The way we think about success is all wrong

This is the first time—outside of Harry Potter—I've pre-ordered a book (almost six-months) in advance of its publication (November 18): Malcolm Gladwell's OUTLIERS, Why Some People Succeed and Some Don't. It's available for pre-order at Amazon.com.

I learned about it from a slight bit in The New York Times.

WHAT'S ONLINE
Why Some Succeed Wildly
By DAN MITCHELL
A forthcoming book that examines how mega-success is
achieved is already receiving much attention on the Web.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/technology/28online.html?th&emc=th

Which led me to this...

800-CEO-READ Blog
OUTLIERS is a book about success. It starts with a very simple question: what is the difference between those who do something special with their lives and everyone else? In OUTLIERS, we're going to visit a genius who lives on a horse farm in Northern Missouri. We're going to examine the bizarre histories of professional hockey and soccer players, and look into the peculiar childhood of Bill Gates, and spend time in a Chinese rice paddy, and investigate the world's greatest law firm, and wonder about what distinguishes pilots who crash planes from those who don't. And in examining the lives of the remarkable among us--the brilliant, the exceptional and the unusual--I want to convince you that the way we think about success is all wrong.

And then to Little Brown and Company, and this...

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of"outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.

Brilliant and entertaining, OUTLIERS is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

Since I enjoy being right... I've also an appreciation for being wrong. I trust Mr. Gladwell will provide me with much to learn.

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Let go. Let God.

From the beginning of my work with BeliefBusters I have been concerned about the "spiritual" references: "You are a spiritual being connected directly to the Source of All Creation... Let go. Let God." and such. My concern is NOT for myself. I'm comfortable... convinced actually. Rather, I was unsettled that these ideas of God and a higher power may not be a fit for some people, and therefore would get in the way of their working with some of the processes.

Today, after a Google search, I came accross this bit in the Washington Post from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life about American's religious/ spiritual beliefs. Most Americans Believe in Higher Power, Poll Finds. Given what's below (just a few snips taken from the article) I'm no longer troubled.

 

Most Americans believe that angels and demons are active in the world, and nearly 80 percent think miracles occur... 92 percent believe in God or a universal spirit... More than half of Americans polled pray at least once a day. A belief in God or a higher spirit is pervasive. Even Americans who describe themselves as atheist or agnostic have a robust sense of a higher power: Twenty-one percent of those who describe themselves as atheists expressed a belief in God or a universal spirit, and more than half of those who call themselves agnostic expressed a similar conviction....

If you've a comment, I'd love to hear read it.

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The MasterMind Session with Marcella Vonn Harting

Here's the newsletter I'm sending to all The MasterMind Sessions subscribers this week.

REMEMBER please, the intro and 9ish minute preview below are yours to listen to here for free. (And that's so for ALL 103 of the intros and previews on the Sessions page of the MasterMind website)

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Hi, it's John. . .

Here's TheMasterMindSessions NEWSLETTER for 06.27.08.

There's some not always fun funny business behind this Session. Last week's Session with Donna Reid-Mitchell was a last minute, Thank you Donna! fill in (although I've been wanting a Session with Donna for months) for the lost Session I'd recorded with James Dillehay. (Love that Free-Conferencing, EXCEPT when they lose the audios, which is a habit they have.)

Not such a great loss, the call quality was not good as James could only connect over a cell, because he lives on the edge of a New Mexico "enchanted forest," that burned up and down recently and many of the power and phone lines are still out. James' home survived, while others did not.

Anyhow, James is co-author along with marketing legend (the guy who created Tony the Tiger amongst many other memorable adverts) Jay Conrad Levinson AND this week's Master, Marcella Vonn Harting, of the book Guerilla Multilevel Marketing. James is also a leader in Marcella's Young Living Essential Oils organization. Such a small interconnected world. ("It's a small world after all. It's a small world after all. It's a small world after all. It's a small, small, world. It's a world of. . ." I will NEVER get that song out of my head. Thanks Walt!). Future Session with James IS forth coming. . .  over a land line, promise.

Now, this week's Session. . . Listen, learn and prosper for yourself. It's wonderful. Like drinking from a fire hose AND complete with a 72-page "ebook" as added support material. I'll say no more. Marcella is a gift. . . an empowerment phenom with hands of titanium and velvet gloves. Enjoy.

