This classic is referred to continually in the literature of the Network Marketer. I decided to include a link to the original version. The link will take you to a download site, where you can download the book for free. There is a permanent link over on the left side of the page that will take you to the same place.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
It's All Too Much
It’s all too much for me to take
The love that’s shining all around me.
All the world is birthday cake
So take a piece but not too much.
These words from the late George Harrison were first sung in the soundtrack to 1969’s Yellow Submarine. (Even my deaf five-year-old loves that movie, and can sign some of the songs.) I am often amazed at the profound lyrics that come out of young singer-songwriters. I guess I thought I was pretty profound back then, too.
Okay, that was a serious digression.
“It’s all too much.” Is there a more appropriate sentiment for this time of year in the modern world? Too many parties, too much food and drink, too much spending, too much advertisement, too much co-opting of symbols in the name of commerce. People not interested in hearing about your business.
So what to do? Take a piece, but not too much. Start experiencing the tiniest things, and work up from there.
The sparkle of a bright light off of a strand of tinsel.
The smell of a Noble Fir when you stroke the soft branches.
The sound of boots squeaky-crunching on sub-zero snow.
The feeling of frosty air entering your nostrils and being warmed by your body as you breathe deeply.
The giggle of a child hiding behind a Christmas tree.
The pattern of frost on a window pane.
The way that crystalline beauty can come from freezing a mud puddle.
The whisper of wind through dry grass and trees.
The immense solitude of a northern beach
The smell of sunscreen and sensation of warm sand between your toes on a southern beach.
The smell of sunscreen on a beautiful bluebird powder skiing day.
The sound of your own breath as you snowshoe through woods.
The play of lights reflected on a storefront window, regardless of what’s inside.
A cookie.
Eggnog. (Okay, I personally dislike the stuff, but some people love it.)
A crackling fire, even if it is that one on TV.
“It’s a Wonderful Life” (in black and white) for the 100th time, complete with teary eyes at the end.
Finding last year’s Christmas cards from friends.
Re-using last year’s Christmas boxes and recalling what was in them before.
Conspiratorial children who can barely contain the secret of a present they got you.
The long-suffering dog that lets you put those stupid reindeer antlers on his head one more time.
Breathing deeply in the silent glow of the night, after all is calm.
Breathing.
Breathing.
So take a piece, but not too much.
So take some peace – all you want.
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The love that’s shining all around me.
All the world is birthday cake
So take a piece but not too much.
These words from the late George Harrison were first sung in the soundtrack to 1969’s Yellow Submarine. (Even my deaf five-year-old loves that movie, and can sign some of the songs.) I am often amazed at the profound lyrics that come out of young singer-songwriters. I guess I thought I was pretty profound back then, too.
Okay, that was a serious digression.
“It’s all too much.” Is there a more appropriate sentiment for this time of year in the modern world? Too many parties, too much food and drink, too much spending, too much advertisement, too much co-opting of symbols in the name of commerce. People not interested in hearing about your business.
So what to do? Take a piece, but not too much. Start experiencing the tiniest things, and work up from there.
The sparkle of a bright light off of a strand of tinsel.
The smell of a Noble Fir when you stroke the soft branches.
The sound of boots squeaky-crunching on sub-zero snow.
The feeling of frosty air entering your nostrils and being warmed by your body as you breathe deeply.
The giggle of a child hiding behind a Christmas tree.
The pattern of frost on a window pane.
The way that crystalline beauty can come from freezing a mud puddle.
The whisper of wind through dry grass and trees.
The immense solitude of a northern beach
The smell of sunscreen and sensation of warm sand between your toes on a southern beach.
The smell of sunscreen on a beautiful bluebird powder skiing day.
The sound of your own breath as you snowshoe through woods.
The play of lights reflected on a storefront window, regardless of what’s inside.
A cookie.
Eggnog. (Okay, I personally dislike the stuff, but some people love it.)
A crackling fire, even if it is that one on TV.
“It’s a Wonderful Life” (in black and white) for the 100th time, complete with teary eyes at the end.
Finding last year’s Christmas cards from friends.
Re-using last year’s Christmas boxes and recalling what was in them before.
Conspiratorial children who can barely contain the secret of a present they got you.
The long-suffering dog that lets you put those stupid reindeer antlers on his head one more time.
