There's only one "test" of training with Tim Sales

Another of TheMasterMindSessions "faux" Podcasts, selected excerpts from recent Sessions with the Masters of Network Marketing.

This podcast (4'10), is with Tim Sales, creator of Brilliant Compensation, the "brilliant" prospecting video, Personal Inviter and more. The Session(Session 80, released Friday, January 18) focused on Tim's (then) new website,  FirstClassMLM.com, a no- strings- attached place to go and send your prospects to be educated on the nothing-but truth about network marketing. Because Tim Sales IS that Tim Sales (and I am that me) I had to ask about his favorite subject "training": What are the key, core elements and what we need to do to be doing it right. I got my answer. (Tim said it's something people will hate...)

Please, let me know what you think about TheMasterMindSessions Podcast with Tim Sales.

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Muse it or lose it...

Typo? No.

"Use it or lose" is the slaugh garin of everything from brain researchers, to sex therapists, to treating Alzheimer's, getting out to and the vote, and the annual membership drive of every health club and fitness center every January of every new year.

My "Muse it or lose it" is simply an urging to be absorbed in one's thoughts... engaging in meditation and reflection on a regular—preferably daily—basis. How much time will be depending, but clearly a formal set aside appointment with your self for musing about any this and that is useful and valuable.

And following the poetry along... "Amuse it or lose it" rings just as true on another front: To occupy oneself  in an agreeable, pleasing, or entertaining fashion and to cause to laugh or smile by giving pleasure.

Use it... muse it... amuse it... the "it" of them is who you really are. 

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Listening with Dr. Carol McCall

Here's the newsletter I sent to TheMasterMindSessions subscribers about the recent Session with my mentor and master coach Carol McCall Ph.D.

Hi everybody. It's John Fogg...

Here's TheMasterMindSession NEWSLETTER for 03.28.08.

I have been trying (yes, I know, "Do or do not. There is no try." Well, I'm not Luke Skywalker and you're not Yoda...) for more than a year and a-half to have my mentor and The Greatest Teacher of Listening in the World, Carol McCall... Dr. Carol McCall, on a MasterMind Session. No dice, lice, luck—nothing. So...

Through a $29 piece of software and the good to great graces of Subscriber Mark Horn (who also saved Brian Klemmer from a similar "real" fate), we converted the Real Media .rm files of Dr. Carol McCall's The Empowerment of Listening six-hour audio program that was over at GreatestNetworker.com to Mp3 and wa and la, here's the first hour's worth. As said below, a kind of "not really a Session", but... close enough for jazz and great, GREAT stuff, as well.

I'm not sure you'll realize the "dated" quality of the audio. It was at least six years ago that Carol and I recorded them. She no longer lives in Jamaica, I'm no longer married to Susan and have four children, now, not two. Such is life (really). The material is still the definitive knowledge > understanding > wisdom  about the art andf science of listening I know of.

So, I will keep "trying" to have Carol for a "real" MasterMind Session... Until then, enjoy this week's offering.

Session 90
Friday, March 28
Listening
Carol McCall Ph.D.

The subject of this (not really a Session) Session—what you're getting is the first hour of Dr. Carol McCall's The Empowerment of Listening six-hour audio album in two parts—is the single most important skill for every network marketer (or mother, father, child, friend, partner, business associate...) to learn… and for every leader to master. This recorded conversation between John Fogg and Carol McCall focuses on the unique view of listening that is the foundation of Dr. McCall's work. "Listen," Carol says, "there's a world waiting to be heard." And John says, "You will listen more people into your business than you will ever talk into it." If The Empowerment of Listening isn't the Bible of listening, it's the 10 Commandments. One hour audio in two parts.
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The Empowerment of Listening: Part 1A
a 31'00 downloadable Mp3

The Empowerment of Listening: Part 1B
a 30:35 downloadable Mp3

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Additional support material from Carol McCall Ph.D.:

Listening (and Acting) For Money
A luxury once enjoyed becomes a necessity. When it becomes necessary for you to have money to live the life you deserve—as the natural result of both your inner development and outer actions—you will have it. From: SpeakingAndListening.com
6 pages in downloadable PDF

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Thanks.
I appreciate you.

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        marketing business a great success... guaranteed.
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John Milton Fogg
mailto:jmf@TheMasterMindSessions.com
2370 Saddle Hollow
Crozet, Virginia 22932 USA
434.823.9303

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Network marketing solves a problem

Steve Demos was the founder WhiteWave, makers of Silk soy milk, now owned by Dean Foods. His latest project/product with his new company NextFood, is GoodBelly, a line of probiotic juices aimed primarily at baby boomers. He says that GoodBelly meets his definition of a successful new product, because "it solves a problem".

"The definition of a business is a customer who is willing to give you money for something you have. And the only reason that a customer is going to give you money is because you solved some problem or offered them something they don't already have. And if you can get to a biological need, you are going to have a continual supply of customers coming toward you."

Clearly, many network marketers have products in the health catagory that solve people's problems and are meeting a "biological need."

And since the business opportunity is "relating to, caused by, or affecting life or living organisms" (the definition of biological), ALL network marketers offer to solve the important problem of people's "biological need" for money.

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Facts tell, but stories...

... sell, completes the mlm adage (interesting ad age... seems fitting). A recent piece of research supports the saying:

The article, "Evidence Evaluation in complex decision making," in the 'Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,' by Pennington and Hastie explains when prosecutors tell their version of events to a jury in story-format they are able to achieve a 78% conviction rate, whereas lawyers who do not use a story-format to communicate to juries only get a 31% guilty rate.

Might try skipping the dissertation on the comp plan or the catalog of ingredients for something a bit more Garrison Keeleresque next time out with a prospect.