Session 103
Friday, June 27
Making a Living Making Friends
Marcella Vonn Harting
 

Before becoming involved with network marketing 25 years ago, she was a housewife and a mom, "and proud of it!" she says. Today, Marcella is one of THE top women in network marketing in the world. In fact, she's one of THE top networkers of all! Marcella is a Crown Diamond with Young Living Essential Oils with an organization of 70,000 distributors (over half the company) in more than 20 countries and she's currently earning $1 a month for each one. Marcella's goal is a very specific $81,888.88 per month. That's what it takes to become a million-dollar annual income earner. As you listen to this Session with Marcella, I'm sure you'll agree that for her, achieving that goal is inevitable. Marcella is ALL about relationships. "It's not about products," she says. "It's about finding out what drives people?" Marcella explains the "Six Human Needs" she learned as an Event Trainer for Tony Robbins: Certainty (Security), Variety, Significance, Connection (to Love and Be Loved), Growth, Contribution and a seventh one Marcella added herself, a Compelling Future. Marcella teaches her her people the skills to create life-long friendships. In her words, she's, "Making a living making friends." And quite the fine living it is, too. Did I mention she offers her new distributors a money-back guarantee? She does. There's more. It's Fascinating.
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Additional support material from Marcella Vonn Harting

The Harting Training System
"This book is designed as a tool to teach you how to be successful even faster than I have     been—if you are teachable, use this book diligently, and use it as it is written. Do what I tell you to do, exactly as I tell you to do it, without any excuses and you will succeed.

The reason for my success is my relationships with people. My relationships have taken me to the top in my organization as a Crown Diamond, with over $4 million sales volume per month. This level of success relies on dedication and skill level. If you would like to learn how to successfully sell, get another book. If you would like to create life-long happiness and success, get to know PEOPLE, including yourself. This Training System will teach you the skills you need to travel the highest high-road of success."
72 page downloadable PDF

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

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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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The Awesome Power of Your Beliefs CALL REPLAY

Last night's special tele-conference call / simulcast for the BeliefBusters Inner Circle covered a lot of good stuff about "The Awesome Power of Your Beliefs." A bit noisy, but... worth the listen. It's here on the web to hear on the web or download in Mp3. There are links on the page for some good things you'll want no-charge.

http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=3366687

There're also two "Beat the Price Increase" special offers still available today. The BeliefBusters course is only $20 a month for three months now. It will go up to $47 a month for the 13 week course tonight.

The InnerCircle Coaching Program is now $47. It will go up to $97 per month (also tonight), which is still a steal given all you get compared to other programs costing two, three and more times as much. The purpose of this call was to give you a taste of that program.

BeliefBusters is the most important work I've done in my life. It all started with "The Greatest Networker in the World". . . and if it keeps going like it is, this will be the next and probably last book I write. Please, check it out.

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I appreciate you!

PS. I sincerely hope you'll be on the call.

John Milton Fogg
http://BeliefBusters.com
2370 Saddle Hollow
Crozet, VA 22932 USA
+434.823.9303

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Here's your invite to a special call about...

[from an email I'm sending today filled with good
and useful stuff for free]

Here's your invite to a special call about. . .
The Awesome Power of Your Beliefs.

Hi, It's John Fogg.

Here's your invitation to join me on a special,
one-time tele-conference call / simulcast, event
this. . .

Tuesday at 9:00 pm edt | 6:00 pm pdt.

The details are all below...

The subject of the call is:

The Awesome Power of Your Beliefs.

It comes from the remarkable discoveries I'm
making with my work for http://BeliefBusters.com

I say remarkable, because I honestly had no idea
how vitally important beliefs are in all our lives. Oh
I had some sense, but not REALLY. Folks, all and
everything depends on your Beliefs! EVERYthing!

Failure, success, health, wealth, joy or not.

And I sure didn't know why it's so critical that the first
step really has to be BUSTING negative thinking
right away! More about that (if you want) in just a bit.

The Belief Busters Inner Circle Coaching Call. . .

There's no charge for the call AND you can be on
live and interactive, ask me any questions (or submit
them on the website) and you choose to be on the
phone or listen in on the web.

This First Belief Busters Inner Circle bi-monthly
Coaching Call will be open to the public. From then
on, they'll be private for InnerCircle members only.

AND, until that time, you can have access to the
private Inner Circle Forum. You can read (sorry,
you can't post) all the threads, learn what we're all
about and take advantage of the all resources -- it
will close this Wednesday night. It's here:

http://BeliefBusters.com/InnerCircle/Forum

You'll also have a 24 hour opportunity to "beat the
price increase" for the BeliefBusters program itself
and the Inner Circle membership. They'll both more
than double before Wednesday midnight.

So, first, the teleseminar/coaching call details.

Then, if you want to learn more about what I'm up to
with BeliefBusters, I'll explain with some words and
links for resources you can check out.

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EVENT:  The BeliefBusters Inner Circle Coaching Call
DATE & TIME: Tuesday, June 24th at 9:00 pm Eastern
FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast )
TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, CLICK THIS LINK NOW...
http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=3366687

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Please, visit the webpage. You can submit questions
before and during the call and there are valuable links
you can use right away.

The "About BeliefBusters" pdf is something everybody
gets as soon as they sign up for the course. You can
get that now at no charge from the webpage above.

