Why Inspired Goals Break the Mold
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So you’ve been called the member of the family who ‘doesn’t fit in’, the person in your group of friends who ‘stands apart’, or maybe you are so ‘odd’ that you have difficulty finding a group of friends to accept you. At worst you are the ‘black sheep’ and at best you are ‘different’.
Everyone wants to be accepted. When you are young and you don’t fit in, it’s hurtful. Being accepted or ‘popular’ means you are ‘good’ and being unacceptable, in our formative minds, means you are ‘not good’.
When it comes to setting goals (goaling) and you have either been told you don’t fit in, are different or are shunned by others, you have such a lack of confidence and self worth that the thought of setting a goal to be, do or have what you want is not something you feel you have a right to do. You are just not good enough to live your dreams.
Well, I’m going to break that mold here and now!
‘Fitting in’ makes you a member of the herd. You know, that herd of cows that wanders around the pasture munching grass all day? Being accepted by others is being allowed to munch grass. Yawn! What if you don’t like grass?
It has always been the ones who don’t fit who are the cream that rises to the top. The innovators, the inventors, the ‘idea’ people, the leaders, the creative artists we admire, the entertainers we flock to see. Have you ever seen a herd of Bill Gates’, Donald Trumps, Yoyo Mas, Meryl Streeps, Martin Luther Kings, Oprah Winfreys, Jim Rohns, Tchaikovskys, Mahatma Ghandis, Nelson Mandelas, John Kennedys, Mother Theresas, Celine Dions, etc?
Granted, being an outsider doesn’t guarantee worldwide fame, but there are many who are heroes in smaller ways. So why would you want to squish yourself into a mold that would keep you very uncomfortable for the rest of our life eating grass you don’t like?
Different is great! Most entrepreneurs were the outsiders while growing up. If you don’t fit in it’s a sure sign that you are meant to be an entrepreneur. Even the school system tries to fit you into molds and many people who become successful entrepreneurs often drop out of school. How you do in school is not a measure of your intelligence.
What inspires you? What makes you laugh, feel compassionate, drives you, and compels you? There are hints in here as to your genius. Your goals are the kinds that are the big picture, the kinds those in the mold cannot even conceive. You have a desire to be separate from the masses because the masses are too involved in eating grass to raise their heads and see what you see. Their goal is to find a patch of sweet tasting grass. You, on the other hand, have goals that are inspired goals.
It is the labels put on you that keep you down. If you are finding you don’t fit in anywhere, bravo! Look inside not outside. Use the Inspirational Goaling system to define your purpose, passion & values and what your soul connects with. Discover you and what you have to offer this world. The herd produces milk, you create an ice cream franchise.
This world needs different, this world needs odd and this world needs you.
You don’t belong in a mold unless you are gelatin.
Keep on Goaling!
©Lynn Moore 2010
How Dare They Judge You!
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One of the best ways to sabotage your relationship goals is to indulge in this behavior.
We all do it. We all do it every day. We all do it many, many times a day.
We can make it polite by calling it ‘forming an opinion’, but it is really judgment. At best it is silent and only in our heads, at worst it becomes gossip and is then a self-defeating game.
How do you feel when someone points out your receding hairline or your short legs? And then you find out that for every person who speaks it aloud to you there are at least 25 others with the same thought who think it silently. Now these examples are pretty minor (if you don’t have a receding hairline or short legs!) and you can shrug them off, but what if someone(s) continually judges you & nit picks at you? What if they hit a real tender spot such as telling a new mother her baby has ears that stick out and start calling her ‘wing-nut’. What if you worked really hard for a long time at landscaping your home and your neighbors told you how you ‘should’ have done it better. Now all your limiting beliefs start clamoring for attention.
More than once I have listened to two women I know watching a TV program and they are both so busy judging the way a character looks or behaves it’s a wonder they can follow the plot or hear the dialogue. And then I listen to them ‘dis’-ing people they both know.
Eavesdrop on any public conversation and at least half the time the talk is about someone who is not there. Most of us ‘aware’ people know that the judgment is not about the target, it is a reflection of the person making the judgment and comes from their own fears. In this article I want to go in another direction and that is their ‘right’ to judge you.
