Kevin K Hemphill LIVE - Good News Merchant “Creed of Love And Influence!”
1. I choose to be different because I am an individual. I am proud of that. I am God made.
2. I don’t play like others in the “crowd” do. I don’t go where the “crowd” goes.
I am different. I will be understood by the 3% of America and misunderstood,
at times, by the remaining 97%. That’s okay because I am part of the fellowship of the 3%.
The people who create the positive force that shapes this great country, and the world.
This I will teach with my three children. No more maybes. No more games.
3. Finally, (now) the foundation has been poured.
I have made my decision and I am now dedicated to
everyone, not just to my family. I am a vessel now. I now realize that.
Because as a fisher of men, I am at
their service. Their model. Their friend. (women do this with ease)
I now understand one of "Lifes's" unique character traits.
Speaks INCREASE into other people. I now am starting to see the “hidden
order” of HOW certain people are so attractive.
They speak heightened self-image into people + increase
and forward speak = good news merchant!
4. I am a Genius. I am a Diamond and I will not ever let up.
I am now out of my old comfort zone. I will not back away, slow down or ever complain
about my mission and decision. I live my life between Amen and
achievement for which I am proud. It’s my turn now!
5. I now “see” that with every step that I take from now on,
I will be creating the path for all of those who will follow behind me.
I call this servanthood. The core of existence.
6. I am done with small thinking, lack of planning and my past lack of discipline.
I have been renewed. No more gossiping. No more cheap excuses. No more shame.
NO MORE working from home without pay. “You have to change yourself before you can change the world!", In other words, I know, deep down, that without serious
income and profit, both physically and spiritually, I will not be able to feed my real
vision - INSPIRE 10,000 people.
7. I no longer need validation or applause from anyone because I am self directed
I AM FREE!
Monday, October 19, 2009
My Mentor Fred Smith Of FEDEX, on leadership!
As many of you know, I spent five years at FEDEX ... I loved it ...logistics is a tough business, but Fred Smith's vision made FEDEX a great "put -fit" for me!
Please receive some the best comments on leadership, I've every heard!
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The most gifted athletes rarely make good coaches. The best violinist will not necessarily make the best conductor. Nor will the best teacher necessarily make the best head of the department.
So it's critical to distinguish between the skill of performance and the skill of leading the performance, two entirely different skills.
It's also important to determine whether a person is capable of learning leadership. The natural leader will stand out. The trick is identifying those who are capable of learning leadership over time.
Here are several traits to help identify whether someone is capable of learning to lead.
Leadership in the past. The best predictor of the future is the past. When I was in business, I took note of any worker who told me he was superintendent of a school or a deacon in his church or a Boy Scout leader. If he showed leadership outside of the job, I wanted to find out if he had some leadership potential on the job.
The capacity to create or catch vision. When I talk to people about the future, I want their eyes to light up. I want them to ask the right questions about what I'm talking about.
The founder of Jefferson Standard built a successful insurance company from scratch. He assembled some of the greatest insurance people by simply asking, "Why don't you come and help me build something great?"
A person who doesn't feel the thrill of challenge is not a potential leader.
A constructive spirit of discontent. Some people would call this criticism, but there's a big difference in being constructively discontent and being critical. If somebody says, "There's got to be a better way to do this," I see if there's leadership potential by asking, "Have you ever thought about what that better way might be?" If he says no, he is being critical, not constructive. But if he says yes, he's challenged by a constructive spirit of discontent. That's the unscratchable itch. It is always in the leader.
People locked in the status quo are not leaders. I ask of a potential leader, Does this person believe there is always a better way to do something?
Practical ideas. Highly original people are often not good leaders because they are unable to judge their output; they need somebody else to say, "This will work" or "This won't."
Brainstorming is not a particularly helpful practice in leadership, because ideas need to stay practical. Not everybody with practical ideas is a leader, of course, but leaders seem to be able to identify which ideas are practical and which aren't.
A willingness to take responsibility. One night at the end of the second shift, I walked out of the plant and passed the porter. As head of operations, I had started my day at the beginning of the first shift. The porter said, "Mr. Smith, I sure wish I had your pay, but I don't want your worry." He equated responsibility and worry. He wanted to be able to drop his responsibility when he walked out the door and not carry it home. That's understandable, but it's not a trait in potential leaders. I thought about the porter's comment driving home. If the vice-president and the porter were paid the same money, I'd still want to be vice-president. Carrying responsibility doesn't intimidate me, because the joy of accomplishment-the vicarious feeling of contributing to other people-is what leadership is all about.
A completion factor. I might test somebody's commitment by putting him or her on a task force.
I'd find a problem that needs solving and assemble a group of people whose normal responsibilities don't include tackling that problem. The person who grabs hold of the problem and won't let go, like a dog with a bone, has leadership potential. This quality is critical in leaders, for there will be times when nothing but one's iron will says, "Keep going." Dale Carnegie used to say, "I know men in the ranks who will not stay in the ranks. Why? Because they have the ability to get things done." In the military, it is called "completed staff work." With potential leaders, when the work comes in, it's complete. The half-cooked meal isn't good enough.
Mental toughness. No one can lead without being criticized or without facing discouragement. A potential leader needs a mental toughness. I don't want a mean leader; I want a tough-minded leader who sees things as they are and will pay the price. Leadership creates a certain separation from one's peers. The separation comes from carrying responsibility that only you can carry. Years ago, I spoke to a group of presidents in Columbus, Ohio, about loneliness in leadership. One participant, president of an architectural firm, came up afterward and said, "You've solved my problem." "What's your problem?" I asked. "My organization's always confused," he said, "and I didn't know why. It's because I don't like to be lonely; I've got to talk about my ideas to the rest of the company. But they never know which ones will work, so everybody who likes my idea jumps to work on it. Those who don't, work against it. Employees are going backward and forward-when the idea may not even come about at all." Fearing loneliness, this president was not able to keep his ideas to himself until they were better formulated. A leader must be able to keep his or her own counsel until the proper time.
Peer respect. Peer respect doesn't reveal ability, but it can show character and personality. Trammell Crow, one of the world's most successful real estate brokers, said that he looks for people whose associates want them to succeed. He said, "It's tough enough to succeed when everybody wants you to succeed. People who don't want you to succeed are like weights in your running shoes." Maxey Jarmen used to say, "It isn't important that people like you. It's important that they respect you. They may like you but not follow you. If they respect you, they'll follow you, even if perhaps they don't like you."
Family respect. I also look at the family of a potential leader: Do they respect him or her? Fifteen years ago, my daughter said, "Dad, one thing I appreciate is that after you speak and I walk up, you are always attentive to me. You seem proud of me." That meant a lot to me. If respect isn't there, that's also visible. The family's feelings toward someone reveal much about his or her potential to lead.
A quality that makes people listen to them. Potential leaders have a "holding court" quality about them. When they speak, people listen. Other people may talk a great deal, but nobody listens to them. They're making a speech; they're not giving leadership. I take notice of people to whom others listen.
It's not enough for people to have leadership potential; they must have character and the right setting in which to grow. Before I give someone significant leadership responsibilities, I find it helpful to ask myself several questions:
What will this person do to be liked? It's nice to be liked, but as a leader it cannot be the controlling factor. The cause must be the prime motivator.
Does this person have a destructive weakness? There are only two things I need to know about myself: my constructive strength and any destructive weakness. A destructive weakness may not show up on a test; it's a character flaw. A destructive weakness may, for example, be an obsession. An obsession controls us; we don't control it. It only grows worse over time.
Can I provide this person the environment to succeed? It is so important, particularly in the early days of someone's leadership, that he or she be put into a congenial environment. I wouldn't want, for example, to put someone who requires mentoring with a leader who pays no attention to people. An environment that threatens our sense of security or well-being splits our concentration from the cause. Young leaders need an environment in which they can concentrate on leading.
(Fred Smith, LEADERSHIP JOURNAL; Fall 1996, Vol. XVII, No. 4, Page 30)
Please receive some the best comments on leadership, I've every heard!
$$$ Ten Ways to Identify a Promising Person $$$
The most gifted athletes rarely make good coaches. The best violinist will not necessarily make the best conductor. Nor will the best teacher necessarily make the best head of the department.
So it's critical to distinguish between the skill of performance and the skill of leading the performance, two entirely different skills.
It's also important to determine whether a person is capable of learning leadership. The natural leader will stand out. The trick is identifying those who are capable of learning leadership over time.
Here are several traits to help identify whether someone is capable of learning to lead.
Leadership in the past. The best predictor of the future is the past. When I was in business, I took note of any worker who told me he was superintendent of a school or a deacon in his church or a Boy Scout leader. If he showed leadership outside of the job, I wanted to find out if he had some leadership potential on the job.
The capacity to create or catch vision. When I talk to people about the future, I want their eyes to light up. I want them to ask the right questions about what I'm talking about.
The founder of Jefferson Standard built a successful insurance company from scratch. He assembled some of the greatest insurance people by simply asking, "Why don't you come and help me build something great?"
A person who doesn't feel the thrill of challenge is not a potential leader.
A constructive spirit of discontent. Some people would call this criticism, but there's a big difference in being constructively discontent and being critical. If somebody says, "There's got to be a better way to do this," I see if there's leadership potential by asking, "Have you ever thought about what that better way might be?" If he says no, he is being critical, not constructive. But if he says yes, he's challenged by a constructive spirit of discontent. That's the unscratchable itch. It is always in the leader.
People locked in the status quo are not leaders. I ask of a potential leader, Does this person believe there is always a better way to do something?
Practical ideas. Highly original people are often not good leaders because they are unable to judge their output; they need somebody else to say, "This will work" or "This won't."
Brainstorming is not a particularly helpful practice in leadership, because ideas need to stay practical. Not everybody with practical ideas is a leader, of course, but leaders seem to be able to identify which ideas are practical and which aren't.
A willingness to take responsibility. One night at the end of the second shift, I walked out of the plant and passed the porter. As head of operations, I had started my day at the beginning of the first shift. The porter said, "Mr. Smith, I sure wish I had your pay, but I don't want your worry." He equated responsibility and worry. He wanted to be able to drop his responsibility when he walked out the door and not carry it home. That's understandable, but it's not a trait in potential leaders. I thought about the porter's comment driving home. If the vice-president and the porter were paid the same money, I'd still want to be vice-president. Carrying responsibility doesn't intimidate me, because the joy of accomplishment-the vicarious feeling of contributing to other people-is what leadership is all about.
