What To Do When “Working Harder” Is Not Enough

If You’re Blaming Something “Else” For Where You Are, You’re Going To Stay There

Nothing Will Change For You If You’re a BLAMER…

It’s so funny to me now, but it wasn’t funny back then. I was PISSED.

It seemed like I was so upset and frustrated at the world… at everyone and everything…

Later on, of course, I learned that the problem was actually me.

Hmmmm…

Now every one of us would love to blame anyone and anything for what happens (or doesn’t happen) in our life or business, but he truth is, nothing will change if we don’t take responsibility.

And if you defend your own ego and beliefs on that, then you’re taking away your own personal power.

All the “gurus” are right…

You have the power to achieve everything you’ve ever wanted, but every decision you have ever made, (or even the decision to not make a decision), has led you up to where you are right now.

So if you want change, you must change your thoughts, beliefs, actions, decisions and habits.

It’s the catchy phrase:
If you want to change the world, you must start with yourself. There is no “outside” circumstance or event that is controlling you or your business. Only you.

Recognizing Bad Patterns And Habits

I hear people blame their their crappy boss for being lame and firing them, and then blame the economy for not being able to find another job or make great profit in their business.

I hear entrepreneurs say their business is failing because of the “bad economy” or because “nobody was showing up.”

I ask, “Well what if you were to do some effective marketing to make more people show up?”

I hear people saying “if I find a better job”, things will be better, as if it’s going to fix their problems.

WARNING!!  It’s not going to fix your problems! The problems will always be there. In fact, if you do end up making a bunch more money, you’ll have a bunch more problems!

The difference is, leaders make their “problems” very small, very quickly.

Instead of even thinking they have “problems”, they find delight in calling things little “challenges” and find the solutions.

By doing so, they become even more valuable, because they found the solutions that other people are looking for… *(and did you know you can monetize that?)

You can try and try and try to blame and find external reasons, but the truth is, you must:

Bring VALUE To The Marketplace

Most people don’t realize it, (or want to admit it), but when you get sent home, laid off, or you’re simply not making enough profit in your business…

It’s because you’re not bringing value.

When apply for a job but don’t get it… it’s likely because the other person who raced for that same exact job had invested time and money to become more valuable to the company.

When I was stagnant in my business, I went out and invested time and money, taking massive action to grow and become more skilled in the Home Business market space.

Some people (like my friend Ricky, who has many skills, and who everyone adores), invested years to make himself more valuable (and like-able), and now many different companies fight over him, even though he already has a few jobs.

I have a friend Jody that has the best positive and friendly attitude. He gets proposed to by huge companies almost every month, just because people like him.

He goes “above and beyond” for everyone, even when he doesn’t have to. He made himself valuable to others.

As business owners, we must invest the time to adapt and create great new strategies to grow our business in today’s fast-paced changing world.

Those who gain marketing skills are the ones whose businesses grow, while the business owners who blame the “the bad economy”, the “location” or  “other people”, are the one who struggle.

Adapt Or Die

15 years ago, talking to people on the phone, one at a time, meeting in hotel rooms, and doing business overviews in people’s houses was still working.

But today’s business and strategies have changed.

15 years ago in snowboarding, the same thing was happening.

The businesses who adapted and got creative, (who went out of their comfort zone to jump online, or learn online marketing), are the ones who thrived.

The old mom and pop shops couldn’t pay their bills and went out of business.

And now, we’ve all realized that we can buy direct from a company, online, by cutting out the “middle-man” – (old school brick and mortar retail store).

And now many of my millionaire friends have all come from home-based businesses, using laptops and cellphones.

They don’t necessarily “sell”. The share information and then help the consumer get what they’re already looking for.

This business model of cutting out the old school brick and mortar middle man is WAY more efficient, and it’s the only way the savvy heads want to work.

Social media and online strategies are most effective because you can leverage your efforts, helping the information spread like wildfire…

You can also save tons of time by laser targeting your audience (instead of throwing spaghetti on the wall) like they did 15 years ago.

Any business owner can now have many different solutions in their niche, and they can partner with many different companies that have those solutions. This means multiple channels of income!

So, if you have a Home Business, and your current strategy is not working very well, don’t take the Ostrich Approach and say “no” before you even know what you’re saying “no” to.

I knew that the best way to predict the future of my business was to create it, and that meant being open to new information that transformed my business with cutting edge strategy.

If you’re not sure where to start, we can walk you through it.

And if you’re a hungry entrepreneur, you can click HERE to learn how to create more leads and income for your business…

We’ll talk to you soon!

