The lies that limit the future of network marketing began as so many untruths do. They were told initially to bolster up our insecurity -- in this case, our industry's perceived lack of self-esteem. The lies were harmless "little white" (i.e. "okay") ones, meant to make us seem bigger and better than we really thought we were. As they always do, the lies backfired. Now, when people ask us about this or that "false-fact", and we have to admit to their fabrication, we come up looking smaller and worse than we are.
What lies am I talking about? These:
The Wall Street Journal has said that by the year 2000, 60 to 70 percent of all goods and services will be sold through MLM.
"Network marketing is taught at Harvard and Stanford business schools and in numerous other leading colleges and universities throughout the country.
Some 20 percent of all the millionaires in America were created through network marketing.
John Naisbitt, in his best-selling book, Megatrends, says network marketing is the wave of the future.
There are others. These are the leading offenders. I have yet to speak to any group of people about network marketing -- from established MLMers to the general public -- and not be asked about one or all of these statements.
And when that happens, here's what I say:
According to more than a dozen reporters and staffers, The Wall Street Journal never endorsed network marketing or "network marketing methods."
Yes, they have reported on some companies. But they certainly never said that MLM would be moving 60-plus percent of all U.S. commerce - goods and services -- by the year 2000.
They're not stupid!
The U.S. sells about $6 trillion plus worth of goods and services per year - give and take ten or twenty billion. By the most aggressive accounts, network marketing (which for the sake of quoting really BIG numbers must include the Direct Selling industry) accounts for $50 billion in annual sales. More conservative estimates put the figure at a max. of $15 to $20 billion worldwide. Super-conservative folks say MLM is about $10 billion really.
Hmmm. One percent of all U.S. goods and services would amount to $55 billion. 50 percent -- 10 to 20 percent less than the journal was falsely quoted as saying -- would be $3 trillion. Not bad growth for the next six years!
Okay -- get out your calculators. This is a lie of the lowest order; not even creative -- just stupid.
If someone tried to sponsor you, boastfully claiming he or she made $30,000 per month, and you discovered that he or she really made one percent of that -- or $300 -- what would you think of that person?
Enough said.
Network Marketing Sales is not taught at Harvard and Stanford business schools -- or in "numerous other leading colleges and universities throughout the country". Truth is, most of them detest us. They don't understand us and do not care to. As Harvard 'B' School professor Thomas Bonora recently said in an article in Marketing News:
We do not teach such methods [MLM] at the Harvard Business School; they are not part of the curriculum; to my knowledge, they are not taught at this or any other reputable business school in the country . . . Multi-Level Marketing schemes, like chain letters and other devices, sometimes are at the borderline of what is legal -- and over the borderline of what is ethical . . .
He concluded by saying that examples of legit MLMs are few and far between. Not a glowing endorsement for such a valuable curriculum.
Harvard has reviewed a case study of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Also, there are courses in "Networking" as it pertains to management resources. That's it. Stanford refuses to discuss the subject.
Twenty percent of all the millionaires in America were not created through network marketing. By most accounts, as many as 90 percent of them were created through real estate, 90 plus 20 equals 110, and that kind of math would get an F in any school -- even Harvard 'B'. And how many millionaires came from manufacturing or distribution (the family Walton of Walmart -- $25 billion plus) . . . ? High-tech . . . (Bill Gates of Microsoft, the richest man in America -- and the 300-plus millionaires his company has created . .or Ross Perot)? Franchising (Mrs. Ray Kroc of McDonald's) . . . ? Entertainment . . . ? Etc. . . . ?
We've got lots of men and women who make a million dollars a year in this business. Many more who've made $1,000,000-plus in their Networking careers. But . . . 20 percent of all the millionaires in the U.S.? Please, use some common sense.
The only possible reason I can think of as a basis for the existence of this 20 percent figure is that the founders of Amway, Rich Devos and Jay Van Andel, have a combined net worth in excess of $6 billion. That's 6,000 millionaires right there. Maybe that's where the 20 percent comes from.
John Naisbitt never mentioned network marketing in Megatrends, Megatrends 2000, Megatrends for Women, or anywhere else for that matter. I can't even find a mention in back issues of his far more liberal Trend Letter. (If you can, please let me know.) I called him and asked him for his opinion on MLM and he said -- well, his people told me -- he didn't have one. There is no listing of network marketing or MLM in any index of a Naisbitt book. The references he makes to Networking are many. The use of them by MLMers are convoluted misquotes and rubbery stretches of the truth.
A good friend of mine -- a leading MLM trainer and acknowledged expert who is depended upon by many people as a source of "how-to truth" about this business -- recently sent me a generic prospecting product, proudly offering it for listing in our Upline Resources catalog. Sadly, I couldn't offer it -- because it included every one of the above lies.
If this garbage (it's much nicer to use then the affected French pronunciation) finds its way into this guy's repertoire, how many others are running around saying this stuff? We've got to paper-train this industry!
You can't build lasting relationships with people -- let alone government regulators and the press -- with lies. You will be found out -- and when you are, your stock, and the stock of the entire industry, will go way down.
The truth is, there is so much that's positive to be shared about network marketing -- facts, not even opinion, much less lies. You may make a sale with a lie, but you won't create a customer, and you certainly won't build a successful Network of Distributors.
What you'll make is a house built on get-rich-quick-sand.
Here's my request: Please -- Do not say false and misleading things about network marketing to anyone. If you are insecure about the legitimacy of this business and feel the need to bolster up your courage and confidence -- please shut up 'till you bone up and grow up. . . .
I urge each of you to quash the lies you find out there. Tell the truth. Honesty is and always will be the very best of policies. For my part, I will continue to set the record straight every chance I get. Integrity is our most precious asset. Like our bodies, it requires proper diet (the truth) and exercise (telling it) to become healthy and prosper.
__________________
KINGDOM!
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE !
615.653.0679
Thursday, December 31, 2009
By Any Means Necessary!
LEAD by any means NECESSARY !
Some people sit and pontificate about whether leaders are made or born.
The true leader ignores such arguments and instead concentrates on how to become better at leading people. In this article, we are going to discuss five leadership traits that people look for in a leader. If you are able to increase your skill in these five traits, you will make it easier for people to want to follow you. The less time you have to spend on getting people to follow you, the more time you have to spend refining exactly where you want to go and how to get there.
The five leadership traits are:
1.Honest
2.Forward-Looking
3.Competent
4.Inspiring
5.Intelligent
These five characteristics come from Kouzes and Posner’s research into leadership that was done for the book The Leadership Challenge.
Your skill at exhibiting these five traits is strongly correlated with people’s desire to follow your lead. Exhibiting these traits will inspire confidence in your leadership. Not exhibiting these traits or exhibiting the opposite of these traits will decrease your leadership influence with those around you.
It is important to exhibit these traits. Simply possessing each trait is not enough; you have to display it in a way that people notice. People want to see you demonstrating these traits–not just assuming that you have them. It isn’t enough to just be neutral. For example, just because you are not dishonest will not cause people to recognize that you are honest. Just avoiding displays of incompetence won’t inspire the same confidence as truly displaying competence.
The focus of each of these five traits needs to be on what people see you do–not just the things they don’t see you do. Being honest isn’t a matter of not lying–it is taking the extra effort to display honesty.
Honesty as a Leadership Trait
People want to follow an honest leader. Years ago, many employees started out by assuming that their leadership was honest simply because the authority of their position. With modern scandals, this is no longer true.
When you start a leadership position, you need to assume that people will think you are a little dishonest. In order to be seen as an honest individual, you will have to go out of your way to display honesty. People will not assume you are honest simply because you have never been caught lying.
One of the most frequent places where leaders miss an opportunity to display honesty is in handling mistakes. Much of a leader’s job is to try new things and refine the ideas that don’t work. However, many leaders want to avoid failure to the extent that they don’t admit when something did not work.
There was a medium size organization that was attempting to move to a less centralized structure. Instead of one location serving an entire city, they wanted to put smaller offices throughout the entire metro area. At the same time, they were planning an expansion for headquarters to accommodate more customers at the main site. The smaller remote offices was heralded as a way to reach more customers at a lower cost and cover more demographic areas.
After spending a considerable amount of money on a satellite location, it became clear that the cost structure would not support a separate smaller office. As the construction completed on the expanded headquarters building, the smaller office was closed. This was good decision making. The smaller offices seemed like a good idea, but when the advantages didn’t materialize (due to poor management or incorrect assumptions) it made sense to abandon the model. This was a chance for the leadership to display honesty with the employees, be candid about why things didn’t work out as expected, learn from the mistakes an move on.
Unfortunately in this situation the leadership told employees that they had planned on closing the satellite location all along and it was just a temporary measure until construction was completed on the larger headquarters building. While this wasn’t necessarily true, it didn’t quite cross over into the area of lying. Within a few months the situation was mostly forgotten and everyone moved on. Few of the employees felt that leadership was being dishonest. However, they had passed up a marvelous opportunity to display the trait of honesty in admitting a mistake.