A completion factor. I might test somebody's commitment by putting him or her on a task force.
I'd find a problem that needs solving and assemble a group of people whose normal responsibilities don't include tackling that problem. The person who grabs hold of the problem and won't let go, like a dog with a bone, has leadership potential. This quality is critical in leaders, for there will be times when nothing but one's iron will says, "Keep going." Dale Carnegie used to say, "I know men in the ranks who will not stay in the ranks. Why? Because they have the ability to get things done." In the military, it is called "completed staff work." With potential leaders, when the work comes in, it's complete. The half-cooked meal isn't good enough.
Mental toughness. No one can lead without being criticized or without facing discouragement. A potential leader needs a mental toughness. I don't want a mean leader; I want a tough-minded leader who sees things as they are and will pay the price. Leadership creates a certain separation from one's peers. The separation comes from carrying responsibility that only you can carry. Years ago, I spoke to a group of presidents in Columbus, Ohio, about loneliness in leadership. One participant, president of an architectural firm, came up afterward and said, "You've solved my problem." "What's your problem?" I asked. "My organization's always confused," he said, "and I didn't know why. It's because I don't like to be lonely; I've got to talk about my ideas to the rest of the company. But they never know which ones will work, so everybody who likes my idea jumps to work on it. Those who don't, work against it. Employees are going backward and forward-when the idea may not even come about at all." Fearing loneliness, this president was not able to keep his ideas to himself until they were better formulated. A leader must be able to keep his or her own counsel until the proper time.
Peer respect. Peer respect doesn't reveal ability, but it can show character and personality. Trammell Crow, one of the world's most successful real estate brokers, said that he looks for people whose associates want them to succeed. He said, "It's tough enough to succeed when everybody wants you to succeed. People who don't want you to succeed are like weights in your running shoes." Maxey Jarmen used to say, "It isn't important that people like you. It's important that they respect you. They may like you but not follow you. If they respect you, they'll follow you, even if perhaps they don't like you."
Family respect. I also look at the family of a potential leader: Do they respect him or her? Fifteen years ago, my daughter said, "Dad, one thing I appreciate is that after you speak and I walk up, you are always attentive to me. You seem proud of me." That meant a lot to me. If respect isn't there, that's also visible. The family's feelings toward someone reveal much about his or her potential to lead.
A quality that makes people listen to them. Potential leaders have a "holding court" quality about them. When they speak, people listen. Other people may talk a great deal, but nobody listens to them. They're making a speech; they're not giving leadership. I take notice of people to whom others listen.
It's not enough for people to have leadership potential; they must have character and the right setting in which to grow. Before I give someone significant leadership responsibilities, I find it helpful to ask myself several questions:
What will this person do to be liked? It's nice to be liked, but as a leader it cannot be the controlling factor. The cause must be the prime motivator.
Does this person have a destructive weakness? There are only two things I need to know about myself: my constructive strength and any destructive weakness. A destructive weakness may not show up on a test; it's a character flaw. A destructive weakness may, for example, be an obsession. An obsession controls us; we don't control it. It only grows worse over time.
Can I provide this person the environment to succeed? It is so important, particularly in the early days of someone's leadership, that he or she be put into a congenial environment. I wouldn't want, for example, to put someone who requires mentoring with a leader who pays no attention to people. An environment that threatens our sense of security or well-being splits our concentration from the cause. Young leaders need an environment in which they can concentrate on leading.
(Fred Smith, LEADERSHIP JOURNAL; Fall 1996, Vol. XVII, No. 4, Page 30)
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Baby Boomer's Don't Die They Fight Back!
Kevin K. Hemphill, Life Coach/Strategist discusses how "baby boomers" can fight back - Don't Retire, Re-Fire!
When a bad economy has a negative impact on you and your retirement savings, you may have to tap into your nest egg to make ends meet. To secure your future, however, you’ll need to find ways to rebuild retirement savings to improve your financial outlook. Whether you’ve retired or have a way to go before you stop working, consider the following ideas to help rebuild retirement savings.
Step 1 Stop the outflow from your retirement account by cutting back on spending. Avoid extravagant purchases, make changes in your daily spending habits and reduce vacations and family gifts. Although revising your budget is a sacrifice, it’s worth it to preserve what’s left of your "nest egg" for the future and to be able to deposit a little each month to rebuild retirement savings.
Step 2 Rebuild retirement savings with any money that comes your way throughout the year rather than spending it. If you get a tax refund, for example, place it directly into your retirement account. If you’re still working and get a sizeable return, consider changing your withholding to get more money in your paycheck to use for bills and other expenses rather than getting a lump sum once a year that you spend because you consider it a windfall.
Step 3 Consider working a few more years if you’re approaching retirement age. If your pension is based on the average of your last five years’ salary, for example, working longer can increase the amount of your retirement income and increase the amount you’re adding to your "self funded" account. If you’re retired, consider working a part time job to help with monthly expenses and make your retirement account last longer.
Step 4 Consult a life coach/strategist planner to re-focus and re-test your dreams; why not the worse has happen, go have fun again - challenge the system!. Although you won’t rebuild retirement savings by overnite, you can re-build!
Step 5 Continue contributing to your 401k retirement account even if you’re facing financial difficulties. If your employer matches contributions up to a certain amount, for example, at least contribute that sum to receive the additional deposit to help rebuilt retirement savings.
Finally, start a home based business, and take the profits to build your 401k. Create new streams of income ... build your future AGAIN ! Consult your CPA in regards to taxes, you will find some great benefits - GET UP, GET OUT and go BOOM BABY!
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE !!!
www.kevinkhemphill.com
615.653.0679
When a bad economy has a negative impact on you and your retirement savings, you may have to tap into your nest egg to make ends meet. To secure your future, however, you’ll need to find ways to rebuild retirement savings to improve your financial outlook. Whether you’ve retired or have a way to go before you stop working, consider the following ideas to help rebuild retirement savings.
Step 1 Stop the outflow from your retirement account by cutting back on spending. Avoid extravagant purchases, make changes in your daily spending habits and reduce vacations and family gifts. Although revising your budget is a sacrifice, it’s worth it to preserve what’s left of your "nest egg" for the future and to be able to deposit a little each month to rebuild retirement savings.
Step 2 Rebuild retirement savings with any money that comes your way throughout the year rather than spending it. If you get a tax refund, for example, place it directly into your retirement account. If you’re still working and get a sizeable return, consider changing your withholding to get more money in your paycheck to use for bills and other expenses rather than getting a lump sum once a year that you spend because you consider it a windfall.
Step 3 Consider working a few more years if you’re approaching retirement age. If your pension is based on the average of your last five years’ salary, for example, working longer can increase the amount of your retirement income and increase the amount you’re adding to your "self funded" account. If you’re retired, consider working a part time job to help with monthly expenses and make your retirement account last longer.
Step 4 Consult a life coach/strategist planner to re-focus and re-test your dreams; why not the worse has happen, go have fun again - challenge the system!. Although you won’t rebuild retirement savings by overnite, you can re-build!
Step 5 Continue contributing to your 401k retirement account even if you’re facing financial difficulties. If your employer matches contributions up to a certain amount, for example, at least contribute that sum to receive the additional deposit to help rebuilt retirement savings.
Finally, start a home based business, and take the profits to build your 401k. Create new streams of income ... build your future AGAIN ! Consult your CPA in regards to taxes, you will find some great benefits - GET UP, GET OUT and go BOOM BABY!
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE !!!
www.kevinkhemphill.com
615.653.0679
I LEAD by any means NECCESARY !!!!
A recent study identified substantial differences among outstanding leaders, but noted that they all possess enhanced thinking ability, which allowed them to reach sound decisions and solve complex problems quickly and effectively. Power Thinking for Leaders will help you develop these advantageous skills and habits. You will sharpen your mind so you can react positively to innovation, respond quickly to challenges, and design and implement new intiatives.
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE !!!
www.kevinkhemphill.com
615.653.0679
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE !!!
www.kevinkhemphill.com
615.653.0679
Leadership Is Simple Not Easy !
One of my most powerful & thoughtful mentors - Michael Dell, citied three point of world class leadership --- Make sense of the chaos, provide hope, keep your people connected and celebrated!
Check out the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSPg4urshf0
Check out the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSPg4urshf0
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Ready Or Not ... Put Up Or Be Knocked Out!
The Sky Has Fallen - NOW WHAT !?!?
Do you feel like your 401K is at ground zero? Feel like you can't recover? You're not alone!
The volatile markets have delivered many of our retirement plans to the same place: shambles. Sure, we may have traveled from different directions, but we're all here now:
1.You probably saw the markets plunging and moved your 401k holdings out of the stock markets. Now you're sitting on a load of conservative investments even though retirement is years off.
2.Perhaps you didn't have the right investment strategy to begin with—and the markets beat you up, and no one came to your rescue..
3.Maybe you liked your investment strategy but the volatile markets threw your asset allocation strategy so out of whack that you're scared to death to touch your 401k..
4.You just got your first 401k and you're nervous about getting involved with these crazy markets, .
Never mind how you got here. It's time to snap out of that dazed paralysis and start looking—and moving—forward. Here are a few ideas/ factors to consider while rebuilding your broken nest egg/ 401K.
Seize To Moment, Or Be Seized
"It's hard to predict what's going to happen," says Alyce Zollman, a financial consultant. She suggests you forget trying to time the markets and instead stick to a long-term, well-diversified investment strategy. HS Dent suggest money market and T- Bills.
Today is the time ... I mean right now! Start building that well-diversified investment plan, cash,stock, second and third streams of income. Buy low and sell high is the mantra of the investment world. While the stock markets may not have hit their bottom, they sure are low, based on historical measures. And these steep sell-offs have created some opportunity, but be cautious.
One thing is certain, a 100% of zero is zero, you have a 100 percent chance of missing a market recovery if your retirement money is sitting on the sidelines. That fact alone should encourage you to start plotting your entry back into the market, but do so understanding that the has changed, and diversity is not just different stocks,different companies,different sectors - diversity is stock, gold,oil, a home based business - a smart investment plan.
Want to wait until you're sure the markets hit bottom? Donald Trump says, "you have a better chance of seeing a flying cow!"
