You Choose to Believe!!!!!

As I was sitting in Church today, I was overwhelmed with an idea that I could not break free from.  I have to apologies to Pastor Matt for slipping away from his message in my mind, as I am sure that he put a lot of time into it and it was a strong message, but I just could get this thought out of my mind.

Many of us out there are trying to Lead right now.  Many of us out there are trying to succeed in Business, in Life, in Our Family, in Our Community.   I have tens of thousands of friends right across the world that are all in the same place right now, trying to reach for a higher level of Life, to EvolvLife  (Wink!).   A lot of people are starting businesses from home these days to make extra money, but sadly, the vast majority of people that open home businesses come in ill prepared and equipped to succeed.

I have been privileged to travel around the world, sharing my experiences about building businesses at home.  I really love working with people and unscrambling the confusing world of starting a home business.

The first breakthrough that we have to get through with a new home business owner is that they have to start their businesses believing that they can be successful and that they will be…   The challenge is that they have never done it before and that the world around them has beaten them down so much that it is hard for them.

So how do teach someone to believe in something that they have never experienced, never touched, never felt, never owned?

I wanted to spend a couple of minutes and explain my thoughts on Belief and how to get there in any thing in your life.  In order for you to truly understand Belief and how to get it, you have to patiently read through this entire post.

So in church today, Pastor Matt used the word “believer” many times and actually said that “we realize that there are some people here today that do not believe yet and you are welcome”.   The word Believer is often used in Christianity to represents someone who Believes in Jesus, and on a larger scale, the Wholly Trinity ( the relationship between God the Father(1), God the Son(2)  and God the Wholly Spirit(3), hence the word “Trinity”).   DON’T WORRY THIS IS NOT A GOD PIECE, ITS JUST PART OF THE STORY.

Why do Believers Believe?

Ans:   because they choose to…….

About 1 month ago I was sitting in my living room on Saturday morning with my 6 year old Laura and 9 year on Matthew.  We were having God talk.  I had worked up to this particular day for a couple of weeks as today was the day that I was going to talk about the Wholly Trinity and help my young Leaders to understand the meaning.  As a leader, you need to accept that you are the leader of your children and, if you want them to develop into the best leaders they can be then you have to make a plan to do it.  As part of my plan, we spend time every second Saturday just talking about God.

So the Wholly Trinity is a bit of a complex situation but I thought that my young leaders were ready.  We started our talk with my question, “Tell me what you know about the Wholly Trinity?”

Matthew started right away by saying, “well God created everything, the people, the land, the way they think and ever the fact that we make mistakes:

then Laura chirped in and said “after he created everything, he got sad cause the people were making a lot of mistakes and doing some bad stuff so he wanted to come back to earth to teach but he couldn’t just come down from heaven because he wanted to have the people accept him in their own form.   So God came to earth as Jesus”.

Matthew chimed back in and said, “Jesus died for all of us and that’s why all of our sins are forgiven.  But remember dad, Jesus is really god on Earth”

Then the most profound words of the entire conversation came from my beautiful Daughter Laura, “Dad, when Grandpa died, you told us that he is always going to be here with us.  You told us that his spirit is hear with us right now.  (okay, this is when the tears started).  Well Dad, with God it’s the same way.   Jesus’ spirit is called the Wholly Spirit.   So really God, Jesus & the wholly Spirit are the same person.”

My Jaw dropped.  I was amazed how simple they made it all sound.

Then I asked one last question, “Do you believe that God is here with us right now?”

Matthew and Laura replied in unison, “Yes”

Believers are believers because they choose to believe.

What I realized today is that we get to decide if we believe.  Whatever you are trying to accomplish in your life, you will not succeed unless you believe.

If I look back into my own life 9 years ago, I was a broke Police Detective who had no direction or guidance in life.

when my son was born I realized that i needed to make change and I BELIEVED  that I could do it.  Before i had made a cent in Network Marketing, the Mortgage Industry, the Property Management Industry or the Importing Industry, I believed that I could do it.

What I realized this morning in Church and in my subsequent recollection of that ever important conversation with my kids is that you and I are all created the same way with a head, a heart, a mind, the ability to think, the ability to discern, the ability to decide and the ability to believe.

If you are going to be successful in Home Business or whatever you are pursuing success in you have to decide to believe that you will be successful before you even start.

So how does someone develop belief of their ability to succeed?

Ans:  you don’t have develop belief because you already have it.

listen, in order to succeed in anything you have to do IT!

To be successful in Network Marketing, you have to develop the right skills to do it.  In order to be a carpenter, you have to learn to cut wood, to be a mechanic you have to learn to fix cars, to be pilot you have to learn to fly a plane, to drive a boat you learn, to drive a car you learn, etc, etc.  Network Marketing is no different.

In order to succeed in Network Marketing you have to learn 2 skills:

1.   Leadership – how to lead yourself and other people.  You cannot make full time income in Network Marketing unless you become a better leader.   In our community, we have a strict and sharp focus on Leadership Education because each member of our community needs to develop leadership skills in order to lead.

2.  prospecting people – Mark Yarnell said, “the life blood of the business is the new blood”.   You have to sponsor people to make money.  You earn commissions when people join and buy products.

So here comes the paradigm shift………..

When you join all you have to believe to win is that you have the ability to learn 2 new skills.  You don’t have to believe that you can recruit people when you join only that you have the ability to learn.  When you join you don’t have to be a leader, only that you have the ability to learn leadership skills.

If you do not learn these 2 skills you will not succeed.

Its that simple.   You don’t to believe that you are a leader or a recruiter when you join, you just have to believe that you have the ability to learn.

Secondly, you have to believe that when you learn these 2 skills then you will be successful.   So, the secret to Network Marketing is learning those skills as fast as you can.  That is why I started studying Michael Clouse as soon as I joined.  I spent hours going through the materials that I bought at http://www.nexera.com.  That is why i have attended every MLM Mastermind event http://www.mastermindevent.com and learned from Art Jonak and Orjan Saele.  That is why I study leadership experts like Orrin Woodward, http://www.orrinwoodward.blodspot.com, Jordan Adler, Donna Johnson and many many others.

So right now think about this to become successful in network marketing all you have to have is a BELIEF that you can learn 2 simple skills.

If you can learn those 2 simple skills then you will win.  If you come to the 6th MLM Mastermind Event in Houston Texas from Oct 29-Nov 2 (http://www.mastermindevent.com), you will learn everything you need to know on these 2 skills.

Here’s the best part.  YOU GET TO CHOOSE TO BELIEVE….

This is a gift that you were given on the day you were born.

Think about Matthew & Laura, they learned about the Wholly Trinity and they choose to believe.   Before the believed in the Wholly Trinity, they believed they could learn.

One final thought, Once you choose to believe that you can learn to be a leader and learn to prospect new people, then the only thing sitting between you today and your success in home business, is action.

Start reading great leadership books, listening to great leadership tapes, start studying great recruiting materials.

Decide to believe you can learn and choose to believe you can be successful.

Once you Choose to believe then take action.

Once you take action then don’t stop.  Learning to lead and learning to prospect will take some people longer then others so don’t stop learning.  Don’t give up on your dreams.

Okay, here is the shameless plug.  To the right of this blog post, there is a link to a website where you can buy my book.  you will learn skills on leadership and prospecting in that book.  It is the cheapest place you can get it anywhere on the web.  Also, while you are there but the DVD called “How to Make Prospecting Second Nature” it is full of valuable information about prospecting.

All you have to do to Win is Choose to Believe…….

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