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It's my party with Beth Jacobs

Another of TheMasterMindSessions "faux" Podcasts, selected excerpts from recent Sessions with the Masters of Network Marketing.

Today's podcast (7'27), is with Beth Jacobs of The Pampered Chef®, one of the crown jewels in the Berkshire Hathaway family of business owned by famed investor Warren Buffet, who says with unabashed pride that acquiring The Pampered Chef was "…the best investment I ever made." (from Session 84, released Friday, February 15) titled: Discover the Leader in You.

I am, I woefully admit, not very well-versed about "party plan" companies and how that direct selling/network marketing business works. However, the more I learn the more impressed I am—and the more I understand what makes them fly and fly they do. Beth Jacobs was a home 'ec teacher 18 years ago, and today she's one of the top five consultants in the company—a National Executive Director leading an organization with more than $14,000,000 in sales. There are 3,000 Pampered Chef Cooking Shows hosted somewhere in the world every day! What brings all those people together? Making money having fun together with food and your friends and theirs... what a concept.

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GreatestNetworker Coaching Call TONIGHT

Tuesday, March 25, at 6:00 pm pst | 9:00 pm est, we'll have the next Greatest Networker Open Coaching Call.

This week, our call will focus on Networking Marketing--and two different approaches of building a business. PLEASE, to learn more, explore the links on the Teleseminar page (below) to listen FREE to both Jordan Adler's and Jack Zufelt's recent MasterMind Sessions. (They're excellent!) If you've got questions, you can submit them on the form below. And please, tell your friends and team members to join us.

EVENT:  The GreatestNetworker Coaching Call
DATE & TIME: Tuesday, March 25th at 9:00pm Eastern
FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast -- it's your choice)
TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, CLICK THIS LINK NOW...
http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=2350875

You can also use the link above to listen to the REPLAY.

You can hear recordings of past calls on my website here:

http://JohnMiltonFogg.com/TGNCoachingCall

See you on the call.

Thanks.
I appreciate you!

PS. Look for the Special Offer button on the website to save $180 on The MasterMind Sessions and get a FREE subscription to give to a friend.

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What keeps people in network marketing? Richard Brooke

Experiment continues: TheMasterMindSessions Podcast. Okay (Lavona), "faux podcast" (if this was a real podcast, you get it via an RSS feeder or... whatever.) What this is and they are, are selected excerpts from recent Sessions with the Masters of Network Marketing.

In today's podcast (5'55), Richard Brooke, CEO of Oxyfresh and author of Mach II With Your Hair On Fire! (from Session 81, released Friday, January 25) speaks on What keeps people in network marketing?

Although we began speaking about building your business online, what became important was Richard asking and answering: What keeps people involved in network marketing? Hints: "Getting a big check..." isn't why. And although people will stay because of a product or products, that's NOT enough to build an enduring business. He uses $8-billion industry leader Amway to make his point: 3 million distributors who stay and keep on staying—and have seemingly many reasons not to...

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Did you really mean counter-intuitive?

My picking-bone here is with the current buzz bus' term "counter-intuitive"

This, from Wikipedia:

A counter-intuitive proposition is one that does not seem likely to be true when assessed using intuition or gut feelings.

Scientifically discovered, objective truths are often called counter-intuitive when intuition, emotions, and other cognitive processes outside of deductive rationality interpret them to be wrong. However, the subjective nature of intuition limits the objectivity of what to call counter-intuitive, because what is counter-intuitive for one may be intuitive for another.

It's the last line about which I was picking.

I find much of what is being labeled "counter intuitive" to be in fact (and data and rational/analytical thought...) counter-intelligent.

Hence, the use of the term is often confusing to me ... and confusion is always counter-intuitive.

Woof. Woof. As said, it is my bone :-)

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The DNA of MLM Success with Jack Zufelt

Here's the newsletter I sent to TheMasterMindSessions subscribers about my recent Session with best-selling author and master network marketer Jack Zufelt.

Hi everybody. It's John Fogg...

Here's TheMasterMindSessions NEWSLETTER for 03.21.08.

If a "platform" speaker told you that "Goal Setting, Positive Thinking, Daily Affirmations, Self Talk, Dream Building, Visualization, Chanting, Fire Walking and every other 'Technique' self-help gurus were teaching and preaching didn't work... would you pay attention to him? I recommend you do... if his name is Jack Zufelt.

Personally, Jack's a great guy doll and a teddy bear, but when it comes to what does and doesn't work in the real world of business, he's an in your face, take no prisoners pragmatist. He's only interested in what works, what can be duplicated by anybody who applies the right inner and outer wisdom and workings to achieve success. That's what made his book The DNA of Success a #1 best-seller and made him one of the most sought-after speakers and consultants in the world. (People pay Jack $20,000 for one day of teaching them "everything he knows" about becoming and being a successful public speaker.)

And as you'll learn, Mr. Zufelt is a master mlmer as well. He's been the #1 in his company with an organization of more than 50,000 people and a monthly income of $80,000. Been and done there and that, indeed.

Jack's concept of "Core Desires" takes the business of knowing your (and your people's) "why" to a whole new and powerful level. It's a drill down, get to the heart-of-the-matter deal that plugs you into the real source of your power to succeed.

SPECIAL OFFER: Jack is making available a free copy of his 90-minute DVD to MasterMind Sessions subscribers. Click the link to get yours today: The Power of Core Desires.

As for the real business of building a real business... well, that's what this Session is all about.

