defensive player grabbed his facemask which is an automatic 15-yard penalty.  The referees didn’t call it, the KY coach, Mark Stoops went berserk on the sideline and ended up getting a flag for unsportsmen like conduct, which is a 15-yard penalty against us. 

Honestly this momentum swing changed the course of the final minutes of the game and Kentucky lost to one of our most Hated rivals.  45-42.  

The offense had their best game of the year.  The defense had their worst game of the year.  The defense has been solid all year long and Stoops and the coaching staff did all they could do.    

During  the interview after the game the players and coaching staff where clearly disappointed.    If you asked me, they left it all out on the field, and that is all you can ask as a fan.  

I am Ky football fan, but a basketball fanatic.    My immediate thought was this probably keeps some bigger name football schools from coming in and hiring Stoops away from us this year.  If they had gone 10 -1 I felt there was a real possibility that could have happened.  

Then after the Tenesse game the call in show was beyond embarrassing. The comments were ridiculous!

Same old Kentucky football team

Stoops needs to go he is not going to get it done here.

Why didn’t they punt at the end of the first half instead of going for it  (Yeah if they had you and those like you would have been saying why didn’t they go for at the end of the first half instead of punting it away)

This loss is going to kill our recruiting and on and on.

The truth is when we are squeezed, feel pressure, or massive disappointment, who we really are and how we really feel about ourselves  and others is always revealed.

If there is anything I have learned from sports, that would be it. And since we are in the people business, we need to be aware of this because this will happen along your journey, there are going to be challenges.

All any of us can do is make the best decisions we can with the information we have and move forward.  Pivot when we need to pivot, and ground ourselves in wisdom of the age’s principles. 

We can’t be surprised when people have burst of negative emotions.

We can’t be surprised when liar’s lie or gurus tell us what we want to hear so they can sell us what they want to sell us.

People must act in accordance to their own programming.   Talking heads will call people who live in Virginia racist even after they elect the first woman of color as lieutenant governor.

It makes no sense, and it is not going to.

All we can do, as I have said many times, is take care of the person, starring us back in the mirror.  Refuse to see ourselves as a victim and understand you can move forward and progress no matter what obstacles are placed in front of you.  “This too shall pass”

OK, enough of that, lets end this article with a dose of reality.

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP.   IF YOU LOOK

THERE ARE ALWAYS SIGNS OF HOPE.  One of my grandmothers’ favorite quotes was “This too shall pass” and I have been fortunate to be able to pass that on to many people over the years at a time when I felt like they really needed to be reminded of that.

No matter how crazy  or whacked out the world gets there will always be opportunity for entrepreneurial spirited people who believe in themselves
and their ability to become self-educated and take action.

Lets talk Baseball.  You may or may not know that the baseball All Star game was scheduled to be played in Atlanta this year. However for political reasons the spineless Major league decided to move it to Denver.

Vince Scully

Hank Aaron

You probably are aware there has been a lot of political and racial unrest hear in Atlanta since the election.  The stuffing the ballet boxes inside the prescient caught on video but ignored.  

Of course the statues last summer came down in Atlanta as well, also some drunk fell asleep in a Wendy parking lot, he was arrested and tazed after trying to run and resist arrest. Then the BLF group screams foul and comes back and burns down the Wendy’s restaurant,  so no, you can’t make this stuff up.

So Georgia and many other states are making changes that will hopefully eliminate voter fraud including making sure you have ID if you plan on voting, which for some reason mainstream media has convinced those that can’t think for themselves requiring ID is being racist. 

The one thing I have always reminded myself before leaving to vote double check that I have my id.  So anyway, someone named Nancy Anger who I assume lives here in Georgia wrote this and I thought it was awesome.

In closing, just one last reminder, we see things not as they are, but as we are. It is our responsibility to let the facts make or decisions, not our emotions, and to program our minds & count our blessings every day and live in a state of thankfulness with ambition, as Jim Rohn shared year ago.

