Success or Failure - Which Do YOU Choose?

There are so many reasons why some people just don't see the success they are looking for when working from home.


The first key to success is finding the right company.

• Company track record
• Consistent growth
• Been in business longer than 10 years
• Debt-free company
• Annual Income Statistics in print and available to everyone
• High retention rate (published by company)
• Company has won many awards
• Does the company offer products/services that REAL people ALREADY need, use, run out of and HAVE to repurchase??

Once you have found the right company... Are YOU willing to take ownership for YOUR business?

If you are going to sit there and wait for something to happen, guess what?  NOTHING will happen!

• Be accountable!
• SHOW UP!
• If there are team calls.... BE THERE!
• Do the work!  Anything worthwhile is going to take some work... nothing happens on it's on.
• Don't make excuses!  You can either have a successful business, or make excuses as to why it isn't working
• Do NOT give up!  Think about this... if Albert Einstein gave up, if Wayne Gretzky gave up, if Terry Fox gave up... I could go on... but you get the point.
• Do not jump from business to business... that will follow you and it WILL eventually destroy your credibility.
• Be honest - the truth is enough.  If you need to use hype and gimmicks to lure people - maybe you ought to give up now rather than hurting people.
• Under-promise and Over-deliver!
• Keep moving... do not stop... do something every day...

Don't be afraid to ask questions.  You WILL find the right company and you WILL see success.... if YOU choose to!

Your Dreams are Worthy Of Your Efforts....

The following was written by Frank VanderSloot... Simply awesome....

Life is a challenge! That's what makes it worth living.  It's how we meet life's challenges that will determine whether we fulfill the true measure of our potential or whether we drift aimlessly through life, never fully realizing why we really came to be in the first place. 

At least from my perspective, life seems pretty short.  Time seems to fly by.  The options of how we spend our time, and therefore our lives, seem endless.  Wasting time if wasting time itself, and wasting life must be the biggest potential tragedy of all.  

I feel sad, and I feel a sense of urgency when I see people who are "derailed" - people who are wandering about, unsure of where they want to go or what they want to do or even who they want to be.  They are often good people with great potential who at one time had dreams and goals.  But at some point, those people met opposition and hardship and mistook them for defeat. 

It is a very sad thing when people give up.  Giving up is life's only true disaster.  Until we give up there is always hope.  We always have a chance, and the truth is if we don't give up, there is no question that the opportunity still exists that we will make it somehow, someday, someway.  That is, unless we give up.  

We all have had dreams that have not yet come true.  Just because they have not yet come true does not mean they never will - unless, of course, we give up on them.  Worthy dreams are worth working for, no matter how many times we stumble and even slide backwards, especially when our dreams are unselfish dreams that involve our value system and our loved ones.  It is so important that we do not let them die within us.  

At our company, if we could offer anything to those who have given up on their dreams, we would offer hope.  We would encourage them to rekindle the dreams they had in their youth.  We would breathe life into goals long forgotten.  We would inspire them to keep on trying... regardless of how many time they have tried before.

Some of your dreams may not involve our company.  And although we probably cannot help you with them directly, we would cheer you on to go after those dreams also with all your heart. 

On the other hand, often we need finances to make it possible for us to spend time working on higher goals.  If this is the case with your dreams, we not only cheer you on, but we feel equipped to help.  

We appreciate the opportunity to be in business with you and to be a part of your life.  Whatever your dreams were, or are, we not only hope they come true - we stand ready to assist you in any way that we can.  Your dreams are worthy of your efforts.  Don't ever stop dreaming them, and don't ever give up on them.

Excuses.... Procrastination....My Life Just Sucks....

No time.  I'm stressed.  How do I change my life?  What can I do?  I hate my job.  I don't have enough money.  I wish I could spend more time with my family.

Sound familiar?

We live in a society where everything is fast paced... yet is anyone really getting anywhere?  

In order to survive, most households need two incomes coming in.  So what ends up happening?  Everything suffers.  Everyone is stressed.  No one really spends any time together, other than maybe a few hours in the evening and possibly weekends.  Even then it's a rush... house work to be done, shopping, kids sports... go go go.

We are a world of procrastinators.  We put things off... we will be happy once ________ happens.  So, what did you fill in that blank with?  We wait for some miracle to happen, yet we continue to do the same things over and over and over.  If this is the case... we haven't really changed anything... so how do we expect to get different results??

I love this quote by Anthony Robbins: “If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.”  Or, as Albert Einstein said  "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

What is it though that we CAN change to get the results we are looking for?  What do YOU want?  Have you ever really thought about it?  Or, is that just something else that being put off till..... till when?

With the economy the way it's been, people have actually been looking for options.  Different options.  But,the question is, are they acting on the other options?  Or, is this again something that's being put off for another day.

We all have options.  We can choose to go for it... or to sit stagnant waiting for out lives to change on their own.  Hmmmm.... how's that working for you?  My mentor said something the other day to a group of people that she'd said many times in the past ... "No one is going to give you your life on a silver platter."  Too bad, huh?  Is that what we all do?  Wait for someone to come in and save us?  Guess what... it's NOT going to happen.