Session 89
Friday, March 21
The DNA of MLM Success
Jack Zufelt

Up for slaughtering some sacred cows and shattering a bunch of myths about what it really takes to succeed in network marketing? Then you're going to love this Session. Jack Zufelt prides himself on speaking the truth (whole, unvarnished and nothing but…) about what works and doesn't work in this business… and knowing and being able to explain why.  And he's not just one of those successful authors coming in to pick the financially juicy plums of mlmers eager for more and more knowledge. Jack's been the #1 distributor in an mlm company with a downline organization of 50,000 and an income of $80,000 a month!  He knows the exact sequence of nucleotides (DNA) that will determine an individuals success—and (such good news) it's not hereditary. Jack says he can teach it to anyone—as long as they do what he tells them.
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Additional support material from Jack Zufelt:

The Zufelt Top Ten
The following is a transcript of a tele-conference presented to Jack's exclusive "Elite Inner Circle." These are the top ten concepts you must know and understand to make "big" money in mlm.
25 pages in downloadable PDF

           

Please, let me know what you like best about this Session with Jack and why?

Thanks.
I appreciate you.

_______________________________________________
 
                      TheMasterMindSessions.com
          Listen and learn how to make your mlm network
        marketing business a great success... guaranteed.
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John Milton Fogg
mailto:jmf@TheMasterMindSessions.com
2370 Saddle Hollow
Crozet, Virginia 22932 USA
434.823.9303

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What's your REAL product?

Experiment coming: TheMasterMindSessions Podcast. Selected excerpts from recent Sessions with the Masters of Network Marketing.

Today's podcast, Jack Zufelt  (from Session 89, released Friday, March 21) on What's your REAL product?

Lead with the product? Lead with the opportunity? Jack Zufelt is emphatic about which way to go.

Do you need to be in love with the product yourself to succeed in mlm? Jack says... no. Believe it's really good? Of course, but... There are two ways to do this business: Fast and slow. There's a difference between marketing a product and building a network marketing business.

Btw, least you think Jack one of those outside "experts" come lately to network marketing to pick the lucrative plums of selling their stuff to mlmers... not this time. The man was #1 in his company with a downline org of 50,000 taking home $80,000 a month. Been there... for real.

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This is NOT your Grandfather's Recession... but then again

On Tuesday I posted a piece titled This is NOT your Grandfather's Recession where I said that those of you who celebrate the historically strong positive impact recessionary times have previously had on people's attraction and desire for starting a mlm network marketing business... should think again.

Please do, here: Jim Cramer's Mad Money, who says "The direct selling business works best when times are bad..." and he touts three stocks in particular Herbalife, Avon and especially Tupperware. Check it out (with the link).

Thanks to Art Jonak for the turn on.

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New Business Opportunity Rule from the FTC 'r' NOT Us

If you are NOT on Len's list, get on it (so to speak).

MarketWave Alert #94
FTC Revises New Business Opportunity Rule
Exempts Multilevel Marketing Companes!

March 18th, 2008
The Federal Trade Commission announced today that the New Business Opportunity Rule that was proposed in April of 2006 has been significantly revised.

According to the FTC notice, "The Business Opportunity Rule would still cover those schemes currently covered by the interim Business Opportunity Rule, and it would expand coverage to include work-at-home schemes." Most significant to our businesses, the FTC goes on to say,"the revised proposal, however, would not reach multilevel marketing companies or certain companies that may have been swept inadvertently into scope of the April 2006 proposal."

Within the revised new rule it goes on to streamline the required discloser information by "eliminating requirements to disclose the number of cancellations and refund requests that a business opportunity seller receives or the litigation history of sales personnel."

View the FTC notice here: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/03/busrule.shtm

Commentary:

A number of individuals and associations within our industry claimed, or endorsed those who claimed, that the FTC proposed this new rule for the deliberate and specific purpose of destroying the network marketing industry. What's more, it was being "fast tracked" to expedite our industry's demise, or at the very least to garner significant federal revenue from the fines that would ultimately be levied on network marketing companies.

Chicken Little appears to have been wrong.

I'm only hedging slightly because I haven't read the entire text of the 114 page revised version of the rule yet. I expect to find at least a few little gotcha's (or still-can-getcha's) in there somewhere. But at least based on the notice posted by the FTC today is seems to be a complete victory for the network marketing industry. And as it should be. If you haven't been following this issue, check out Gerald Nehra's article: What Were You Thinking? to get an idea of how misguided the original version of the rule was.

Here was my take on it at the time: http://www.marketwaveinc.com/articles/alert62.pdf

There may still be more revisions, and perhaps surprises, but for now it looks like the sky is going to be staying right up there where it is.

Len Clements
MarketWave, Inc.

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MarketWave, Inc.
Len Clements
Founder & CEO
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800-688-4766

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This is NOT your Grandfather's Recession

In ALL other economic slowdowns on recent (50 years) record, one aspect of the economy always shot up and stayed there: Gambling.

Why? Duh... Go to Vegas with $500 come back with $5,000 or $50,000... problem solved. Buy a ticket for a buck and hit the lottery... problem solved. But today, problem is...

Las Vegas' gambling revenue is off, down, 12.63% from one year ago—it's also down 9.4% nationwide. MegaMillions lottery ticket sales are  down 30%! California just adjusted it's revenue projections for the state's SuperLotto income this year cutting it by 12%... in dollars, that's off by more than $82 million.

Why? Complicated one that, but one thing's for sure, this time even the "hope" market is off. From the look of ther numbers, way off.

And for those of you who celebrate the historically strong positive impact recessionary times have previously had on people's attraction and desire for the money-making, extra-check "save me" of a mlm network marketing business... Think again.

As said, this is NOT your grandfather's recession. Las Vegas' odd(s) behavior proves it. This time, all bets are off. 

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Beach Money with Jordan Adler

I wrote this "newsletter" BEFORE I read the book. Now I have. It's Great!