Opportunities to display honesty on a large scale may not happen every day. As a leader, showing people that you are honest even when it means admitting to a mistake, displays a key trait that people are looking for in their leaders. By demonstrating honesty with yourself, with your organization and with outside organizations, you will increase your leadership influence. People will trust someone who actively displays honesty–not just as an honest individual, but as someone who is worth following.
Forward-Looking as a Leadership Trait
The whole point of leadership is figuring out where to go from where you are now. While you may know where you want to go, people won’t see that unless you actively communicate it with them. Remember, these traits aren’t just things you need to have, they are things you need to actively display to those around you.
When people do not consider their leader forward-looking, that leader is usually suffering from one of two possible problems:
1.The leader doesn’t have a forward-looking vision.
2.The leader is unwilling or scared to share the vision with others.
When a leader doesn’t have a vision for the future, it usually because they are spending so much time on today, that they haven’t really thought about tomorrow. On a very simplistic level this can be solved simply by setting aside some time for planning, strategizing and thinking about the future.
Many times when a leader has no time to think and plan for the future, it is because they are doing a poor job of leading in the present. They have created an organization and systems that rely too much on the leader for input at every stage.
Some leaders have a clear vision, but don’t wish to share it with others. Most of the time they are concerned that they will lose credibility if they share a vision of the future that doesn’t come about. This is a legitimate concern. However, people need to know that a leader has a strong vision for the future and a strong plan for going forward. Leaders run into trouble sharing their vision of the future when they start making promises to individuals. This goes back to the trait of honesty. If a leader tells someone that “next year I’m going to make you manager of your own division”, that may be a promise they can’t keep. The leader is probably basing this promotion on the organization meeting financial goals, but the individual will only hear the personal promise.
An organization I was working with was floundering. It seemed like everyone had a different idea about what they were trying to achieve. Each department head was headed in a different direction and there was very little synergy as small fiefdoms and internal politics took their toll.
Eventually a consulting firm was called in to help fix the problem. They analyzed the situation, talked to customers, talked to employees and set up a meeting with the CEO. They were going to ask him about his vision for the future. The employees were excited that finally there would be a report stating the direction for the organization.
After the meeting, the consultants came out shaking their heads. The employees asked how the important question had gone to which the consultants replied, “we asked him, but you aren’t going to like the answer”. The CEO had told the consultant that, while he had a vision and plan for the future, he wasn’t going to share it with anyone because he didn’t want there to be any disappointment if the goals were not reached.
Leaders can communicate their goals and vision for the future without making promises that they may not be able to keep. If a leader needs to make a promise to an individual, it should be tied to certain measurable objectives being met. The CEO in the example didn’t realize how much damage he was doing by not demonstrating the trait of being forward-looking by communicating his vision with the organization.
The CEO was forward-looking. He had a plan and a vision and he spent a lot of time thinking about where the organization was headed. However, his fear of communicating these things to the rest of the organization hampered his leadership potential.
Competency as a Leadership Trait
People want to follow someone who is competent. This doesn’t mean a leader needs to be the foremost expert on every area of the entire organization, but they need to be able to demonstrate competency.
For a leader to demonstrate that they are competent, it isn’t enough to just avoid displaying incompetency. Some people will assume you are competent because of your leadership position, but most will have to see demonstrations before deciding that you are competent.
When people under your leadership look at some action you have taken and think, “that just goes to show why he is the one in charge”, you are demonstrating competency. If these moments are infrequent, it is likely that some demonstrations of competency will help boost your leadership influence.
Like the other traits, it isn’t enough for a leader to be competent. They must demonstrate competency in a way that people notice. This can be a delicate balance. There is a danger of drawing too much attention to yourself in a way that makes the leader seem arrogant. Another potential danger is that of minimizing others contributions and appearing to take credit for the work of others.
As a leader, one of the safest ways to “toot you own horn without blowing it”, is to celebrate and bring attention to team achievements. In this way you indirectly point out your competency as a leader. For example: “Last year I set a goal of reaching $12 million in sales and, thanks to everyone’s hard word, as of today, we have reached $13.5 million.”
Inspiration as a Leadership Trait
People want to be inspired. In fact, there is a whole class of people who will follow an inspiring leader–even when the leader has no other qualities. If you have developed the other traits in this article, being inspiring is usually just a matter of communicating clearly and with passion. Being inspiring means telling people how your organization is going to change the world.
A great example of inspiration is when Steve Jobs stole the CEO from Pepsi by asking him, “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to change the world?” Being inspiring means showing people the big picture and helping them see beyond a narrow focus and understand how their part fits into the big picture.
One technique to develop your ability to inspire is telling stories. Stories can be examples from your customers, fictitious examples from your customers, or even historical fables and myths. Stories can help you vividly illustrate what you are trying to communicate. Stories that communicate on an emotional level help communicate deeper than words and leave an imprint much stronger than anything you can achieve through a simple stating of the facts.
Learning to be inspiring is not easy–particularly for individuals lacking in charisma. It can be learned. Take note of people who inspire you and analyze the way they communicate. Look for ways to passionately express your vision. While there will always be room for improvement, a small investment in effort and awareness will give you a significant improvement in this leadership trait.
Intelligence as a Leadership Trait
Intelligence is something that can be difficult to develop. The road toward becoming more intelligent is difficult, long and can’t be completed without investing considerable time. Developing intelligence is a lifestyle choice. Your college graduation was the beginning of your education, not the end. In fact, much of what is taught in college functions merely as a foundational language for lifelong educational experiences.
To develop intelligence you need to commit to continual learning–both formally and informally. With modern advances in distance, education it is easy to take a class or two each year from well respected professors in the evening at your computer.
Informally, you can develop a great deal of intelligence in any field simply by investing a reasonable amount of time to reading on a daily basis. The fact is that most people won’t make a regular investment in their education. Spending 30 minutes of focused reading every day will give you 182 hours of study time each year.
For the most part, people will notice if you are intelligent by observing your behavior and attitude. Trying to display your intelligence is likely to be counterproductive. One of the greatest signs of someone who is truly intelligent is humility. The greater your education, the greater your understanding of how little we really understand.
You can demonstrate your intelligence by gently leading people toward understanding–even when you know the answer. Your focus needs to be on helping others learn–not demonstrating how smart you are. Arrogance will put you in a position where people are secretly hopeful that you’ll make a mistake and appear foolish.
As unintuitive as it may seem, one of the best ways to exhibit intelligence is by asking questions. Learning from the people you lead by asking intelligent thoughtful questions will do more to enhance your intelligence credibility than just about anything. Of course this means you need to be capable of asking intelligent questions.
Everyone considers themselves intelligent. If you ask them to explain parts of their area of expertise and spend the time to really understand (as demonstrated by asking questions), their opinion of your intelligence will go up. After all, you now know more about what makes them so intelligent, so you must be smart as well. Your ability to demonstrate respect for the intellect of others will probably do more to influence the perception of your intellect than your actual intelligence.
Summary of the Five Leadership Traits
By consciously making an effort to exhibit these traits, people will be more likely to follow you. These are the most important traits that people look for in their leaders. By exhibiting them on a regular basis, you will be able to grow your influence to its potential as a leader.
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE !!!!
http://www.kevinkhemphill.com
http://www.kevinkhemphill.wordpress.com
Ph. 615-653-0679
Some people sit and pontificate about whether leaders are made or born.
The true leader ignores such arguments and instead concentrates on how to become better at leading people. In this article, we are going to discuss five leadership traits that people look for in a leader. If you are able to increase your skill in these five traits, you will make it easier for people to want to follow you. The less time you have to spend on getting people to follow you, the more time you have to spend refining exactly where you want to go and how to get there.
The five leadership traits are:
1.Honest
2.Forward-Looking
3.Competent
4.Inspiring
5.Intelligent
These five characteristics come from Kouzes and Posner’s research into leadership that was done for the book The Leadership Challenge.
Your skill at exhibiting these five traits is strongly correlated with people’s desire to follow your lead. Exhibiting these traits will inspire confidence in your leadership. Not exhibiting these traits or exhibiting the opposite of these traits will decrease your leadership influence with those around you.
It is important to exhibit these traits. Simply possessing each trait is not enough; you have to display it in a way that people notice. People want to see you demonstrating these traits–not just assuming that you have them. It isn’t enough to just be neutral. For example, just because you are not dishonest will not cause people to recognize that you are honest. Just avoiding displays of incompetence won’t inspire the same confidence as truly displaying competence.
The focus of each of these five traits needs to be on what people see you do–not just the things they don’t see you do. Being honest isn’t a matter of not lying–it is taking the extra effort to display honesty.
Honesty as a Leadership Trait
People want to follow an honest leader. Years ago, many employees started out by assuming that their leadership was honest simply because the authority of their position. With modern scandals, this is no longer true.
When you start a leadership position, you need to assume that people will think you are a little dishonest. In order to be seen as an honest individual, you will have to go out of your way to display honesty. People will not assume you are honest simply because you have never been caught lying.
One of the most frequent places where leaders miss an opportunity to display honesty is in handling mistakes. Much of a leader’s job is to try new things and refine the ideas that don’t work. However, many leaders want to avoid failure to the extent that they don’t admit when something did not work.
