I’m on an inspired tear. (You’ll learn more, much more, about it soon enough.) I believe with all my heart-head-soul-wallet that…
“There has never been a more perfect time in history for MLM Network Marketing to take a HUGE quantum leap in public awareness & acceptance.”
Never! Ever! And I am heaven-bent to be one of the people who makes make it happen.
As said, there is and will be MORE. For now, this post & the last two posts below. Check them out and if this a bandwagon you are willing & able (read passionate & excited) to jump on… JUMP! This one is going to the moon— and beyond!
Now, here’s a NEW essay for It’s Time… This— Do You Want the Red Pill or the Blue Pill?— from Randy Gage. (And it is long, very, I’m posting the piece here in it’s entirety.) So…
It’s Time… For Network Marketing The Most Remarkable Form of Free-Enterprise Ever Created! is a collection of 52 stories by inside and outside the business experts, field leaders, million-dollar income earners and ordinary men & women who are achieving extraordinary success in this profession all “speaking” about what’s the best thing about Network Marketing. The complete 365-page eBook and all 52 of the “essays” are available to TGN.org Members in the library to keep & share.
They are all yours to keep & share.
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Do You Want the Red Pill or the Blue Pill?
For most of us reading this, there has never been a moment in our lifetime when the world was in such dire shape. And there has never been a better opportunity for each of us to help. The world needs a revolution, and we can be the ones to lead it.
by Randy Gage
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Maybe it happened when DHL announced that it was no longer going to deliver packages in the U.S. and eliminated the jobs of thousands. It could have been when governments around the world began taking the taxes they coerced from their citizens, and used them to prop up mismanaged banks, insurance companies, car manufacturers and other private businesses.
Perhaps it clicked when the airline executives could segue into bankruptcy and then segue out after slashing their pension plans obligations. Or maybe it took place with the steady revelations of company after company, cooking their books to rip off investors and workers, while enriching their crooked executives.
One thing is certain…
Around the world, people began to wake up, snap out of their corporate comas and think again.
They began to question the morality of the standard business model, rethink their priorities, and wonder if their governments really could provide for their golden years.
The really savvy people went yet further, moving from analytical thought, back to dreaming again. They rediscovered the dreams they had as a child— and realized they didn’t have to give them up just because they had grown up now.
They asked themselves what their dream job would look like. And the answers that came back were not:
• Shift supervisor at Burger King;
• Bureaucrat at the drivers license agency;
• Line foreman at the auto assembly plant;
• Mid-level manager in a large corporation; or,
• Clerk in the insurance field.
Not exactly shocking. But what was perhaps really surprising was that the answer to the perfect job question did not come back as being a:
• Doctor, attorney or accountant;
• Corporate VP or executive; or,
• Traditional business owner.
Because for once people (at least some of them) stopped thinking about a dream job, and started thinking about a DREAM LIFE
…knowing that in reality, the two are inseparable.
The People Who Get This…
You can make a fortune, but if you have to sacrifice your kids, relationships, or health for it, what’s the point? You can afford lots of things, but where’s the joy if there is no one to enjoy them with? When is the last time you saw a hearse pulling a U-Haul trailer behind it?
There is a select and growing group of people who get this…
Others discovered that going through the motions of a monotonous job, simply because it requires only 40 hours a week is not going to bring true happiness either. They understand that the drudgery of work with no meaning doesn’t open the doorway to satisfaction in the free time they have left. So this group gets it too.
So who is this bright group that understands the new reality of today’s world?
They come from many occupations and backgrounds, and all age groups. Some are Mensa members, some are high school dropouts; some are both.
Many have sought refuge from the deceit, politics, and soul-killing inertia of the corporate world. Others have fled the mediocrity of blue-collar labor, seeking to add some adventure to their lives. Still others were entrepreneurs who woke up one morning (or couldn’t sleep one night), and realized that they didn’t own their businesses – their businesses owned them.
If you ask the people in this select group what a dream life looks like, they will tell you it is a mélange of work and recreation, contribution and challenge, spiritual reflection and intellectual stimulation.
The MLM Movement…
This group of people found their way to Network Marketing. But you won’t find us wearing corny buttons, accosting people on the street corner, or driving around with magnetic signs on our automobiles.
We didn’t join an industry
We joined a profession.
And we didn’t do it just to get rich. (Although many of us, myself included, initially showed up seeking wealth.) The people who become Network Marketing professionals appreciate the wealth we can create, but as we understand more about the business, our consciousness expands to a much bigger picture.
Yes they will tell you that prosperity is important to happiness. But they aren’t the type to sit on the sofa watching The Secret 47 times, wondering when their Lamborghini is going to roar up into their driveway by itself.
And they have a broader view of prosperity than most. You will never hear them utter statements like, “It’s just money,” or “They’re only things,” because they know that money and material things are the lubrication of life. They realize it’s pretty hard to feel prosperous if you can’t pay the rent, make your car payment, or buy groceries for your family.
But they don’t make the mistake many do by thinking that prosperity is about only money either. They know that true prosperity includes good health, loving relationships, and a spiritual side to life. When they speak of living a life of abundance, they mean doing so in all areas.
The real draw for most of the people in this group is the ultimate product they sell: Freedom.
The freedom from lack, the freedom to really live, a life of meaning, significance and abundance—in color and out loud.
So Why Do We Do It?
There are some common traits you’ll find in all the members of the group:
Everyone in the group is a dreamer.
They stopped buying the gloom and doom of the masses, and reconnected to the vision of greatness we all once had for ourselves.