Also, click link to the BeliefBusters InnerCircle Forum,
look for the thread "BeliefBusters 'First Aid Kit' ." It's a
work-in-progress article I'm writing that talks about
the vital importance of STOPPING negative thinking
ASAP. 

Also, click this to download a pdf special report:
The Kingpin, all about never being enough or good
enough.

http://BeliefBusters.com/SpecialReports/BBSP01TheKingpin.pdf

The InnerCircle will soon become one of the most
vital communities online for drilling down into the
whole vast business of The Power of Beliefs.. Not
many there yet. We're just starting.

AND, that's why I'm also making the "Beat the Price
Increase" special offer. BeliefBusters itself is still
only $20 a month for three months. It will go up to
$47 a month for the 13 week course on Wednesday.

The InnerCircle Coaching Program is now $47. It
will go up to $97 per month, which is still a steal given
all you get and compared to other programs costing
two, three and more times as much.

So, there ya' go. The Tuesday night Coaching Call...
access to the InnerCircle private forum (for a little
while) and a bunch of valuable things to learn from.

BeliefBusters is the most important work I've done in
my life. It all started with "The Greatest Networker in the
World". . . and if it keeps going like it is, this will be the
next and probably last book I write.

Thanks.
I appreciate you!

PS. I sincerely hope you'll be on the call.

John Milton Fogg
http://BeliefBusters.com
2370 Saddle Hollow
Crozet, VA 22932 USA
+434.823.9303

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The Law of Compensation

This, received in today's email from Bob Proctor's Insight of the Day. (You can subscribe by clicking that link.) Since it deals with thoughts and thinking in similar ways that I'm working with in BeliefBusters, it got my attention. 

Law of Compensation
Crowd out all inferior thoughts by superior thoughts, evil thoughts by good thoughts, ugly thoughts by beautiful thoughts, distressing thoughts by pleasant thoughts, and you will begin to overcome the growth of all negative and confused states of wrong and discord.

In other words, learn to think constructively of all persons, all things, all events, and all circumstances.

Appraise them from the ideal point of view. As you do this you will gradually transform your whole existence for the better. These are the means whereby you may steadily promote your welfare and advancement.

As you train yourself to mentally look for the good, you will move towards the good; and, as you form higher and larger conceptions of the good, these elements will begin to find expression in your words, acts, character, person, talents, powers, attainments, and achievements; that is, all things in your life will commence to improve as the direct result of your improved thinking.

This process does not imply, however, that you are to ignore the wrongs of life, the empty places, and the undeveloped states of being; but that you are to think right through and beyond them towards the hidden good or the principle within that is ever seeking a higher and fuller expression. You will, therefore, cease to condemn and to criticize in a destructive manner; instead you will seek to bring out the good in yourself and in others, and to discover and develop the greater possibilities everywhere.
— Raymond Holliwell

The name link above will take you to the DeVorss & Company web page for Holliwell's book. Here, from the introduction:

If life can move along effortlessly and orderly some of the time, why does it not do so always? When we ponder this question, often in the midst of discouragement and difficulty, we feel that something is eluding us. What is that something? According to the author of Working with the Law, Dr. Raymond Holliwell, that something is God—or as he prefers to name it, Law. He states in his preface: "I shall call God working in our lives ‘Law.’ Interpreting the Law in several ways should bring it more clearly into our way of thinking. Then as we strive to work with the Law we are living closer to God, and such living brings a better understanding."

I have not read the book yet. I will. If you have, tell me about it.

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The MasterMind Session with Donna Reid-Mitchell

Here's the newsletter I'm sending to all The MasterMind Sessions subscribers this week.

REMEMBER please, the intro and 9ish minute preview below are yours to listen to here for free. (And that's so for all the intros and previews on the Sessions page of the MasterMind website)

Hi, it's John. . .

Here's TheMasterMindSessions NEWSLETTER for 06.20.08.

Couple of (repeated) announces first.

NEW The MasterMind Sessions FORUM.
On the top of every page of TheMasterMindSessions website you'll see a new addition to the "nav bar" right beside "Login" FORUM. The forum(s) are up and ready to rock and roll. YOU are already signed on. Your user name is your first and last name with NO SPACES. Your password is the same as you'd use to Login to the Sessions. IF it happens you are NOT registered or recognized, click the "Forgotten Your Password?" link and enter your email address, the same one you use for the Sessions. Then come back and enter that password. There aren't many people there yet, so. . . come be one of the first.

A couple of topics are already started. One for your recommendations and another I'll speak about below.

Also NEW, Sessions Transcripts. What do YOU want?
I have it on the best authority (no kidding, I did the research) that the most valuable learning presentation on the web is a combination of audio and a PDF transcript. So, all those Mp3s and now there will be transcripts. Since we have over 100 Sessions, we'll start transcribing what YOU want first. You can let us know what's good to go in the FORUM thread Session Transcripts: YOUR Desires, please...

Now, on to this week's Session.