There was a medium size organization that was attempting to move to a less centralized structure. Instead of one location serving an entire city, they wanted to put smaller offices throughout the entire metro area. At the same time, they were planning an expansion for headquarters to accommodate more customers at the main site. The smaller remote offices was heralded as a way to reach more customers at a lower cost and cover more demographic areas.
After spending a considerable amount of money on a satellite location, it became clear that the cost structure would not support a separate smaller office. As the construction completed on the expanded headquarters building, the smaller office was closed. This was good decision making. The smaller offices seemed like a good idea, but when the advantages didn’t materialize (due to poor management or incorrect assumptions) it made sense to abandon the model. This was a chance for the leadership to display honesty with the employees, be candid about why things didn’t work out as expected, learn from the mistakes an move on.
Unfortunately in this situation the leadership told employees that they had planned on closing the satellite location all along and it was just a temporary measure until construction was completed on the larger headquarters building. While this wasn’t necessarily true, it didn’t quite cross over into the area of lying. Within a few months the situation was mostly forgotten and everyone moved on. Few of the employees felt that leadership was being dishonest. However, they had passed up a marvelous opportunity to display the trait of honesty in admitting a mistake.
Opportunities to display honesty on a large scale may not happen every day. As a leader, showing people that you are honest even when it means admitting to a mistake, displays a key trait that people are looking for in their leaders. By demonstrating honesty with yourself, with your organization and with outside organizations, you will increase your leadership influence. People will trust someone who actively displays honesty–not just as an honest individual, but as someone who is worth following.
Forward-Looking as a Leadership Trait
The whole point of leadership is figuring out where to go from where you are now. While you may know where you want to go, people won’t see that unless you actively communicate it with them. Remember, these traits aren’t just things you need to have, they are things you need to actively display to those around you.
When people do not consider their leader forward-looking, that leader is usually suffering from one of two possible problems:
1.The leader doesn’t have a forward-looking vision.
2.The leader is unwilling or scared to share the vision with others.
When a leader doesn’t have a vision for the future, it usually because they are spending so much time on today, that they haven’t really thought about tomorrow. On a very simplistic level this can be solved simply by setting aside some time for planning, strategizing and thinking about the future.
Many times when a leader has no time to think and plan for the future, it is because they are doing a poor job of leading in the present. They have created an organization and systems that rely too much on the leader for input at every stage.
Some leaders have a clear vision, but don’t wish to share it with others. Most of the time they are concerned that they will lose credibility if they share a vision of the future that doesn’t come about. This is a legitimate concern. However, people need to know that a leader has a strong vision for the future and a strong plan for going forward. Leaders run into trouble sharing their vision of the future when they start making promises to individuals. This goes back to the trait of honesty. If a leader tells someone that “next year I’m going to make you manager of your own division”, that may be a promise they can’t keep. The leader is probably basing this promotion on the organization meeting financial goals, but the individual will only hear the personal promise.
An organization I was working with was floundering. It seemed like everyone had a different idea about what they were trying to achieve. Each department head was headed in a different direction and there was very little synergy as small fiefdoms and internal politics took their toll.
Eventually a consulting firm was called in to help fix the problem. They analyzed the situation, talked to customers, talked to employees and set up a meeting with the CEO. They were going to ask him about his vision for the future. The employees were excited that finally there would be a report stating the direction for the organization.
After the meeting, the consultants came out shaking their heads. The employees asked how the important question had gone to which the consultants replied, “we asked him, but you aren’t going to like the answer”. The CEO had told the consultant that, while he had a vision and plan for the future, he wasn’t going to share it with anyone because he didn’t want there to be any disappointment if the goals were not reached.
Leaders can communicate their goals and vision for the future without making promises that they may not be able to keep. If a leader needs to make a promise to an individual, it should be tied to certain measurable objectives being met. The CEO in the example didn’t realize how much damage he was doing by not demonstrating the trait of being forward-looking by communicating his vision with the organization.
The CEO was forward-looking. He had a plan and a vision and he spent a lot of time thinking about where the organization was headed. However, his fear of communicating these things to the rest of the organization hampered his leadership potential.
Competency as a Leadership Trait
People want to follow someone who is competent. This doesn’t mean a leader needs to be the foremost expert on every area of the entire organization, but they need to be able to demonstrate competency.
For a leader to demonstrate that they are competent, it isn’t enough to just avoid displaying incompetency. Some people will assume you are competent because of your leadership position, but most will have to see demonstrations before deciding that you are competent.
When people under your leadership look at some action you have taken and think, “that just goes to show why he is the one in charge”, you are demonstrating competency. If these moments are infrequent, it is likely that some demonstrations of competency will help boost your leadership influence.
Like the other traits, it isn’t enough for a leader to be competent. They must demonstrate competency in a way that people notice. This can be a delicate balance. There is a danger of drawing too much attention to yourself in a way that makes the leader seem arrogant. Another potential danger is that of minimizing others contributions and appearing to take credit for the work of others.
As a leader, one of the safest ways to “toot you own horn without blowing it”, is to celebrate and bring attention to team achievements. In this way you indirectly point out your competency as a leader. For example: “Last year I set a goal of reaching $12 million in sales and, thanks to everyone’s hard word, as of today, we have reached $13.5 million.”
Inspiration as a Leadership Trait
People want to be inspired. In fact, there is a whole class of people who will follow an inspiring leader–even when the leader has no other qualities. If you have developed the other traits in this article, being inspiring is usually just a matter of communicating clearly and with passion. Being inspiring means telling people how your organization is going to change the world.
A great example of inspiration is when Steve Jobs stole the CEO from Pepsi by asking him, “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to change the world?” Being inspiring means showing people the big picture and helping them see beyond a narrow focus and understand how their part fits into the big picture.
One technique to develop your ability to inspire is telling stories. Stories can be examples from your customers, fictitious examples from your customers, or even historical fables and myths. Stories can help you vividly illustrate what you are trying to communicate. Stories that communicate on an emotional level help communicate deeper than words and leave an imprint much stronger than anything you can achieve through a simple stating of the facts.
Learning to be inspiring is not easy–particularly for individuals lacking in charisma. It can be learned. Take note of people who inspire you and analyze the way they communicate. Look for ways to passionately express your vision. While there will always be room for improvement, a small investment in effort and awareness will give you a significant improvement in this leadership trait.
Intelligence as a Leadership Trait
Intelligence is something that can be difficult to develop. The road toward becoming more intelligent is difficult, long and can’t be completed without investing considerable time. Developing intelligence is a lifestyle choice. Your college graduation was the beginning of your education, not the end. In fact, much of what is taught in college functions merely as a foundational language for lifelong educational experiences.
To develop intelligence you need to commit to continual learning–both formally and informally. With modern advances in distance, education it is easy to take a class or two each year from well respected professors in the evening at your computer.
Informally, you can develop a great deal of intelligence in any field simply by investing a reasonable amount of time to reading on a daily basis. The fact is that most people won’t make a regular investment in their education. Spending 30 minutes of focused reading every day will give you 182 hours of study time each year.
For the most part, people will notice if you are intelligent by observing your behavior and attitude. Trying to display your intelligence is likely to be counterproductive. One of the greatest signs of someone who is truly intelligent is humility. The greater your education, the greater your understanding of how little we really understand.
You can demonstrate your intelligence by gently leading people toward understanding–even when you know the answer. Your focus needs to be on helping others learn–not demonstrating how smart you are. Arrogance will put you in a position where people are secretly hopeful that you’ll make a mistake and appear foolish.
As unintuitive as it may seem, one of the best ways to exhibit intelligence is by asking questions. Learning from the people you lead by asking intelligent thoughtful questions will do more to enhance your intelligence credibility than just about anything. Of course this means you need to be capable of asking intelligent questions.
Everyone considers themselves intelligent. If you ask them to explain parts of their area of expertise and spend the time to really understand (as demonstrated by asking questions), their opinion of your intelligence will go up. After all, you now know more about what makes them so intelligent, so you must be smart as well. Your ability to demonstrate respect for the intellect of others will probably do more to influence the perception of your intellect than your actual intelligence.
Summary of the Five Leadership Traits
By consciously making an effort to exhibit these traits, people will be more likely to follow you. These are the most important traits that people look for in their leaders. By exhibiting them on a regular basis, you will be able to grow your influence to its potential as a leader.
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE !!!!
http://www.kevinkhemphill.com
http://www.kevinkhemphill.wordpress.com
Ph. 615-653-0679
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Get Real - Make Real Money!
Greetings,
Lottery sales are booming. (And so are alcoholic beverage sales, but that's a whole separate issue.) And why wouldn't they be. The economy has tanked and the ship is still sinking. Unemployment is through the roof and is still rising. People are starting to panic.
Everybody is looking for the magic pill--maybe it's a magic bullet, actually--to make their problems go away. They want to get rich quick, kick back, relax. No pain, no worries, everything will be fine. Well, if this is what you're looking for, there are two old adages that apply. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. (A better way to say that is if it sounds too good to be true, it's probably a lie.) The second adage is no pain, no gain.