Easy Not Simple
If your current holdings are pretty different from your desired strategy—then you might want to transition slowly into your new plan.
Great minds like Warren Buffet note that building a position over time can decrease the effects of market swings. By gradually, and consistently moving your money into riskier investments, you'll avoid the chance of investing all your money right before the markets drop dramatically.
Known as dollar-cost averaging, this technique involves putting a certain dollar amount to work on a regular basis for a set period of time. For instance, you might give yourself twelve months to get to your desired long-term strategy. During that one year month period you could make monthly contributions of, say $250, to the new investments you want to fund. The concept of dollar-cost averaging is that your set amount of money will buy more of a mutual fund when its price is down and less when its price is high, thereby lowering the overall base cost of your investment.
The structure of "freedom" plans makes dollar-cost averaging fairly easy. Most plans allow you to adjust the asset allocation of your current holdings and of your new monthly investment separately. This means you can leave your current investments alone and change the allocation of your new 401k contributions so that over time your portfolio will reflect a smart, well diversified, long-term plan. Or, if your current holdings are very different from what you'd like them to be, you can update your current asset allocation to get you part-way there and then use your monthly 401k contributions to realize your full investment strategy over time.
Begin With Risk ... Finish With Delight
The horrible returns of most investment funds over the last few years remind us that asset classes can shoot up as fast as they burn out. It's joy to ride investments up, but you should only invest in them if you can also handle the ride down.
When figuring out your investment strategy you need to figure out how much risk your stomach and your lifestyle can handle.
There's no :easy button" way to figure out your appetite for risk. You might start by asking yourself if you order the "unknown delight"l or stick to the spaghetti and red sauce. It's likely that your tolerance for investment risk resembles your predisposition for risk in general.
Most importantly you must consider your capacity for risk. If your retirement is 20–30 years off, then your risk capacity is probably high. You can afford to increase your allocations to riskier stock markets and ride them through their ups and downs. But if you'll need a good chunk of your cash in the next few years then you should protect your assets with less risky investments like cash and bonds. capacity. It gives you an idea of what your investment plan should look like depending on your investment timeline.
BOTTOMLINE: Your new plan will require new investment strategies, new tax strategies, new income stream strategies ... no rest for the weary!
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE !
Kevin K. Hemphill / 615.653.0679
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Do you feel like your 401K is at ground zero? Feel like you can't recover? You're not alone!
The volatile markets have delivered many of our retirement plans to the same place: shambles. Sure, we may have traveled from different directions, but we're all here now:
1.You probably saw the markets plunging and moved your 401k holdings out of the stock markets. Now you're sitting on a load of conservative investments even though retirement is years off.
2.Perhaps you didn't have the right investment strategy to begin with—and the markets beat you up, and no one came to your rescue..
3.Maybe you liked your investment strategy but the volatile markets threw your asset allocation strategy so out of whack that you're scared to death to touch your 401k..
4.You just got your first 401k and you're nervous about getting involved with these crazy markets, .
Never mind how you got here. It's time to snap out of that dazed paralysis and start looking—and moving—forward. Here are a few ideas/ factors to consider while rebuilding your broken nest egg/ 401K.
Seize To Moment, Or Be Seized
"It's hard to predict what's going to happen," says Alyce Zollman, a financial consultant. She suggests you forget trying to time the markets and instead stick to a long-term, well-diversified investment strategy. HS Dent suggest money market and T- Bills.
Today is the time ... I mean right now! Start building that well-diversified investment plan, cash,stock, second and third streams of income. Buy low and sell high is the mantra of the investment world. While the stock markets may not have hit their bottom, they sure are low, based on historical measures. And these steep sell-offs have created some opportunity, but be cautious.
One thing is certain, a 100% of zero is zero, you have a 100 percent chance of missing a market recovery if your retirement money is sitting on the sidelines. That fact alone should encourage you to start plotting your entry back into the market, but do so understanding that the has changed, and diversity is not just different stocks,different companies,different sectors - diversity is stock, gold,oil, a home based business - a smart investment plan.
Want to wait until you're sure the markets hit bottom? Donald Trump says, "you have a better chance of seeing a flying cow!"
Easy Not Simple
If your current holdings are pretty different from your desired strategy—then you might want to transition slowly into your new plan.
Great minds like Warren Buffet note that building a position over time can decrease the effects of market swings. By gradually, and consistently moving your money into riskier investments, you'll avoid the chance of investing all your money right before the markets drop dramatically.
Known as dollar-cost averaging, this technique involves putting a certain dollar amount to work on a regular basis for a set period of time. For instance, you might give yourself twelve months to get to your desired long-term strategy. During that one year month period you could make monthly contributions of, say $250, to the new investments you want to fund. The concept of dollar-cost averaging is that your set amount of money will buy more of a mutual fund when its price is down and less when its price is high, thereby lowering the overall base cost of your investment.
The structure of "freedom" plans makes dollar-cost averaging fairly easy. Most plans allow you to adjust the asset allocation of your current holdings and of your new monthly investment separately. This means you can leave your current investments alone and change the allocation of your new 401k contributions so that over time your portfolio will reflect a smart, well diversified, long-term plan. Or, if your current holdings are very different from what you'd like them to be, you can update your current asset allocation to get you part-way there and then use your monthly 401k contributions to realize your full investment strategy over time.
Begin With Risk ... Finish With Delight
The horrible returns of most investment funds over the last few years remind us that asset classes can shoot up as fast as they burn out. It's joy to ride investments up, but you should only invest in them if you can also handle the ride down.
When figuring out your investment strategy you need to figure out how much risk your stomach and your lifestyle can handle.
There's no :easy button" way to figure out your appetite for risk. You might start by asking yourself if you order the "unknown delight"l or stick to the spaghetti and red sauce. It's likely that your tolerance for investment risk resembles your predisposition for risk in general.
Most importantly you must consider your capacity for risk. If your retirement is 20–30 years off, then your risk capacity is probably high. You can afford to increase your allocations to riskier stock markets and ride them through their ups and downs. But if you'll need a good chunk of your cash in the next few years then you should protect your assets with less risky investments like cash and bonds. capacity. It gives you an idea of what your investment plan should look like depending on your investment timeline.
BOTTOMLINE: Your new plan will require new investment strategies, new tax strategies, new income stream strategies ... no rest for the weary!
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE !
Kevin K. Hemphill / 615.653.0679
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Hemphill Associates is a company that will grow to be one of the largest networking leadership and training companies in history; literally, helping people help themselves with the most advanced products, cutting edge technology, unique products that will improve health and really make a difference in people’s lives!
Kevin K. Hemhill is a industry standout /entrepreneur who understands that America’s future is at stake! With the Wall Street crisis, falling home values and foreclosures, government bailouts, businesses downsizing and with NO RETIREMENT in sight, the TIMING could not be better!
There is something for everyone, millions of people will access these products and this opportunity to take control of their lives. Those that recognize this opportunity and take action will thrive!
Where do you want to be five years from now financially? Work smarter not harder! Spread the news! Simply share the news about Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE !!! with those you care about. We are actively recruiting talented leaders, professionals, business owners, downsized corporate leaders and networkers to partner with Kevin K. Hemphill Associates, soon to be the industry's leading referral distribution business and number one leadership training organization!
Our mission is to help people "re - test their dreams", recover their lost 401K, to become the largest and most profitable business leadership training community in all of the USA, while helping the largest number of people to create a recession proof income, a prosperous future and recover their dreams! All the while, getting spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically healthier than they have ever been!
THE TABLE IS SET ... AMERICA NEEDS US!!! THIS IS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY TO HELP OTHERS RECOVER!!!
This is the beginning of a ONCE IN A LIFETIME business opportunity you have never seen before and will never see again… TAKE ACTION NOW!
Kevin K. Hemphill Associates is setting the GOLD standard for all Network marketing leaders, you have a choice to be part of history in the making while enjoying a recession proof income, as baby boomers scramble to recover their dashed retirement plans.
Hemphill Associates is a company that will grow to be one of the largest networking leadership and training companies in history; literally, helping people help themselves with the most advanced products, cutting edge technology, unique products that will improve health and really make a difference in people’s lives!
Kevin K. Hemhill is a industry standout /entrepreneur who understands that America’s future is at stake! With the Wall Street crisis, falling home values and foreclosures, government bailouts, businesses downsizing and with NO RETIREMENT in sight, the TIMING could not be better!
There is something for everyone, millions of people will access these products and this opportunity to take control of their lives. Those that recognize this opportunity and take action will thrive!
Where do you want to be five years from now financially? Work smarter not harder! Spread the news! Simply share the news about Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE !!! with those you care about. We are actively recruiting talented leaders, professionals, business owners, downsized corporate leaders and networkers to partner with Kevin K. Hemphill Associates, soon to be the industry's leading referral distribution business and number one leadership training organization!
Our mission is to help people "re - test their dreams", recover their lost 401K, to become the largest and most profitable business leadership training community in all of the USA, while helping the largest number of people to create a recession proof income, a prosperous future and recover their dreams! All the while, getting spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically healthier than they have ever been!
THE TABLE IS SET ... AMERICA NEEDS US!!! THIS IS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY TO HELP OTHERS RECOVER!!!
Friday, October 16, 2009
Believe the NUMBERS !
305,529,237: U.S. population estimate for Jan. 1, 2009!
According to the 2005 US census, 10,895,000 people in the US admit to making over $100K per year!
3% of Americans earn 100k! Perhaps less, since in 2005 we were enjoying a stronger economy!
4/10's of 1% of Americans earn 500k per year --- approx 1 mill of 305 million Americans earn more than 500k!
Less than 5% of American households have a net worth of 1 million dollars!
66% of American households have less than $2500.00 in true savings!
46% of of American households spend more than they earn!
The bottom 41% of Americans own less than 1% of the net worth of the US!
World population of 7 Billion, over 1 Billion hungry; most in Africa!
I TEACH people how to exist in the top 1% !!!
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE !!!
www.kevinkhemphill.com
www.kevinkhemphill.wordpress.com
PH# 615.653.0679
According to the 2005 US census, 10,895,000 people in the US admit to making over $100K per year!
3% of Americans earn 100k! Perhaps less, since in 2005 we were enjoying a stronger economy!
4/10's of 1% of Americans earn 500k per year --- approx 1 mill of 305 million Americans earn more than 500k!
Less than 5% of American households have a net worth of 1 million dollars!