The World Is Yours,
Marco and Mari…

What To Do When Trying Harder Isn’t Enough

Don’t You Wish You Could “Save Them All”?

So this fly was still buzzing around in my room, frantically looking for an escape. I watch him for a while, a little irritated, by the buzz. In the summer, it gets outta hand. I can’t save them all. I don’t like to harm anything, not even a fly, so when I can, I take the time to gently snatch them and walk over to open the door and put them on the right path to their freedom. But when I can’t take the time to save them… I wish the flies knew this:

How The Tiniest Course Correction Can Change Your Life

This guy, Mr. Fly is toast. Time is not on his side. He can see his freedom – his world of dreams – through the glass, but with all  sixteen of his eyes, he still can’t see that his freedom will not be achieved by banging his head against the wall, time and time again. His approach for freedom is clearly not working from my 40,000 foot view, but he just doesn’t get it. He is unconsciously incompetent. He tries over, and over, and over again. A quick subconscious irritation happens in my own head, as I walk away and hope he can stop to figure out that there is a better route just 10 feet away. My open door to his freedom.

Later I come back, and there he is, still bashing his head against the window. How futile, I think to myself…
I have to stop what I’m doing and take the time to help him stop bashing his head into the window, and very gently, pick him up without hurting him, and take him 10 feet over to the door. I let him go on the right path, showing him a better direction he can take that will get him where he wanted to go. It’s literally that simple… and it it my passion to do this for people every single day…

The Life Changing Power Of Knowledge, Information, And Mentoring

The next morning, waking up when I’m done sleeping, with no alarm clock, drinking my coffee, I’m looking out of the window again, feeling so grateful. The mentors I found online had done the same thing that I did for Mr. Fly.

They caught my attention, picked me up, and showed me a different way. I had banged my head against the wall, trying the same old strategies, over and over again in my Network Marketing company for over 5 years. I was working so d*mn hard, doing meetings, traveling all over cities and states, organizing meetings, feeling like a chicken with it’s head cut off, spending all my time and energy trying to drag dead bodies over the goal line.

I could never seem to break through to that next level in my business and nobody was working as hard as I was. I was getting tired, frustrated, and worried that I could be spending my valuable time building something else that might work better.
Now back to the flies…
Mr Fly’s other friends hadn’t figure it out yet. By now, that had all either slowed down, fizzled out, or stopped buzzing altogether. Without the right direction, no matter how hard they tried, they died in the window sill, with all of their dreams right on the other side of that clear barrier.
They spent the best time of their life, the best energy they had, trying harder and harder, working on something that would (clearly) never work. (Pun intended)!
Their goal of freedom was noble, but they never had a chance. No good plan. Lack of accurate knowledge, information, or help, kept them from their dreams and vision.

How Trying “Harder” Can Absolutely Kill You/Your Business

When my kids fail at something or don’t get the results they want, and they begin to complain or think about quitting, (like most parents), I start to say, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again. Don’t give up too easily, persistence pays off in the end.”

However, I could be lying. Persistence has it’s limitations, and doesn’t always work.

Don’t get me wrong, I am a huge believer in the power of persistence, but the persistent fly trying hard to break through the window is a perfect analogy for making money as an employee or business owner.

Window Paining For Jobs

My friend, (we’ll call him John), has been laid off several times in the last three years. He went from earning more than $80,000 a year to less than $40,000. Each time he was laid off, he went right back to looking for another job. Each time he found work, the company he was employed by went through “changes”, and he was laid off again. Like the fly, he too, continues to bash his head on the window of employment, and still has not found a quality of life or freedom. Simple fact is, you can’t have your own dreams, if you spend all of your time building the dreams of someone else. Not to mention getting taxed to death as a W-2 employee. I’ve never seen anyone create financial freedom or stability by earning a salary/wage.

Window Paining With Your Home Based Business

Albert Einstein calls this insanity…
Doing the same thing over and over again and over again, but expecting a different result every time. The fly in my home, my friend John, and so many others like him, continue to do the same thing over and over, and over, expecting that somehow, things are gonna change.

If you have your own Home Business, but you’re struggling to jump to that next level, then something is clearly not working.

You’ve been working harder for desired results, yet you may be failing to reach some of your goals.

Now, What If

What if you could finally find an “open door” that actually allowed you to achieve your business goals and dream lifestyle?

What if you just couldn’t see it before, because you were told to focus on only one way to build?

