1. Get out of your comfort zone
2. Get obsessed about your goals
3. Develop a strong work ethic
4. Have fun
5. Make a conscious decision to never quit

However, there is no shortcut. This business is not a sprint. The opposite is the case, it is a marathon.

Think about it:

As long as you can keep a long-term outlook, in 3 to 5 years you can be living an incredible stress-free lifestyle. You’re going to be working anyway for the next 3-5 years, you might as well work at something that can change your life.

It takes time to build relationships. You need to develop trust and rapport with people. There is this famous saying “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”. Become a good listener. And one day, when you feel comfortable enough to approach them with the business opportunity … then people receive it, because they are listening.

As cliché as it sounds, it’s true that quitters never win and winners never quit. Just keep in mind that studies have shown that if you stick with your company for at least 10 years, and are actively engaged in your business, chances are you will be one of the top producing leaders in your company.

Everyone has his up and downs, but as long as you stay plugged in the system and don’t quit your business, you can pick up yourself with the help of the team around you. Don’t give up on yourself. Get inspired again. A good company will provide you some resources.

What have you learnt and achieved since you joined the company? Look back and see how much you have grown.

Quitters never win; winners never quit

Also, review why you have joined the business? What’s the big why for you? Keep reviewing your goals and vision board on a regular basis. Yes, things can change. But most likely you can describe your goal and cause in much more detail over time. Things become clearer. But things also can be forgotten, somewhere out of sight, because life comes in. Get back on track, refocus and refine your vision and goals.

To win this game, quitting is not an option. You should delete this word from your vocabulary. Stick with it, talk the language, get the business in you and persist. But firstly believe in yourself. You can’t disappoint someone else, only yourself.

If you plan on succeeding in this industry, you need to accept real fast that you are in the people attraction business. If you’re not having fun you won’t be able to attract people to you or your business. Now, I’m not saying that every single day will be fun because that would be misleading. However, I am saying that you need to enjoy the process and find a way to have fun. Think about it, would you follow you?

Be the attraction!

Social and people skills can be really helpful with that. Spending the last years behind the computer, you will see where now my weakness is, people. Why do they not think like me? A very good training place are networking events. My confidence to speak on this events grew over time. It won’t happen over night.

It really has to become a habit to talk to people. I easily fall back into the old trap, hiding behind the computer and communicating only via email.

So, how can this be fun? Listen to the person first, then adjust. Find something in common, that is really not so difficult. Leave the dark humour at home, at least when you meet people the first time. It can go just sooo wrong, trust me on this

Make people feel good and important. They easily open up and they like to be around you. Meeting people once is not enough to stick in their heads. Turn up to the meetings again, talk to the same people and you might even find something new about them.

Being around positive people can be really uplifting. However, ground yourself again and back to work. There is a difference between social networking and business networking. You have to draw the line here. And yes, work can be fun

It’s no secret that, in order to win and lead people, the best way to lead is through example. Make a decision that you will be the example that people should follow. The reality that most people don’t like to talk about is this: If you want to build a championship team and achieve all the success you dream about, there has to be a 3-5 year period of time that you are totally focused and in the trenches working with and developing your key people. Obviously, if your goal is to make an extra $500 a month, you could probably do that in your first month. But, I’m talking about living completely stress free and never having to worry about money ever again.

My goal is to live an above average, inspiring, different and exciting life. And this can’t be achieved over night. Your commitment over a period of time and the discipline to follow a system will guarantee your success. You got a No today? Great, move on because you are one step closer to the next Yes.

You Can Do It!

The right mind set and the right people around you will make the journey easier. Believe in yourself and in the industry! Let no doubt coming up, it will just give you a hard time. Set yourself some standards. If they are low standards, guess where your life will end up? Set the standards high, for yourself and the people around you. That gives you a direction and a goal.

In our team, Team Fitness Global, we have a document listing all affirmations and statements true to our team. They should be read out aloud every day, preferable several times a day. Here some examples:

Statements:

• Success is a journey, which is a process not a payoff!
• Thought coupled with action can create your destiny!
• If you’re not where you know you deserve to be then take action now!

Affirmations:

• I was born successful and have always been successful and I am gaining more success every day!
• I am able to ask for what I deserve.
• Every day I wake up to more abundance!

The typical school will teach you work ethic to work for someone else, we can teach you work ethics to work for yourself!

Now, this doesn’t mean that you need to neglect your spiritual life or your family life. But, you need to think about and focus on what you want constantly. Brian Tracy, success coach and author, says that successful people are “future oriented” In other words, they’re focused on where they’re going and where they’ll be in 5 years. It’s because of this focus on what they want, that enables them to accomplish more than the average person.

You need to determine your reason why. Why do you chose to join a team or do this kind of business. This creates a picture of the future you want to attain. Match your dream with real pictures. Create your own personal vision board. you don’t need to share this with other, however it would force you a bit more to be accountable. This vision board becomes a constant reminder that you have made this commitment to yourself.

Go and Get It

Setting a goal with a specific time point allows you also to determine milestones. This gives your journey a realist touch. You then know what you have to achieve in a month or in a week to be on track with your goal. This doesn’t not allow procrastination to occure, otherwise your goal moves further away again.

Remind yourself daily where you want to be in 1 month, 1 year and 5 years. This determines your day to day task list. Have you done something today that brings you closer to your goal? Yes – great tick it off your list, celebrate and move on to the next step. No – do it now if you are really committed to yourself!