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I have been on the FOCUS bandwagon for a few years now.  

When neurosurgeon Josh Kauffman became a new dad, he was hit with a wave of despair.

Between work, nappies and chronic sleep deprivation, how will I ever have the time to learn anything new again? he asked himself.

Like the billions of other new parents who’ve felt the same way before him, he was a sleep-deprived wreck and assumed he’d never have free time ever again. So he allowed himself to wallow in the pain for a short while.

Then he started thinking.

How long does it *actually* take to learn a new skill, anyway?

Google, best-seller books, and all the big blogs all seemed to answer the same way–10,000 hours.  After the NY Times best selling author Malcom Gladwell introduced his best selling Outliers book, it appeared that every personal development speaker on the planet, jumped on the bandwagon.

But Kauffman, who is also a self-professed “cognitive psychology geek”, decided to do some more digging. He wanted to understand where this seemingly random number originated and what it actually meant.

He came across research conducted by Dr. K. Anders Ericsson of Florida State University that studied world-class performers of every kind: professional golfers, violinists and chess grandmasters to name a few. He found that the top performers in these fields put in around 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to achieve their level of mastery. The more time a person spent practicing, the higher the probability that they’d reach the top of their particular field. So it turned out that The 10,000 Hour Rule was a measure of how long it took to master a new skill, rather than how long it took to simply acquire one.

Feeling a bit more upbeat, Kauffman did some more digging. And what he discovered sent chills of excitement through him.

The 20-hour Rule

We all know the “learning curve”. It’s that frustrating yet thoroughly rewarding period of time where you go from being a complete newbie to developing a basic level of proficiency relatively quickly.

The learning curve. Source: How to learn anything in 20 hours | TEDx |

As seen in the image above, the time it takes to develop basic proficiency happens fairly quickly and then tapers off as you try to move from proficiency to mastery. That learning curve differs immensely between various skills but Kauffman found that most skills can be acquired, at least at a basic level of proficiency, within just 20 hours.

Just 20 hours of deliberate, focused practise is all you really need to build basic proficiency in any new skill. Broken up, that’s just 45 minutes of practise every day for 1 month.

But if it’s that easy, why do so many network marketers who have been around the profession a year, three years, five years, ten years or longer appear so unskilled, and have so little results TODAY?

Three reasons: lack of time, lack of focus and not knowing where to start.

Finding the time to focus.

Let’s tackle the focus bit first. In the age of never-ending distractions, finding your focus is hard. Very hard. In his #1 best-selling book, Deep Work, Professor Cal Newport proposes that as a society, we’ve lost the ability to focus deeply on just one thing at a time. This is bad because our brains are wired to work best when we focus on one complex task rather than continuously switch between them. But we’ve collectively become a giant group of multi-taskers and we suck at it. He suggests that whilet it is a difficult habit to cultivate, becoming awesome at deep work is very much worth investing in.

Newport and other authors offer four strategies to help you commit to moments of deep work:

1. Monastic: shut yourself out of the world for a period of time and just get it done in one go. Think cabin in the woods for a week to finally write that novel.
2. Bimodal: Set a 3-6 hour chunk of time everyday for deep work and work on nothing but that task. This is similar to the Monastic Approach but done daily and without the cabin in the woods thing.
3. Rhythmic: Similar to the bimodal approach, the rhythmic strategy works in a similar way to the Pomodoro Technique and chunks your work and rest period into timed blocks (with an actual timer). A popular method is to work 25 minutes and rest for 5 but you can experiment with this to find the flow that works for you.
4. Journalistic: Dedicate any unexpected free time during the day to deep work.

Over the years there have been alot of talk in network marketing circles about, accountability partners,  master mind groups and so on and so forth. 

Our personal team does Zoom Outraches together, daily.   We teach people specific, proven strategies for reaching out and doing what we call lead outreach on social medial platforms like Facebook, Linked In, Twitter, Instagram, etc.   We also have stratiges for platforms like Face Book Buy and Sell Groups,  MLM Gateway & Cragislist, just to name a few. 