66% of American households have less than $2500.00 in true savings!
46% of of American households spend more than they earn!
The bottom 41% of Americans own less than 1% of the net worth of the US!
World population of 7 Billion, over 1 Billion hungry; most in Africa!
I TEACH people how to exist in the top 1% !!!
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE !!!
www.kevinkhemphill.com
www.kevinkhemphill.wordpress.com
PH# 615.653.0679
Where Are All The MLM Leaders?!?!
In what is possibly the worst economy in eighty years, in a time when America is struggling for breathe and life, the "so-called" great mlm leaders have gone into hiding - gone down a black hole!
In what is actually the "perfect storm" ... broken economy - stocks,real estate, housing. In a economy where the "money engine" baby boomers are scratching their heads, and wondering what happened, the mlm leaders have disappeared. Hiding behind "glamour -glitz" websites, and "so-called" auto money machines - all hustle, no help. In a time when America needs leadership ... there is very little leading at all!
What's worst than these "non-leading" leaders, are the lazy followers who throw their money at these foolish gifting programs and half baked mlm ideas ... these lazy minded followers abandon all "common sense", and run to slaughter without a second thought, and having lost more hard earned money, are forced to put retirement off yet another year. The only thing more "sick" than the lack of common sense is the arrogance of the sheep - they spit at, laugh at true leaders while being torn apart!
I grew up listening to the likes of Bill Britt, Dexter Yager, Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee, Sr, Jay Van Adel, Rich DeVoss,Blake Roney ... these mlm founding fathers spoke of a day when good products and great people would converge with struggling Americans to form an alliance, and create economies amongst ourselves.
So, where now ? The numbers say it all ... 46% of all American households spend more than they make, 66% of Americans do not have $2500.00 in savings ... we have 9.6% unemployed, and leading forecasters like Harry S.Dent predict 15% unemployment. If there was ever a time to teach individuals mindset,and business strategies for the internet, and leadership skills for life - it's today!
Excuse please ... I've got an America to save!
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE - Believe Me !
www.kevinkhemphill.com
www.kevinkhemphill.wordpress.com
615.653.0679
In what is actually the "perfect storm" ... broken economy - stocks,real estate, housing. In a economy where the "money engine" baby boomers are scratching their heads, and wondering what happened, the mlm leaders have disappeared. Hiding behind "glamour -glitz" websites, and "so-called" auto money machines - all hustle, no help. In a time when America needs leadership ... there is very little leading at all!
What's worst than these "non-leading" leaders, are the lazy followers who throw their money at these foolish gifting programs and half baked mlm ideas ... these lazy minded followers abandon all "common sense", and run to slaughter without a second thought, and having lost more hard earned money, are forced to put retirement off yet another year. The only thing more "sick" than the lack of common sense is the arrogance of the sheep - they spit at, laugh at true leaders while being torn apart!
I grew up listening to the likes of Bill Britt, Dexter Yager, Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee, Sr, Jay Van Adel, Rich DeVoss,Blake Roney ... these mlm founding fathers spoke of a day when good products and great people would converge with struggling Americans to form an alliance, and create economies amongst ourselves.
So, where now ? The numbers say it all ... 46% of all American households spend more than they make, 66% of Americans do not have $2500.00 in savings ... we have 9.6% unemployed, and leading forecasters like Harry S.Dent predict 15% unemployment. If there was ever a time to teach individuals mindset,and business strategies for the internet, and leadership skills for life - it's today!
Excuse please ... I've got an America to save!
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE - Believe Me !
www.kevinkhemphill.com
www.kevinkhemphill.wordpress.com
615.653.0679
The Coach !
Kevin K. Hemphill
PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS COACH
Business Advisor | Speaker | Team Builder | Legacy Strategist
C| 615 .653.0679
E| kevinkhemphill@gmail.com
For over a decade, Kevin K. Hemphill has built business relationships and his broad career has touched hundreds of lives. Since 2004, he has been sharing these his talents with others.
BUSINESS ROLES:
•Business Advisor
•Career Developer
•Marketing/Sales Strategist
•Real Investment Company President
•Writer/Author
•Guest Lecturer
•Professional Speaker
•CEO Advisor/Confidant/Sounding Board
•Personal Effectiveness Coach
•Family Non-Financial Legacy Strategist
Kevin has had a profound impact on many, many people – simply by helping each person he meets discover the best they can be…no matter who they are, where they are, or what they do.
HOW OTHERS DESCRIBE KEVIN:
•Strong Seasoned Judgment/ Wise Advisor with Depth of Understanding
•Encourager to Everyone
•Powerful Communicator
•Builds Strong Relationships
•High Impact Delivery in Presentations
•Maturity and Integrity, Trustworthy
•Drive for Stakeholders Success
•Leadership Versatility
•Charisma
•Broad Business Savvy
•Entrepreneurial Risk Taker
•Empowers Others to Be and Perform at Their Best
•Fosters Open Dialogue
•Public Image Skills/Bringing Out One’s Best in Any Setting
•Adaptability/Flexibility
•Contagious Energy and Enthusiasm
•The Consummate Cheerleader to All
PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS COACH
Business Advisor | Speaker | Team Builder | Legacy Strategist
C| 615 .653.0679
E| kevinkhemphill@gmail.com
For over a decade, Kevin K. Hemphill has built business relationships and his broad career has touched hundreds of lives. Since 2004, he has been sharing these his talents with others.
BUSINESS ROLES:
•Business Advisor
•Career Developer
•Marketing/Sales Strategist
•Real Investment Company President
•Writer/Author
•Guest Lecturer
•Professional Speaker
•CEO Advisor/Confidant/Sounding Board
•Personal Effectiveness Coach
•Family Non-Financial Legacy Strategist
Kevin has had a profound impact on many, many people – simply by helping each person he meets discover the best they can be…no matter who they are, where they are, or what they do.
HOW OTHERS DESCRIBE KEVIN:
•Strong Seasoned Judgment/ Wise Advisor with Depth of Understanding
•Encourager to Everyone
•Powerful Communicator
•Builds Strong Relationships
•High Impact Delivery in Presentations
•Maturity and Integrity, Trustworthy
•Drive for Stakeholders Success
•Leadership Versatility
•Charisma
•Broad Business Savvy
•Entrepreneurial Risk Taker
•Empowers Others to Be and Perform at Their Best
•Fosters Open Dialogue
•Public Image Skills/Bringing Out One’s Best in Any Setting
•Adaptability/Flexibility
•Contagious Energy and Enthusiasm
•The Consummate Cheerleader to All
This Little Light Of Mine - SHINE O SHINE!
Are you scared? It's a legit question, and very few people are willing confront the fear, and so when you doubt whether you can continue on, just let your little light SHINE !
SHINE O SHINE !
I am KINGDOM
615.653.0679
SHINE O SHINE !
I am KINGDOM
615.653.0679
It's bird, it's plane - IT'S A MAN called KEVIN!
Kevin K. Hemphill is a wealth/life strategist dedicated to blessing as many people as possible, as he passes thru time. Kevin has held a number of six figure "Fortune 500" titles - Sales Mgr, Operations Mgr, Natl Territory Mgr, Segment Sales Mgr. Kevin has a passion for people, and the success of others.
Kevin is a full blown entrepreneur with the battle scars to prove it ! Over the years he has started a dozen plus businesses, with some failure, and a number of WINS; however, the successes far outweigh the loses; Hemphill made millions on the winning side!
Today, Kevin helps others grow their dreams into destiny ...Kevin leverages past success & failure to create an original blend of suggestions and guiding points to propel others ... no smoke, no mirrors, no fluff - just real insight based on real life!
Favorite quote is:
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
kevinkhemphill@gmail.com or 615.653.0679
www.kevinkhemphill.com
www.kevinkhemphill.wordpress.com
Kevin is a full blown entrepreneur with the battle scars to prove it ! Over the years he has started a dozen plus businesses, with some failure, and a number of WINS; however, the successes far outweigh the loses; Hemphill made millions on the winning side!
Today, Kevin helps others grow their dreams into destiny ...Kevin leverages past success & failure to create an original blend of suggestions and guiding points to propel others ... no smoke, no mirrors, no fluff - just real insight based on real life!
Favorite quote is:
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
kevinkhemphill@gmail.com or 615.653.0679
www.kevinkhemphill.com
www.kevinkhemphill.wordpress.com
Thursday, October 15, 2009
True WEALTH Gladiator
True Wealth Gladiator!
The craft of leadership, mentoring and private coaching has not gone to the dogs, but almost everyone attempts to poise as a wealth mentor or coach. We have 22,23,24,25 year olds posting videos and making very weighted claims about the wealth they have created, and how they can lead you to online/Internet success.
I've mentored with the likes of Kevin Trudeau, Joe Schroeder, Carlton Hurdle, Bill Britt, Dexter Yager, Randy Gage, Rod Cook, Mark Hoverson, Denson Taylor, Jay Napier ... well, a list to numerous to outline here, and none of them were under 30 yrs old.
And while our times have changed, and 40 has become the new 30; wisdom has a way of working in within the parameters of age. Part of the recipe of wisdom coupling with success is based on time, experience and just having lived through some of life's pain and beauty.
If you are searching for a "true wealth mentor" he or she should be able to provide you more than a glamour - glitz , over the top website; and you must realize that anyone with the help of friends can show you cars, houses and symbols of wealth; however, very few can or will share with you true wealth - you ask "what is true wealth?" Well, it's advice that will stand the test of time, advice that leverages common sense - the essence of all humanity plus a little bit more - look closely, you'll recognize it when you find it.
True Wealth Gladiator!
True wealth is established over a "long term". Many of today's "so-called" gurus are simply that - "so-called" . America's love affair with instant, right now, hurry up products and people have produced overnight success and a greater number of overnight failures - a dirty little secret held closely by today's gurus.
Focus on the long term ...an industry - sports, music, film, LIFE - is measured by long term lasting, relevant success - that will never change.
The craft of leadership, mentoring and private coaching has not gone to the dogs, but almost everyone attempts to poise as a wealth mentor or coach. We have 22,23,24,25 year olds posting videos and making very weighted claims about the wealth they have created, and how they can lead you to online/Internet success.
I've mentored with the likes of Kevin Trudeau, Joe Schroeder, Carlton Hurdle, Bill Britt, Dexter Yager, Randy Gage, Rod Cook, Mark Hoverson, Denson Taylor, Jay Napier ... well, a list to numerous to outline here, and none of them were under 30 yrs old.