"Ding. Dong." the doorbell rang. "Avon calling," the pleasant voice announced on the now 40-year old TV commercial that millions and millions of people STILL remember as if they were aired yesterday. That was your grandmother's Avon Lady—dressed in tweed with a polite Midwestern hat—and she is no more. (The cosmetics giant rolled out new ads in the UK this April aimed at students and young mums in an effort to recruit the "next generation" of Avon ladies).

In the US, Donna Reid-Mitchell easily serves as a role model for that next generation. And Donna's not really a direct sales person. She's an avowed network marketer! As I say in the Session, both delightful and powerful. Donna's a leader of leaders who artfully combines a 1-2-3 systematic approach with great warmth and caring for her people.

I thoroughly enjoyed this Session with Donna. I trust you will as well.

Session 102
Friday, June 20
Change Your Dreams, Change Your Life
Donna Reid-Mitchell  

The title of this Session is also the title of Donna's book, due this July. The Jamaican-born former cosmetologist and hair stylist was selected out of 600,000 representatives in the U.S. as one of Avon Products' "2007 Women of Enterprise." Last year, Donna grew her business by increased sales of $800,000 to $4.95 million, just missing the $5 million mark. Avon offers a 90-Day Challenge promotion where sales leaders are encouraged to help their people advance their title levels. Donna broke the record having 48 of her people advance—then promptly did it again in the next 90 days. She did it by reviewing her past performance and focusing on what she could improve in the three key areas of her business: The Products, the Profits and the People.

Donna is a single mother. She's all about her two young children and takes them with her on door-to-door sales calls. Donna claims that her son is irresistible when he asks prospects, "Have you seen an Avon brochure recently?" In fact, Donna credits Yordan for really getting her going in the business. When he was only six, he told her, "Mommy, we need to make some more money. You are the best Avon lady I know. Let's do more with this Avon business. I will help you." Out of the mouths of babes… This Session with Donna is as powerful as it is delightful!
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Additional support material from Donna Reid-Mitchell

20 Accelerated Earnings Actions
What are the actions that the most successful Avon Products business building leaders did to succeed? Here they are. And Donna says if you simply do 10 each day you will be a leader, too. An exclusive excerpt from the book Change Your Dreams, Change Your Life.
2 page downloadable PDF

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

Thanks.
I appreciate you.

_______________________________________________
 
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          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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Conversations With The Greatest Networkers in the World

Scroll down. Read all the Comments related to the Twitter posts. You'll learn something. Add your own comment. I'll learn something. Weblog morfs into forum. Very cool.

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Twitter... more, and more and...

... will it ever end?

This one, an against rant by sometimes nemesis g (gulliver with a small "g") over at Upline 365 in Twits, tweets and twerps. Thing about g is, the snips and snides and dark side aside, he is for me: a.) The best writer writing today in mlm network marketing (yeah, I did write that). b.) Even in disagree mode (which is more often than not) he's hugely thoughtful and always worth considering. c.) And always adds to my increasing confusion (which precedes clarity, doesn't it? Please...?)

Here's a snip of his (follow the link for ALL of it, and there is a lot and this lot is good to know.)

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(Much comes before and after this bit)

... And sure, I'm aware of the counterpoint: in frequently buying stuff from amazon, of course founder Jeff Bezos 'is a stranger to me' and doesn't personally take my order. Nor did I need to 'know' Dylan or Clapton to go to their gigs.

So then, with a little rethinking of the semantics perhaps Seth [Godin] is right on-the-money… Twitter isn't (despite what many users would wish and hope for) developing friendships, but assembling ready-to-buy prospects through inauthentic pseudo-relationships.

If NM really is a relationship-based thing (and I'm not sure relationships are that essential), then shouldn't we be questioning the means by which we interact with others and the genuine mutual value available and derived therefrom?

My advice to clients remains: 'All things considered, it's about as much use as a busted RSS, so you can shove yer tweets where the sun don't shine. There are many good ways to build a business, and this ain't one of 'em.'

The rest of g's posting is here: Twits, tweets and twerps .

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Twitter... more.

More, as in my continuing education on the value of Twitter.com. This from Crooked Wisdom master Blair Warren's recent weblog post, Spontaneous Social Persuasion.
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On Monday, June 16, 2008, at 5:06 PM, I posted the following on Twitter:

Wow. There are some really sick people on twitter. Do me a favor: If you know of any others, let me know so I can follow them too.

At 8:45, a man I’d never heard of before named Wayne Porter responded:

I am not sick, but moderately (yet functionally) deranged. That qualify?

A few tweets and a couple of hours later we picked up the phone and had a mind-blowing 2 hour conversation.

At 1:00 AM the call ended. And my bewilderment began.

In just over 4 hours Wayne and I went from never having made contact to engaging in one of the deepest conversations I’ve had in a very long time. But how?

The rest of Blair's weblog post is here: Spontaneous Social Persuasion.