Jordan Adler is a true master of the mlm/network marketing game. He built it, lost it, and built it again bigger and better than before. Beach Money is real and for real—and for you—if you have a passion for knowing HOW you can build a six-figure (annual or monthly) income from a been-there STILL doing-that authentic, intelligent, sincere and serious million-dollars-a-year leader. Jordan's life (story) is an inspiration. His "how tos" are solid (anyone can do it—no kidding) gold.

If you dream of Beach Money... BUY THE BOOK and start creating it. (Jordan did it by bringing in one person a week. Could you learn to do that? Read the book.)

Here's the newsletter I sent to TheMasterMindSessions subscribers about my Session with Jordan.

Hi everybody. It's John Fogg...

Here's TheMasterMindSessions NEWSLETTER for 03.07.08.

When I first heard of Tim Ferris' best-selling book, The Four-Hour Work Week, the title immediately got my attention. What a promise... Even though I—and I'll wager 99.969% of ALL the people who saw it—didn't believe a word of it! Then there was the sub-title: "Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, And Join The New Rich." Wow! Promises, promises, promises... And again, I didn't think that was possible, but hey... there's got to be a few nuggets in those pages worth the price and the read (and there were).

Well, today I 100% BELIEVE the promise of a four-hour work week, escaping 9-5, live anywhere and join the new rich, because... I've met somebody who's doing just that. Actually, I've know him for some time.

Back when Excel Telecommunications was a force to be reckoned with, Jordan Adler was one of their eagles. He was an Ambassador and Executive Senior Director and was flying between #11 and #20 at the very top of the company. Then Excel imploded and all that Jordan had worked for went down the drain. At Success magazine we used to call that a "dog food moment". It's the kind of hit most people don't get up from from. But Jordan is not most people.

Today, Jordan Adler is the #1 income earner in Send Out Cards. He's an annual network marketing millionaire and he got there NOT by focusing on becoming one, but instead aiming his teaching and team-building talents at creating as many "thousandaires" in his organization as possible. His methods are pure Get Rich Slow (he says it's get rich quick the slow way): Relationshipping, Friendshipping, Partnershipping and Leadershipping. Masterful networking. Really, for me, presching to the preacher, not just the choir.

My biases all in obvious place (and spilling out all over as well), I LOVE this Session with Jordan. One of The Greatest Networkers in the World doing the bus' in classic fashion and making it work (and play) big time. Much to be learned from Mr. Adler... and his new book, Beach Money, promises to be of great value and usefulness for all authentic, intelligent, sincere and serious network marketers, as well. 

Session 87
Friday, March 7
Beach Money
Jordan Adler

"Third time's the charm," but not for Mr. Adler. It took Jordan 12 times to figure out how to do network marketing the right way. Get Rich Slow indeed (with dual emphasis on both Slow and Rich). He's now the #1 representative in Send Out Cards with 22,000 people on his team and earning in excess of $1,000,000 a year. "Beach Money" he calls it, and that's also the title of his new book, which by all accounts "should" be one of the best-selling "How" and "Why" to books for network marketers ever! It's the real deal. Jordan's all about networking (as a life style), building relationships, giving-to-give, keeping it simple and duplicatable, working with people to get them started—then let go… using the Internet to train and communicate, but NOT for prospecting, and more. Too "old fashioned" for you? If one-million dollars plus a year "walk away"  income is old fashioned, so be it. "Classic" network marketing from one of The Greatest Networkers in the World.
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Additional support material from Jordan Adler

10 Ways to Create Beach Money
From the new book, Beach Money
When you achieve a passive residual income that pays you whether you go to work or not, you can live anywhere in the world… quit your job forever… and be wealthier than 99% of the "rich". Here's how…
11 page Special Report in downloadable PDF

Please, let me know what you like best about this Session with Jordan and why?

Thanks.
I appreciate you.

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                      TheMasterMindSessions.com
          Listen and learn how to make your mlm network
        marketing business a great success... guaranteed.
_______________________________________________

John Milton Fogg
mailto:jmf@TheMasterMindSessions.com
2370 Saddle Hollow
Crozet, Virginia 22932 USA
434.823.9303

The Compassionate Samurai with Brian Klemmer

I haven't been posting TheMasterMindSessions NEWSLETTER here for a while... months it's been. One of those internal war-tugs of it's a benefit for subscribers versus "Geezz, just give it to 'em... at least they can hear the preview" deals. Still not sure what's best, so... when in doubt hand it out. Here: 

Hi everybody. It's John Fogg...

Here's TheMasterMindSessions NEWSLETTER for 03.14.08.

Oh mama! This Session was a BEAR to put up. The conversation with Brian Klemmer was a breeze and a ball, but I didn't get the bonus material I hoped and planned for (a few chapters from Brian's new book, The Compassionate Samurai His publisher was being a bit of a slug), so in it's place I went and got all 9+ hours of Brian's The Pursuit & Practice of Personal Mastery—which is essentially his Personal Mastery Seminar on audio sans the experiential exercises—from the archives at GreatestNetworker.com and posted them as added support material with the Session. Challenge is and was, they're in Real Audio NOT Mp3. So... Download, upload, play, time, upload, link, HTML... Arrggghhh.

UPDATE: John and Cecily Charleston are Sessions' subscribers and devout Klemmer Associates as well. John had access to the Mp3 files, so he posted them on the web for me. A few... well actually "many" hours later, I completed swapping out the Real Audios for the Mp3s, and that's what's up for you now. Who loves ya' Baby and... Thanks John. I appreciate you!

The result however is all good for you. A great Session plus eight—count 'em... eight!—hours of added material. Value-added value indeed. Let me know what you like best.