The fact is that nothing comes easy. There is no short cut to success--period. Hard work, dedication, and motivation are all common denominators for striking it rich. There is of course a lot more involved, but these are three prerequisites.
The bottom line is that if you want to get rich, you first need to get real.
The internet today is like California during the gold rush. Everybody wants to hit the mother lode, and everybody is staking a claim. But just like the prospector who has to sift though dirt to find a gold nugget, so too must the internet entrepreneur sift through hype to find a real opportunity.
The internet is a business tool, not a magic wand. A serious entrepreneur who wants to launch a serious business--and make serious money--can do so on the internet. But a desperate person seeking a quick fix for existing financial problems will simply create more financial problems. And lose a ton of cash in the process.
The principles of a successful business are pretty simple. Create or offer a great product or service. Find a hungry market. Get your message in front of the masses. Attract prospects and make sales. Deliver exceptional value. Get paid. Simple, yes; easy, no. Running any kind of legitimate business requires operational expertise, a financial investment--and a lot of hard work. A legitimate internet business is no different, for the most part at least.
There are however some differences, and important ones at that. Since you don't need a storefront or an office, the capital investment is less than for a bricks-and-mortar enterprise. Commuting costs and other workplace expenses are completely eliminated. There are no occupancy costs, and payroll is typically kept to a minimum, or eliminated altogether. And since an internet business is by definition promoted on the internet, there are tremendous efficiencies in advertising expenses because you have no printing costs, and you're not buying media or postage.
The other difference is that because of the vast reach of the internet marketplace, it is not uncommon for successful entrepreneurs to share their wisdom. Sifting through the clutter of internet scams and rip-offs, it is still possible to find proven and tested systems that literally provide a turnkey online business model. CarbonCopyPRO is one such system.
CarbonCopyPRO is a highly tested and refined training and marketing engine that eliminates countless learning curves and automates the process of filling the sales funnel. Prospects are attracted to your business, qualified and even sold by the CarbonCopyPRO team. While all of this happens in the background, the entrepreneur can focus on more important business matters, like building relationships and growing the business. It's a turnkey blueprint for success in the form of a working business model that anyone can use.
Now, an online business might not be for everybody, especially if you have a lottery based mentality and are looking to "get rich quick." (I suggest something like cash gifting or any of the countless money games out there. Bernie Maddoff anyone?) But if you are seriously considering venturing into the world of legitimate online business, stack the deck in your favor. Understand that you are undertaking a real business, not a part time hobby. Arm yourself with a proven and tested system of success and align yourself with a team of experienced professionals who can lead you around the pitfalls that swallow most. CarbonCopyPRO won't make your problems go away. But it can help you to start and build your own business quickly and efficiently, and to reap the tremendous rewards that await everyone who is willing to work for them.
All my best,
KINGDOM!
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE !
615.653.0679
Lottery sales are booming. (And so are alcoholic beverage sales, but that's a whole separate issue.) And why wouldn't they be. The economy has tanked and the ship is still sinking. Unemployment is through the roof and is still rising. People are starting to panic.
Everybody is looking for the magic pill--maybe it's a magic bullet, actually--to make their problems go away. They want to get rich quick, kick back, relax. No pain, no worries, everything will be fine. Well, if this is what you're looking for, there are two old adages that apply. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. (A better way to say that is if it sounds too good to be true, it's probably a lie.) The second adage is no pain, no gain.
The fact is that nothing comes easy. There is no short cut to success--period. Hard work, dedication, and motivation are all common denominators for striking it rich. There is of course a lot more involved, but these are three prerequisites.
The bottom line is that if you want to get rich, you first need to get real.
The internet today is like California during the gold rush. Everybody wants to hit the mother lode, and everybody is staking a claim. But just like the prospector who has to sift though dirt to find a gold nugget, so too must the internet entrepreneur sift through hype to find a real opportunity.
The internet is a business tool, not a magic wand. A serious entrepreneur who wants to launch a serious business--and make serious money--can do so on the internet. But a desperate person seeking a quick fix for existing financial problems will simply create more financial problems. And lose a ton of cash in the process.
The principles of a successful business are pretty simple. Create or offer a great product or service. Find a hungry market. Get your message in front of the masses. Attract prospects and make sales. Deliver exceptional value. Get paid. Simple, yes; easy, no. Running any kind of legitimate business requires operational expertise, a financial investment--and a lot of hard work. A legitimate internet business is no different, for the most part at least.
There are however some differences, and important ones at that. Since you don't need a storefront or an office, the capital investment is less than for a bricks-and-mortar enterprise. Commuting costs and other workplace expenses are completely eliminated. There are no occupancy costs, and payroll is typically kept to a minimum, or eliminated altogether. And since an internet business is by definition promoted on the internet, there are tremendous efficiencies in advertising expenses because you have no printing costs, and you're not buying media or postage.
The other difference is that because of the vast reach of the internet marketplace, it is not uncommon for successful entrepreneurs to share their wisdom. Sifting through the clutter of internet scams and rip-offs, it is still possible to find proven and tested systems that literally provide a turnkey online business model. CarbonCopyPRO is one such system.
CarbonCopyPRO is a highly tested and refined training and marketing engine that eliminates countless learning curves and automates the process of filling the sales funnel. Prospects are attracted to your business, qualified and even sold by the CarbonCopyPRO team. While all of this happens in the background, the entrepreneur can focus on more important business matters, like building relationships and growing the business. It's a turnkey blueprint for success in the form of a working business model that anyone can use.
Now, an online business might not be for everybody, especially if you have a lottery based mentality and are looking to "get rich quick." (I suggest something like cash gifting or any of the countless money games out there. Bernie Maddoff anyone?) But if you are seriously considering venturing into the world of legitimate online business, stack the deck in your favor. Understand that you are undertaking a real business, not a part time hobby. Arm yourself with a proven and tested system of success and align yourself with a team of experienced professionals who can lead you around the pitfalls that swallow most. CarbonCopyPRO won't make your problems go away. But it can help you to start and build your own business quickly and efficiently, and to reap the tremendous rewards that await everyone who is willing to work for them.
All my best,
KINGDOM!
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE !
615.653.0679
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Sticks And Stones!
This is a topic I have wanted to write about for many years but was worried I may “offend” some people. I no longer care. Over the last five years I have purchased about $10,000 worth of information online. I did this to stay ahead of the curve and improve my odds on being successful. In the last year I have started to notice that almost every author I buy from has someone calling them a “scam”. How is it possible that every known expert on the internet is a “scam”?
I started to do some research. I randomly picked some people who have affected my life in a positive way. I did a Google search on these people:
Anthony Robbins- He has sold millions of books, helped thousands of people, and suggests love as a way of doing business. Apparently, he is a scam.
Donald Trump- Self made billionaire, TV show host, best selling author. Guess what also called a scam.
Oprah - Self made billionaire and super philanthropist. Also called a scam. Impossible you say? More like unbelievable.
Now, just for fun I thought I would enter the search term Mother Theresa. There is no way that someone could call an icon, a person of such amazing levels of compassion, a saint, a scam is there? Wrong. There is actually a website that calls her a fraud and an evil person. That one blew my mind.
How could all these people and there businesses be a scam? The truth is….they aren’t. The true scammer is the person writing the article about them.
Now, I am not saying that there aren’t illegal or illegitimate businesses out there. There are. But not anywhere close to as many as you think. At least 98% of people and businesses that are of accused being a scam are being improperly labeled. Here are the three reasons why calling something a scam is a scam.
1) People take zero responsibility for the decisions they make. They buy some information or start a business and when it doesn’t work for them they call it a scam. Did they do the research? Did they follow the instructions? Were they under capitalized? There are so many reasons why a person can fail and 99% of them are the fault of the buyer.
2) They want to “ride the coat tails”. This means they have something they want to sell and they leverage the successful person’s traffic to get people to there website. If you ever see someone selling something right after they trash a person on there site then understand it is a marketing tactic. It has zero credibility.
3) Consumer protection-like sites. These are the biggest scammers out there. Most of owners cannot even be found for a reason. They are constantly being sued for slander but if you can’t find them you can’t sting them. They allow uneducated people to whine and complain about people and companies without verifying the validity of anything. You could even go on these sites as an employee of a company and randomly trash your competition….without anyone verifying the truth. So why do these sites exist? So the owners can sell advertising spots on there website. They are cockroaches. Plain and simple.
I hope this article gets passed around to millions of people. I want to educate everyone on how ridiculous things are getting. If you have a bad experience with something then ask yourself if you could have done something more.
Why?
Because that is how you learn. If you never take any responsibility for your failures then it makes it almost impossible to succeed. Look at the people who have the results you want and copy them. Don’t rip them down ...lift them up!
KINGDOM!
Kevin K. Hemphill
615.653.0679
I started to do some research. I randomly picked some people who have affected my life in a positive way. I did a Google search on these people:
Anthony Robbins- He has sold millions of books, helped thousands of people, and suggests love as a way of doing business. Apparently, he is a scam.