Breathing deeply in the silent glow of the night, after all is calm.
Breathing.
Breathing.
So take a piece, but not too much.
So take some peace – all you want.
Earn A Free Vacation
Get Internet MLM Profits
________________________________________________________
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Integrity
Integrity:
1 : firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility
2 : an unimpaired condition : soundness
3 : the quality or state of being complete or undivided : completeness
synonyms see honesty
I got an angry email this morning from a guy I had contacted as a prospect for my Network Marketing business. He had seen my web cast presentation. Something, and I still have no idea what, set him off. His email was scathing, vituperative, foul-mouthed, scatological, and any other words you might think of for something rude, crude, and completely unnecessary.
My first reaction was, “Oh yeah?! I’ll give him an earful.” I quickly thought better of that. Seldom has anything good come of an angry email. As some wise person said, “If you wrestle with a pig, win or lose your getting’ filthy.” So I restrained myself.
My second thought was to construct a detailed reply, showing him the benefits of the Network Marketing paradigm, the honesty of our company, and the help I would be providing him in building his business. Then I thought about what that would do. Would I convert him to my way of thinking? Not very likely. Would he become a banner-carrying evangelist for my company and our business. Not in a zillion years. Would it be a monumental waste of my time, emotion and energy? Yep. So I restrained myself again.
DELETE. End of episode. That email is now banished to somewhere in the nether regions of cyberspace. I suppose the anger and rage it contained are still spinning around in the head of the guy who wrote it. Sad for him, really.
The first time I got one of those emails it really upset me. I was angry. I was insulted. I was even a little scared. What if he was right? What if I had signed up for a scam? I called my sponsor, who chuckled in a “been there done that” way and filled me in on all the ways that people were going to try to tear me down. He went through all the ill-informed objections people would present me and basically said, “Let it go. Just keep doing what you’re doing.”
Some times it takes a lot of confidence to keep doing what you believe is right. That is where the integrity comes in. We usually think about integrity as being that first definition, firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values. This is essential for us living a life of self-respect and honesty. But the third definition, the quality or state of being complete or undivided, becomes a truly spiritual value.
We know that we are doing something of value. We know that we are acting within a code of moral values. Time, knowledge, and self-knowledge allow us to be complete and undivided.
“I am a person of integrity.” We hear it often. Let’s just silently live it.
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Monday, December 10, 2007
So I’ve been doing some reading about blogs, and how they are ultimately a reflection of the person maintaining them. I realized that mine have been a little impersonal. I really haven’t put a lot of myself out there for people to know.
So this will make up for that previous lack. Be forewarned, it’s not a 100% happy tale.
In the beginning of my network marketing career (Okay, it’s been only about 8 months.) my intent was simple. I wanted to be able to make enough money to be home when my kids left for school and when they arrived home. Seems simple enough, right? The reality is a bit more complex. My reasons for wanting this business to succeed are extreme.
In 2002 my wife, Lynn, and I were blessed to adopt a beautiful newborn boy. (We aren’t the youngest parents in the world. I am now 52, and Lynn’s 43.) Robbie is an amazing personality, full of life and waking up happy every morning. He’s also devilishly handsome and charming and at age five has the girls eating out of his hand.
When he was 14 days old we learned that he is deaf. There was the initial denial and shock, and then some sadness at “what he’ll miss”, but he seemed to be doing fine. We later learned that he has some residual hearing in his right ear and that with the latest and greatest hearing aids he can distinguish a lot of speech.
He’s learning to talk now, but has recently stated his perceptions of his own limitations by telling us that he can’t take a ski lesson because he can’t talk. It was sad to hear, but he didn’t have any sadness – it was just a statement of fact, and some concern about how a specific thing would be accomplished. When we told him that one of us would be there to help him talk, he was fine.
Fifteen months after Rob was born, in July of 2003, we received a call from the adoption agency. Robbie had a new, full-biological sibling. A tiny baby girl. Less than two and a half pounds tiny. She spent 84 days in the neonatal intensive care unity, endured heart surgery and a necrotizing bowel infection, addiction to Fentanyl and morphine, but came home with us. She was a struggle, going through a lot of pain and withdrawal, sleeping fitfully, and mostly scaring the heck out of us.