Btw, I did (belatedly) get a couple of chapters from Jordan Adler's new book Beach Money and I'll post them with Session 87 and let you know when they're up—as soon as I recover from this Session...

Enjoy my friend and mentor Mr. Klemmer.

Session 88
Friday, March 14
The Compassionate Samurai
Brian Klemmer

At first glance, the title of this Session seems an oxymoron. A samurai was the part of the military aristocracy in feudal Japan—he was a professional warrior, skilled and schooled in all the martial arts, particularly kendo, the way of the sword. Hardly the image of compassion, which is defined as having a deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it. But Brian Klemmer refuses to live in an either/or world—and throughout this Session he urges us to do the same. His book, The Compassionate Samurai, which reached #1 on the Wall Street Journal best-seller list, is all about how you can be the kind of network marketing leader who produces super-achieving results AND be the kind of person people respect and admire, feel good and great about and follow because they genuinely want to. All about that and more in this instructive and inspiring Session.
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Additional support material from Brian Klemmer:    

The Pursuit & Practice of Personal Mastery
These 9+ hours of audio cassettes parallel Brian's popular 3 day workshop. Explore and examine age old concepts from new perspectives: commitment and agreement, responsibility, communication, first-day last-day attitude, win-win, vision and goal setting, creativity, handling resentment, and an action plan.
9+ hours of downloadable audio in Real Player

Please, let me know what you like best about this Session with Brian and why?

Thanks.
I appreciate you.

_______________________________________________
 
                      TheMasterMindSessions.com
          Listen and learn how to make your mlm network
        marketing business a great success... guaranteed.
_______________________________________________

John Milton Fogg
mailto:jmf@TheMasterMindSessions.com
2370 Saddle Hollow
Crozet, Virginia 22932 USA
434.823.9303

What's Missing From "The Secret"

This is a piece I just wrote to promote the BeliefBusters iCourse. Please, let me know what you think...

What's Missing From "The Secret"
Like many millions of people all over the world, I watched the DVD of "The Secret". I don't know how many others were left disappointed and dissatisfied by the film—I was.
John Milton Fogg
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I've known about "The Law of Attraction" for a number of years now, and "The Secret" did a great job of turning new people on to the Law's truth and power. However, something was missing—something VERY important...

How you and I can USE The Law of Attraction.

There was NOTHING in The Secret that taught me that. And what I now understand from conversations with literally dozens of people (which I'm convinced represent 10's of thousands more just like them) that's a huge frustration. They KNOW things can be different... but they DON'T KNOW how.

Think positive thoughts and feel good. Great! Of course. That's right on. HOW!?!

And it's NOT only The Secret that has this big something missing. How many of the folks who've read "Think & Grow Rich" (even three or four times) are (rich)...? What percent of the people who say the affirmation, "I experience a continuous flow of prosperity" (10, 20 times a day) do...?

Of all the people who've bought all the books, heard all the CDs and Mp3s, spent thousands on weekend workshops, attended tele-seminars, written down goals and then more goals and then... How many are getting the results they desire, dream of and deserve?

I don't have all the answers. Just one of them. Here's the secret (and what was missing from "The Secret")...

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe it ALWAYS achieves.

Like it or not, that's what's so. In any and every situation there are only two ways to go: Believe you can or believe you can't. Either way, you're right, and both ways…

You will achieve ONLY what you believe.

That's the major (and can be terminal) problem with getting "The Law of Attraction" to work for you. It's NOT the Law that doesn't work. It works perfectly... always... every time. It's you and me. We don't BELIEVE it. (Or we believe it WON'T work.)

And that's what I call simply a "conflict of interests".

When the PUSH of "Pick the thoughts that feel good" comes up against the life-long PULL of "No matter what I do it's never enough" or "never good enough"... guess which wins?

Ever have the thought "I'm a loser" or "I don't deserve... success, health, happiness," whatever? Have it often enough and it becomes a habit of thought... and that is precisely what a belief is—a habit of thought.

There's only one thing to do: Make new habits of thought. You've got to start shifting those unwanted self–sabotaging beliefs into empowering beliefs that assure your success and keep on doing it—probably for the rest of your life. Certainly long enough for them to sink in and begin replacing the old ones.

It's the only thing I know that will work.

So... No... I'm not going to pull a Secret on you and keep the missing secret a secret. Here's what you must do:

You make up new empowering habits of thought the same way you made the old ones that no longer serve you (if they ever did). Then you have them overwrite any and all conflicting and contradictory thoughts, feelings, images, memories... to become your predominant belief. And you do that (new version of old joke coming) the same way you get on American Idol: Practice. Practice. Practice.

Only way to go?

Yes.

AND... There are as many ways to get where you want to be as there are different modes of transportation (planes, trains, Honda Accords and skateboards) and routes to take (and you won't have to trust your trip to MapQuest—unless you want to).

You can "do it yourself" (NOT recommended, because human beings are blind to our own limiting beliefs) or work with a professional, such as a mentor, coach, teacher, trainer... And of course all the before mentioned weekend workshops, tele-seminars, books and tools and techniques. But as I said, all the ones I tried—and I've been actively involved in this "work" as an author, speaker, student, participant, presenter, trainer, coach, "expert" even, for more than 30 years—fell short for me just like "The Secret" DVD.

So... I selfishly created a process called BeliefBusters for people like me who got the importance of shifting their unwanted, self-sabotaging beliefs to ones that served and inspired success AND wanted/needed to know HOW.

Look... you can have ALL the outward evidence of success, but if the beliefs beneath it all are dysfunctional and flawed, you will get what's coming to you sooner or later.

I know... I did.