Someone has formed a judgment of your character based on how they perceive your behavior. Their judgment is wrong. But they are certain they are right. They think the more they tell others about their opinion the more right they will be. They also tell others how they think you should change and do things differently (their way). And gossip is born.
What can you do?
If you have a strong self worth, it will be like smushing a pesky mosquito. You pay it no attention and consider the source with pity for their pain. Strong self worth usually takes a lot of time to develop so what do you do in the meantime?
Well, let’s look at their so-called ‘right’ to judge and gossip. No, they do not have the right, but neither can you stop them. So, let’s see what it is they are basing their judgment upon.
Were they born on the exact same day & time as you, in the same place with the same parents, same siblings, same home, same language, same foods and eating patterns, same possessions, same clothing, etc.?
Did they start school the same day, same place, same teachers, same classmates, same subjects, same grades, same first love, same failures and triumphs, etc. etc.?
Were they born and raised in the same period of time, same newscasts, newspapers, magazines, amenities, available knowledge, mechanisms or electronics, music, books, famous or infamous people, medical care, transportation, civil rights, fashions and so on?
Of course not. They are not inside your skin, they are not you. How could they even begin to know you and why you make the choices you do? They don’t have your personality, did not hear, see, feel, taste or smell the exact same things you did.
How dare they judge you!
So what the heck are they basing their judgment on if not you? I think you know the answer. They base it on all of the above according to their life which has nothing to do with you. If the criticism is spiteful and mean, they are showing you their pain and at best their low self worth. Rather than being hurt and angry about what they are doing, you will want to feel empathy or at least some understanding. In this way the energy surrounding you sets up a shield that keeps you protected from their toxicity and your energy sends them a modicum of healing.
The most important thing to remember is that you are not the target! You can afford to take the higher road, distance yourself and not waste time or energy on anger or thoughts of joining in on the gossip by trying to tell people how wrong they are and what the truth really is. All you’re doing is entertaining the troops! Gossipers don’t care about truth, they only want their fix.
Now that you are released from being the target of judgment, what are you going to do next? My suggestion is that you look at your own tendency to judge and be painfully aware every time you do it. Do something physical when you catch yourself such as raise your arm in the air, bite your tongue, flick your hand, hold your breath. Just make something up. Make a deal within your family that when you hear a judgment from one of them you raise your arm or some other signal you agree upon. At first it will be a free for all! Arms are popping up and down around the dinner table so often no one has time to eat! You might even think this is ridiculous and want to stop. Don’t. The only way to change a behavior is to acknowledge it and do something different.
Imagine a world without judgment? I think of no wars or conflict, a much higher average of healthy self-worth in this world and that affects violence and crime, and the domino effect continues.
Relationship Goal Suggestion: “I am aware of judging others and no longer do it”
“Don’t judge me unless you know me…and when you know me don’t judge me unless you understand me…and when you understand you won’t have a reason to judge me.” ~David Diggs Dillon
Keep on Goaling!
©Lynn Moore 2010
Who is Your Secret Relationship?
By · CommentsYou know the phrase, “how can you live with yourself”?
This is most often said by someone who is in their judgment and means to instill guilt upon you. But that’s not the subject for this article. What I want to do is remove one word from that sentence, change it from a question to a statement and have you take a peek at:
“How you live with yourself”. Just one word makes such a difference.
There is no escaping it; you live with yourself from first to final breath. You are your closest relationship.
I was recently made aware (during a session with a coach) of the fact that there is a very important part of me that was desperately desiring to slow dance, to internally hum in harmony with rainbows, moon rises, opening rosebuds and trickling streams. However, the rest of me was doing the can-can, racing up ladders, playing tag with myself and in an unending game of hide and seek.
Whew! Talk about conflicting values. And I even had these values written down and still did not see it! That’s why coaches have a coach. We can be so blind when it comes to seeing in ourselves what is obvious to us in our clients.
Then my coach suggested I needed to ‘integrate’ these parts of myself. Up to this point our session was dealing with me and my business, however she instinctively knew that my conflict didn’t have much to do with my business and within the time it took her to ask me one short question everything flipped and the true conflict was revealed.