And while our times have changed, and 40 has become the new 30; wisdom has a way of working in within the parameters of age. Part of the recipe of wisdom coupling with success is based on time, experience and just having lived through some of life's pain and beauty.
If you are searching for a "true wealth mentor" he or she should be able to provide you more than a glamour - glitz , over the top website; and you must realize that anyone with the help of friends can show you cars, houses and symbols of wealth; however, very few can or will share with you true wealth - you ask "what is true wealth?" Well, it's advice that will stand the test of time, advice that leverages common sense - the essence of all humanity plus a little bit more - look closely, you'll recognize it when you find it.
True Wealth Gladiator!
True wealth is established over a "long term". Many of today's "so-called" gurus are simply that - "so-called" . America's love affair with instant, right now, hurry up products and people have produced overnight success and a greater number of overnight failures - a dirty little secret held closely by today's gurus.
Focus on the long term ...an industry - sports, music, film, LIFE - is measured by long term lasting, relevant success - that will never change.
IF ... Then You'll Be A Man!
IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,Or being hated, don't give way to hating,And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same;If you can bear to hear the truth you've spokenTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginningsAnd never breathe a word about your loss;If you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,And so hold on when there is nothing in youExcept the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much;If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds' worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same;If you can bear to hear the truth you've spokenTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginningsAnd never breathe a word about your loss;If you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,And so hold on when there is nothing in youExcept the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much;If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds' worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
Hemphill's Rules !
Hemphill's Small Business CEO School A Success!
Decisions made in recovery will separate “winners" from “losers", and "champions" from "winners" for years to come.
Currently, small business ceo's and entrprenuers face the unprecedented challenge of forging their own recovery.
In past recessions, large numbers of companies stopped growing permanently - they never recovered. The fact is 81% of the factors that cause growth stalls are preventable errors in judgment or strategy—even in a recession. And downturns present an increased number of opportunities for bad decisions that can have long-lasting consequences.
Recovery is not a restoration. Small business leaders and executives must avoid retrenching around long-term, deeply held beliefs that may no longer be true.
Hemphill's Executive Guidance for 2010 presents several key enemies of post-recession performance that challenge conventional wisdom and the pre-recession assumptions many businesses’ plans still embrace. Left unaddressed, each of these can significantly undermine your corporate recovery, erode profits, and make past performance levels unattainable.
Sharply Lower Marketing and SalesProductivity Due to Changed Customer Needs
A shift in customer buying behavior turns top performers into average performers cuts channel output by more than 15%.
The most obvious effect of severe recession is that customers buy less. What is less obvious is how economic trauma changes customers’ needs and shifts their priorities and buying behavior. It is essential to recognize and modify any brand or selling strategy that is out of step with current customer patterns.
Three changes in particular counter conventional wisdom about customer needs:
Just as companies invest heavily to create and demonstrate functional value in hard financial terms, consumers are increasingly swayed by emotional brand attributes. It is essential to create an emotional connection with consumers because those hardest hit by the recession are more likely to respond to emotional differentiation.
In today’s economic climate, sales professionals who challenge customers are far more likely to outperform those still focused on relationships. “Challenging" overcomes customer risk aversion and can defeat a consensus buying posture. But today, only 27% of a company’s field sales population (at best) is able to have these types of conversations.
While companies aim for customer satisfaction and delight, there are higher loyalty benefits from simply making it easier for a customer to access your organization. Reducing “customer effort" creates far more customer loyalty than improving or enhancing their experience.
Confronting the Enemy
Revisit your customers' needs by asking:
What are the product/service features that customers value based on their functional needs? What are the emotional needs customers are trying to fulfill with your product/service?
Identify points of credible superiority by defining:
How does your product/service enable the outcomes and personal satisfaction your customers seek better than alternatives?
What are your proof points and will your customers appreciate the difference?
Adapt selling models that challenge customer beliefs and educate them about their own business.
7%The average organization faces an imminent 7% productivity loss from the combination of departing top talent and undermanaged recruiting pipelines.
Recent economic turmoil and the resulting layoffs, reorganizations, and wage pressures have exacted a huge toll on the workforce of most companies. While most CEOs derive some level of comfort from having identified and retained their most important people across this period of tumult, just underneath the surface lurk two troubling trends:
The combined damage of employee disengagement and employer inaction. First, there exists quiet yet dangerous disengagement among companies’ best employees—which means most of your strategies are built around those most likely to leave. Over the past six months, high-potential employees expressed 13% increased desire to leave their company within the next year, compared to no change in this desire for non-high-potential employees. Second, employers are showing lax recruiting activity, despite 75% higher application volumes. Most recruiters are discarding applications from individuals unqualified for open positions, rather than storing them and creating a talent pipeline for future needs.These two facts together create a harsh reality: when companies lose even a small segment of their high performers as economic conditions improve, they will find key projects crippled by the lack of available talent.
Well-engaged but potentially immobilized employees. Sixty percent of engaged employees are not directing their efforts toward the firm’s top priorities. As a result, most companies have suffered significant productivity loss from disengagement and misdirection right when they are trying to execute enormous change in their organizations.
Confronting the Enemy
Carefully monitor and manage elevated attrition and disengagement among high-potential employees. Keep recruiting pipelines full.
Consider competencies that are hardest to replace when considering staff reductions.
Take advantage of managers and peers to focus employees and ensure mobilization rather than using top-down communications
Enemy #2: Productivity Losses Due to Top Talent Disengagement and Flight
7%The average organization faces an imminent 7% productivity loss from the combination of departing top talent and undermanaged recruiting pipelines.
Recent economic turmoil and the resulting layoffs, reorganizations, and wage pressures have exacted a huge toll on the workforce of most companies. While most CEOs derive some level of comfort from having identified and retained their most important people across this period of tumult, just underneath the surface lurk two troubling trends:
The combined damage of employee disengagement and employer inactionFirst, there exists quiet yet dangerous disengagement among companies’ best employees—which means most of your strategies are built around those most likely to leave. Over the past six months, high-potential employees expressed 13% increased desire to leave their company within the next year, compared to no change in this desire for non-high-potential employees. Second, employers are showing lax recruiting activity, despite 75% higher application volumes. Most recruiters are discarding applications from individuals unqualified for open positions, rather than storing them and creating a talent pipeline for future needs.These two facts together create a harsh reality: when companies lose even a small segment of their high performers as economic conditions improve, they will find key projects crippled by the lack of available talent.
Well-engaged but potentially immobilized employeesSixty percent of engaged employees are not directing their efforts toward the firm’s top priorities. As a result, most companies have suffered significant productivity loss from disengagement and misdirection right when they are trying to execute enormous change in their organizations.
Confronting the Enemy
Carefully monitor and manage elevated attrition and disengagement among high-potential employees.
Keep recruiting pipelines full.
Consider competencies that are hardest to replace when considering staff reductions.
Take advantage of managers and peers to focus employees and ensure mobilization rather than using top-down communications.
Enemy #3: Larger and More Frequent Losses Due to Increasing Risk Velocity
20%, 50%While most companies focus on risk identification and prevention, organizations that focus on prioritization and response enjoy 20% higher revenue growth and as much as 50% higher earnings growth than their peers.
“As best as I can understand, we are going after multiyear growth in the emerging economies of the world, and we’re making the next two quarters by gutting the compliance and accounting departments. I’m putting our house in my wife’s name." That’s how the governance chair for a U.S.–based, Fortune–500 company summed up a two-day strategy offsite. Joking aside, his assessment rings true at many companies for two reasons:
The peril of entering developing markets with underdeveloped risk managementMany companies are hinging their growth on inherently more risky, developing markets such as China, India, and Brazil. Unfortunately, inertia and cost cutting have left these companies with risk management capabilities that are:
Focused in the wrong places, Far too lean for the myriad commercial and legal challenges they now face, and Not agile enough to address rising velocity of key risks.
Of course the developed world has its own risks. A toxic and unprecedented combination of monetary stimulus; wholesale deleveraging of businesses, banks, and consumers; and nearly $1 trillion in unused U.S. economic capacity confront companies trying to make even the simplest interest rate, currency, and capital planning decisions.
The need for faster, more agile, risk management strategies.While organizations are better at assessing the likelihood and potential severity of risk events, they have ignored the increasing velocity with which risks can occur and swamp a company. The best companies are focusing on strengthening their risk agility and preparing for only the most important and uncertain scenarios.
The Enemy:
Spend less time on risk assessment and more time on building effective risk response capabilities. Test risk metrics for economic relevance before adding them to business scorecards. Reduce information overload by reporting metrics on a timeline aligned with their variability and how quickly operating plans can be changed.
Incorporate speed of onset for risk events into risk prioritization criteria.
Enemy #4: Rising Losses and Steeper Penalties, due to High Levels of Employee Misconduct; 7%In the United States alone, organizations already lose an estimated 7% of their annual revenue to fraud. That number seems sure to climb and be compounded by heightened government vigilance.
Restructuring and downsizing over the past year have created an increased state of distrust, anxiety and cynicism among employees. This has translated directly into a rise in fraud and misconduct. Employees’ view of management’s integrity has decreased 5% while misconduct has risen at a startling rate of 20%. Given the grim employment projections for 2010, this complex scenario is likely to continue:
A perfect storm: lower confidence, higher misconduct, and stricter enforcementAs if the heightened risk of misconduct and decline in employee engagement and productivity weren’t enough, tolerance for bad behavior is at an all-time low. Governments of most industrial nations are responding to public scrutiny over the cause of the economic downturn with a wave of new regulations—and perhaps more importantly—an increased zeal for enforcement. Today, a single investigation can put your company into crisis mode—adding brand and reputation damage to the mounting burdens of lost productivity.
Solving employee disengagement with visible ethicsEmployees view the actions of senior executives as actions of “the company." Building integrity and trust requires you to consistently model ethical behavior, deal decisively with misconduct and communicate openly. You must put corporate values into action to create a more ethical and productive work environment.
Managers exhibiting corporate values can improve employee performance by 12%.
Managers demonstrating ethical behavior can improve employee performance by 9%.
Confronting the Enemy
Recognize and respond to the emotional effects of the recession on employees.
Demonstrate personal integrity and intolerance of misconduct consistently throughout the entire organization at all times.
