Just One More Inch

A lot of times in our life we desperately need something or someone to help us move forward. The same can be said of those of us that own our own business. We just need a little boost. A little spark of something that will keep us going. And, give us some inner energy to keep moving forward toward our why we started down this path to begin with.

I tend to be a very optimistic person but even at times I have needed a calm fire put under by back side to get me moving on. I read a book several years back by Charles Swindoll titled Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back. It helped me to understand that life can be a bummer at times (I knew this already.) and that I just have to bend with the wind and keep going. That is what I do. I may fall back but I keep going. This allows me to gain success in my life and my business.

Even if that forward movement is only an inch at a time.

I certainly, like everyone else, feel like throwing my hands up sometimes and quitting. One of the helpful things that I do when this happens to me is to walk away, clear my head and give myself some time to think through what it is that I personally want out of my life and my business. I am not quitting. I am merely meditating upon my own beliefs and actions.

Something else that I find that helps me is to stay tuned-in with my business. Even at my worst times I continue to be on conference calls, webinars and whatever else is offered by the company I am affiliated with. This helps me to clear my thoughts of being down because things aren't going exactly the way I want them to go. I don't quit being involved.

My faith plays a major role in everything that I do. I know that if I keep moving forward and believing that I am where I am suppose to be that soon I will turn that corner and be on a clear path to the finish line.



When you feel like that you just can't take another step toward what you really want for your life and business then take a tiny one inch step and keep going. You will reach whatever it is you desire for yourself. Believe it!

Thanks to Linda Grace Cox for sharing this video on her website. Be sure to look her up on Facebook.

Just One More Inch is all it takes to move forward...

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Elaine

Change Can Be A Wonderful Gift

Change is Good - You Go First

As a leader you must empower change to others joining you. In network marketing we build teams to promote a company/product. A lot of the people joining us may be set in their own manner of doing this.

The reason for this might be that they have been in (direct) network marketing for many years and think that they have all of this down pat. Let me tell you my story.

I actually started in direct marketing back the 1980s with a company that is still around today and is still one of the biggest and most well known in this industry. I had no idea what I was doing and the sad thing was I received no help in learning how to market must less anything else.

From there I tried other direct marketing companies with the same result. No one to showed me the ropes and no one to answer my questions. Was it necessary to have these options at my finger tips? I found or discovered the answer to this question much later in my searching. The answer, Actually No.

So some years later as the internet grew and more information was available I was like a sponge. I read, absorbed, copied, did everything I could to learn the ins and outs of network marketing. Found some great people teaching what should be done and what shouldn't be done. But something was always missing that I just couldn't wrap my head around.

I have recently discovered that what was missing was leadership. Leadership in the team leader and developing leaders on the teams. This is really what this industry is all about: Developing Leaders. 

So what must we do as the so-called team leader to entice those joining up to change their ways?
Watch this movie and see if it answers any questions for you:



As leaders we have to embrace change. A change that accepts that it is our responsibility to develop leaders not sells people. We have to learn to inspire and motivate our teams to embrace change. We have to inspire them to get out of their comfort zones. It is our responsibility to assure them that this is the right path to be on for their own good and success.


Developing leaders within your team will ensure that each one accepts the responsibility for themselves. This is good. Not bad. This is what you should strive for. 


Bob Nelson puts it this way, "You get the best efforts from others by not lighting a fire beneath, but by building a fire within them."

Eric Harvey and Steve Venture in their book "Forget For Success" puts it this way: "Our brains are like closets. Over time they are filled with things we no longer use - things that don't fit. Every once in a while they need to be cleaned out."

For so many years our industry has remained on the same old, same old path of mediocrity. Putting people in and moving on to putting more people in. The more people, the better. This didn't work and now you should be able to figure out why.

The ones that have made it big and been the most successful in network marketing are the ones that realized that things had to change. The change was developing leaders.

This Doesn't Work! Oh!, But It Does.

It seems like no matter what we do life hands us a bail of manure from time to time. I know it has me and I am sure the same is true for you. So, what do you do?

Hang on and ride it through. Don't allow the down times to take control. They are going to happen. Trust me on this. I know.

Life was never meant to be totally free of fences and bears. The same applies to business. You try and try and nothing seems to work. Has this happened to you with your business? I bet it has. If not it will. It happens to me in my business more often than I care to remember.

I call people. I talk to people. I hand out cards. I place ads all over the internet. Etc.... Etc.... Etc.... I do what I read to do. I do what I am told to do.  NOTHING. A BIG FAT NOTHING!!!!!!  Spinning wheels just keep on spinning producing ZERO!

Do I throw my hands up and say, "This doesn't work." Absolutely not. I continue doing what I am suppose too. Market.

Also this is when I work on myself. My inner self to build more understanding about my inner thinking and why I am doing what I am doing. The way I am doing it. That is building a home business. I go back to the core of my reasons. This gives me my motivation and inspiration to continue.

All of us trying to live life must take the time to be energized from time to time. I use the Bible, other books, quotes, friends, whatever it takes and along with all these a lot of positive thinking.

Here is some good advice for all of us:
Start each day with a motivating thought to inspire you throughout your day and encourage others to start each new day with a positive outlook! Zig Ziglar is a legend when it comes to motivation. This movie is some of Zig's favorite life quotes. Take a few minutes to watch this movie and be inspired!



“Wherever you go…go there with all your heart.” - Anonymous