I wrote a book that sold more than a-million copies around the world. Built a business from scratch that gave me a net-worth in excess of $4 million. Owned a 44-acre million-dollar estate in the rolling horse country of Thomas Jefferson's Virginia. Traveled the world first class and five stars. Then... all gone. ALL gone.

Not completely true: I still drive the Mercedes and re-set the time on my gold and stainless Rolex every couple of days cause it loses two minutes a day. And I have my collection of tribal rugs and oriental antique furniture and art. I am also married to one of the most stunningly beautiful women in the world and I am the 60-year-old father of four of the most remarkable kids God ever created (Rachel 27, Johnny 22, Eleonora Milena 6 and Anais Polina 2...). Obviously, my beliefs in some areas are inspired.

But in others... Try losing your adult life's work, entire net worth, all your income producing assets, and your place at the top of a "wave of the future" industry, and see what happens to your beliefs about your self-worth and success.

So... I created BeliefBusters for me. Good news about that is I'm one of those guys who cannot help myself from finding something good and great and sharing it with the world. I've made a career of doing that for 20 years. Plus, I'd already proven the old version of BeliefBusters worked with over 250 satisfied "customers" three or so years ago. Upgrading it with all I'd learned since seemed a "good thing" and a no-brainer.

There you have it. I'm doing myself what I'm recommending to you:

Look at your life right now…
That's what you have believed up till now.

Don't like what you've got?
Change your beliefs.

It's the only way.

BeliefBusters is a 13-week (three months) iCourse of weekly Lessons you get as download links in your email. It's priced at $20 a month (again for three months), because I knew that the people who needed it most could afford it least. Just about anybody can do 20 bucks. And to have people feel comfortable, I guaranteed the results or your money-back.

I like to say that BeliefBusters is MP3 for me: My Pleasure, Passion and Purpose. (Actually, I LOVE saying that.)

You know the truth of The Law of Attraction, that "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe it ALWAYS achieves" and "You will achieve ONLY what you believe"— for good, bad or indifferent.

BeliefBusters takes you step-by-step from knowledge to understanding and then leads through you a simple daily process, which over time—a very short time—transforms unwanted self–sabotaging beliefs to empowering beliefs that assure your success… fast, in a proven way that lasts.

If that interests or excites you, go here to learn more, and if it's a fit for you to do now, sign up and on at: http://BeliefBusters.com

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Intriguing...

I wrote this question in an email the other day : What do you want MOST? And then noticed something "odd" about that line of words. I know and you know the sentence is ABSOLUTELY sitting straight on it's bottom line (on the screen, in print), but... look at it again... it goes up at the end.

Here, perhaps this is more clear:

What do you want MOST?

The optical illusion (if that is what it is) becomes even more distinct when you stack a few of them one on top of the other like so:

What do you want MOST?

What do you want MOST?

What do you want MOST?

In speaking English, we're taught to lift our voices at the end of a question (most questions). At the risk of being unduly anthropomorphic (the attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena—such as words on paper), I was intrigued by the graphic UPward slant of these words put together in this way, because it "implied" (another way of saying I made up...) that the energy of the question itself was building, taking the asker and answerer UP... which indeed it does.

Now, don't I have better things TO DO?

No. See... that question doesn't go anywhere.

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Replay of TGN Call with Jackie Ulmer

The REPLAY of the Tuesday, March 11 Greatest Networker Call is up for your listening and learning pleasure (passion and purpose) here:

  http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=2225757

My "Special Guest" was the StreetSmartWealth lady Jackie Ulmer. Yet another Conversation with one of "The Greatest Networkers in the World" full of Q&A about InterNetwork Marketing and building your MLM-Online-Business (links to both Jackie's and my own Squidoo pages on the subject).

We—Jackie and me—also made the first announcement of our upcoming iCourse. Subject (will sound familiar): InterNetwork Marketing and building your MLM-Online-Business. Not ready yet. Coming soon. You'll be the second to know. . .

 

You can also hear all the recordings of past calls on my JohnMiltonFogg.com website here:

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Greatest Networker Call TONIGHT with Special Guest Jackie Ulmer

Tuesday, March 11, at 6:00 pm pst | 9:00 pm est, we'll have the next Greatest Networker Open Coaching Call. "Open" means, all invited, no-charge, interactive, your questions welcome.

This week, my "Special Guest" will be the StreetSmartWealth lady herself Jackie Ulmer. Another Conversation with one of "The Greatest Networkers in the World."

EVENT:  TGN Call with Special Guest Jackie Ulmer
DATE & TIME: Tuesday, March 11th at 9:00pm Eastern
FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast—it's your choice)
QUESTIONS: Visit the website now to submit your questions.

To attend this event, click the link now...
http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=2225757

You can also use the link above to listen to the REPLAY.

You can hear all the recordings of past calls on my website here:

http://JohnMiltonFogg.com/TGNCoachingCall

See you on the call.

Thanks.
I appreciate you!

PS. Be sure to visit Jackie's NEW website: MLM-Online-Business

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Are you strangling success?

"We're never closer to success than when we believe
we have failed and RESIGN ourselves to our fate."
—Randolph Aaron Byrd

Why is that?

One reason may be that when you become resigned to your failure... you loosen your grip. You let go. Holding a vision of success is mandatory. Probelm is, we tend to strangle it.

So how do you avoid strangling success?

Stop worrying about it.

The word "worry" comes from Old English wyrgan, which means "to strangle."

Easier said... which is why I created BeliefBusters. What your mind believes you WILL achieve.

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Retire rich or...

... or else, is how the line completes. And yes, it IS a threat.

What follows is an AP wire piece by Eileen Alt Powell sent to me by friend and bus' partner Lavona Rann. If you are speaking network marketing to folks over 50, let them know the truth of this. It's not scare tactics. Just real. And a great "why" to lay some nest eggs in an mlm basket.   