Donald Trump- Self made billionaire, TV show host, best selling author. Guess what also called a scam.
Oprah - Self made billionaire and super philanthropist. Also called a scam. Impossible you say? More like unbelievable.
Now, just for fun I thought I would enter the search term Mother Theresa. There is no way that someone could call an icon, a person of such amazing levels of compassion, a saint, a scam is there? Wrong. There is actually a website that calls her a fraud and an evil person. That one blew my mind.
How could all these people and there businesses be a scam? The truth is….they aren’t. The true scammer is the person writing the article about them.
Now, I am not saying that there aren’t illegal or illegitimate businesses out there. There are. But not anywhere close to as many as you think. At least 98% of people and businesses that are of accused being a scam are being improperly labeled. Here are the three reasons why calling something a scam is a scam.
1) People take zero responsibility for the decisions they make. They buy some information or start a business and when it doesn’t work for them they call it a scam. Did they do the research? Did they follow the instructions? Were they under capitalized? There are so many reasons why a person can fail and 99% of them are the fault of the buyer.
2) They want to “ride the coat tails”. This means they have something they want to sell and they leverage the successful person’s traffic to get people to there website. If you ever see someone selling something right after they trash a person on there site then understand it is a marketing tactic. It has zero credibility.
3) Consumer protection-like sites. These are the biggest scammers out there. Most of owners cannot even be found for a reason. They are constantly being sued for slander but if you can’t find them you can’t sting them. They allow uneducated people to whine and complain about people and companies without verifying the validity of anything. You could even go on these sites as an employee of a company and randomly trash your competition….without anyone verifying the truth. So why do these sites exist? So the owners can sell advertising spots on there website. They are cockroaches. Plain and simple.
I hope this article gets passed around to millions of people. I want to educate everyone on how ridiculous things are getting. If you have a bad experience with something then ask yourself if you could have done something more.
Why?
Because that is how you learn. If you never take any responsibility for your failures then it makes it almost impossible to succeed. Look at the people who have the results you want and copy them. Don’t rip them down ...lift them up!
KINGDOM!
Kevin K. Hemphill
615.653.0679
Impossible Is Nothing !
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
You must ask yourself how am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk. I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives. It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
The events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Live with passion!
KINGDOM!
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE!
615.653.0679
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
You must ask yourself how am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk. I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives. It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
The events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Live with passion!
KINGDOM!
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE!
615.653.0679
Courage - Plain & Simple - LIVE IT !
In our daily lives, courage doesn’t get very much attention. Courage is a virtue mainly associated with soldiers, law enforcement, firefighters, and others who perform heroic acts. Security is what matters to most people today. You may have been taught to avoid too much boldness or bravery because it is too dangerous. You may have been told not to take any unnecessary risks or taught not to draw any attention to yourself when in public. There are family traditions taught to many children such as never talking to strangers, watching out for anyone who appears suspicious, being sure to always stay safe.
The downside of the overemphasis of personal safety is that you may end up living reactively. Rather than setting your own goals and making your own plans to achieve those goals, reaching for your dreams with gusto, you may feel you have to play it safe. You may find yourself seeking only safe, secure jobs even thought the work doesn’t satisfy you spiritually or emotionally. You may stay in a passionless relationship simply because it provides security and safety. After all, you were taught not to buck the ‘normal’ system. You tend to accept your life and try to make the most of it while sticking with the traditions of safety and security. You probably never rock the boat and simply go with the general flow, hoping that the currents of that life flow will take you in favorable directions.
Of course, there are very real dangers in life which sensible people do avoid but there is a big difference between having courage and being reckless. The type of courage I mean is not bravery to put your life on the line while saving someone from a flaming inferno. The sort of courage you need is courage to put away imaginary fears and claim the powerful life you have been denying yourself. You need the courage to put aside fear of failure, rejection, of becoming broke, of loneliness, humiliation, fear of speaking in public, fear of not being accepted by family and friends, fear of physical pain, fear or regret and fear of success.
Are you allowing fears like these to hold you back? What would your life be like if you had no such fears at all? You’d have intelligence and common sense to guide you around real dangers but no longer experience the emotion of fear so that you could take risks, especially when the worst case scenario would not actually harm you at all. You’d probably speak up often, talk to more strangers and make them into friends, close more sales, grab ambitious projects you’ve dreamed about and learn to enjoy things which currently cause you fear. This could make a huge difference in your life!
Perhaps you have sometimes convinced yourself that you really aren’t afraid of anything and that you have good, logical reasons why you avoid certain things. You may use the excuse that it is rude to talk up to a strange and introduce yourself. You may think you avoid public speaking because you have nothing important to say. You may avoid asking for a raise because you think you have to wait for the next review period. You’re really just rationalizing and should, instead, think about how great life could be if you could courageously and confidently do these sort of things without fear of any kind.
Courage Define
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
The definitions of courage above all suggest that courage is the ability to take action in spite of any fear. “Courage” derives from the Latin cor, meaning ‘heart’. True courage is more intellect than feeling. It uses the human part of the brain, the neocortex, to gain control from the emotional limbic brain shared with other mammals. The limbic brain provides signals of danger but the neocortex can reason whether the danger is real or not, so you are able to feel the fear and take action without letting the fear stop you. When you learn to act in the face of fear, the more human you are. The more you let the fear stop you, the more you live in the manner of the lower mammals. “Are you a man or a mouse?” is really a question consistent with human neurology!
Courageous folks are still fearful but they just don’t allow that fear to stop them. People who lack courage give into fear more often, which has the long-term impact of allowing that fear to become stronger and stronger. When you avoid fear and feel a sense of relief when you escape it, the human brain reinforces the mouse-like fear avoidance behavior causing you to avoid facing the fear when encountered again. The more you avoid asking for that raise, the more paralyzed you will feel about taking similar action in the future until you completely condition your fear response to cause you to be even more timid and mouse-like.
This avoidance behavior causes a person to become stagnant over time. As you age, you will continue to reinforce fear reactions so that it becomes difficult to even imagine yourself facing your fears. You’ll begin to view fear as a very real, acceptable part of life and you will hide yourself in an insulated life, protected from all fears. You may find yourself in a stable but loveless marriage or in a job you hate but which provides a modest but stable income and is risk-free. You may find yourself rationalizing behaviors, telling yourself you are too old to change jobs and that you have to support the family so you can’t take any financial risks or that you can’t lose weight because you parents were All you have left is to live out the remaining years in total safety and security but with little or no excitement.
There is something else going on here, isn’t there? That voice in your mind tells you that this simply is not the life you wanted to live. You want more, a whole lot more. That voice wants you to become wealthy, have a wonderful love life, get in great physical shape, learn new skills, travel, make fun friends, help people less fortunate than yourself, and leave a meaningful mark on the world when you pass on. You realize you have settled for a job that offers no real challenge and will probably be there the rest of your working life; but you also realize you simply are not willing to continue this way. That voice tells you that your oversized body which gets easily winded is not acceptable. That voice makes you feel disappointment when you see the plight of your family and the things they are missing out on in life. You hear the voice telling you that you have problems motivating yourself because you are not doing what you ought to be with your life and the reason is fear.
You can reject the voice in your head and live with your mediocre life full of regrets and missed opportunities until the day you die. But you do not have to reject what the voice is telling you. You can respond by confronting the gut feeling that something is not right about your life. You can stop trying to silence the voice by drowning yourself in TV or radio, working long hours, or drinking alcohol or too much caffeine and sugar. These actions have been used in the past to lower your level of consciousness and sink closer to the instinctive animal, never becoming a fully conscious human. You will notice you have surrounded yourself with fellow mice and when you do encounter a fully conscious being, it frightens you silly to realize how much of your own courage has been thrown away.
Becoming Fully Consciousness
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
- Anais Nin
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
In order to break this fear cycle, you must summons your courage and face your inner voice. Sit down in a place where you can be uninterrupted with a pen and paper or your computer and keyboard. Listen to the small voice in your head and face what it is saying to you, no matter how difficult it is to hear. Keep in mind that the voice is only an abstratoin. You may not hear words but you might see what you should be doing or simply have emotional feelings about it. The term “voice” is just to communicate the concept. The voice may tell you that your marriage has been going badly for the past decade but you have turned your mind off about the problem because of fear of divorce. The voice might tell you that you have been too fearful to start your own business due to fear of failure so you have remained stuck in a thankless job you hate. It may tell you that you are addicted to food or that the friend you have been hanging around will not help you become the person you want to be and that you should leave the group and make new friends even though you fear loneliness. The voice may make you face the fact that you always wanted to be a writer or some other profession but have settled for a sales job because it makes you feel secure and safe. The voice may tell you that you are wasting many talents. Try to reduce each message from the voice to just a single word or two and learn what it is trying to tell you. Leave. Quit. Write. Dance. Speak. Exercise. Act. Switch. Move. Let go. Ask. Forgive. Learn. Sell. Whatever words you find your voice saying to you, write them down. You may find you have a different set of word for different areas of your life.