Tip 1:

It’s been said that everything you want in your life, whether it’s in your business or in your personal life, lies outside of your comfort zone. Whether you’re trying to get in great shape or trying to have a great family, it takes a tremendous amount of effort to succeed. It’s no different with your business and your goals. Your success will require you to do things that most people wouldn’t do. However, if you do them, you’ll have a life that most people won’t.

What do you see outside of your comfort zone? Adventure or fear? Opportunity or uncertainty? A one-way or a return ticket? How big is your desire to succeed in life?

Direct distribution

Paul Zane Pilzer, the author of the New York Times bestsellers God Wants You to Be Rich and Umlimited Wealth, teaches his students the following two principles of unlimited wealth in our economy.

1. Over time, individuals can produce an unlimited amount of a single good or service by making use of the advancing technology that automatically results from specialization.
2. The total overall wealth of a society is thus limited only by distribution: the number of individuals available to consume and trade their specialized produce and tools.

It is not about the products anymore … the most expensive part of a product is the delivery. And some entrepreneurs discovered this quite early. We have Sam Walton from Wal-Mart, distributing produce made by other companies. Fred Smith founded Federal Express and introduced planes to transport goods and not only people. I am sure the younger generation has heard about amazon. Jeff Bezos became an Internet billionaire by setting up an online platform to buy books, and now almost anything. And bookstores in general don’t have a physical distribution service.

Normal bookstores and shops educate people about what is available. But now sometimes people know more about a product than the actual store staff. Because people get education through TV, radio or internet. They want to shop in the most time efficient way to the lowest cost.

So where does the opportunity lie for us here? Paul Zane Pilzer predicts the Wellness Revolution. The opportunity lies in the health and beauty area combined with a distribution business.

Thus, teaching consumers about such products and services – intellectual distribution – is the greates entrepreneurial opportunity now and for the foreseeable future. – Pilzer

I really appreciate the educating part. Only the education about health, business etc. gives the education from school some kind of meaning. You don’t have to study economics to understand direct marketing. When you can cut out the middle men the product itself becomes so much cheaper. That’s direct distribution.

No, seriously, why do we have employment and why is this what you don’t want in the 21st century?

Only due to the Industrial development in the 19th century the demand for people, for employees grew. This is quite similar to a military system. The philosophy behind the Prussian education was to produce soldiers and employees, people who would follow orders and do as they were told. (Robert T. Kiyosaki – The Business of the 21st century) Do you still think employment is a normal human behaviour? This concept is only a fairly recent phenomenon of human history.

The guy who invented retirement

Retirement was introduced by Otto von Bismarck, the president of Prussia. In 1889, he kicked off a plan offering everyone above 70 a guaranteed pension. Interestingly, the life expectancy at this time was around 45-50 years. Therefore not a big deal for the government. But look at it now! Still wondering why governments around the world are struggling? There won’t be any pension for generation X, Y and whatever comes after us.

There is one solution … back to the basics, back to the Agrarian Age, where everyone was a small-business entrepreneur paying tax to the king. They didn’t get paid from the king. You are responsible for your own life. Do you think humans have lost this skill in the last 150 years? I hope not.

Muhammad Yunus, Noble Peace Price winner from 2006, introduced the concept of microcredit for the Third World. These people become small-business entrepreneurs. So it should be much easier for us in the Western World, shouldn’t it?

My team is learning to get the control back of their lives, be responsible for your own actions. And bHIP is part of their lives!

Become a Superstar

Imagine to simply follow a guideline step-by-step and you become a Superstar -> guaranteed!

You think this is impossible?

I suggest you change your belief.

It is so simple, but it is not easy. Why? Because people love to take shortcuts or they think they know better. People struggle to commit to something especially when there is not immediate gratification. Discipline is also not everyone’s favourite. That’s why bHIP is not for everyone.

bHIP has put together a system everyone can follow and it guarantees success, when you follow it step-by-step. The main hurdles why people fail are:

• YOU
• no desire
• no written goals
• no belief in the industry
• no time commitment
• wrong use of tools and skills
• shortcut the prospecting pipeline
• can’t handle rejections and objections
• no commitment to stay tuned in
• no interest in personal development
• no action
• did I mention already YOU?

I could write posts to every single point, but I will leave at this today. Personally I am struggling with some of them, but I will get better, because I stay tuned in and I do plenty of personal development. Imagine if you had invested $250,000 into your new business. How serious would your level of commitment be?

Treat this business as THE BIG BUSINESS. If you work a little you make a little and if you work a lot you make a fortune. The system is simple and easy duplicatable, an advantage to most other businesses. So what are we waiting for?

I personally commit to myself to become a superstar because I deserve it. I better don’t disappoint myself.

Network marketing is obviously around for much longer. The objections against network marketing are well know. Some are true and some are not true. Pyramid schemes exist everywhere in any institution and corporation. Every government is looking after illegal pyramid schemes. You can be assured that the majority of network marketing companies are a legal structure.

And yes, the network marketing business is not for everyone, same for every business. However, internet and network marketing can be very simple. If you are able to stick to a system and follow some rules, you can be successful in both areas. The only challenge you have is you need to find the right network marketing company that provides you the system. And also for Internet Marketing, find the people who have done it already and just follow their system, as long it is legal of course.

I guess I have been lucky with both. (LUCK = Location,Understanding ,Connection and Knowledge) bHIP has the right system in place Team in motion. it combines the best of Internet Marketing with Network Marketing. Use the prospect pipeline and duplicate yourself.

Similar, I am mentored by one of the word’s best Internet Marketers. His system is simple, but to succeed you have to be disciplined and committed.

Same principles in both marketing areas.