This is your life.  This is it.  This isn't a test-run.  Every day that passes is gone.  You will never get that day back.  You can choose to sit and wait for things to get better, for things to be the way you want them to be.  Hoping that one day you'll have more time, more freedom, won't have to go back to that job, have more money, or whatever it is you are wanting.  OR... you can GET UP AND MAKE IT HAPPEN.  Stop waiting!  

We've all heard it... on your deathbed... what are your regrets going to be?  Think about it.  

The time is now to live your life the way you want to live it.

Look at your options and stop making excuses.  Your time is now.  You can do it.  Stop procrastinating.  

Cheers to a new you!

Nicole

Green-Washing, Out-Gassing, TV Commercials.... Huh?

You find out you're pregnant!  Congratulations!  This is one of the most exciting times in your life.  You can't wait to watch how your body changes.  Your first ultrasound is incredible.  This little being growing inside you.  You can't wait to see your baby, hold your baby, smell your baby, etc...

Then a little panic might set in.  You will be responsible for this new little one.  You want to make sure you have the safest environment for your new baby.... you check the safety of car seats, high chairs, cribs, etc... You want nothing but the best for your little person.

How many soon-to-be-parents even think about things like what they clean the house with?  What they do laundry with?  What they plan to bathe the baby in?

Sad fact is, many don't.  Many people just assume that if a product is sold, then it must be safe.  We get drawn into the commercials for baby shampoo... safe...natural...delicate... they use all the right words to suck us in.  But, take a step back and think for a second.  What is the purpose of the commercial?  TO SELL THE PRODUCT!  Does that mean what they are telling you in that commercial is 100% fact?  Come on, we're smarter than that... aren't we?

Every single commercial is trying to sell something... whether it be a product or a service.  They are marketing geniuses, aren't they?  Spraying Lysol around the daycare... on the toys... then the kids picking up the toys.  So, it must be safe, right??  Or is it??

You owe it to yourself and your family to DO YOUR RESEARCH!  Find out what you are really bringing into your home.  Products on the market today are filled with toxic chemicals.  Why?  They are CHEAP.  Box stores like WalMart will only stock a manufacturers product if it falls within their price guidelines.  WalMart promotes what?  Quality products?  Nope!  They promote: CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP.

A few years back when 2x concentrated laundry detergent came out on the market, WalMart told the manufacturers that in order for them to continue carrying their products, they all had to have a 2x detergent available at a low cost.  Guess what happened?  The manufacturers created a 2x concentration using more water and more fillers.  Huh.  So here you are, the consumer, buying a product you think is better... but is it really?

Look around for a moment.  Look at the different health problems people have today compared to 20 years ago.  What the heck happened?  Chemicals happened.  Synthetic products happened.  Lifestyles of fast, convenience happened.  But at what cost?  Our health?


This may surprise you, studies have found that levels of several chemicals around the home are on average 2 to 5 times higher indoors than outdoors. Hence the important of making good choices in what kinds of products you choose for your home and certainly avoiding renovations, painting the house, lacquering or varnishing furniture and so on throughout your preconception preparation and during your pregnancy. Newly painted wall can outgas for up to 6months after coating!

What is "outgassing"?  This is when the chemicals in your bottles seep through the bottle even when tightly closed.  It is also the chemicals that seep into the air we breathe from residue left on surfaces... clothing... counters, floors, toys, etc...

Let's look at infertility....

1. Chemicals are hormone (or endocrine) disruptors—this means they directly and indirectly negatively affect your health and fertility in a MAJOR way. So by reducing exposure to a great number of the things you don’t really need in your life and that can be replaced by more natural and less toxic alternatives you will maximize your fertility and the chances of having the healthiest possible baby.
2. Chemicals are persistent and linger in the environment (in some cases) forever because they simply do not break down, therefore chemical contamination become our legacy for future generations as well;
3. Chemicals are bio-accumulative, just like heavy metals they build up in our bodies and the bodies of animals, being passed down along generations causing disease.

So, what are the options?  There ARE options.  Stop believing what you see on TV.  Stop believing that everything sold at the store is safe.  Green-washing is HUGE today.  This is when a manufacturer makes their product LOOK like a safer, greener product... but is it really??  Keep in mind ~ manufacturers will do anything to sell their product.  It's up to YOU to do your research and really find what is and isn't safe.

I found an amazing manufacturer of SAFE products.  Been shopping here for almost 11 years.  I don't sell the products, I am not a distributor... I am simply a customer.  Want to learn more?  Visit http://www.switchingstores.com/nicolebennett

Law of Attraction

Do you dream about your future?  Do you find yourself saying things like, "Things will get better." "One day we'll have that."  "I want to ________."

What are you doing to get to that place?  When you look at the future, where do you see yourself?  In 2 years?  In 5 years?  in 10 years?  

We need to visualize it.  Make it reality.  Feel it.  See it.  

The Law of Attraction is very powerful.  I didn't believe it for a really long time.  Watch The Secret... watch it again and again.  It's amazing how your thoughts really do become things.

Someone told me once to create a visual board.  To actually cut out pictures of what I want... how I see my life... and glue those pictures on a big sheet of paper.  To look at that board daily.  To feel it.  To live it.


I thought they were insane.  I just couldn't see how a visual board would change my life.  


You know what?  It works!


Do we really have anything to lose?  Sure, we might feel silly doing it... but, as the saying goes, "Continue to do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got"


We have nothing to lose!