What if the ways that worked for your up-line 10-15 years ago is obsolete, and doesn’t work for today’s business?

What if the best strategy has everything to do with leveraging social media, being able to sift and sort through millions of people on the internet, and knowing exactly where they hang out, and how to engage with them?

What if we stop taking the “ostrich approach” and find out that instead of only one channel of income, where all your eggs are in one dangerous basket, there were actually MULTIPLE open doors that complemented each other?

What if we stop the “it’s too good to be true” mentality, and start being open to real strategies that would make it possible to generate multiple streams of income, 24-7, online, for the same amount of effort, (or less, because you don’t have to chase dis-interested people around town). Wouldn’t multiple steams make your life more stable and secure, relieving all your stress for time money, and actually allow you to be working FROM HOME like they promised?

And what if you could actually target entrepreneurial minded leader types who are ALREADY motivated and interested in financial freedom, instead of chasing your friends and trying to convince skeptical 9to5 employees that think they’re “not interested”?

We all learned a long time ago, that in order to get something you’ve never had before, you’ve got to try something you’ve never done before.

For 15 years of my life, like the fly, I also used my body to try and forge my escape. I mowed lawns, cleaned floors, roofed houses, delivered pizzas, snowboarded professionally, and help build & and brand different snowboard companies.

Then one day I realized the path I was taking was not working, and finally stopped to think, and decided for the first time in my life, to simply come out of my comfort zone to try different and better paths to reach my lifestyle goals.

Sensible Proven Navigation

When I stopped to think of the fly’s perspective, I knew they just don’t know the difference between an open and closed window, using only their own perspective.
(Many times, we do the same thing, having “tunnel vision” with our own businesses, using only an up-line’s system/perspective).
BUT every fly does have their own system, and they use the light to navigate. So I can simply make it easier for them, by closing the curtains, making the house dark, and opening up just one open window to the light. Then they may be lucky enough to automatically know to fly toward the light, finding their own way to freedom!

Now, Archibald MacLeish said, “The only thing about a man that is a man…is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.” If you are not using the higher faculties of your mind to craft creative solutions to your challenges, you will be no better off than a pig, or a horse, (or a fly in a window).

You have the power to see, do, and accomplish anything you could ever want in your life and your home business. If you’ve been trying hard and trying harder isn’t working, may I suggest a different approach?

This system RIGHT HERE is one of the best systems I have found that helped me absolutely break through to the next level in my business and have the free time for my son, instead of chasing people around town, getting stood up at home parties.

I believe, 1000% that you will find these specialized strategies will do the exact same thing for your business.

Now I’m sure this is uncomfortable to hear, and the fly was very uncomfortable with me snatching him up, but he sure thanked me in the end. I’m going to reveal my 40,000 foot view/perspective to you:

The “old” ways of building an old school network marketing business, one by one, without the use of the internet, was a serious struggle for me, and if I would not have searched out these solutions, I would have given up like the other flies in the window.

Done wrong with no leverage, it is a nightmare and a struggle. And to be honest, the internet has actually made it harder for the old school strategy builders. (More on that in the next post.) But done RIGHT, it’s a dream!

The good thing is, you have a choice…

You can stick to your guns and be irritated by the internet marketers, (like I did for years), and keep doing what you’ve been doing, trying it the same way, like the other struggling flies in the window, (meeting skeptics, one by one, talking on the phone all day instead of being outdoors or watching a movie with your spouse and kids)…
or..
You can invest the time to stop and take an educated look at some tiny course correction that could change the direction of your life and business forever…    From experience, I know…

It Paid To Be “Cutting Edge”!

Imagine becoming skilled with today’s marketing strategies, leveraging with the internet, in the Information Age. Picture being able to reach 90,000 people at the click of a button like I did this last week, all while doing a family trip.

Imagine building your business 5 times faster, with more efficiency and multiple channels of income…

What would that do for your life? How would it feel?

Do you think that investing the time to learn a few new approaches for “more fishing poles in the water” would help you achieve the next level in your business and the life that you’re really looking for?

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I believe 1000%, that in your search, you will have found the exact solutions for generating more leads and more income into your home business, and with massive action, you will find a faster and far more effective route to freedom.

Now, if you’re like I was, and not sure where to start, but you are coach-able and open to discovering these solutions my wife Mari and I have used, I will can show you the path that can finally put you on the right route to your freedom. I’d love to hear your story when you contact us.
Now, when you’re ready, CLICK HERE and let’s connect…

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Welcome to the next level!

The World Is Now Yours, MFM!