NEW YORK (AP) - A couple retiring this year will need about $225,000 in savings to cover medical costs in retirement, according to a study released Wednesday by Fidelity Investments.

The figure, calculated for a couple age 65, is up 4.7 percent from the $215,000 estimate for 2007, the Boston-based financial services company said.

And it is similar to other projections for health care costs in retirement - daunting figures given that longer life spans also are requiring workers to increase retirement nest eggs.

A separate study released last month by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College estimated that an individual needs to go into retirement with some $102,000 earmarked just for health care coverage, while a couple needs about $206,000.

Given current levels of retirement savings, the center said, six in 10 older workers are "at risk" of being unable to maintain their standard of living in retirement.

"At risk..." is that like someone's drowning, but you can still see the top of their head?

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Happy International Woman's Day

Today is International Women's Day, a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women... EXCEPT in the United States, where it was invented and first observed on 28 February 1909, following a declaration by the Socialist Party of America (anti-communist/anti-socalist sensibilities run fairly deep here, which partly explains why we don't celebrate the day). The Day commemorates the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (New York, 1911), where over 140 women lost their lives. In the former Soviet countries it's thought of (mostly) as an occasion for men to express their love to the women around them in a way somewhat similar to Mother's Day and St Valentine's Day mixed together.

I know all of this because I am (and wouldn't know if I hadn't been) married to a Russian lady, the former Jekaterina Koldajeva, now hyphen Fogg.

So for Katyusha and all the women of the world, this song by Michael Hedges called...

Woman of the World.

The woman of the world turns slowly
Days are drawn—seasons start to change
She finds that natural boundary
Her eyes change color—sounds begin to fade
I slowly turn away…
from the woman of the world

The woman of the world holds me
to colder courses farther out to sea
where no one really knows me
and if the anchor's out boarders love and leave
She's waiting on the beach…
my woman of the world

No one hears the way she whispers every changing season
Through every falling rain I listen without reason…
without reason…

'till the woman of the world shows me
the secret seed she planted in my heart
Her breath is cool to sway me
Roots shoot down
Her eyes begin to shine
My love runs leaf and vine
through the woman of the world…

I'm sorry.
Please forgive me.
Thank you.
I love you...

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Show me the moneytization

Lots (as in LOTS!) of web-speak about "monetization", a term co-opted from the investment world where it meant: 1. To convert into money. 2. To convert from securities into currency that can be used to purchase goods and services. Today, Internet marketers talk about "monetizing website visitors." That's another way of saying making money from your website or webblog, such as with advertising, e-commerce sales, etc.

There's a detached coldness that comes with the term. It's much like the one I learned the other day: RCU, Retail Consumer Unit. That's you and me. I propose a slight shift in language, from that to this...

monetize v. tr. (mon•e•tized mon•e•tiz•ing mon•e•tiz•es) 1. To establish as legal tender. 2. To coin (money). 3. To convert (government debt) from securities into currency that can be used to purchase goods and services. 4. To make money from: The website was monetized through listing Google AdWords.

moneytize v. tr. (mon•ey•tized mon•ey•tiz•ing mon•ey•tiz•es) 1. To establish as legal tender. 2. To coin (money). 3. To convert (government debt) from securities into currency that can be used to purchase goods and services. 4. To make money from: The website was moneytized through listing Google AdWords.

Both definitions are the same. Just that moneytize seems a bit more... well... honest and quickly understandable. Whatdaya' think?

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The Old Gray Mare, she ain't... She's dog food!

You know the song (Okay, ask your grandparents... they'll know):   

Oh, the old gray mare, she ain't what she used to be,
Ain't what she used to be, ain't what she used to be.
The old gray mare, she ain't what she used to be,
Many long years ago.

Not only ain't she what she used to be... she's dog food!

The "Old Gray Mare" I'm referring to is/was the once common practice of turning someone on to a person, place or thing (some noun) just because you thought they'd love it... it was "perfect" for him or her and you couldn't help yourself. You had to recommend it.

Today if there's not an affiliate commission or a WIIFM (What's In It For Me) remuneration, recompense, redress or reparation... forget it. Dog food.

The Golden Rule no longer applies and God's balance sheet (the lay up your treasures in heaven bit) doesn't matter. Somewhere along the time-line Karma became Cashma.

I suppose this is a kind of "good news" for mlmers. When we grow into a world where a stranger asks directions and gets them only after handing over a five ("No thanks. I only accept Euros.")... sure won't be any problem recommending products and services to people and getting paid for it—even if it's to family and friends. Perhaps network marketing really is the wave of the future.

I am NOT against making money, nor affiliate partnerships and certainly I am NOT anti-mlm (wind him up and he bites the hand that feeds him... "Not I," said the pig!). It's simply that I am FOR telling people about good stuff with no strings. I cannot help myself. You don't have to pay me. It's the right thing to do. And it's a good thing about me.    

Therefore... I'll keep on kicking on the whiffletree.

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The great network marketer...

Over the past 20 years of doing this—whatever 'this" is that I'm doing—I've been continuously intrigued by the difficulty some people have in translating ideas from one domain of life and work into network marketing. Michael Gerber's E-Myth comes to mind.

Gerber wrote a book brimming with concepts that applied to more and better ways of building a network marketing business, yet few folks (or so it seemed) picked up on it/them.

A dilemma I face with this is to what extent I "take people by the hand" and lead them to applying this or that from: to: network marketing. If it's too obvious, I insult. Not clear enough, the point is wasted, understanding lost. This one however, should be easy.