Ensure that financial communications are frequent, frank, and focused on employee concerns.
Enemy #4: Rising Losses and Steeper PenaltiesDue to High Levels of Employee Misconduct
7%In the United States alone, organizations already lose an estimated 7% of their annual revenue to fraud. That number seems sure to climb and be compounded by heightened government vigilance.
Restructuring and downsizing over the past year have created an increased state of distrust, anxiety and cynicism among employees. This has translated directly into a rise in fraud and misconduct. Employees’ view of management’s integrity has decreased 5% while misconduct has risen at a startling rate of 20%. Given the grim employment projections for 2010, this complex scenario is likely to continue:
A perfect storm: lower confidence, higher misconduct, and stricter enforcementAs if the heightened risk of misconduct and decline in employee engagement and productivity weren’t enough, tolerance for bad behavior is at an all-time low. Governments of most industrial nations are responding to public scrutiny over the cause of the economic downturn with a wave of new regulations—and perhaps more importantly—an increased zeal for enforcement. Today, a single investigation can put your company into crisis mode—adding brand and reputation damage to the mounting burdens of lost productivity.
Solving employee disengagement with visible ethicsEmployees view the actions of senior executives as actions of “the company." Building integrity and trust requires you to consistently model ethical behavior, deal decisively with misconduct and communicate openly. You must put corporate values into action to create a more ethical and productive work environment.
Managers exhibiting corporate values can improve employee performance by 12%.
Managers demonstrating ethical behavior can improve employee performance by 9%.
Confronting the Enemy
Recognize and respond to the emotional effects of the recession on employees.
Demonstrate personal integrity and intolerance of misconduct consistently throughout the entire organization at all times.
Ensure that financial communications are frequent, frank, and focused on employee concerns.
Enemy #5: Low Returns from IT Budgets Targetinga Shrinking Share of Enterprise Information
40%Right now, 40% of the most valuable information created by employees is out of reach of corporate systems, and this share is growing every day.
The social media phenomenon has arrived at the enterprise. Companies are adopting Web 2.0 technologies to boost employee collaboration and using tools like Facebook and Twitter to engage customers.
Lost in all the buzz is the fact that even though companies are increasingly using social media for business strategies, a vast majority of the information being created and shared is outside core IT platforms. This is a twofold problem:
Vital information can’t be found or used.
In a capital-constrained environment, the IT budget is mis-deployed; and this budget often consumes the largest share of a company’s capital expenditures.
This is not a small or temporary IT problem, and the scale is extraordinary:
The average employee creates two-thirds of a gigabyte (GB) of content at work and at home each year. The average knowledge worker creates even more—between one and two GB annually.
Only 15% of content created at work is entered into structured systems (ERP/CRM). As much as 68% flows through corporate channels (e.g., e-mail, internal shared storage) that are loosely managed. Seventeen percent of content flows through non-corporate systems such as Twitter, Gmail, and Facebook.
More than half of lost information is important to your business—either for the value or the danger it represents.
Confronting the Enemy
Have a full view of your company’s “collaboration portfolio."
Target key architecture decisions on enabling productive exchanges that create lasting information value.
Invest in collaborative platforms clearly tied to measurable business goals to ensure real value creation.
Adopt clear policies and educate employees on how to make good judgments and limit the risks of sloppy communications choices.
Enemy #6: Productivity Losses Due to Misplaced Leaders
10%Correct reassignment and proper support of a company’s existing leaders can improve revenue and profit by more than 10%.
Many organizations have responded to the financial downturn by focusing on improving the quality of the leadership bench. No wonder—the difference between high-performing leaders and low-performing leaders significantly impacts on team and overall corporate performance. Teams led by the best leaders were 30% less likely to turn over, and worked 26% harder than teams led by the worst leaders. Where are all the good leaders? They are right inside your company. The problem is that most companies have the right talent buried in the wrong places and stymied by significant organizational constraints:
Many leaders are unable to adapt to changing situations. Different market situations require different competencies. To enable success, companies must assign leaders to roles based on the identified competencies needed in the current markets. Proper allocation of leadership talent can improve a company’s ability to outperform on revenue outcomes by as much as 31%.
Capable leaders may still face structural, resource, cultural, process, and interface barriers. As much as 40% of leadership performance is hindered by organizational barriers including lack of role clarity, poor goal alignment, and weak knowledge transfer systems. For example, clarity about empowerment can improve leaders' ability to outperform against their objectives (revenue, profit, budget, service delivery) by as much as 9%. Performance requires an effective leader and an effective organization.
Confronting the Enemy
Remove all barriers to leadership performance—both soft and hard.
Clarify leadership roles and accountabilities.
Deploy leaders with the right capabilities against current and future needs.
Continuously analyze which leadership capabilities should be leveraged in each critical area.
Kevin K. Hemphill, has been consulting with small business leaders for almost a decade. Hemphill draws his insight form numerous sources;however, Hemphill credits Harry S. Dent for some of his best insight and most powerful insight.
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Decisions made in recovery will separate “winners" from “losers", and "champions" from "winners" for years to come.
Currently, small business ceo's and entrprenuers face the unprecedented challenge of forging their own recovery.
In past recessions, large numbers of companies stopped growing permanently - they never recovered. The fact is 81% of the factors that cause growth stalls are preventable errors in judgment or strategy—even in a recession. And downturns present an increased number of opportunities for bad decisions that can have long-lasting consequences.
Recovery is not a restoration. Small business leaders and executives must avoid retrenching around long-term, deeply held beliefs that may no longer be true.
Hemphill's Executive Guidance for 2010 presents several key enemies of post-recession performance that challenge conventional wisdom and the pre-recession assumptions many businesses’ plans still embrace. Left unaddressed, each of these can significantly undermine your corporate recovery, erode profits, and make past performance levels unattainable.
Sharply Lower Marketing and SalesProductivity Due to Changed Customer Needs
A shift in customer buying behavior turns top performers into average performers cuts channel output by more than 15%.
The most obvious effect of severe recession is that customers buy less. What is less obvious is how economic trauma changes customers’ needs and shifts their priorities and buying behavior. It is essential to recognize and modify any brand or selling strategy that is out of step with current customer patterns.
Three changes in particular counter conventional wisdom about customer needs:
Just as companies invest heavily to create and demonstrate functional value in hard financial terms, consumers are increasingly swayed by emotional brand attributes. It is essential to create an emotional connection with consumers because those hardest hit by the recession are more likely to respond to emotional differentiation.
In today’s economic climate, sales professionals who challenge customers are far more likely to outperform those still focused on relationships. “Challenging" overcomes customer risk aversion and can defeat a consensus buying posture. But today, only 27% of a company’s field sales population (at best) is able to have these types of conversations.
While companies aim for customer satisfaction and delight, there are higher loyalty benefits from simply making it easier for a customer to access your organization. Reducing “customer effort" creates far more customer loyalty than improving or enhancing their experience.
Confronting the Enemy
Revisit your customers' needs by asking:
What are the product/service features that customers value based on their functional needs? What are the emotional needs customers are trying to fulfill with your product/service?
Identify points of credible superiority by defining:
How does your product/service enable the outcomes and personal satisfaction your customers seek better than alternatives?
What are your proof points and will your customers appreciate the difference?
Adapt selling models that challenge customer beliefs and educate them about their own business.
7%The average organization faces an imminent 7% productivity loss from the combination of departing top talent and undermanaged recruiting pipelines.
Recent economic turmoil and the resulting layoffs, reorganizations, and wage pressures have exacted a huge toll on the workforce of most companies. While most CEOs derive some level of comfort from having identified and retained their most important people across this period of tumult, just underneath the surface lurk two troubling trends:
The combined damage of employee disengagement and employer inaction. First, there exists quiet yet dangerous disengagement among companies’ best employees—which means most of your strategies are built around those most likely to leave. Over the past six months, high-potential employees expressed 13% increased desire to leave their company within the next year, compared to no change in this desire for non-high-potential employees. Second, employers are showing lax recruiting activity, despite 75% higher application volumes. Most recruiters are discarding applications from individuals unqualified for open positions, rather than storing them and creating a talent pipeline for future needs.These two facts together create a harsh reality: when companies lose even a small segment of their high performers as economic conditions improve, they will find key projects crippled by the lack of available talent.
Well-engaged but potentially immobilized employees. Sixty percent of engaged employees are not directing their efforts toward the firm’s top priorities. As a result, most companies have suffered significant productivity loss from disengagement and misdirection right when they are trying to execute enormous change in their organizations.
Confronting the Enemy
Carefully monitor and manage elevated attrition and disengagement among high-potential employees. Keep recruiting pipelines full.
Consider competencies that are hardest to replace when considering staff reductions.
Take advantage of managers and peers to focus employees and ensure mobilization rather than using top-down communications
Enemy #2: Productivity Losses Due to Top Talent Disengagement and Flight
7%The average organization faces an imminent 7% productivity loss from the combination of departing top talent and undermanaged recruiting pipelines.
Recent economic turmoil and the resulting layoffs, reorganizations, and wage pressures have exacted a huge toll on the workforce of most companies. While most CEOs derive some level of comfort from having identified and retained their most important people across this period of tumult, just underneath the surface lurk two troubling trends:
The combined damage of employee disengagement and employer inactionFirst, there exists quiet yet dangerous disengagement among companies’ best employees—which means most of your strategies are built around those most likely to leave. Over the past six months, high-potential employees expressed 13% increased desire to leave their company within the next year, compared to no change in this desire for non-high-potential employees. Second, employers are showing lax recruiting activity, despite 75% higher application volumes. Most recruiters are discarding applications from individuals unqualified for open positions, rather than storing them and creating a talent pipeline for future needs.These two facts together create a harsh reality: when companies lose even a small segment of their high performers as economic conditions improve, they will find key projects crippled by the lack of available talent.
Well-engaged but potentially immobilized employeesSixty percent of engaged employees are not directing their efforts toward the firm’s top priorities. As a result, most companies have suffered significant productivity loss from disengagement and misdirection right when they are trying to execute enormous change in their organizations.
Confronting the Enemy
Carefully monitor and manage elevated attrition and disengagement among high-potential employees.
Keep recruiting pipelines full.
Consider competencies that are hardest to replace when considering staff reductions.
Take advantage of managers and peers to focus employees and ensure mobilization rather than using top-down communications.