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Oookay... I'm gettin' it, kinda'.

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Twitter Rulz (So says Jonak)

NOT my post. This is a comment from my recent Web 2.0h oh: So and such is following you on Twitter post. This is Art Jonak and Art knows some things.
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Follow the life of a Network Marketing Professional at:

http://twitter.com/artjonak

Hook up your Twitter directly to Facebook updates, FriendFeeder, etc.

Twitter ranks 655 on Alexa.

March 2008 Twitter.com
Total Users: 1+ million
Total Active Users: 200,000 per week
Total Twitter Messages: 3 million/day

None of that data is particularly useful, since so much of the action on Twitter occurs via mobile phones, instant messaging and desktop clients like Alert Thingy, MySocial24×7  and Twhirl. Many of Twitter’s most active users rarely visit the website.

Twitter and Facebook updates create great connections for me on a *daily basis* while still spending less than 45 minutes TOTAL a day of actual "sitting in front of a computer" time... and that is far out. Web 2.0 rocks.

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Maybe not "art," but it is Art.

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MLM Network Marketing Training: Are you talking to the right people?

Buckminster Fuller taught me that there are four types of people on "Spaceship Earth" (in terms of their relationship to ANY subject; self-improvement, their health, classical music, golf, romance, network marketing...):

1. People who are sound asleep.
2. People who are just beginning to wake up.
3. People who have just recently awakened.
4. People who are wide awake.

Point is: You, as a network marketer, want to be talking to the right people (as consumers/ customers, business partners, business-builders—and those three ARE very different...).

Your primary target: People who are wide awake (to whatever you're offering).

Second: The newly awakened.

Ignore groups three and four.

Susscesful marketing (of any kind) always requires saying the right things to the right people at the right time...

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Still taking weekends away, but... this is awesome. Wow!

Takes 8 minutes. Wait through the French beginning if you're not a speaker. It's about the statue...

Jerome murat
Uploaded by rockette

My (and your) thanks to friend Fran Schermerhorn and the folks at DailyMotion.com for this remarkable performance.

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[The MasterMind Sessions] 06.13.08 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Here's the newsletter I'm sending to all The MasterMind Sessions subscribers this week.

REMEMBER please, the intro and 7ish minute preview below are yours to listen to here for free. (And that's so for all the intros and previews on the Sessions page of the MasterMind website)

Hi, it's John. . .

Trust your Friday the 13th is as lucky as can be!

Here's TheMasterMindSessions NEWSLETTER for 06.13.08 and with IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS!

For those who scan, here's what's here:

1. NEW The MasterMind Sessions FORUM.
2. Also NEW, Sessions Transcripts. What do YOU want?
3. Beat the PRICE INCREASE (for your friends, not YOU).
4. This week's Session is with...

For those who read, here, one at a time...

1. NEW The MasterMind Sessions FORUM.
On the top of every page of TheMasterMindSessions website you'll see a new addition to the "nav bar" right beside "Login" FORUM. The forum(s) are up and ready to rock and roll. YOU are already signed on. Your user name is your first and last name with NO SPACES. Your password is the same as you'd use to Login to the Sessions. IF it happens you are NOT registered or recognized, click the "Forgotten Your Password?" link and enter your email address, the same one you use for the Sessions.

A couple of topics are already started. One for your recommendations and another I'll speak about below.

2. Also NEW, Sessions Transcripts. What do YOU want?
I have it on the best authority (no kidding, I did the research) that the most valuable learning presentation on the web is a combination of audio and a PDF transcript. So, all those Mp3s and now there will be transcripts. Since we have over 100 Sessions, we'll start transcribing what YOU want first. You can let us know what's good to go in the FORUM thread Session Transcripts: YOUR Desires, please...

3. Beat the PRICE INCREASE (for your friends, not YOU).
The price of The MasterMind Session is goin up! But NOT FOR YOU! Your price--the price you are paying now or paid when you signed up WILL NEVER CHANGE. It's locked in. BUT... the price for new members goes up June 25th. So... if you know people who would benefit from a membership to The MasterMind Sessions, please let them know NOW.

AND, I'll keep the "Crazy Gift Offer" open until the 25th for your friends. An annual subscription/ membership for $99.95 (saving $180 off today's price ($370 off the increase) PLUS they'll get one free annual membership to give away to a friend. For a limited time, of course. It's here:

http://TheMasterMindSessions.com/2-4-1

Why increase the price? Because The MasterMind Sessions is a HUGE value and way under priced. It's time I charged what it's worth (and I'm doing less than that even with the increase). 101 Sessions, with added bonus material for each one, 52 more to come throughout the year, mostly stuff you will not find anywhere else... at the new price that's $3.00 a Session including the bonuses. Ridiculous. (Thanks for asking)

4. This week's Session is with...
Me. I've been being (politely) pestered by a fist-full of MasterMind members to have some more JMF Sessions. Being a shy guy... I have side-stepped the "issue" quite nicely (those Tango lessons have paid off) until now. Having just done a tele-deal with Doug Firebaugh for his latest project, the Network Marketing Training Institute.com, the perfect timing and an Mp3 I didn't have to record myself did the trick. Tad of an echo on the audio. Forgive, please. Here with Doug's blessing the 40ish minute piece. Enjoy.