Next, you must consciously acknowledge that these changes are what you really truly want. It is ok to think that it is not possible for you at this point. It is even ok if you do not see how you could make these changes. Just don’t deny any longer that you want them because that lowers your consciousness. Look at your overweight physic and admit you really want to be slim and healthy. When you light a cigarette, admit you want to become a nonsmoker. Admit you would like to be in a better love relationship. When you see people who are really at peace with who they are, admit you want that inner peace for yourself. Leave denial behind and move to a place where you can admit what you really want to do and admit you just don’t feel you have the ability to do it. It is just fine to want something you do not think you can have but in most cases you are wrong in thinking you can’t have what you want. But first you must stop lying to yourself by saying you don’t really want what you do want.
Act Without Fear, Even If You Expect To Fail
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
- Orison Swett Marden
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
How does it make you feel to acknowledge some of your fears? You may be afraid you are paralyzed as far as taking action about your fears, but that is normal at this point. When you dive right in and confront fears face-to-face you will build confidence and courage allowing you to more easily face the next fear.
It is important that you learn that real courage is mental, not emotional. The thinking parrt of your brain has to override the emotional impulses so you can use your intelligence, logic and free will to remove limitations inherited from your emotional being.
Of course, this is all easy to say but more difficult to do. You may know logically that there is no real physical danger from standing on a stage and speaking to hundreds or thousands of people but fear kicks any nonetheless and your imagination prevents you from attempting public speaking. That same fear may be stopping you from quitting a dead end job to take a chance on a much better opportunity.
Courage doesn’t mean that you must take immediate or drastic action in most situations. It is a learned skill which requires conditioning and practice just as lifting weights builds stronger muscles. You would never go into a gym and try to lift the largest weight; instead you would start small and work your way up. It is the same with overcoming fears.
One method for building courage can be analogous to lifting progressively heavy weights. Begin with weights you know you can lift but which do provide a challenge before moving up to heavier weight. By the same concept, tackle a small fear at first and then teach yourself how to tackle larger and larger fears. For example, speaking in front of a group of 10 people is not nearly as fear-invoking as speaking to 100 or 1,000. Start small and build on your successes.
Grab a paper and pencil and list a fear that you want to remove from your life. Below the name of the fear, make a list of numbers from 1 to 10 and, beside each number, write down a variation of the fear with number one being the least fear-producing version and 10 being the most fearful of them. Let’s say your fear is asking someone on a date. You might list the number 1 version as going out in public and smiling at an attractive person as being a very mild fear. The second might be smiling at ten people you do not know in a single day. Perhaps number 10 might be asking out the person you want to date in front of all your friends and potentially being rejected, which is your biggest fear. Set a goal to complete the number one fear variation on your list successfully. Once you do so, move on to setting a goal of completing the number two fear variant, and continue until you have completed all the items on your list. If needed, adjust some of the list items to make them realistic and practical to perform. If a step feels too large, break it down into smaller steps and overcome each of the smaller steps. Go as quickly or slowly as you feel comfortable but keep your eyes set on making progress on a regular basis. You will find you now have courage to ask anyone for a date that you choose without fear!
The downside of the overemphasis of personal safety is that you may end up living reactively. Rather than setting your own goals and making your own plans to achieve those goals, reaching for your dreams with gusto, you may feel you have to play it safe. You may find yourself seeking only safe, secure jobs even thought the work doesn’t satisfy you spiritually or emotionally. You may stay in a passionless relationship simply because it provides security and safety. After all, you were taught not to buck the ‘normal’ system. You tend to accept your life and try to make the most of it while sticking with the traditions of safety and security. You probably never rock the boat and simply go with the general flow, hoping that the currents of that life flow will take you in favorable directions.
Of course, there are very real dangers in life which sensible people do avoid but there is a big difference between having courage and being reckless. The type of courage I mean is not bravery to put your life on the line while saving someone from a flaming inferno. The sort of courage you need is courage to put away imaginary fears and claim the powerful life you have been denying yourself. You need the courage to put aside fear of failure, rejection, of becoming broke, of loneliness, humiliation, fear of speaking in public, fear of not being accepted by family and friends, fear of physical pain, fear or regret and fear of success.
Are you allowing fears like these to hold you back? What would your life be like if you had no such fears at all? You’d have intelligence and common sense to guide you around real dangers but no longer experience the emotion of fear so that you could take risks, especially when the worst case scenario would not actually harm you at all. You’d probably speak up often, talk to more strangers and make them into friends, close more sales, grab ambitious projects you’ve dreamed about and learn to enjoy things which currently cause you fear. This could make a huge difference in your life!
Perhaps you have sometimes convinced yourself that you really aren’t afraid of anything and that you have good, logical reasons why you avoid certain things. You may use the excuse that it is rude to talk up to a strange and introduce yourself. You may think you avoid public speaking because you have nothing important to say. You may avoid asking for a raise because you think you have to wait for the next review period. You’re really just rationalizing and should, instead, think about how great life could be if you could courageously and confidently do these sort of things without fear of any kind.
Courage Define
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
The definitions of courage above all suggest that courage is the ability to take action in spite of any fear. “Courage” derives from the Latin cor, meaning ‘heart’. True courage is more intellect than feeling. It uses the human part of the brain, the neocortex, to gain control from the emotional limbic brain shared with other mammals. The limbic brain provides signals of danger but the neocortex can reason whether the danger is real or not, so you are able to feel the fear and take action without letting the fear stop you. When you learn to act in the face of fear, the more human you are. The more you let the fear stop you, the more you live in the manner of the lower mammals. “Are you a man or a mouse?” is really a question consistent with human neurology!
Courageous folks are still fearful but they just don’t allow that fear to stop them. People who lack courage give into fear more often, which has the long-term impact of allowing that fear to become stronger and stronger. When you avoid fear and feel a sense of relief when you escape it, the human brain reinforces the mouse-like fear avoidance behavior causing you to avoid facing the fear when encountered again. The more you avoid asking for that raise, the more paralyzed you will feel about taking similar action in the future until you completely condition your fear response to cause you to be even more timid and mouse-like.
This avoidance behavior causes a person to become stagnant over time. As you age, you will continue to reinforce fear reactions so that it becomes difficult to even imagine yourself facing your fears. You’ll begin to view fear as a very real, acceptable part of life and you will hide yourself in an insulated life, protected from all fears. You may find yourself in a stable but loveless marriage or in a job you hate but which provides a modest but stable income and is risk-free. You may find yourself rationalizing behaviors, telling yourself you are too old to change jobs and that you have to support the family so you can’t take any financial risks or that you can’t lose weight because you parents were All you have left is to live out the remaining years in total safety and security but with little or no excitement.
There is something else going on here, isn’t there? That voice in your mind tells you that this simply is not the life you wanted to live. You want more, a whole lot more. That voice wants you to become wealthy, have a wonderful love life, get in great physical shape, learn new skills, travel, make fun friends, help people less fortunate than yourself, and leave a meaningful mark on the world when you pass on. You realize you have settled for a job that offers no real challenge and will probably be there the rest of your working life; but you also realize you simply are not willing to continue this way. That voice tells you that your oversized body which gets easily winded is not acceptable. That voice makes you feel disappointment when you see the plight of your family and the things they are missing out on in life. You hear the voice telling you that you have problems motivating yourself because you are not doing what you ought to be with your life and the reason is fear.
You can reject the voice in your head and live with your mediocre life full of regrets and missed opportunities until the day you die. But you do not have to reject what the voice is telling you. You can respond by confronting the gut feeling that something is not right about your life. You can stop trying to silence the voice by drowning yourself in TV or radio, working long hours, or drinking alcohol or too much caffeine and sugar. These actions have been used in the past to lower your level of consciousness and sink closer to the instinctive animal, never becoming a fully conscious human. You will notice you have surrounded yourself with fellow mice and when you do encounter a fully conscious being, it frightens you silly to realize how much of your own courage has been thrown away.
Becoming Fully Consciousness
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
- Anais Nin
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
In order to break this fear cycle, you must summons your courage and face your inner voice. Sit down in a place where you can be uninterrupted with a pen and paper or your computer and keyboard. Listen to the small voice in your head and face what it is saying to you, no matter how difficult it is to hear. Keep in mind that the voice is only an abstratoin. You may not hear words but you might see what you should be doing or simply have emotional feelings about it. The term “voice” is just to communicate the concept. The voice may tell you that your marriage has been going badly for the past decade but you have turned your mind off about the problem because of fear of divorce. The voice might tell you that you have been too fearful to start your own business due to fear of failure so you have remained stuck in a thankless job you hate. It may tell you that you are addicted to food or that the friend you have been hanging around will not help you become the person you want to be and that you should leave the group and make new friends even though you fear loneliness. The voice may make you face the fact that you always wanted to be a writer or some other profession but have settled for a sales job because it makes you feel secure and safe. The voice may tell you that you are wasting many talents. Try to reduce each message from the voice to just a single word or two and learn what it is trying to tell you. Leave. Quit. Write. Dance. Speak. Exercise. Act. Switch. Move. Let go. Ask. Forgive. Learn. Sell. Whatever words you find your voice saying to you, write them down. You may find you have a different set of word for different areas of your life.