Enemy #3: Larger and More Frequent Losses Due to Increasing Risk Velocity
20%, 50%While most companies focus on risk identification and prevention, organizations that focus on prioritization and response enjoy 20% higher revenue growth and as much as 50% higher earnings growth than their peers.
“As best as I can understand, we are going after multiyear growth in the emerging economies of the world, and we’re making the next two quarters by gutting the compliance and accounting departments. I’m putting our house in my wife’s name." That’s how the governance chair for a U.S.–based, Fortune–500 company summed up a two-day strategy offsite. Joking aside, his assessment rings true at many companies for two reasons:
The peril of entering developing markets with underdeveloped risk managementMany companies are hinging their growth on inherently more risky, developing markets such as China, India, and Brazil. Unfortunately, inertia and cost cutting have left these companies with risk management capabilities that are:
Focused in the wrong places, Far too lean for the myriad commercial and legal challenges they now face, and Not agile enough to address rising velocity of key risks.
Of course the developed world has its own risks. A toxic and unprecedented combination of monetary stimulus; wholesale deleveraging of businesses, banks, and consumers; and nearly $1 trillion in unused U.S. economic capacity confront companies trying to make even the simplest interest rate, currency, and capital planning decisions.
The need for faster, more agile, risk management strategies.While organizations are better at assessing the likelihood and potential severity of risk events, they have ignored the increasing velocity with which risks can occur and swamp a company. The best companies are focusing on strengthening their risk agility and preparing for only the most important and uncertain scenarios.
The Enemy:
Spend less time on risk assessment and more time on building effective risk response capabilities. Test risk metrics for economic relevance before adding them to business scorecards. Reduce information overload by reporting metrics on a timeline aligned with their variability and how quickly operating plans can be changed.
Incorporate speed of onset for risk events into risk prioritization criteria.
Enemy #4: Rising Losses and Steeper Penalties, due to High Levels of Employee Misconduct; 7%In the United States alone, organizations already lose an estimated 7% of their annual revenue to fraud. That number seems sure to climb and be compounded by heightened government vigilance.
Restructuring and downsizing over the past year have created an increased state of distrust, anxiety and cynicism among employees. This has translated directly into a rise in fraud and misconduct. Employees’ view of management’s integrity has decreased 5% while misconduct has risen at a startling rate of 20%. Given the grim employment projections for 2010, this complex scenario is likely to continue:
A perfect storm: lower confidence, higher misconduct, and stricter enforcementAs if the heightened risk of misconduct and decline in employee engagement and productivity weren’t enough, tolerance for bad behavior is at an all-time low. Governments of most industrial nations are responding to public scrutiny over the cause of the economic downturn with a wave of new regulations—and perhaps more importantly—an increased zeal for enforcement. Today, a single investigation can put your company into crisis mode—adding brand and reputation damage to the mounting burdens of lost productivity.
Solving employee disengagement with visible ethicsEmployees view the actions of senior executives as actions of “the company." Building integrity and trust requires you to consistently model ethical behavior, deal decisively with misconduct and communicate openly. You must put corporate values into action to create a more ethical and productive work environment.
Managers exhibiting corporate values can improve employee performance by 12%.
Managers demonstrating ethical behavior can improve employee performance by 9%.
Confronting the Enemy
Recognize and respond to the emotional effects of the recession on employees.
Demonstrate personal integrity and intolerance of misconduct consistently throughout the entire organization at all times.
Ensure that financial communications are frequent, frank, and focused on employee concerns.
Enemy #4: Rising Losses and Steeper PenaltiesDue to High Levels of Employee Misconduct
7%In the United States alone, organizations already lose an estimated 7% of their annual revenue to fraud. That number seems sure to climb and be compounded by heightened government vigilance.
Restructuring and downsizing over the past year have created an increased state of distrust, anxiety and cynicism among employees. This has translated directly into a rise in fraud and misconduct. Employees’ view of management’s integrity has decreased 5% while misconduct has risen at a startling rate of 20%. Given the grim employment projections for 2010, this complex scenario is likely to continue:
A perfect storm: lower confidence, higher misconduct, and stricter enforcementAs if the heightened risk of misconduct and decline in employee engagement and productivity weren’t enough, tolerance for bad behavior is at an all-time low. Governments of most industrial nations are responding to public scrutiny over the cause of the economic downturn with a wave of new regulations—and perhaps more importantly—an increased zeal for enforcement. Today, a single investigation can put your company into crisis mode—adding brand and reputation damage to the mounting burdens of lost productivity.
Solving employee disengagement with visible ethicsEmployees view the actions of senior executives as actions of “the company." Building integrity and trust requires you to consistently model ethical behavior, deal decisively with misconduct and communicate openly. You must put corporate values into action to create a more ethical and productive work environment.
Managers exhibiting corporate values can improve employee performance by 12%.
Managers demonstrating ethical behavior can improve employee performance by 9%.
Confronting the Enemy
Recognize and respond to the emotional effects of the recession on employees.
Demonstrate personal integrity and intolerance of misconduct consistently throughout the entire organization at all times.
Ensure that financial communications are frequent, frank, and focused on employee concerns.
Enemy #5: Low Returns from IT Budgets Targetinga Shrinking Share of Enterprise Information
40%Right now, 40% of the most valuable information created by employees is out of reach of corporate systems, and this share is growing every day.
The social media phenomenon has arrived at the enterprise. Companies are adopting Web 2.0 technologies to boost employee collaboration and using tools like Facebook and Twitter to engage customers.
Lost in all the buzz is the fact that even though companies are increasingly using social media for business strategies, a vast majority of the information being created and shared is outside core IT platforms. This is a twofold problem:
Vital information can’t be found or used.
In a capital-constrained environment, the IT budget is mis-deployed; and this budget often consumes the largest share of a company’s capital expenditures.
This is not a small or temporary IT problem, and the scale is extraordinary:
The average employee creates two-thirds of a gigabyte (GB) of content at work and at home each year. The average knowledge worker creates even more—between one and two GB annually.
Only 15% of content created at work is entered into structured systems (ERP/CRM). As much as 68% flows through corporate channels (e.g., e-mail, internal shared storage) that are loosely managed. Seventeen percent of content flows through non-corporate systems such as Twitter, Gmail, and Facebook.
More than half of lost information is important to your business—either for the value or the danger it represents.
Confronting the Enemy
Have a full view of your company’s “collaboration portfolio."
Target key architecture decisions on enabling productive exchanges that create lasting information value.
Invest in collaborative platforms clearly tied to measurable business goals to ensure real value creation.
Adopt clear policies and educate employees on how to make good judgments and limit the risks of sloppy communications choices.
Enemy #6: Productivity Losses Due to Misplaced Leaders
10%Correct reassignment and proper support of a company’s existing leaders can improve revenue and profit by more than 10%.
Many organizations have responded to the financial downturn by focusing on improving the quality of the leadership bench. No wonder—the difference between high-performing leaders and low-performing leaders significantly impacts on team and overall corporate performance. Teams led by the best leaders were 30% less likely to turn over, and worked 26% harder than teams led by the worst leaders. Where are all the good leaders? They are right inside your company. The problem is that most companies have the right talent buried in the wrong places and stymied by significant organizational constraints:
Many leaders are unable to adapt to changing situations. Different market situations require different competencies. To enable success, companies must assign leaders to roles based on the identified competencies needed in the current markets. Proper allocation of leadership talent can improve a company’s ability to outperform on revenue outcomes by as much as 31%.
Capable leaders may still face structural, resource, cultural, process, and interface barriers. As much as 40% of leadership performance is hindered by organizational barriers including lack of role clarity, poor goal alignment, and weak knowledge transfer systems. For example, clarity about empowerment can improve leaders' ability to outperform against their objectives (revenue, profit, budget, service delivery) by as much as 9%. Performance requires an effective leader and an effective organization.
Confronting the Enemy
Remove all barriers to leadership performance—both soft and hard.
Clarify leadership roles and accountabilities.
Deploy leaders with the right capabilities against current and future needs.
Continuously analyze which leadership capabilities should be leveraged in each critical area.
Kevin K. Hemphill, has been consulting with small business leaders for almost a decade. Hemphill draws his insight form numerous sources;however, Hemphill credits Harry S. Dent for some of his best insight and most powerful insight.
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE !!!
615.653.0679
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Nu World Success!
Fundamentally Speaking About MLM … has the game changed?!?!
I keep hearing people say the “game has changed!” … the music business, the car business, all type of businesses change - but fundamentals never change.
Marketing outlets change, accounting method progress, operations get enhanced, but the fundamentals of business stay the same – deliver a good product and serve your customer’s needs and pain points … businesses that abide by this principle always WIN.
The game of MLM may changed, but the business has not changed ! Unique product offering linked to a robust business opportunity win! You can’t have one without the other, in the network/mlm business, people complicate this business by focusing on product only or the business opportunity only – you must have both!
The opportunity to build a successful home based/ internet based business has never been stronger – layoffs, real estate crash, stock market bust and overall world economic downturn has left the world’s largest demographic group – the “baby boomers” scrambling for “dear life”.
Think about it … the world’s most affluent group is now rushing towards retirement, while the world economy is falling apart … this “cocaine to rogaine” generation is faced with a dilemma that no other generation has faced.
Those who can help this group make sense of the chaos, and provide hope, will lead the way back to American stability and strength. Individuals who see the world as an entire entity, and not just the shores stretching from Maine to California will weld authority and success beyond all imagination – the US, the world is waiting for those who understand that it’s their obligation to teach, guide and lead – the game has changed, but the rules are still the same – win by pursuing excellence!
Kevin K. Hemphill
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE !!!
www.kevinkhemphill.com
615-653-0679
I keep hearing people say the “game has changed!” … the music business, the car business, all type of businesses change - but fundamentals never change.
Marketing outlets change, accounting method progress, operations get enhanced, but the fundamentals of business stay the same – deliver a good product and serve your customer’s needs and pain points … businesses that abide by this principle always WIN.
The game of MLM may changed, but the business has not changed ! Unique product offering linked to a robust business opportunity win! You can’t have one without the other, in the network/mlm business, people complicate this business by focusing on product only or the business opportunity only – you must have both!
The opportunity to build a successful home based/ internet based business has never been stronger – layoffs, real estate crash, stock market bust and overall world economic downturn has left the world’s largest demographic group – the “baby boomers” scrambling for “dear life”.