If Morpheus were to offer them the red pill or the blue pill, they would always choose the trip down the rabbit hole, rather than the safety of the Matrix.
Because they know that in the new reality, the safe choice is where the real risk is.
Those who choose being “safe” become the worker drones in the collective. The people who are willing to take what the herd would perceive as risks, are the ones who reap the reward of a life worth living.
Everyone in the group is a critical thinker.
They reject herd thinking and practice discernment. They are curious by nature, and open to challenging their most deeply held foundational beliefs. They are not cynics, but they are skeptical of conventional wisdom, they question authority, and they want to know the reasoning behind a premise. They know that any beliefs they have that serve them will survive a healthy skepticism, and any beliefs that don’t stand up under scrutiny need to be replaced.
Everyone in this group is a worker.
They don’t look for the free lunches and get-rich schemes. Far from running away from work, they get up, throw the sheets off the bed and actually look forward to work!
Being a Network Marketing professional means welcoming challenge, growth, adventure, and helping others while helping oneself.
So they love what they do, and don’t need a weekend, a six-pack and ten DVDs to escape from their “job.” They have discovered how to balance work and life and bring meaning to both.
Everyone in this group is a leader.
They weren’t born a leader. Nobody appointed them to the position, and they couldn’t care less about titles, hierarchy, or conformity. They are called to lead from the small still voice in their soul.
They lead because they have belief. Belief in a better way, belief in contributing to others and a belief that prosperity is everyone’s birthright. And they know that conviction comes with a responsibility to share that belief with the larger community.
The old model of distribution doesn’t work. The business model of ship something from Europe to the U.S. by boat, truck it across the country to a wholesaler, who sent it to a rack jobber, who sold it to a retail outlet, that stored it in a warehouse, and then moved it to a store, where the consumer could finally purchase it— is broken.
The advent of things like the Internet, overnight shipping, and toll free phone lines made the old model obsolete. Legacy retail chains that had dominated the landscape for decades, sought bankruptcy protection or disappeared completely.
Network Marketing companies recognized the new world of commerce and prospered…
A company can manufacture a product and ship it direct to its distributors, without all of the inefficient parasites in the middle. These distributors consume the products themselves, and use conversational viral marketing to spread the word among their friends and acquaintances. It works. And it helps people in many, many ways.
We’ve introduced a large number of products to the general public that would never have stood a chance in the traditional distribution system.
Products like pycnogenol, oral chelation, enzymes, antioxidant juices and gels, and other products that need the conversational marketing that Network Marketing does best. These products have help millions of people and even saved and extended lives.
Companies like Amway and Shaklee were promoting concentrated products with green packaging, decades before these ideas reached popular consciousness. Network Marketing also led the field with more all-natural products, long before they were trendy.
We’ve changed negative perceptions about the business.
The amount of positive media coverage MLM has received in the last decade is staggering. Many major mainstream financial publications now recognize Network Marketing for the powerful opportunity it has become. This has allowed us to achieve the next thing:
We’ve helped countless people to control their destiny, create financial freedom, and live their dreams.
People of all ages, and from all walks of life have been able to create cash flow machines producing substantial incomes. Many people— like me— have been able to move from poverty to wealth. We’ve been able to manifest the lifestyles we promote: driving the free bonus cars, winning the free trips, and having the time for the people and causes that are important to us. We’ve proven that’s it’s not hype— the dream is real.
We have produced serious financial relief to millions of struggling people.
This is much bigger in the grand scheme of things than the huge incomes many of us leaders have been blessed with. I’m afraid we have become jaded. If someone isn’t pulling in at least $30K or $40k a month, we almost look on that as a failure.
Yet we know that 80 or 90 percent of the bankruptcies today could be averted with a mere $300 or $400 a month in income.
Personally I have tens of thousands of distributors in places like Russia, Ukraine, Singapore, Nigeria and other places where $500 or $1,000 a month makes a HUGE difference in their standard of living. And given the current economic meltdown, you can argue that this would also still make a huge difference to millions of people in the U.S., the U.K., and other developed nations.
In today’s difficult economy, Network Marketing is providing a lifeline of financial security to millions.
Most companies are paying out somewhere between 30 to 50 percent of their sales into their compensation plans. That means commissions of at least $40 BILLION are being paid out annually to distributors around the world.
This money is buying groceries, funding schools, providing medicine, supporting charities, making car payments, and keeping mortgages current. Take that money out of the economy and it would create a huge vacuum and cause great hardship.
For most of us reading this, there has never been a moment in our lifetime when the world was in such dire shape. And there has never been a better opportunity for each of us to help. The world needs a revolution, and we can be the ones to lead it. That’s why I love Network Marketing!
— RG
Randy Gage is an industry icon and author of the Network Marketing best-seller How to Build a Multi-Level Money Machine. Starting from scratch, Randy walked his talk to become the #1 distributor in his company earning well-over $1 million a year.
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Thanks.
I appreciate you!
Last Wednesday we had a stellar “Success Secrets of The Greatest Networkers in the World” TeleSeminar with Randy Gage, titled “The Science of Duplication.” I’ll be sharing podcast/clips with you here in the weblog this week. Of course, TGN Members get the whole nine yards (which in this case means the 1 hour 26 minute Mp3 audio, transcript & all the bonus material that comes with it) to keep & share.
I believe it’s time for MLM Network Marketing— the most remarkable form of free-enterprise ever created— to get the respect and recognition it deserves. It’s time Network Marketing went beyond being accepted. It’s time Network Marketing became truly admired. And the ONLY way I know that will happen is if YOU say so.
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