Session 100
Friday, June 6
A Session with John Milton Fogg

Doug Firebaugh asked me to be on one of his recent calls for the Network Marketing Training Institute.com. This is that call.

We spoke about the difference between doing network marketing and being a network marketer… The importance of relationship and it's primary role in developing leadership… we picked up on Doug's maxim "You've got to grow past the no…" On going upline (or outside your company) to learn from the people who really know how to do it. We spoke about a "new definition of belief" (be love) and creating new habits of thought (and what we're up against in changing our beliefs) and leadership… what it takes to become and be a leader, and the difference between wanting to be a leader and wanting to want-to be a leader… The shortcut to leadership—taking your attention off yourself and putting it on your people. Why Donald Trump is NOT a true leader. And finally… Listening. "Chuck full of diamond nuggets of wisdom," Dough said at the end. I know you'll be the judge of that.
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Additional support material from John Fogg

The Four Cornerstones of GET RICH SLOW
(It really is the fastest way of all)
John's "classic" about Speaking and Listening. Shipping and Receiving. Use, Recommend and Sponsor. Coaching and Leadership. These are the foundation upon which you will be building your network marketing business building.
9 page downloadable PDF

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Internet Marketing: Writing For the Web or...

Jakob Nielsen has been called "the smartest person on the web." Not sure about that, but if I remember my Oriential diagnosis lessons correctly, that's a huge front-brain the man is sporting— and we were taught that was a sign of most high intelligence.

He publishes a missive on web usability titled the Alertbox. The one for June 9 is available now (click the link below). It deals with the differences between writing for print and writing for the web. As a writer for both, I find the subject fascinating. If you've a website, weblog, do article or forum marketing, make (or are thinking of making) iinformation products... it's worth the six minutes. Here the intro and the link (and please, tell me what you think):

Summary:
Linear vs. non-linear. Author-driven vs. reader-driven. Storytelling vs. ruthless pursuit of actionable content. Anecdotal examples vs. comprehensive data. Sentences vs. fragments.

I've spent many columns explicating the differences between the Web and television, which can be summarized as lean-forward vs. lean-back:

• On the Web, users are engaged and want to go places and get things done. The Web is an active medium.
• While watching TV, viewers want to be entertained. They are in relaxation mode and vegging out; they don't want to make choices. TV is a passive medium.

This doesn't mean that you can't have entertaining websites or informative TV shows. But it does mean that the two media's contrasting styles require different approaches to entertainment and education.

The differences between print and the Web may not seem as strong, but to achieve optimal results, each requires a distinct content style.

The full piece is here: Writing Style for Print vs. Web

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MLM Network Marketing: Relationshipping

I like to think... really, I do. There's trouble sometimes distinguisning between authentic thought and "false self" chatter. So a safe bet is to go to those folks on-line I can count on to be genuinely thought provoking. Ted.com, Seth and DOSH DOSH are three favorites. This post, from DOSH DOSH about how to create and maintain relationships has mlm network marketing (on-line and off) written all over, under and through it. Trust you'll think about it.

Relationships and Online Social Networks: The Value of Sites Like Twitter and Plurk

Posted: 09 Jun 2008 03:15 PM CDT

Why are some friendships short and fleeting while others may last for an entire lifetime? Apart from personality differences and many other reasons, communication (or the lack of it) is also a factor which determines the strength or longevity of social relationships.

According to a <http://www.physorg.com/news128075710.html>recent study of 2 million people and 8 million phone calls over one year, researchers discovered that the cause of persistent relationships is reciprocity - returning a friend’s call. The more often you call each other, the longer your relationship...

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Self Help, Personal Development: Brain Science. Understanding Mind.

Since my work with BeliefBusters, I've become more fascinated with the workings of the brain/mind. Thanks to weblog commentor Alain PIERRE, my horizons have dranatically expanded.

What follows is one of those truly authentic remarkable things. It's from TED.com. A free membership I urge you to sign on for. After watching this 18' 44 video, I'm certain you'll sincerely consider doing so. Enjoy.

My Stroke of Insight—Jill Bolte Taylor
One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor's brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness...

"How many brain scientists have been able to study the brain from the inside out? I've gotten as much out of this experience of losing my left mind as I have in my entire academic career."
—Jill Bolte Taylor

Amazed to find herself alive, Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk... In her case, although the stroke damaged the left side of her brain, her recovery unleashed a torrent of creative energy from her right...