Next, you must consciously acknowledge that these changes are what you really truly want. It is ok to think that it is not possible for you at this point. It is even ok if you do not see how you could make these changes. Just don’t deny any longer that you want them because that lowers your consciousness. Look at your overweight physic and admit you really want to be slim and healthy. When you light a cigarette, admit you want to become a nonsmoker. Admit you would like to be in a better love relationship. When you see people who are really at peace with who they are, admit you want that inner peace for yourself. Leave denial behind and move to a place where you can admit what you really want to do and admit you just don’t feel you have the ability to do it. It is just fine to want something you do not think you can have but in most cases you are wrong in thinking you can’t have what you want. But first you must stop lying to yourself by saying you don’t really want what you do want.
Act Without Fear, Even If You Expect To Fail
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
- Orison Swett Marden
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
How does it make you feel to acknowledge some of your fears? You may be afraid you are paralyzed as far as taking action about your fears, but that is normal at this point. When you dive right in and confront fears face-to-face you will build confidence and courage allowing you to more easily face the next fear.
It is important that you learn that real courage is mental, not emotional. The thinking parrt of your brain has to override the emotional impulses so you can use your intelligence, logic and free will to remove limitations inherited from your emotional being.
Of course, this is all easy to say but more difficult to do. You may know logically that there is no real physical danger from standing on a stage and speaking to hundreds or thousands of people but fear kicks any nonetheless and your imagination prevents you from attempting public speaking. That same fear may be stopping you from quitting a dead end job to take a chance on a much better opportunity.
Courage doesn’t mean that you must take immediate or drastic action in most situations. It is a learned skill which requires conditioning and practice just as lifting weights builds stronger muscles. You would never go into a gym and try to lift the largest weight; instead you would start small and work your way up. It is the same with overcoming fears.
One method for building courage can be analogous to lifting progressively heavy weights. Begin with weights you know you can lift but which do provide a challenge before moving up to heavier weight. By the same concept, tackle a small fear at first and then teach yourself how to tackle larger and larger fears. For example, speaking in front of a group of 10 people is not nearly as fear-invoking as speaking to 100 or 1,000. Start small and build on your successes.
Grab a paper and pencil and list a fear that you want to remove from your life. Below the name of the fear, make a list of numbers from 1 to 10 and, beside each number, write down a variation of the fear with number one being the least fear-producing version and 10 being the most fearful of them. Let’s say your fear is asking someone on a date. You might list the number 1 version as going out in public and smiling at an attractive person as being a very mild fear. The second might be smiling at ten people you do not know in a single day. Perhaps number 10 might be asking out the person you want to date in front of all your friends and potentially being rejected, which is your biggest fear. Set a goal to complete the number one fear variation on your list successfully. Once you do so, move on to setting a goal of completing the number two fear variant, and continue until you have completed all the items on your list. If needed, adjust some of the list items to make them realistic and practical to perform. If a step feels too large, break it down into smaller steps and overcome each of the smaller steps. Go as quickly or slowly as you feel comfortable but keep your eyes set on making progress on a regular basis. You will find you now have courage to ask anyone for a date that you choose without fear!
Monday, December 28, 2009
We WIN in 2010 !!!
Economic crisis got you frozen with fear?
Don't allow yourself to be paralyzed into failure! Now there is a better way...
Seize control of 2010 starting TODAY!
The sooner you take positive action the faster you'll be on the road to rising above the recession.
If you could reach just one goal this year, which one would it be?
How much of a difference in your life would it make if you reached it?
Will 2010 be just another ho-hum year that started with good intentions? Or will it be YOUR Year!
Things are tough for some people right now, and they may be getting even tougher.
But that's EXACTLY why today, more than ever, you need a little something extra. You need an edge... you need an advantage unlike anything you've ever had before.
Those who give in to fear and anxiety....those who are cowed and paralyzed by uncertainty and confusion....those who pull back and withdraw and wait....are guaranteed to see their worst fears realized. Waiting for things to change is a losing proposition.
Holding on to see what happens suck you down the drain so fast you won't know what happened. Making things change for you is the only way to win. That's not "pollyanna." That's fact.
It's also fact that "what you focus on expands."
So what would you like to focus on in 2010?
Maybe it's:
* Paying off your credit card bills?
* Rebuilding your financial portfolio?
* Buying or selling a house?
* Growing or starting a business?
* Getting away from it all and taking a vacation?
* Reaching your perfect weight?
* Preparing for retirement?
* Taking that exotic vacation you've been dreaming of?
Only you can decide which goals you want to achieve. Only you can accept the responsibility for making it happen.
But...
You can get a proven, sure-fire, no-risk system that will lead you step-by-step to virtually any goal you can imagine in 2010.
Are You Tired of Saying to Yourself "Wait Until Next Year?"
If you're tired of the "same ole, same ole." If it makes you ill to think of your life being in the same spot it is today a year from now. If you've drawn a line in the sand and made the decision that this is your year, then you're ready for Goals 20109. http://www.goals2go.com/asp7
Check it out today while you can still pick up some incredible bonuses like the all-new Goal Tiger Vision Board software.
I won't spend any more time here telling you about what I think of this program. I encourage you to discover why Bart Murray of North Carolina said he's had his "two best earning years in a row." http://www.goals2go.com/asp7
And, as always, thanks for supporting ME :-)
KINGDOM!
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE
615.653.0679
P.S. The very first audio is by Bob Proctor (Star of The Secret
DVD) called What Do You Want? I think this audio should be mandatory listening by everyone. What you'll learn from this audio alone is worth the price of the program, so go there now and get armed with this incredible information.
http://www.goals2go.com/asp7
Don't allow yourself to be paralyzed into failure! Now there is a better way...
Seize control of 2010 starting TODAY!
The sooner you take positive action the faster you'll be on the road to rising above the recession.
If you could reach just one goal this year, which one would it be?
How much of a difference in your life would it make if you reached it?
Will 2010 be just another ho-hum year that started with good intentions? Or will it be YOUR Year!
Things are tough for some people right now, and they may be getting even tougher.
But that's EXACTLY why today, more than ever, you need a little something extra. You need an edge... you need an advantage unlike anything you've ever had before.
Those who give in to fear and anxiety....those who are cowed and paralyzed by uncertainty and confusion....those who pull back and withdraw and wait....are guaranteed to see their worst fears realized. Waiting for things to change is a losing proposition.
Holding on to see what happens suck you down the drain so fast you won't know what happened. Making things change for you is the only way to win. That's not "pollyanna." That's fact.
It's also fact that "what you focus on expands."
So what would you like to focus on in 2010?
Maybe it's:
* Paying off your credit card bills?
* Rebuilding your financial portfolio?
* Buying or selling a house?
* Growing or starting a business?
* Getting away from it all and taking a vacation?
* Reaching your perfect weight?
* Preparing for retirement?
* Taking that exotic vacation you've been dreaming of?
Only you can decide which goals you want to achieve. Only you can accept the responsibility for making it happen.
But...
You can get a proven, sure-fire, no-risk system that will lead you step-by-step to virtually any goal you can imagine in 2010.
Are You Tired of Saying to Yourself "Wait Until Next Year?"
If you're tired of the "same ole, same ole." If it makes you ill to think of your life being in the same spot it is today a year from now. If you've drawn a line in the sand and made the decision that this is your year, then you're ready for Goals 20109. http://www.goals2go.com/asp7
Check it out today while you can still pick up some incredible bonuses like the all-new Goal Tiger Vision Board software.
I won't spend any more time here telling you about what I think of this program. I encourage you to discover why Bart Murray of North Carolina said he's had his "two best earning years in a row." http://www.goals2go.com/asp7
And, as always, thanks for supporting ME :-)
KINGDOM!
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE
615.653.0679
P.S. The very first audio is by Bob Proctor (Star of The Secret
DVD) called What Do You Want? I think this audio should be mandatory listening by everyone. What you'll learn from this audio alone is worth the price of the program, so go there now and get armed with this incredible information.
http://www.goals2go.com/asp7
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
SHINE!
We are all meant to shine. Those six words perhaps begin to unravel the true meaning of life. After all, excelling in your education, your career, your friendships, and your kindness has a ripple effect on everyone you know. And when they shine, they spread greatness to others as well. If you ever settle for mediocrity, you’re not simply hurting yourself, you may be negatively impacting the world around you. Always SHINE your brightest !
Learn to reinvest yourself and your business or career, respond appropriately to any challenge you face, and reactivate the spirit of success.
“As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give
other people permission to do the same.”
— Marianne Williamson: Spiritual teacher, author, lecturer
KINGDOM!
Kevin K. Hemphill
615.653.0679
Learn to reinvest yourself and your business or career, respond appropriately to any challenge you face, and reactivate the spirit of success.
“As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give
other people permission to do the same.”
— Marianne Williamson: Spiritual teacher, author, lecturer
KINGDOM!
Kevin K. Hemphill
615.653.0679
KINGDOM!
From the desk of Kevin K. ( Kingdom! ) Hemphill Affiliated Millionaires Club.