Our minds are heavily weighted on the sub-conscious side with over 80% of it under the conscious level and when something pops up through the fog into the clarity of consciousness that is when miracles can happen for you.
Then you have intimacy: in-to-me-see, and can have a close personal relationship with yourself.
Now you can integrate: in-to-grace, those parts of yourself that divide you and cause conflict. Sounds Heavenly, doesn’t it? Intimacy and integration; into me see and into grace.
How do you live with yourself? How do you treat your best friend – you? Physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually; what might be lurking just below the consciousness radar?
You’re undoubtedly aware of the ways and means to have a healthy body, how to educate your mind, what emotions you feel and how you are spiritually minded on a conscious level. Then there is the subconscious level which is always giving you clues. Let’s look at some possibilities:
- When you are shopping for food or choosing from a menu, what foods do you instinctively gravitate toward? Proteins, carbohydrates, fats? Have you ever asked yourself ‘why’?
- Look at your surroundings. What state are your living conditions in? Clean, messy, dusty, neat, cluttered, dark, light? How does your environment make you feel? Secure, uncomfortable, welcome, lost?
- Look at a map of the world. Where do you live? What kind of weather does it have? Ever wondered why you live there, I mean really live there, not the answer you would give to other people?
- You read a book, watch a TV program, see a movie. Can you identify the emotions it triggered? All the emotions, not just one. Where did these emotions come from? Have you ever asked yourself this?
- When someone says ‘spirit’ or ‘God’ or ‘religion’ how do you react? What are your facial expressions, body language, mental images? Are you even aware of them?
So much of our living is done on autopilot. Our minds are like gerbils racing on their wheel. It’s either focused on worrying or dreaming in the future or stuck in the past certainly nowhere near the present moment. At times we find the coffee cup full of coffee sitting in the fridge when we intended to put it in the microwave to heat it. We put the clothes in the dryer and didn’t turn it on. We swear we did something when the physical proof we didn’t is right in front of our disbelieving eyes.
So who are you living with? If you really want to know who your ‘best friend’ and constant companion is, not your roles, not your characteristics or personality, all you really have to do is develop a new awareness, one that is in the present moment. Your sub-conscious constantly leaks clues, even in dreams which are usually symbolism, but by simply asking yourself some different kinds of questions, you can reveal astounding stuff. Just like my coach did with me. Your answers may not ‘pop’ immediately, but they have gone out to the Universe and the Universe always answers, just be aware and listen.
If we want the people in our other relationships to understand us, to know us, respect us, communicate with us, love us, first we have to have all these things with ourselves. Every relationship begins with the one you have with you. Get to know you, you’re great!
Goal suggestion: “I am getting to know me more and more every day.”
Keep on Goaling!
© Lynn Moore
2 Powerful Relationship Goals!
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While visiting Hubby in the hospital one day last week and as I was leaving a woman was walking out the door just in front of me. She was crying and I could sense she was just holding on long enough so that she didn’t break into sobs before she got outside.
My heart went out to her as we exited the doorway. She turned to the right, leaned over a railing, placed her face into her hands and broke down allowing those sobs to surface. I placed my hand gently on her arm and asked her if I could be of any help. Through her sobs she said, “My mother is dying.” What I wanted to do was gather her into my arms and just let her cry but we don’t know how people are when it comes to being receptive to touch so I just softly moved my hand a few inches up and down her upper arm.
One of the toughest passages a person travels in this lifetime is losing a parent and having lost both of mine, I related with this woman on a deep heart level. She talked; I listened and nodded while surrounding her with compassion and learned about her. She was from out of town, considered herself the black sheep of the family, mourned that her mother was only 65 years old, had already had five heart attacks and her body was breaking down. All that and this woman’s sister was treating her with anger and disrespect even while they were both mourning their mother’s imminent demise.
This has to be one of the saddest things, family squabbles carried to the death bed of a loved one and all because of judgment, misunderstanding, misinformation and the self-defeating game of needing to be ‘right’. Where did love go? Actually it’s still there or the emotions these sisters are experiencing, even though destructive, couldn’t be.
