Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Knowing The Difference.
Knowing the difference between what you control, and what you influence. And then how to take action on the things you actually do control and do something about. But it’s so easy to get off track with distractions…
Some people from my company left recently. Immediately I started getting breathless calls and urgent emails from people in other companies wanting to know details. Bloggers and YouTubers wanted comments from me so they could get the story straight. Basically I told them all the same thing:
Since they all claim to be building in the business, I wanted to know how this had anything to do with their business. Most would stutter and stammer and mumble something about how they wanted to get the facts straight or something similar. But I’d ask again, “What does this have to do with you building your business?’
Of course the answer is “nothing,” and of course I was wasting my breath even going there. Because the real reason people wanted to know about this is because they love to gossip. And gossip is just a distraction. As a leader your job is to kill distractions and keep your people focused.
Focused on:
Product culture
Meeting people
Working the candidate list
Inviting
Getting to presentations
Follow up
Promoting the next event.
Product culture
Meeting people
Working the candidate list
Inviting
Getting to presentations
Follow up
Promoting the next event.
That’s where the business is built! So how you doing on that?
-Randy Gage
Monday, January 24, 2011
Three Feet From Gold.
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when you are overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another. An uncle of R. U. Darby was caught by the Gold Fever in the gold rush days and went west to dig and get rich. He had never heard that more gold had been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth. He staked a claim and went to work with pick and shovel. The going was hard, but his lust for gold was definite.
After weeks of labor, he was rewarded by the discovery of the shining ore. He needed machinery to bring the ore to the surface. Quietly, he covered up the mine, retraced his footsteps to his home in Williamsburg, Maryland, and told his relatives and a few neighbors of the strike. They got together money for the needed machinery and had it shipped. The uncle and Darby went back to work the mine.
The first car of ore was mined, and shipped to smelter. The returns showed they had one of the richest mines in Colorado! A few more cars of that ore would clear the debts. Then would come the big killing in profits. Down went the drills. Up went the hopes of Darby and uncle. Then something happened. The vein of gold ore disappeared. They had come to the end of the rainbow, and the pot of gold was no longer there. They drilled on, desperately trying to pick up the vein again – all to no avail.
Finally they decided to QUIT.
They sold the machinery to a junk man for a few hundred dollars, and took the train back home. Some junk men are dumb, but not this one. He called in a mining engineer to look at the mine and do a little calculating. The engineer advised that the project had failed, because the owners were not familiar with fault lines. His calculations showed that the vein would be found Just Three Feet From Where The Darby’s Had Stopped Drilling. That is exactly where it was found.
The Junk man took millions of dollars in ore from the mine, because he knew enough to seek counsel before giving up.
You joined the network marketing profession for a reason. Don't quit when success is just around the corner!
Saturday, January 1, 2011
January 2011 Leadership Book of the Month.
Aspire by Kevin Hall. “Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words.”
Read a little of the book today online until you can get the book in your hands: http://is.gd/jV647
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