An excerpt from “How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life” by Peter Robinson reads something like this…
There once was a major research project held at a world renowned university center. The project was to develop operational definitions of a pessimist and of an optimist.

Two twin children, a boy and a girl of five or six that had developed extreme personalities — one was a total pessimist, the other a total optimist — The researchers brought these two children to the research center for the final observational portion of the study.

The pessimistic little girl was brought to the research laboratory where, in a large room behind a one-way mirror, she was shown a room full of new toys. She was told that each of the toys she played with over the next 30 minutes were hers. All she needed to do was play with them.

She looked at the research team skeptically as she entered the toy-filled room. What happened that next half hour shocked and stunned the researchers. The girl systematically opened every single box in the room and rejected each of the toys in turn. The researchers heard her say things like: “These aren’t new toys.” “These toys will never work.” “There are no batteries in here to operate these toys.” “They’ll never let me keep these toys.” “I don’t like these dolls.” “The stuffing is coming out of these animals,” etc. When the 30 minutes ended the girl left the room toyless. Watching this cheerless, lifeless, sour, bitter child leave the room carrying no toys, the researchers had enough data for the operational definition of a pessimist.

They brought the optimistic boy to the research lab. In the same room behind a one-way mirror he was shown a roomful of horse manure. He was told only that he would have 30 minutes in the room.

To the amazement of the research team, the boy entered the room and dove into the manure.

He threw it all over the place. He was animated, excited, alive and happy. He kept digging and digging shouting with glee. He was ecstatic. The research team members behind the one-way mirror were eyeing one another with all knowing looks which meant, “Of course we know what an optimist is!”

After 30 minutes the little boy, who by this time was covered with manure from head to toe, was brought to the head of the research team. The director of the study asked, “Little boy, what was going on in there?”

The boy, with hopeful, excited eyes, looked up and said, “Madame, with all that horse manure, there just had to be a pony in there somewhere, and I was sure I would find it!”

So when you walk into a room are you going to look in the right direction or right place or are you going to jump to conclusions about what is wrong or what isn’t working?

I found the pony in my room, but the more important question is, will you?

I have been in p/t network marketing for just over 3 years, and now f/t just over two months. It has only been about 6 months now that I started question the integrity of the people behind the pitches, products and home-based business opportunities. Now, overall I’m the kind of person that gives generally everyone the benefit of the doubt. However, in this industry that kind of mentality will destroy you. So, after having many encounters with less than integral people I now have developed a more cautious approach. You’d like to think that generally that which people pitch you they really believe in, and for the most party they do, however what I have found is it isn’t the product they are pitching you, its a skill in sweet talk to an easy sign up or sell. With that in mind I have set out to really see what is going on in the network marketing world and the people behind it.

I don’t believe in ousting programs or people. But I do promote and strongly encourage others to investigate the programs they are looking into before jumping the gun and whipping out the credit card. Economic times are tough, but if you sign up for every opportunity out there you are sure to nickel and dime yourself into debt and be worse off than you were in the beginning. I have learned many a hard lessons myself this way, so I speak from experience.

Before you join anything – get educated. Talk to people, look at all the programs. If they sound too good to be true – THEY ARE! If they promise you a lot for nothing (meaning a ton of money with minimal or no effort) they are lying! If the page is some long drawn out, scroll for six days, it’s a pitch and usually there is no program or product behind it. Free – isn’t free! You don’t have to optin to social networking sites, so don’t waste your time looking for another place to market or group to join, facebook is enough for anyone. My top favorite are facebook, linkedIn, backpage and Corkin. There are others that are free and I do mean FREE that are worth signing up and getting your profile established – hence you are branding yourself. Oh man, I could go on for days. Im a skype junkie and I must see 20 new programs a day and believe it or not I look at every one. I with that I have developed a criteria before I even consider joining anything:

1) What does it look like and what is my first reaction to the page?

2) What is the product? Is there a product? Is it marketable? If so, to what groups?

3) History of the company? Prelaunch, launch, established?

4) Is there a contact number on the webpage to company headquarters? Can you call it? Does it work? Can you talk to someone?

5) Who is the owner, is he accessible, will he talk to you personally?

6) Is there a team with solid leadership? Help, support?

That is the top 6. It goes on from there. Usually, I don’t make it past #2 and I leave it.

You would be surprised at how many $20 programs people will join but no nothing about them or who owns it or is behind it. Someone told them for 20 bucks they could make an easy 22K. What a crock! Really people, if there was that kind of money on the internet, why on earth wouldn’t everyone be doing it?

I will tell you this…once you do find a legit company that meets your criteria, you’re going to have to work your butt off. I work harder now for myself than I did for any JOB. The difference is I set my own hours, I work when I want to and when I leave to go play, my money still keeps coming in…now that is freedom.

If you’re tired of being screwed on the internet, think all companies and ways to make money are pyramid schemes you are naïve, for NOT all companies or online jobs are schemes…you just have to educate yourself in order to find the right one and then you need to stick with it, work it until you have met your financial goals within it and leverage your earnings into another company.

If you are an internet newbie and have no idea where to start…..skype me: Tabitha.hutton and I will be more than willing to help you get started, educate you on programs and compensation plans and teach you how to keep that money in your pocket rather than nickel and dime yourself into further debt.

FOR: “I the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible, for the ungrateful.
I have done so much with so little, for so long, I am now qualified to do anything!”

Top Income Earner and mentor to MLM superstars gives back to the industry that has paid him
over $40,000,000 as an independent distributor.