We are all sitting there together in a zoom room, doing focussed outreach.  That way is someone has questions, they can ask and you have people supporting  and encouraging each other.  I can not tell you the postive impact these nightly team zoom have had on future leadres of our team.

That’s all well and good, I hear you say, but my upline doesn’t provide that type of support, or I’m in the hospital 12 hours a day. I don’t have 4 hour chunks of time to commit to deep learning.

Finding 20 hours a month of free time seems impossible, right? Between work, family, commitments and Netflix, who has the time?  

But you can find those pockets of time if you look hard enough. The latest research suggests that people, on average, spend up to 135 minutes a day mindlessly browsing on the internet. That’s over 2 hours of wasted time a day. 60 hours a month.

I don’t think I need to explain that any further.

Yeh, but when you only have 5-10 minutes free at a time, how do you do anything constructive with them? I hear you ask.

Simple. You plan it beforehand.

Newport’s journalistic approach to deep work functions great with small pockets of time if you have a list of structured items you need to get through to learn your new skill. Think of it this way: if you had a to-do list of 50 items that you had to get done this week, how would you approach it?

With that kind of pressure on you, you’ll find the easiest tasks to complete (reschedule that physio appointment, respond to that email etc.) and get them done in the 5 minute free blocks you find throughout your day. But the key here is that you’ve already got them written down. You don’t need to think. You just need to do.

You can use the same approach to learn a new skill. You know that you will be able to find random 5-10 minute blocks of free time throughout your day so you plan accordingly.

But how do you break down a new skill into 5-minute segments when you don’t know what you don’t know?

Knowing where to start: building a knowledge tree using the Feynman Technique

Elon Musk is the 21st century Leonardo da Vinci and he has a very particular way of learning.

Musk once spoke about how he has been able to achieve, in a few short years, what would take most people dozens of lifetimes to do. He attributes his prolific learning to a mental model called

The Feynman Technique. Named after Nobel Prize Winning physicist Richard Feynman, this mental model is based on the premise that you should learn not to memorize, but to deeply understand.

“One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree-–make sure you understand the fundamental principles, i.e. the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”–Elon Musk

Year ago, after about the first 18 months with NII we had taught the basic systems to our team over and over, and over again.   Going back to my days in Shaklee I always made shure every new person was given a system for:

** Launching their Business
** Creating Customers
** Two-Step Recruiting Process

This is the foundation, the trunk of the tree if you will.  I realized early on in my career that until they had the fundamental systems, master we would never have anything to build upon.

That is why today their is so much confusion in the network marketing business model.  People are left to try to get bits, pieces, nuggets, and tips instead of how to build their business based upon foundational systems.

But 18 month into NII I realized we need to have a training system that gave picture the big picture, the path we were trying to take them down.  That training was called Putting the Pieces of the Network Marketing Puzzle Together. 

It is somewhat of a collectors item now, and we have sold access to this training for several hundred dollars, even though it was recorded nearly 25 years ago.  It give people the foundation the trunk that must be developed in order to achieve your full upside potential with this business model.  We make that training available free to our aplgo members.

The challenge I see everywhere in network marketing today is many people have a few leaves, and maybe a branch or two, but they were never given and taught the TRUNK OF THE TREE, so to speak.

Musk learns by first looking at the most fundamental concepts in any given subject and tries to understand it before moving on to the next level of the “tree”. To give you an example, look at the following two cases.

Source: Elon’s Surprising Strategy for Thinking About Everything | www.inc.com |

All the A’s look different in case 1 yet they are the same letter. By studying the A’s in case 1 after looking at the A’s in case 2, you will come to realize that certain defining features create the letter “A”. The two strokes that join at the top, the horizontal stroke in the middle, the space above that stroke etc. Eventually, you will be able to recognize a letter “A” regardless of what it looks like and even be able to construct your own because you know the fundamental features of the letter “A” (if typography is your thing!).