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Web 2.0h oh: So and such is following you on Twitter

I know... I know... the root word of my last name means "heavy dense mist" and "clouded". So, I guess it's my heritage to be in a fog at times, but this Twitter business eludes me. Digital Narcissus.   

Hi, JohnMiltonFogg.

Nabil Goswami is now following your updates on Sh-tter.

Check out Nabil Goswami's profile here:

http://sh-tter.com/nabil

You may follow Nabil Goswami as well by clicking on the "follow" button.

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Sh-tter

I'm sorry if I offended you (really, I am...) but I don't get this one at all. "So and so is with his personal trainer" (I have a personal trainer, too. Name's Husqvarna. We workout together three time's a week in the summer and up through mid-Autumn. Do you really want to know when I'm mowing my lawns?)

One half hour after my Himalayan seat salt and 13 oz of water does it's cleansing job I'll be sure to sign on to Sh-tter.com and let ALL my friends know I'm on the head, throne, toilet, crapper (NOT named after Thomas Crapper, plumber to Edward VII) or (heaven forbid) john...

Web - 2.0h oh has arrived and some of it doesn't make any sense to me at all. And I welcome anyone explaining what following and being followed on Twitter has to do with anything or anyone without way too much time on his or her hands.

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The MasterMind Session with Mark Rawlins

Here's the newsletter I'm sending to all The MasterMind Sessions subscribers this week.

REMEMBER please, the intro and 8ish minute preview below are yours to listen to here for free. (And that's so for all the intros and previews on the Sessions page of the MasterMind website)

Hi, it's John. . .

Here's TheMasterMindSessions NEWSLETTER for 06.06.08.

This Session is a milestone, actually the 100th milestone. Fully 100 Sessions now in the archive/ library, and each one with added support material a really smart marketer would call "bonuses."  I honestly do not know of a richer, more varied resource of mlm network marketing knowledge available. Please, if you do, tell me. Ala Avis, the competition will only make me "try harder."   

This week, Mark Rawlins, the boss of InfoTrax Systems, one of if not THE premiere software and commission structure and consulting companies serving mlm network marketing and direct sales. These are the guys and gals who give your company all the  Distributor Tracking & Maintenance, Order Processing, Inventory Management, Order Fulfillment, Warehouse Automation, Commission Processing and more. As I say, without them... no checks! (VIPs in the extreme).

Mark's been at this part of the game for almost 30 years, so he started just about the time the computing power to operate a large and explosive multi-level company was just becoming available.

He's got a unique perspective most people in the field never get to hear. So, a unique Session filled with lots of useful and valuable info. Enjoy.

Session 100
Friday, June 6
Understanding Multi-Level Commissions
Mark Rawlins
 

"Maddening, exhausting, and fascinating," That's how Mark finds multi-level network marketing— and has been doing so for nearly 30 years. He's the Founder, President and CEO of InfoTrax Systems, one of the industry's premiere "back office" and data-base service providers. Short story: without guys like Mark and his people, mlm-ers don't get paid. Imagine what happened in mlm back before computers and their sophisticated, powerful comp plan software… In this Session, Mark tells us what that was like. And he poses some profound and probing questions as well, such as: Have you noticed that all the billion-dollar companies are stair-step breakaway plans, yet no new companies use it… and haven't for years. How come?    

In this Session, we explore the role of the commission plan, how it motivates the distributors and generates business-building behavior in the field. We'll speak about good plans and not so, what percentage payouts make sense and what the men and women in the field need to understand about their commission structures to have their business go and keep growing. Not sure about "maddening or exhausting," but "fascinating" for sure.
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Additional support material from Mark Rawlins

Crossing the MLM Desert
4 page downloadable PDF

The Three Proven Commission Plans
6 page downloadable PDF

Understanding Multi-Level Commissions
30 page downloadable PDF

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MLM Network Marketing: What's Wrong? What's Right?

Picking up on the recent thread, MLM Network Marketing Opinion: What's wrong with it, them, us, you, me... and the comments which followed, here's a Special Report from the BeliefBusters course. Some of you may have seen some of this before. If so, apologies from the Department of Redundancy Department.

What's below is the actual webpage from the course only members have had access to until now. The link below the <snip> will take you to the entire page, complete with video clip and pdf link so you can read the entire report. The focus is on Belief, and since beliefs are habits of thought, the perspective I'm offering applies to thinking of all kinds when practiced consistently over time (habit forming).

Special Report 14

What's Wrong? What's Right?

Hi, it's John.

James Carville, Bill Clinton's outspoken political strategist in the 1992 presidential election, placed a sign over his desk in the Little Rock campaign headquarters to keep him "on message." It's become famous: It's the economy, Stupid!

I've got a similar reminder taped to my computer, so I see it all the time I'm working:

It's the ENERGY, Stupid!

Unwanted, self-sabotaging negative beliefs DRAIN our energy.
Empowering, positive beliefs EXPAND our energy.