How were we going to deal with a deaf son and this super-preemie who all the doctors predicted was going to be a lot of work? I don’t know. Some times you don’t have a choice. You deal with it. People have dealt with lots worse.
So we got to deal with worse. In late 2005, after going from doctor to doctor to doctor to try to get some resolution to severe lower abdominal pain, Lynn was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. After radiation and chemo, she had surgery. The surgery revealed cancer in a large number of surrounding lymph nodes. Subsequent PET and CAT scans showed that she had metastases in her liver and elsewhere. The diagnosis was terminal. The medical professionals gave her 6-20 months.
The good part is that she’s already lived beyond that. She is relatively healthy by cancer-standards, getting out for a few hours of skiing or fly fishing once in a while, and still able to enjoy the kids. Her only outwardly visible sigh of disease is that she requires a lot more sleep and doesn’t have her old stamina.
Lynn is considered “permanently disabled” and her cancer is still terminal. We are happy that she’ll get through the holidays without starting chemo, but no one knows what the future will bring. Her drive and focus are to be there as much as possible for the kids, and to have as positive an influence on their life as possible.
So that is just about all of the stuff going on in my life. I maintain a full-time job as a project manager while I try to grow my network marketing business. Remember, that goal is to be able to afford to be home when the kids leave for school and when they get home from school! I also think that I’ll need to be ready as a sign language interpreter for Rob at a moment’s notice. How’s that for a “Why” I’m in the business?
I’m posting this to my blogs. My other one is www.MyPotentialNow.com
If you’d like to see more about my business, check out www.earnafreevacation.com
Forward this to friends if you like. I’m not looking for charity. I believe in my network marketing business and love to help others be successful in it. There’s plenty of success to go around. If you get a chance to come to my blogs and comment on this, I’d love to hear from you.
Making the world a better place, One smile at a time
Joe Laberge
So this will make up for that previous lack. Be forewarned, it’s not a 100% happy tale.
In the beginning of my network marketing career (Okay, it’s been only about 8 months.) my intent was simple. I wanted to be able to make enough money to be home when my kids left for school and when they arrived home. Seems simple enough, right? The reality is a bit more complex. My reasons for wanting this business to succeed are extreme.
In 2002 my wife, Lynn, and I were blessed to adopt a beautiful newborn boy. (We aren’t the youngest parents in the world. I am now 52, and Lynn’s 43.) Robbie is an amazing personality, full of life and waking up happy every morning. He’s also devilishly handsome and charming and at age five has the girls eating out of his hand.
When he was 14 days old we learned that he is deaf. There was the initial denial and shock, and then some sadness at “what he’ll miss”, but he seemed to be doing fine. We later learned that he has some residual hearing in his right ear and that with the latest and greatest hearing aids he can distinguish a lot of speech.
He’s learning to talk now, but has recently stated his perceptions of his own limitations by telling us that he can’t take a ski lesson because he can’t talk. It was sad to hear, but he didn’t have any sadness – it was just a statement of fact, and some concern about how a specific thing would be accomplished. When we told him that one of us would be there to help him talk, he was fine.
Fifteen months after Rob was born, in July of 2003, we received a call from the adoption agency. Robbie had a new, full-biological sibling. A tiny baby girl. Less than two and a half pounds tiny. She spent 84 days in the neonatal intensive care unity, endured heart surgery and a necrotizing bowel infection, addiction to Fentanyl and morphine, but came home with us. She was a struggle, going through a lot of pain and withdrawal, sleeping fitfully, and mostly scaring the heck out of us.
How were we going to deal with a deaf son and this super-preemie who all the doctors predicted was going to be a lot of work? I don’t know. Some times you don’t have a choice. You deal with it. People have dealt with lots worse.
So we got to deal with worse. In late 2005, after going from doctor to doctor to doctor to try to get some resolution to severe lower abdominal pain, Lynn was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. After radiation and chemo, she had surgery. The surgery revealed cancer in a large number of surrounding lymph nodes. Subsequent PET and CAT scans showed that she had metastases in her liver and elsewhere. The diagnosis was terminal. The medical professionals gave her 6-20 months.
The good part is that she’s already lived beyond that. She is relatively healthy by cancer-standards, getting out for a few hours of skiing or fly fishing once in a while, and still able to enjoy the kids. Her only outwardly visible sigh of disease is that she requires a lot more sleep and doesn’t have her old stamina.