If you were to only look at case 2 without comparing it to case 1, you’d have no way of identifying the unique features that make an “A” what it is and therefore couldn’t possibly create a version of your own. This ability to deconstruct a skill or body of knowledge to its fundamental principles is necessary for effective learning and the subsequent application of that learning.

Again, that is why we make available to our team a training I did year ago, calle “Putting the Network Marketing Pieces of the Puzzle Together”  After we released this training to our team, our business exploded, because people had a high level view of what it really takes to build a duplicating network marekting team.

According to Kauffman, the first step to learning a new skill quickly and efficiently is to learn how to deconstruct a skill into its most important parts. You could spend hours upon hours getting stuck into the nitty-gritty details of a new skill but that would be inefficient. The details would have no “branches” to hang onto. Instead, focus the first 20 hours of learning a new skill building the “trunk” of the skill tree using the following steps.

1. Build the “trunk”–Find a few resources on your chosen skill and spend a few hours skimming through to get a feel for the basic principles. As you do this, you’ll notice that a pattern will begin to emerge. The resources are likely to differ on the details but the big picture will almost always remain the same. Spend this time understanding the big picture and “trunk” of the skill.
   
   
2. Deconstruct the skill into smaller sub-skills– This is when you start to look at the details. Now that you’ve built up the “trunk” with the big picture, flesh it out with the “branches” and sub-skills involved in learning that skill. This is when you learn what really makes an A, an A. Understand the different methods, strategies and practices involved in your new skill and break them down into smaller parts. It’s not difficult to identify the most important sub-skills. Pick up a few books on the topic and you’ll eventually see the same methods and techniques being mentioned over and over again. That’s what you need to focus on.Let’s take cartooning, for example. To make one cartoon, you’ll need to learn how to construct a simple story, draw common shapes, construct those shapes into simple sketches, put colours together, shade those colours and the list goes on. Each of those activities are important skills in themselves. Instead of being overwhelmed by the complexity of drawing, just break down the skill into sub-skills, then further down into tiny chunks, and practice one at a time. 
   
   That’s what Dr. Kauffman does  at Medmastery.  Their core strength is to deconstruct complicated medical topics and to turn the most important sub-skills into bite-sized lessons and videos that you can learn on the go. They focus on the sub-skills that will get you to a level of deep proficiency as quickly as possible.
   
   That is what we do for our personal team at DandDTeamTraining.com.
   
   We break down step-by-step the most effective way for team members to get their business launched and off the ground.   After the initial launch we currently teach 15 different systems to create and ongoing supply of leads for their business.   However the trunk ground work was done during the initial launch.   
   
   Anyone who applies focussed time and effort to these 15 lead generation systems come become very competent at creating positive results implementing them.   The more time they put in, the more competent and successful they will become, because the foundation remains the same.  Does that make sense?
   
   
3. Learn enough to know that you’re on track– Don’t waste your time practising the non-essentials. Knowing the big picture and having identified important sub-skills, select the one that will give you a headstart on your learning journey and help you identify when you might be on the wrong track.
   
   For example, if you were to learn English, it would be helpful to know that the 25 most common words account for over 33% of usage. Many languages follow a similar pattern. If you can already identify 33% of the language you’re trying to acquire straight off the bat, you’re much more likely to continue learning the skill and also recognize when you’re hopelessly wrong. Focusing on these words would help you reach proficiency much faster than say, focusing on learning and absorbing all the grammatical rules.
   
   Again another challenge the industry has experienced over the years is newbies attempting to learn algebra, and they haven’t learned basic additon yet.
   
   Even worsh are the gurus with day jobs telling them radically stupid stuff, like “if you want to be percieved to be a network marekting professional you must have your own blog” and other ridulously philosphies that have been propigated throughout this profession by gurus that are more interested in selling affiliate product and platforms than they are teaching people how to build a solid foundation. 
   
