Most people have given up without knowing they have given up. They accept their "lot" in life without challenge or question. They drone through days and complain all-the-while... and confuse complaining with challenging.
Anyone can complain. It is easy. Take anything negative and describe it in negative terms. Challenge, on the other hand, requires taking a stand and doing something about it. This is not easy to do... for many.
Complainers, for the most part, are resigned to and destined for mediocrity. They hate what they do for a living, they wish they had more resources, they detest the grind of the workweek... but even in light of this, they do nothing about it - save complaining.
Peoples' "truth" is what they perceive it to be. Some people will engage and "get after it" if shown something worthy of "getting after". These are the people we seek in building our business.
It is a very strange paradox that "most" people find themselves in the self-contradictory and self-defeating position of wanting or needing more money, but do nothing to elevate beyond this status quo position of "acceptance". Why is that?
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Friday, December 28, 2018
Community, Club, Collective & Agreeing To Participate
Our Community, for all intents, works on the same premise as a club or a collective. The idea here is that people are interested in and agree to participate in something. In this process, we share ideas, strategies, tools... all leading to the outcome of people achieving a similar result: to create an additional financial resource.
As I "grew up" in a small town, the adult "clubs" were the Lions, Moose, Kiwanis - that all served some civic or social function. Typically, these were predominantly male organizations who all agreed to rally around and participate in "good works". For example, among other things, the Lions Club sponsored the public pool we went to in the summer time. They also rented the space in the Club House for community functions. The proceeds all fed back into doing more good works and to perpetuate their core mission of "service".
The similar thread we share with any club is that we agree to and participate in the Good Work of helping people elevate their life circumstances. This is made possible by this core construct of "Agree To - Participate In". This is what we do. Our "job" is to find people to educate to the point that they agree with our strategy to create additional income. This is 80% of the first half. The other 20% is getting people to trust that their participation will be rewarded with results.
This gets us to the 50-yard line. Pushing the ball down to the goal line is the other aspect of our business: teaching, supporting, holding accountable. The monetary goal is different for everyone based on their situation. My first goal was to replace my part-time job at a Home Improvement Center. This was approximately $300 a week, or $1,200 a month of consistent, reliable income that I could count on month after month.
This consistency is only possible when the ones supporting the consistency are having success. In other words, "success" goes well beyond initial recruitment efforts. Success means that you help, guide and mentor others to ensure the stability of their and consequently, your income. This gets to the idea of a "collective" of shared norms and values... primary among them is doing our level best to ensure everyone succeeds. Again, this is done through education, support and mentorship and buying into the ethos that "no one gets left behind".
A Money Club. People agree to and participate in a way to make money. We share this common interest and consciously choose to adopt the norms and values of the Community as they relate to all the positive and productive outcomes we seek.
The goal is the number of commas we see in our bank balance. However, to get there involves significantly more... and it all starts with exposing people to an option to learn about, agree to and participate in. Then, having them pull the trigger to commit, and join with us.
As I "grew up" in a small town, the adult "clubs" were the Lions, Moose, Kiwanis - that all served some civic or social function. Typically, these were predominantly male organizations who all agreed to rally around and participate in "good works". For example, among other things, the Lions Club sponsored the public pool we went to in the summer time. They also rented the space in the Club House for community functions. The proceeds all fed back into doing more good works and to perpetuate their core mission of "service".
The similar thread we share with any club is that we agree to and participate in the Good Work of helping people elevate their life circumstances. This is made possible by this core construct of "Agree To - Participate In". This is what we do. Our "job" is to find people to educate to the point that they agree with our strategy to create additional income. This is 80% of the first half. The other 20% is getting people to trust that their participation will be rewarded with results.
This gets us to the 50-yard line. Pushing the ball down to the goal line is the other aspect of our business: teaching, supporting, holding accountable. The monetary goal is different for everyone based on their situation. My first goal was to replace my part-time job at a Home Improvement Center. This was approximately $300 a week, or $1,200 a month of consistent, reliable income that I could count on month after month.