And sad, but true; you and I live in a predominantly negative world. Just look around. Gravity isn't the only thing bringing us down…

The actual webpage with links is here: What's Wrong? What's Right?

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MLM Network Marketing Training: Generating Leads with Donna Valdes

Every time I do one of The MasterMind Sessions now, I make a number of "preview" clips. My intention is to use them for (what my friend Lavona calls "faux"...) podcasts. I usually do five or six. In the recent Session with Donna Valdes, I made 12 of them! Why? (Think about it, please.)

Here's one with Donna speaking about her favored prospecting methods, generating leads, the lead industry and "free" leads. Bottom-line for Donna is on-line and it's all relationships. It's 3'57.

To listen/download via the url: Click here.

Let me know what you think about these "faux podcasts." If they're useful and valuable, I'll do more.

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MLM Network Marketing Opinion: What's wrong with it, them, us, you, me...

On Sunday, June 01, 2008, K2 (Kim Klaver) posted How to fix network marketing in her weblog (click the link to read the post and comments).

    "Please say who you are, what you do, and
     how Network Marketing is screwed up."

Then she asked, "How's that for an icebreaker?"

Gets attention, from many, that's for certain. Kim then invited reader's comments for what needs fixing and suggestions for fixes and she's getting a bunch. Most all good stuff. And there's another side: Asking "What's right?" and going from there.

The problem with "What's wrong?" questions (no matter how presented and phrased) is the focus on the negative and the energy that's created, rather the energy that's destroyed.

"What's wrong?" drains people's energy; sucks it out, saps it, diminishes it. And I believe there's a better (more productive and more likely to end in a result that contributes to positive change and fulfilling the "ideal" I assume we're all after) way. Asking "What's right... What's working?" and "What makes that work?"

I'm well aware you may consider this Pollyanna on my part. I do not. The longer I live the more convinced  (and some would say convicted) I am the "Right" questions are the right thing to do. Not head in the sand or any place else the moon don't shine. Born of my experience and passion about the destructive role of "negative thinking." Here, from some recent work I'm doing with BeliefBusters: 

In the introduction to his best selling book, You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought, author Peter McWilliams wrote that negative thinking is one of the primary diseases of our time. He didn't go as far as saying it was THE primary disease—the source of all mental, emotional, physical and spiritual illness (to be fair, he did call it "a precursor of all life-threatening illnesses")—but, I will.

Negative thinking is THE primary source of all the diseases that afflict human beings.

Since beliefs are habits of thought, negative beliefs are clearly the AIDS, Alzheimer's, Cancer, Diabetes and Heart Disease of the mind—and what your mind believes, you will always achieve.

Like McWilliams, I am a certified expert on the subject—a confirmed negaholic. And also like him, I don't just see a glass that's half-full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's full and worry that I'll spill it or someone's going to knock it over...

I'm not asking you to believe or agree. It's my journey. I've made it available to like-minded and like-hearted folks who want to pursue that same path together. As oft quoted here, this from Thomas Troward (1847-1916), whose work has been cited as an inspiration for the movie "The Secret."

The law of flotation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.

The knowledge of a principle is to be gained by the study of its affirmative action: when we understand that, we are in a position to correct the negative conditions which tend to prevent that action.

What's working in network marketing? What's right about it and what makes it work so well? Are worthwhile questions to ask. The answers build energy for accomplishment and lead to asking "What would be ideal?"

And that question, for me, is the most useful and valuable of all.

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InterNetwork Marketing: Killer resources and more from a moron

Art Jonak sent me a link to an important and valuable piece about blogging at Miguel Alverez' marketing factor titled Trendy blogging for big traffic. It begins...

One of the quickest and easiest ways to get traffic to your blog is to actually write about stuff that people want to read. Yet, very few bloggers actually do it.

If you blog about “what’s hot” in the on-going global conversation, there’s a bigger chance for your blog to be talked about as well. Especially if you are able to provide an interesting point of view or put an interesting spin to the stories you blog about. When you talk about what’s hot, by proxy you’ll become part of the heat...

Sensible. The post is filled with links to great news sources. Make the time, please. Like the guys tracking Butch and Sundance, it's very good. (And a BIG bookmark for Miguel's marketing factor. What a great resource for all things online!)

And, there's more...

Cannot for the life of me remember how I clicked through to what follows... Related posts? Got it! Is Mark Joyner a moron? (Great headline.)

Know who Mark Joyner is? Should. One of... perhaps THE Internet guru(s) and source and force behind Simpleology. (Personal development AND Internet marketing. Cool.) He and his folks have developed a multi-media course on blogging and they're letting you and me get it free if you and me post about it on our weblogs. (Click that link above, please.)

The course covers:

• The best blogging techniques.
• How to get traffic to your blog.
• How to turn your blog into money.

Bound to contain more gems than... So grab yours while it's still free.

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