   Most “leaders” that should have known better have set back and let these people sell their team mebers worthless crap, so it is on the “leaders” that the profession is in the state it is in.
   
   
4. Get your hands dirty!– The steps above should not take more than 3-4 hours of your total 20. The best way to learn is to just do. Be ok with stuffing up at first. Build an environment around yourself to nurture effective learning. That means switching off distractions and committing to spending a certain amount of time every single day to honing your craft.

And don’t forget to enjoy the ride!

Where has your network marketing journey taken you at this point in your life?

“Albert Einstein said, ignorance at its highest level is to continue to do what you have always done, expecting different results.”

What is your network marketing story? Where has your journey taken you to this point? If you were starting today, would you make sure the 4 stars line up first?  

How can you make certain 2021 is a great CHAPTER in your personal network marketing on your network marketing journey? 

This is what Dale is going to share with you in this session.

Websites referenced in this session.

www.mlmsuccess.com/4stars

Years ago, I was a twenty-year-old confused kid. I was about to get fired from my assembly line job at IBM in Lexington, Kentucky and was sent to a week-long class called “The IBM Employee Awareness Program.”

After lunch on day one, they played an audio tape that changed my life. It was the first time in my life  I heard the famous Zig Ziglar and the quote:

“You are Where You Are Because of What Has Gone Into Your Mind, the Only Way to Change Where You Are is Change What Goes into Your Mind.”

Those word put me on a life-long study of how we program our minds for success in all areas of our life.   Our programming determines the type of success we will have in our career, with our families, our spiritual success, our financial success, our physical health, and  all 7 important key areas of our life.

Because you are visiting  the mlm success  website, there is a good chance you have heard people talk about the concept of programming your mind many times.  You are probably aware of the great Napoleon Hill quote, “What the mind can conceive and believe you can achieve.”   Pick a personal development trainer, we are all doing our best to communicate the same thing, just in different ways.

Human beings MUST ACT in accordance to their programming. 

You may be thinking, Dale you are right, I have heard this a thousand times so tell me something I don’t know.  Here is something you instinctively know, but may have not spent enough alone time thinking about.

“Knowledge, without ACTION, leads to self-delusion” Dale Calvert

The fact that we all program our minds to create the kind of life and success or failure in all aspects of life is what I refer to as a “Wisdom of the Ages” principle, it is undisputed.  If this is true, and many of you reading this article know that it is, then why is it not programmed in the minds of  kids over and over from the time they enter the school system?

Because some things are too clear.  They are so clear that we see right through them like a glass window.  Many times, we get caught up looking for the magic fu fu dust or unknown principle that we cannot see the clear, simple truths that have been evident from the beginning of time.   “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

I am so thankful that I was exposed to this wisdom of the age’s truth early in my life and never doubted it.  I went to work on consciously devoting 15 minutes a day to intentionally programming my mind for success.    I gained the knowledge, but knew I had to implement a game plan to put the wisdom of the age’s knowledge into action.  As we said earlier, “Knowledge without action lead to self-delusion.”

I sincerely believe that this concept allowed me to start a company and build it from zero to a hundred million dollars in sales in five years, raise three awesome daughters who today are successful doing what they love to do and providing value to fellow human beings.  Today I am an author, entrepreneur and motivational speaker living in Atlanta, Georgia. This concept has allowed me today to speak at corporate events, travel all over the world and live a lifestyle I never could have imagined.

Today I share the exact path I took in my Programming Your Mind for Success home study course on stages around the world and over on one of our websites at http://www.puremotivation.com.   There is probably nothing I have shared with you in this article that you didn’t already know, but the question I have for you is, “What actions are you putting behind the knowledge that you have? “

MLM SS 187: Forever A Victim… I Don’t Think So.

In this session we are sharing a keynote training did in the late

nineties at a National Convention for his personal organization, called

“Forever a Victim ……….. I Don’t think so. We hope this session is encouraging and inspiring and will help you look at your personal situation clearly during these uncertain times.

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