This consistency is only possible when the ones supporting the consistency are having success. In other words, "success" goes well beyond initial recruitment efforts. Success means that you help, guide and mentor others to ensure the stability of their and consequently, your income. This gets to the idea of a "collective" of shared norms and values... primary among them is doing our level best to ensure everyone succeeds. Again, this is done through education, support and mentorship and buying into the ethos that "no one gets left behind".
A Money Club. People agree to and participate in a way to make money. We share this common interest and consciously choose to adopt the norms and values of the Community as they relate to all the positive and productive outcomes we seek.
The goal is the number of commas we see in our bank balance. However, to get there involves significantly more... and it all starts with exposing people to an option to learn about, agree to and participate in. Then, having them pull the trigger to commit, and join with us.
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
The Best Version of Yourself
Being the best version of yourself entails many things from kindness and compassion informed by a moral underpinning, to a fundamental sense of happiness and self-satisfaction that imbues how you carry yourself through life. The former is fundamental to one's character and is ingrained as it assimilates over time to express itself in simple gestures. The latter is more a function of how your choices in life now manifest in your being as a human. So let me ask, are you happy? (Note: my editors encouraged me to ask you to read the preceding as many times as you need to - to connect the dots.)
Our Community exists to enable happiness. It is about the "latter". It is about making a choice. This choice is to agree with a strategy and join with a common cause - and sharing a frame of reference with all who participate.
In this process, we enable the creation of money. It is important to understand that money is a tool that facilitates and lubricates. It "enables" choices that otherwise do not exist. If you are not happy, it is very likely because your choices are being dictated to you (and) you are "resigned" to a life of doing what is "responsible". As such, you have a job and exchange time for money. You may like your job. However, most say they do not... or at least have a difficult time connecting what they do to any sense of a "greater good" and doing something that serves this "best version of yourself" idea.
What we do and why we exist has everything to do assimilating core constructs into our collective "being". Inherent in this is sharing common beliefs and values that drive and mandate how we function. Money is simply a by-product that is pressed out of a complex array of variables. Money does not exist as its own entity. It is interdependent with all of the other factors in a formula. Our community strives to define what these factors are and provide a framework for people to integrate them in order "press out" financial rewards.
In creating money, we facilitate choices. Greater control over choices facilitates happiness. If you are happy, you are best-positioned to be the best version of yourself.
As such, as a Community, we provide a context for the creation of money that enables people to become the best version of themselves - which is totally consistent with our tagline, "We organize knowledge, people, and money for everyone's benefit".
We enable being the best version of yourself and surround you with people who make you better. This is special. It is rewarding. It genuinely helps people and is very much in line with the statement, "May you be blessed so that you may be a blessing".
Our Community exists to enable happiness. It is about the "latter". It is about making a choice. This choice is to agree with a strategy and join with a common cause - and sharing a frame of reference with all who participate.
In this process, we enable the creation of money. It is important to understand that money is a tool that facilitates and lubricates. It "enables" choices that otherwise do not exist. If you are not happy, it is very likely because your choices are being dictated to you (and) you are "resigned" to a life of doing what is "responsible". As such, you have a job and exchange time for money. You may like your job. However, most say they do not... or at least have a difficult time connecting what they do to any sense of a "greater good" and doing something that serves this "best version of yourself" idea.
What we do and why we exist has everything to do assimilating core constructs into our collective "being". Inherent in this is sharing common beliefs and values that drive and mandate how we function. Money is simply a by-product that is pressed out of a complex array of variables. Money does not exist as its own entity. It is interdependent with all of the other factors in a formula. Our community strives to define what these factors are and provide a framework for people to integrate them in order "press out" financial rewards.
In creating money, we facilitate choices. Greater control over choices facilitates happiness. If you are happy, you are best-positioned to be the best version of yourself.
As such, as a Community, we provide a context for the creation of money that enables people to become the best version of themselves - which is totally consistent with our tagline, "We organize knowledge, people, and money for everyone's benefit".
We enable being the best version of yourself and surround you with people who make you better. This is special. It is rewarding. It genuinely helps people and is very much in line with the statement, "May you be blessed so that you may be a blessing".
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