Lynn is considered “permanently disabled” and her cancer is still terminal. We are happy that she’ll get through the holidays without starting chemo, but no one knows what the future will bring. Her drive and focus are to be there as much as possible for the kids, and to have as positive an influence on their life as possible.
So that is just about all of the stuff going on in my life. I maintain a full-time job as a project manager while I try to grow my network marketing business. Remember, that goal is to be able to afford to be home when the kids leave for school and when they get home from school! I also think that I’ll need to be ready as a sign language interpreter for Rob at a moment’s notice. How’s that for a “Why” I’m in the business?
I’m posting this to my blogs. My other one is www.MyPotentialNow.com
If you’d like to see more about my business, check out www.earnafreevacation.com
Forward this to friends if you like. I’m not looking for charity. I believe in my network marketing business and love to help others be successful in it. There’s plenty of success to go around. If you get a chance to come to my blogs and comment on this, I’d love to hear from you.
Making the world a better place, One smile at a time
Joe Laberge
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
How Soon Is Now?
Where do you want to be five years from now? Have you ever asked that question and had someone look at you like you have two heads? (I apologize if I have offended any of the bi-cranial in the audience.)
"Five years," they say. "I can't tell you where I'll be in five WEEKS!" Yep, heard it myself. Heck, I even used to say it. But here's the big non-secret: It doesn't matter whether you plan it or not, five years from now is coming!
Planning for retirement, planning to pay for your children's' education, planning to buy a home, planning to drive to work. You can ignore the future if you want, but the future doesn't care; it's coming anyway.
If you want to have three million dollars in the bank in 2010, you need to be putting aside way more than $20,000.00 per month starting now. That's one way to plan, but it scares the living daylights out of most people, so they do nothing. And you know what? That three million never shows up.
Here's a much better idea. DO SOMETHING NOW! You may not make $25,000 this month, but if you don't do something toward your goals you'll never get there.
Make a plan for today. Just today. Just the next hour, even. Just right now. Now is the only moment you have, but how you use this now will make a difference in how you feel in the next moments. What you do in the now will make a difference in what you are able to do in the next moments.
What was that excuse? You're too old? Nonsense. You have just enough experience to get it right. You're too young? Nonsense. You have enthusiasm and vigor. Not enough time? Everybody has the same 168 hours each week, the same 24 hours in a day. Time is not the issue. Doing things is the issue.
Do it now! What have you got to lose? You might possibly regret doing something. You will definitely regret doing nothing! And remember, an object in motion tends to remain in motion, so overcome your inertia and get moving.
Five years from now is now a couple of minutes nearer.
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10 Weeks to Network Marketing Success
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"Five years," they say. "I can't tell you where I'll be in five WEEKS!" Yep, heard it myself. Heck, I even used to say it. But here's the big non-secret: It doesn't matter whether you plan it or not, five years from now is coming!
Planning for retirement, planning to pay for your children's' education, planning to buy a home, planning to drive to work. You can ignore the future if you want, but the future doesn't care; it's coming anyway.
If you want to have three million dollars in the bank in 2010, you need to be putting aside way more than $20,000.00 per month starting now. That's one way to plan, but it scares the living daylights out of most people, so they do nothing. And you know what? That three million never shows up.
Here's a much better idea. DO SOMETHING NOW! You may not make $25,000 this month, but if you don't do something toward your goals you'll never get there.
Make a plan for today. Just today. Just the next hour, even. Just right now. Now is the only moment you have, but how you use this now will make a difference in how you feel in the next moments. What you do in the now will make a difference in what you are able to do in the next moments.
What was that excuse? You're too old? Nonsense. You have just enough experience to get it right. You're too young? Nonsense. You have enthusiasm and vigor. Not enough time? Everybody has the same 168 hours each week, the same 24 hours in a day. Time is not the issue. Doing things is the issue.
Do it now! What have you got to lose? You might possibly regret doing something. You will definitely regret doing nothing! And remember, an object in motion tends to remain in motion, so overcome your inertia and get moving.
Five years from now is now a couple of minutes nearer.
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http://www.EarnAFreeVacation.com
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10 Weeks to Network Marketing Success
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