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Thursday, September 21, 2006

The wonderful art of Terrasynth, a group of artists led by Nathan Gilder, depicting DollarMakers as a Money Magnet
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(Nathan is a Member of the DollarMakers Joint Venture Forum)

Build a Cage and the Bird will Come

“If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.” Chinese Proverb

Paul J. Meyer tells the story that he bought a beautiful, ornate, antique birdcage, which he proudly hung in his home. Every time people visited his home, they asked him, “Where’s the bird?” Eventually, he went out and bought a bird for the cage. When we prepare to succeed, expect to win and believe in our goals, it’s almost inevitable that we will accomplish them. What we think about comes about. Our minds are mental magnets. It pays to be an optimist.

A good illustration of the power and benefits of an optimistic attitude is that of two wheels rolling over the same, bumpy road. The road represents the troubles and tribulations, which everyone has to face in life. One wheel represents an optimist. It’s a big wheel. The other wheel represents a pessimist. It’s a small wheel. As you can imagine, the big wheel rolls easily over the bumps. While the small wheel (the pessimist) has a tough, up and down experience. Optimists don’t suffer to the same extent as pessimists do, even though they handle the same difficulties.

Life is simply easier when you choose optimism. The sun shines brighter and fear gives way to faith. One has more energy and one certainly attracts excellent people into one’s life. Optimism, like enthusiasm, is contagious; it spills over. Winners don’t hang around with pessimists. Calvin Coolidge said, “If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.” We really do attract things into our lives with our thoughts. In addition, optimism makes it easier to deal with the difficult times, which we all face. Walter Winchell described an optimist as a man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

The easiest way that I have found to remain optimistic is to mix with winners, only allow positive input into my life, and to manage what I say. I focus on what I want, instead of what I don’t want. I believe in myself and my goals and I generously share the benefits I receive with those who work with me. And, of course, it helps to be married to best woman in the world.

I’ll end off with this quote. Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, “The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself, and not to abandon it to his enemy.”

Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com

Tripping Over Stepping Stones

I attended an amazing seminar in the early nineties that revolutionized my business and changed my life. One of the other delegates on the same seminar kept complaining that the speaker was making up his own words, chewing while speaking (welcome to North America) and philosophizing. He was so caught up in the imperfections of the grammar and spelling in the materials that we received that he missed the whole point of the seminar (he paid $5,000 for the three days) and he derived no benefit. To this day, he battles to survive financially in his business. He tripped over the stepping-stones to wealth.

Imagine if I decided that I would wait until all the traffic lights between my home and my destination were green before I departed on a trip. Many people use imperfections as an excuse for sloth, whereas winners work with what they have. They don’t wait until things are perfect before taking action. The systems art your disposal will never be perfect. It’s the message that counts. While you’re still grumbling about a website that doesn’t meet your amazing standards, others have made thousands, using that same, imperfect site. While you’re complaining that you’re waiting for your business cards to be printed, the winner next door went out without business cards and closed a deal.

Successful entrepreneurs know that the tools at their disposal will never be perfect. Sure, we continue to improve and perfect, but you have to work with what you have. I had two different people download the same audio book from DollarMakers.com for $27. One of them whined that the sound wasn’t professional enough for her (while her kids screamed in the background of the phone call). She was bitterly unhappy with the quality, she moaned. The other client wrote me a wonderful letter and told me how she had used the same information to make five thousand dollars in a week. It’s not about the delivery system or the person communicating the message – it’s about the content of the message.

Jack Welch, General Electric Chairman and Chief Executive, said, "An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn’t have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.” And Lee Iacocca said, "So what do we do? Anything, something, so long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late."

The bottom line is that many people need to justify their failure by blaming someone – they shoot the messenger. In fact, THEY are their own problem. While we welcome suggestions for improvement and acknowledge that we’re far from perfect, we are aware that it’s not about how easy it is to search the website or what time the conference calls take place – it’s about the person who claims to want to use the message to improve their life. The stepping-stones may be dirty or covered in moss, but they can still convey you across the river to your dream home. Focus on getting to Treasure Island instead of complaining that the boat ride is a little rough. That’s what winners do. Work with what you’ve got and fix it along the way. Take massive, immediate, focused, enthusiastic, and passionate action, and leave the whiners in your dust.

Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com

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