In the video below, from aGreatQuestion 03.05.08, simply replace the word "teacher" with "network marketer" (or sponsor, leader, upline, whatever applies best to you) and look for your answer. Please, let me know if you learn or confirm anything...

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What's your tagline?

...and do you even have one?

I'm working with self-proclaimed young master (we shall see...) of the www. Benjamin Fitts on a LTM (Limited Term Membership) learning course called Nichework Marketing. Ben and were going to  co-crerate/ co-present same. [UPDATE: Not going to happen. New plans. Coming soon.] Ben asked me to dish with him about a "tagline" for the project. I was pretty sure I knew what a tagline was, but just to make sure I did a Google tap dance on the term (6,890,000 results). Here's what I found. (Hopefully for you, too...) Fascinating stuff.

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A "Tagline" is marketing haiku. As the folks at TaglineGuru.com, who's business and passion it is to create them, explain, a tagline "...compresses the meaning of a corporate vision, competitive position, brand promise, product benefit, or customer experience into a cogent story. It's the distilled essence of your marketing message—conceived strategically, expressed artfully and delivered persuasively."

"Taglines can enhance the value and relevance of your brand, extend it's reach and give it renewed vigor. Taglines are for everyone... not just for big business. If you have a clever, spot-on tagline, your prospects are more likely to recall you when faced with a choice and call you when they're ready to buy."

Tom "Big Al" Schreiter has been encouraging the use of taglines for years. He calls them first sentences. Another name for tagline is slogan, which comes from the Gaelic sluagh-ghairm, meaning "battle cry".

I've created one tagline I'm proud of. I use it for all things Greatest Networker, "Growing your business by growing yourself."

I don't have a tagline that good for any of my my other projects... and I really need them. So, I'm studying the great taglines of the past for inspiration—and a bit of borrowing if needs be. Here a list that TaglineGure.com created after surveying 100 advertising, marketing, and branding professionals on both the client and agency side. I've just listed the top 25. Follow the title link for the entire list of 100 and more.

The 100 Most Influential Taglines Since 1948

1. Got milk? (1993) California Milk Processor Board
2. Don’t leave home without it. (1975) American Express
3. Just do it. (1988) Nike
4. Where’s the beef? (1984) Wendy’s
5. You’re in good hands with Allstate. (1956) Allstate Insurance
6. Think different. (1998) Apple Computer
7. We try harder. (1962) Avis
8. Tastes great, less filling. (1974) Miller Lite
9. Melts in your mouth, not in your hands. (1954) M&M Candies
10. Takes a licking and keeps on ticking. (1956) Timex
11. When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight. (1982) FedEx
12. Reach out and touch someone. (1979) AT&T
13. A diamond is forever. (1948) DeBeers
14. Finger-lickin’ good! (1952) Kentucky Fried Chicken
15. The uncola. (1973) 7-Up
16. Let your fingers do the walking. (1964) Yellow Pages
17. There are some things that money can’t buy. For everything else there’s MasterCard. (1997) MasterCard
18. What happens here, stays here. (2002) Las Vegas
19. You’ve come a long way, baby. (1968) Virginia Slims Cigarettes
20. We bring good things to life. (1981) General Electric
21. Please don’t squeeze the Charmin. (1964) Charmin
22. Does she or doesn’t she? (1964) Clairol
23. Have it your way. (1973) Burger King
24. I can’t believe I ate the whole thing. (1966) Alka-Seltzer
25. Come alive! You’re in the Pepsi generation. (1964) Pepsi

Okay, one more, just because it's so good:

26. The ultimate driving machine. (1975) BMW

The entire list is here: The 100 Most Influential Taglines Since 1948

The MasterMind Sessions
Expanding your mind one master at a time.

Belief Busters
I can’t believe I made this all up.

or...

Stop trying harder.

Okay, I'll keep workin' on 'em... :-)

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Quotes about Belief

I've been digging through my quotes files and out and about the web collecting some notable quotables for BeliefBusters. Here are 10 of them:

You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world.
— Charlie Chaplin

Changing your negative beliefs is the first step in the transformation process that will really make a difference in your life.
— Anita Foley

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
— Walt Disney

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
— Norman Vincent Peale

If you feel inferior to someone else, it is because of your own beliefs.
— Catherine Pulsifer

By changing your thinking,
You change your beliefs...
— Author Unknown

Today, many will rise above their believed limitations and make contact with their powerful innate strength. Why not you?
— Steve Maraboli

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
— Demosthenes

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
— Frank Lloyd Wright

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
— Michael Korda

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Leverage and Loverage

Asked by Sylvia, my Dulcinia in the home office of our network marketing company, to provide a definition for the words leverage and loverage, I collected and edited the following from the American Heritage Dictionary:

lev•er•age n. 1. a. The action of a lever. b. The mechanical advantage of a lever. 2. Positional advantage; power to act effectively: “started his . . . career with far more social leverage than his father had enjoyed”  Doris Kearns Goodwin. v. tr.  lev•er•aged lev•er•ag•ing lev•er•ag•es 1. To provide (an individual, company, team) with leverage. a. To supplement (money, for example) with leverage. 2. To affect as if by leverage: a lifestyle that was leveraged by business responsibilities.

lov•er•age n. 1. a. The action of a lover. b. The spiritual advantage of a lover. 2. Positional advantage; power to love effectively: “built his huge networking organization with as much loverage as leverage” John Milton Fogg.  v. tr. lov•er•aged lov•er•ag•ing lov•er•ag•es 1. To provide (an individual, company, team) with loverage. a. To supplement (money, for example) with loverage. 2. To affect as if by loverage: a lifestyle that was loveraged by taking responsibility.

No attempt or expectation of shattering earth here. Just for fun and...

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