Pay very close attention...
"The 4 Reasons WHY We Built CarbonCopyPRO" - Part 1
1) This is a "dog-eat-dog" industry. No one else seems to care if you
fail or succeed. Honestly, NO ONE!
We're not going to operate that way. Not now...not ever. We want you
to consider us your friends "on the inside!"
This is to show you that we're real people too who have all struggled at
some point to get to where we are today...to the top of this industry.
2) Because statistically speaking, there is a 97% chance you will fail
on your own. With a "team" and a "system" in place, that number drops
WELL below 50%. This has always been the case in any business but
it is even more crucial in the Home Business industry.
3) Because we will not rest until we have created at least 100 Millionaires.
It's never been done in this industry. We're on a mission!
Trust us on this one...you WANT to be a part of this group. The PR and
recognition you will receive by being a part of this exclusive group is unlike
anything that any of us could do on our own...
You can watch us, or you can join us.
4) We want you to become a PRO (like us) so you can live a life that you
design, not a life designed for you by your boss. There is no greater feeling.
Just imagine waking up everyday and being able to "decide" what it is you
will do that day.....
We built Affiliated Millionaires Club with one sole purpose...
So we can leverage our existing results and create a group of at least 100
Millionaires by 2015. You could take the next five years to try and figure
it out on your own or plug into our turn-key marketing system and potentially
generate thousands of dollars in a matter of weeks.
Very best,
KINGDOM!
Our mission to create 100 millionaires by 2015.
Pay very close attention...
"The 4 Reasons WHY We Built CarbonCopyPRO" - Part 1
1) This is a "dog-eat-dog" industry. No one else seems to care if you
fail or succeed. Honestly, NO ONE!
We're not going to operate that way. Not now...not ever. We want you
to consider us your friends "on the inside!"
This is to show you that we're real people too who have all struggled at
some point to get to where we are today...to the top of this industry.
2) Because statistically speaking, there is a 97% chance you will fail
on your own. With a "team" and a "system" in place, that number drops
WELL below 50%. This has always been the case in any business but
it is even more crucial in the Home Business industry.
3) Because we will not rest until we have created at least 100 Millionaires.
It's never been done in this industry. We're on a mission!
Trust us on this one...you WANT to be a part of this group. The PR and
recognition you will receive by being a part of this exclusive group is unlike
anything that any of us could do on our own...
You can watch us, or you can join us.
4) We want you to become a PRO (like us) so you can live a life that you
design, not a life designed for you by your boss. There is no greater feeling.
Just imagine waking up everyday and being able to "decide" what it is you
will do that day.....
We built Affiliated Millionaires Club with one sole purpose...
So we can leverage our existing results and create a group of at least 100
Millionaires by 2015. You could take the next five years to try and figure
it out on your own or plug into our turn-key marketing system and potentially
generate thousands of dollars in a matter of weeks.
Very best,
KINGDOM!
Our mission to create 100 millionaires by 2015.
TRUST ... It's Simple As That !
It is popular amongst successful entrepreneurs to talk about certain intangibles that make for good business. Intangibles such as leadership, innovation, persistence and follow- through. I say this, because I too speak of these things, both passionately and often. Their importance goes without questioning. Each cannot be given, and consequently must be earned. Each is intrinsically valuable in and of itself, and may stand as a singular example of character.
However, in my opinion, a single gift endures beyond each of these items. It endures because, in my opinion, it's the single most valuable gift human beings can share, and could stand as it most rare. That gift is Trust.
Trust is a rare bird in an age where celebration of "the self" is most prevalent. Constantly we are pitched, marketed and sold things thought to appease our own wares. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with this. We all deserve to live a life free from suffering. However, I think most would agree that it is more than possible, and more enjoyable, for the comforts we enjoy to exist for mutual benefit.
We can give someone a dollar, but it soon will be spent and migrate to the pocket of another. We can give flowers, but they too will one day wilt. We can give presents, compliments, advice and embrace one another in moments of despair. But to give another the gift of your trust is a commodity for which no darkness, time passed, or circumstance can ever wither. Trust allows us to walk taller, to face our troubles without fear and to triumph in the hour of greatest uncertainty.
Trust requires great bravery, to be vulnerable and humble. Trust is the first step to love. Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It is well known, and spoken of, that time is precious, but I believe trust is more precious than time.
Let us be reminded, the greatest of us to be given is always from within. Remember these things, for it will never be Yesterday.
Very best,
KINGDOM!
However, in my opinion, a single gift endures beyond each of these items. It endures because, in my opinion, it's the single most valuable gift human beings can share, and could stand as it most rare. That gift is Trust.
Trust is a rare bird in an age where celebration of "the self" is most prevalent. Constantly we are pitched, marketed and sold things thought to appease our own wares. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with this. We all deserve to live a life free from suffering. However, I think most would agree that it is more than possible, and more enjoyable, for the comforts we enjoy to exist for mutual benefit.
We can give someone a dollar, but it soon will be spent and migrate to the pocket of another. We can give flowers, but they too will one day wilt. We can give presents, compliments, advice and embrace one another in moments of despair. But to give another the gift of your trust is a commodity for which no darkness, time passed, or circumstance can ever wither. Trust allows us to walk taller, to face our troubles without fear and to triumph in the hour of greatest uncertainty.
Trust requires great bravery, to be vulnerable and humble. Trust is the first step to love. Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It is well known, and spoken of, that time is precious, but I believe trust is more precious than time.
Let us be reminded, the greatest of us to be given is always from within. Remember these things, for it will never be Yesterday.
Very best,
KINGDOM!
Monday, December 21, 2009
Conflict!
Boxes, Boxes, Boxes!
Learn Why People Closest To You Cannot See What You Can!
Here is What Separates You From The Masses!
You Were Always Considered “Different” and Here’s Why:
Most of your old friends and
have the same self image - they imitate each other!
With you, what you see as your self- image, in your head, is ten times bigger than what you are actually experiencing in current time reality. You earn $40k, but you see $400k.
Great people become great because “who” they are in their heads is ten times bigger than what they are doing, and they figure out how to become the self- image that they see in their heads.
The contrast then, between both the current “life” and the self- image that you see in your head, is why you can’t stop seeking books and “opportunities” that speak about, and use the same language that you are already hearing in your mind!
Why? Because you are advancing the SELF that you see within your MIND. Your Current Reality!
Chart #1 - "you"
Your loathe your Job, and tolerate it at best, and it does the same to you!
You work hard at "Work"; yet feel lonely, lost and un-celebrated!
You feel "Greatness" inside, while experiencing low pay & being overworked!
Kaboom - THE TENSION!
Chart #2 - YOU!
Your have a “Super-Man” Self-Image
You Feel Ten Feet Tall
You Think Like a Millionaire
You Feel Like an Important Person
Your Life Matters
People Look Up To " U"
You have a "Voice" that others hear & feel!
You Have Out Grown Your Job ( Just Over Broke !)
You Have a Large Network
You Have Incredible Lifestyle and Time-Freedom!
The contrast between where you are “now” in life, and where you live inside of your head, and in your self - image, is where your motivation comes from. That is precisely why you have MORE ambition and “vision” than most of your friends.
Between the two “personalities” is what ignites your motivation!
When people live in “boxes” that are the same size, their ambition and vision become lack!
That’s a fact!
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE !
Kevin K. Hemphill
615.653.0679
Learn Why People Closest To You Cannot See What You Can!
Here is What Separates You From The Masses!
You Were Always Considered “Different” and Here’s Why:
Most of your old friends and
have the same self image - they imitate each other!
With you, what you see as your self- image, in your head, is ten times bigger than what you are actually experiencing in current time reality. You earn $40k, but you see $400k.
Great people become great because “who” they are in their heads is ten times bigger than what they are doing, and they figure out how to become the self- image that they see in their heads.
The contrast then, between both the current “life” and the self- image that you see in your head, is why you can’t stop seeking books and “opportunities” that speak about, and use the same language that you are already hearing in your mind!
Why? Because you are advancing the SELF that you see within your MIND. Your Current Reality!
Chart #1 - "you"
Your loathe your Job, and tolerate it at best, and it does the same to you!
You work hard at "Work"; yet feel lonely, lost and un-celebrated!
You feel "Greatness" inside, while experiencing low pay & being overworked!
Kaboom - THE TENSION!
Chart #2 - YOU!
Your have a “Super-Man” Self-Image
You Feel Ten Feet Tall
You Think Like a Millionaire
You Feel Like an Important Person
Your Life Matters
People Look Up To " U"
You have a "Voice" that others hear & feel!
You Have Out Grown Your Job ( Just Over Broke !)
You Have a Large Network
You Have Incredible Lifestyle and Time-Freedom!
The contrast between where you are “now” in life, and where you live inside of your head, and in your self - image, is where your motivation comes from. That is precisely why you have MORE ambition and “vision” than most of your friends.
Between the two “personalities” is what ignites your motivation!
When people live in “boxes” that are the same size, their ambition and vision become lack!
That’s a fact!
Kevin K. Hemphill LIVE !
Kevin K. Hemphill
615.653.0679