Richard is starting the GREATEST chapter of his legacy right now,
but he does not need you to join his company to receive his gift.  He is PAYING IT
FORWARD!  In an internet world filled with “Distraction Marketing”, his message is simple:

MLM DOES WORK and MLM is WORTH IT…and NOW is the GREATEST TIME IN HISTORY
to get involved.  Find out more….

You are meant to have everything you love and desire. Your work is meant to be exciting, and you are meant to accomplish all the things you would love to accomplish. Your relationships with your family and friends are meant to be filled with happiness. You are meant to have all the money you need to live a full, wonderful life. You are meant to be living your dreams – all of them!

To create anything, to change anything, all it takes is just one thing…

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Every action has an Equal and Opposite reaction – Newton’s law of motion – The general idea here is      that the greater danger in pursuing online financial success is the lack of education and without leaders and/or companies that you can trust with your financial life your financial success is a wash…These companies, coaches, mentors and leaders do not value your respect, honor, integrity, but conceal themselves in a way that looks appealing to you all wrapped up in a pretty little package… read more here!

Why is it that 95% of people who set themselves goals fail to reach them? In one word: impatience.

The most important and difficult stage of goal-building is the immediate stage after you set your goals. In the first stage, there’s a brief blip of euphoria. But this soon passes and then you hit the arid plateau of learning. It’s in this phase that most people lose their way and give up.

But this is the phase when you have to hang in there despite appearances. Otherwise, it’s like digging up the seeds a week after sowing them. So, here, for those who need a roadmap through the arid plains of goal-building, is a 6-step guide to managing your impatience and keeping your plans on track.

1. Have Plenty of Motivation Reminders. One of the cruel tricks that life plays on us is to make goal-setting easy and goal-building hard. This is no more true than in the opening phases of working towards a new goal. When we choose a new goal that seems within our reach, we are full of excitement and anticipation. It’s like the start of a marathon when everyone cheers us over the start line. But the cheers soon become a distant memory when we move into the second phase, the hard slog. It’s in this phase that we need to have a ready supply of motivation reminders to keep us going. Here’s one I often use. It’s from Ray Kroc, founder of the global restaurant chain McDonald’s. Kroc was an amazing entrepreneur. He says that it is in the early stages of working towards a new goal that you learn the most: “When you’re green, you grow. When you’re ripe, you rot.”

2. Be A Fly, Not A Bee. The chief problem with the early stages of goal-building is that you can never be sure of the right way forward, particularly if you are breaking new ground. You try something and it doesn’t work. You try again and it doesn’t work again. And again. And again. That’s tough. But it’s essential. Because you’re learning. Karl Weick says that in this situation it is much better to be a fly than a bee. When you place a fly and a bee in an upturned jam jar, the bee will head straight for the light and repeatedly buzz against the bottom of the glass. The fly on the other hand will dive frantically around the jar exploring every corner until he finds a way out. That’s the example to follow when you want to succeed: be a fly, not a bee.

3. Accept The Struggle. Those who are eager to succeed often treat the second phase of goal-building as an unnecessary waste of time. They would prefer to skip it and jump to the next phase of success. But this is to misunderstand the whole point of the second phase. It’s there to toughen you up. You may have heard the story of “The Man and the Butterfly” about the man who saw a butterfly struggling to emerge from its cocoon. To help it out, the man cut a bigger hole in the cocoon and pulled the butterfly through. However, instead of flying away, the butterfly was unable to fly. Its body was too swollen. What the man did not understand was that the butterfly’s struggle to emerge through the hole forces fluid from its body to its wings and thus makes them strong and ready to carry its weight. Like the butterfly, we need to struggle to succeed.

4. Be Objective. In stage two of goal-building, it’s valuable to stand back and distance ourselves from what’s going on. We need to be tripeds not bipeds. Bipeds are people who see only themselves and others. Risk-taking is a do-or-die undertaking. Progress is either a triumph or disaster. Life is black and white, winning or losing. Tripeds, on the other hand, can distance themselves from their situation by finding a third position where they can observe things with objectivity. Life isn’t either-or any more. It has depth, colour, and many angles.

5. Don’t Judge Yourself. Our win-lose culture puts great pressure on us to consider ourselves at any moment in life as either winners or losers. This means that failure is a bad thing and winning is everything. One of the most quoted expressions in our modern culture is: “Failure is not an option”. But this is to misunderstand the real nature of success. We need to fail in order to succeed. And we need to fail big-time in order to succeed big-time. Practically every successful entrepreneur, from Thomas Edison to Walt Disney, experienced failure many times over. But they didn’t judge themselves. They interpreted failure as “not succeeding yet” and saw it as just one more step on the road to success.

6. Manage Your Morale. Of course, it’s not always much fun to be stuck in the hard slog phase of goal-building. Nobody’s cheering any more. You have nothing to show for your efforts. And the dream still feels as far away as ever. That’s when you have to manage your morale. That means managing your stress, keeping things light, and working on the things you can’t see: your thinking patterns, your emotions, and your spirit. And, like the fluid in the butterfly, these may just be the things that will make you fly. “I can say: “I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won’t do it.” Or I could say: “Get used to being uncomfortable.” It is uncomfortable doing something risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?” (Barbra Streisand)

We human beings are very similar to the plant world. We grow best when we work with Nature and time. Don’t be in too much of a hurry to achieve your goals. If you hold on with faith, certainty, and determination, you’ll get there in due course when the time is right.