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Be strong or carry on as you are

wbhawkins — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:15:51 +0000

Transform yourself into a pack horse

The three principles of this business are to be consistent in your activity, to replicate the business and to give it time. It is simple. The business is simple. The products are great and they work. Retailing them at events is a doddle. So, what is the challenge?

Being consistent is a key to being successful in this business. You have to be a pack horse and just keep moving onwards towards your goals. I have not yet been consistent in my activity. I have carried out short sprints of emailing and calling. Then I have stopped because it is easy to let ‘life’ get in the way.

But the life that gets in the way is not going to help me to reach my objectives. Being stressed in my day job, or being away at the weekends when I could be building my business or putting things off because of Christmas are easy excuses. In this business, there is no room for excuses. You do well in this business by doing simple things often and regularly. This business needs discipline.

And being disciplined in your activity brings you wealth. Not just financial wealth. It will be bring you wealth in your spirit and relationships too. I have tried to be clever in this business by doing things which are not simple. I have run email campaigns when I should be just picking up the phone and talking to people. I have carried out activities in Twitter and Facebook when I should be just talking to people.

This business is not difficult at all. It is simplicity in its essence. But it is easy to make it complicated. To be successful you have to make a choice. Am I prepared to carry on with being where I am? Or am I prepared to be strong, get my head an plod on steadily towards where I want to be?

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Team building – why people join this business

wbhawkins — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:00:35 +0000

Your reason for joining us is important to know!

Another really good person joined my team at Healthy Business this week. She is someone I have known for two years or so through a business we worked in together. She came to a focus group I ran to get people’s feedback about the business and she asked about the business at the event. My new team member joined for a number of reasons which included earning extra money, to meet new people and to reach her full potential, amongst others.

Although I introduced her to the business, I have not done this on my own. My sister-in-law has spent a lot of time with her, talking to her about what she wants to achieve and helping her to make the right decision for her. That’s another aspect of this business which I like. Although I am running my own business, I’m not running it on my own. There is a huge amount of support and team spirit which is unusual in many of the businesses I have worked in over the years.

People join for different reasons which might be for extra income, or the desire to help other people, for example. But, the fact is that the people who do well have their ‘reason why’ instilled in all of their activities. If they are not clear why they are putting in the effort, they will find it more challenging to succeed.

Recently, I wrote a page about why people join this business which, I hope, puts the beauty of this business into perspective of the everyday realities of our daily working lives.

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Three principles for success

wbhawkins — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:19:00 +0000

Follow the principles to succeed

I think it was Eddie Cochran who said that there are ‘three steps to heaven’. His three steps were finding a a girl to love, followed by getting her to fall in love with you and ending by kissing and holding her tight. It sounds easy and romantic.

But finding a girl to love is, generally, quite hard to do when you are young. Some people don’t achieve it at all. Many keep their girl for the shortest of times. Getting her to fall in love with you is the next challenge. How the heck do you do that? You take her out, make her laugh, make her feel special and hope one of these methods sticks, because you know that prize of her kiss is waiting for you when you succeed. Eddie Cochran knew that holding her tight was important because you have worked so darned and invested so much of yourself in the process that you don’t want to lose her. That would be a disaster.

In this business, there are three steps to heaven too. They sound easy. They are easy to understand. They make sense. But like anything, anyone following the principles needs to follow them religiously to get the prize.

The first success principle is ‘consistent effort‘. This business needs you to do certain things each day and everyday. You need to put the business in front of people every day through phone calls, meetings, presentations and training. By doing this, you make sure that you increase your chances of selling products and recruiting people to your team.

The next principle is ‘duplication‘. Over several decades, Forever Living has fine tuned a business model which is easily duplicable. That sounds odd to most people but it is a sound principle which ensures that the business model is easy to learn and to follow so that people can get going quickly when you recruit them and train them in the business.

Finally, you have to ‘give it enough time’. Most people think this business is either a get rich quick scheme. It’s not. You need to be patient and work it along building it up steadily through hard work and following the plan. That’s why many people drop out just at the point when they could have seen it grow hugely.

I am at the early stages of my business and I am already getting success. Following the plan takes discipline, dedication and some sacrifice. But when you have worked hard and remained patient you will reach that goal which compelled you to start the business.

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Just doing it

wbhawkins — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:22:15 +0000

Just getting on with it is liberating

I have procrastinated for far too long. Five years, in fact. I have watched, listened and spoken with my sister-in-law about her business for so long that I just got to the point where I could not see why I should not join her in the business.

My sister-in-law, Cora McKeown, has steadily and steadfastly developed her business from almost nothing into a full-time business which is set to make her very wealthy in more ways than just financially. Cora has developed from being a highly qualified and experienced nurse into a highly motivated businesswoman and leader in five years.

Her business is based around two aspects: a) health and nutrition/wellness industry b) coaching and leadership. It’s a business which is part of a larger organisation, Forever Living, that is growing enormously and which has an utterly different way of doing business than the ‘traditional businesses’ where many of us work today.

Over the next few weeks, I am going to write about this business and my part in it. It’s going to be tough. I am going to have to unlearn lots of things that traditional businesses do as the norm and which I do a second nature which will not be relevant in this business.

I am excited and apprehensive as I have ever been about this and I will share why over the coming weeks.

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