Think about it … the world’s most affluent group is now rushing towards retirement, while the world economy is falling apart … this “cocaine to rogaine” generation is faced with a dilemma that no other generation has faced.
Those who can help this group make sense of the chaos, and provide hope, will lead the way back to American stability and strength. Individuals who see the world as an entire entity, and not just the shores stretching from Maine to California will weld authority and success beyond all imagination – the US, the world is waiting for those who understand that it’s their obligation to teach, guide and lead – the game has changed, but the rules are still the same – win by pursuing excellence!
Kevin K. Hemphill
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE !!!
www.kevinkhemphill.com
615-653-0679
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Motivational Sayings Lead To Motivated Thought!
Motivational Quotes
I am writing this for those who are thinking about giving up! For those of you having major challenges finding success. I ask you to believe in yourself; believe in your ability to see your goals through. Most failures come because we give up too quickly.. We find reasons why we can't pursue our objectives. The sad thing is, once you give up, you will never know if your endeavors would have been successful.
I am a human being, being human like many of you. I can be my own worst enemy. I have the same little voice in my head at times telling me to give up. I battle this demon EVERYDAY ! I have found it never hurts to try or cry! WHY ??? because you never know when your efforts will present you excellence! Because of the challenges I face to meet my objectives, I have decided to share my top twenty-five motivational quotes on perseverance from twenty-five different successful men and women. These quotes have worked for me, and remind of my abilities & the success I deserve. So, whenever doubts wants to consume you, please remember that successful people leave clues/cookies - normally in the form of words ... use the motivational quotes of others to "unlock" your treasury of success and fortune!
Thomas A. Edison: Quotations: Perseverance - The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Nelson Mandela: Quotations: Perseverance - The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Dale Carnegie: Quotations on Perseverance - The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Abraham Lincoln: Quotations on Perseverance - Things may come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hustle.
Mother Teresa: Quotations on Perseverance - To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Napoleon Hill: Quote: Perseverance - the majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Albert Einstein: Quotes about Perseverance - In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Babe Ruth: Quotes about Perseverance - It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Walt Disney: Quotes on Perseverance - Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.
Vincent Van Gogh: Quotes on Perseverance - Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
B. C. Forbes: Quotes on Perseverance - History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
Elbert Hubbard: Quotes on Perseverance - How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
Conrad Hilton: Quotes on Persistence - Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
John D. Rockefeller: Quotes: Perseverance - I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Beverly Sills: Perseverance Quotations - You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
John Quincy Adams: Perseverance - Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
Robert Collier: Perseverance Quotes - All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.
Brian Tracy: Persistence - Never considers the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.
Vincent Lombardi: Persistence Quote - Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Coretta Scott King: Persistence Quotes - Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
Napoleon Bonaparte: Quotations about Perseverance - Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Norman Lear: Quotations about Perseverance - When I thought I couldn't go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.
Koran: Quotes on Perseverance - God helps those who persevere.
Samuel Johnson: Quotes: Perseverance - If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Lord Chesterfield: Quotes: Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
I am writing this for those who are thinking about giving up! For those of you having major challenges finding success. I ask you to believe in yourself; believe in your ability to see your goals through. Most failures come because we give up too quickly.. We find reasons why we can't pursue our objectives. The sad thing is, once you give up, you will never know if your endeavors would have been successful.
I am a human being, being human like many of you. I can be my own worst enemy. I have the same little voice in my head at times telling me to give up. I battle this demon EVERYDAY ! I have found it never hurts to try or cry! WHY ??? because you never know when your efforts will present you excellence! Because of the challenges I face to meet my objectives, I have decided to share my top twenty-five motivational quotes on perseverance from twenty-five different successful men and women. These quotes have worked for me, and remind of my abilities & the success I deserve. So, whenever doubts wants to consume you, please remember that successful people leave clues/cookies - normally in the form of words ... use the motivational quotes of others to "unlock" your treasury of success and fortune!
Thomas A. Edison: Quotations: Perseverance - The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Nelson Mandela: Quotations: Perseverance - The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Dale Carnegie: Quotations on Perseverance - The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Abraham Lincoln: Quotations on Perseverance - Things may come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hustle.
Mother Teresa: Quotations on Perseverance - To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Napoleon Hill: Quote: Perseverance - the majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Albert Einstein: Quotes about Perseverance - In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Babe Ruth: Quotes about Perseverance - It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Walt Disney: Quotes on Perseverance - Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.
Vincent Van Gogh: Quotes on Perseverance - Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
B. C. Forbes: Quotes on Perseverance - History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
Elbert Hubbard: Quotes on Perseverance - How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
Conrad Hilton: Quotes on Persistence - Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
John D. Rockefeller: Quotes: Perseverance - I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Beverly Sills: Perseverance Quotations - You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
John Quincy Adams: Perseverance - Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
Robert Collier: Perseverance Quotes - All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.
Brian Tracy: Persistence - Never considers the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.
Vincent Lombardi: Persistence Quote - Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Coretta Scott King: Persistence Quotes - Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
Napoleon Bonaparte: Quotations about Perseverance - Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Norman Lear: Quotations about Perseverance - When I thought I couldn't go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.
Koran: Quotes on Perseverance - God helps those who persevere.
Samuel Johnson: Quotes: Perseverance - If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Lord Chesterfield: Quotes: Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
Does Pain Have A Purpose?
Listen closely as Kevin K. Hemphill speaks to pain and it's purpose.
Click the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hMIIALdUvE
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Million Mind March - Myth,Legend, MAN!
Are you familiar with the Million Mind March community?
Have you ever heard the name "Joe Schroeder"? Joe is a guy that graduated almost last in his high school class and couldn't afford to attend college. Like many people in today's world, he supported himself through odd jobs, and was even a street magician for about seven years. He was known as "Joe the Meat Man" because he sold door-to-door (meat and seafood) for 10 years. During that time he was introduced to network marketing where he learned how to build a successful business part-time.
Joe is the #1 author of the funded proposal. You may recognize some of the students that Joe had the privilege to teach.
Mike Dillard
Dennis Karganilla
Kevin K. Hemphill
Diane Hochman
Mike Litman
Josh Peak
David LeDoux
Gregory Drake
Because of his success and how much he enjoys what he does on a daily basis, he formed a community where people can come together to learn and grow. That community is called the Million Mind March.
Free nightly conference calls to the public are offered. These calls help you think "outside the box" and GROW your mind. Without the proper way to think, you will never have a successful business.
Joe has learned to get inside of people's minds, and through all of the products he promotes, is teaching others how to do the same - THINK! The Million Mind March is a community of people who have the same vision and want to learn and grow as individuals. Together, this community is creating millionaires and showing people how to make money on and off line successfully.
Everyone is welcome so stop by any time. Free material is available as well as audio recordings that will give you a better perspective on what the community is all about.
Joe's faith in me allowed me to begin to bloom and flourish "again" ... the weeds of life had choked me out ... I was almost "coma -like" ... I could see and hear the world around, but I couldn't respond.
Joe called me one time, I still have the message, he said "Kevin, don't judge yourself by money ... I don't". Joe Schroeder set me free with that message ... I leave you with the same message today!
Kevin K. Hemphill
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Have you ever heard the name "Joe Schroeder"? Joe is a guy that graduated almost last in his high school class and couldn't afford to attend college. Like many people in today's world, he supported himself through odd jobs, and was even a street magician for about seven years. He was known as "Joe the Meat Man" because he sold door-to-door (meat and seafood) for 10 years. During that time he was introduced to network marketing where he learned how to build a successful business part-time.
Joe is the #1 author of the funded proposal. You may recognize some of the students that Joe had the privilege to teach.
Mike Dillard
Dennis Karganilla
Kevin K. Hemphill
Diane Hochman
Mike Litman
Josh Peak
David LeDoux
Gregory Drake
Because of his success and how much he enjoys what he does on a daily basis, he formed a community where people can come together to learn and grow. That community is called the Million Mind March.
Free nightly conference calls to the public are offered. These calls help you think "outside the box" and GROW your mind. Without the proper way to think, you will never have a successful business.
Joe has learned to get inside of people's minds, and through all of the products he promotes, is teaching others how to do the same - THINK! The Million Mind March is a community of people who have the same vision and want to learn and grow as individuals. Together, this community is creating millionaires and showing people how to make money on and off line successfully.
Everyone is welcome so stop by any time. Free material is available as well as audio recordings that will give you a better perspective on what the community is all about.
Joe's faith in me allowed me to begin to bloom and flourish "again" ... the weeds of life had choked me out ... I was almost "coma -like" ... I could see and hear the world around, but I couldn't respond.
Joe called me one time, I still have the message, he said "Kevin, don't judge yourself by money ... I don't". Joe Schroeder set me free with that message ... I leave you with the same message today!
Kevin K. Hemphill
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Saturday, October 10, 2009
THOUGHT and the POWER there of !
We begin with thought ... don't be afraid to think, God gave us the gift of thought!
KKH
KKH
Friday, October 9, 2009
THINKING OUT LOUD, THINKING LIKE TRUMP !!!!
America is at a crossroads.At no time in recent history has our economy been in the state that it is today.We’re in the midst of an economic meltdown created by Wall Street greed, financial industry ineptitude, and a multi-billion dollar government bail out of the financial system that isn’t working. The American dream has been hijacked by complacency and incompetence. My experience in real estate has taught me that the greatest opportunities exist when economic times are at their worst. That’s why, after the real estate crash of the ‘90s, I came back stronger than ever. The first thing I learned is that when times are tough, you need to hedge your bets—you need to diversify.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
I Am AWAKE !!!!!
Buddha was asked by one of his followers, " Are you a god?", and Buddha replied "no". His follower then asked, "are you an angel?", and Buddha replied "no" ... the young man, a bit puzzled then asked, "what are you?" ... Buddha replied, " I am awake!" - R U AWAKE !
Money never sleeps ... wake up America ...mourning time is over, and now it's morning time!
BELIEVE ME!
Kevin K Hemphill LIVE!
www.kevinkhemphill.com
www.kevinkhemphill.wordpress.com
615.653.0679
Money never sleeps ... wake up America ...mourning time is over, and now it's morning time!
BELIEVE ME!
Kevin K Hemphill LIVE!
www.kevinkhemphill.com
www.kevinkhemphill.wordpress.com
615.653.0679
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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