Well, that’s a subject for another column, but the points I want to make here are two things; the length of a relationship is not the most important aspect and, let one of your relationship goals be to feel compassion for any other human being who is in pain. That includes strangers and people close to you.
This woman and I spent only 5 minutes together. During that time, as we talked, she must have said ‘thank you’ to me at least 3 times. This was a very short relationship, but we connected very deeply and very quickly. We will both remember it. She had a friend coming to be with her so I waited with her and before I went my way I asked her first name and gave her my card saying, “If you need someone to talk with while you are here in town please feel free to call me. I am a life coach, specializing in relationship goals and any time you spend talking with me is complementary.” We were both uplifted by that short time together.
Any interaction you have with another person is a ‘relationship’. They can be short and powerful like this one, long and secure, casual and friendly, short and nasty, long and destructive, almost any combination of words we can put together. And of such great importance, I say once more, if the relationship goals are not being met, other goals are a struggle and pretty much impossible. Because….all that you want to do, be and have will at some point be in the hands of other people. If it seems that you have heard me say this previously it’s because I have. I say it often.
Here are a couple of suggestions for relationship goals:
- “I feel compassion for a fellow human being who is in pain.” Pain can be expressed as tears, anger, depression, a façade of bravery (“I’m fine”) and so many other ways.
- “I validate the feelings of others”. Not to talk them out of their feelings. Acknowledgment and understanding rack up miles of Buddha Points!
As Miguel Ruiz puts it so succinctly in his book “The Four Agreements”, ‘Don’t Take Anything Personally’. People speak out or lash out from their pain center, not at you.
Keep on Goaling!
Did you know that you were born with only two fears? It’s true. I’ll tell you what they are a little later, but for now knowing that all your fears except for two, were taught to you by others can be a shocking revelation. If you were to write a list of your fears right now you could study them one at a time and see if you could recall the very first time you felt that fear. It’s a very revealing and helpful exercise.
Let’s look at fear of success. Did you, as a child, perhaps want to put up a lemonade stand on the sidewalk in front of your home, but when you asked if you could do it you were met with remarks such as “No one wants to buy lemonade from kids”, or “You won’t make any money that way”, “Or why would you want to do that, every kid does that.”
Or you may have asked for an artist’s easel and oil paints for a birthday gift and received a response such as “Why don’t you start with some paper and a paint box because it won’t be such a waste when you quit using them, you know you don’t stick at anything for very long.”
I know, I know, you read those words now and you think how devastating they would be for a child, how damaging. And if you are now a parent your mind is doing a swift back peddle trying to remember if you have ever said such a thing to one of your children. Oh, the guilt you could cook up! Well, that’s for another column but for now just know that every normal parent says and does things that in hindsight they regret. And most do better once they know better. The motivation behind their actions, believe it or not, is protection. They want to protect you from disappointment and hurt and inadvertently they cause it. And it’s not just parents, its teachers, sports coaches, siblings, friends, anybody.
So, what to do now? How can you overcome your fear of success, or failure, or feeling not good enough, or fear of not doing things right the first time, or not being perfect, ad infinitum. All of which, can stop you faster than a freight train when it comes to choosing, establishing and attaining your goals.
Look hard at your belief systems. Which ones are serving you and which ones are not? It’s time to turf the ones which are not. I’m not kidding, picture yourself picking one up and dropping it off a cliff so high you can’t see the bottom. And now replace it with a belief that serves you well. Just as in an instant, the remark made to you as a child undermined your feelings of worth and ability, you can, in an instant, replace that remark with it’s opposite. By doing this you have immediately changed your energy surrounding your belief.
It’s just way too hard to keep up the old belief systems! You have to skew truths into untruths just to support what you need to believe about yourself in order to believe the belief system that does not serve you and keeps you stuck! Whooooa, way to complicated and way too much wasted energy.
Alright now, screw up your courage and do the following:
- Identify the belief systems that don’t serve you well
- Dump them off the cliff
- Replace them with their opposite energy using your thoughts
- Repeat those new belief system thoughts even if you don’t believe them at first
- Repeat some more, write them down, visualize you doing them. Great! The energy is building.
- Choose a goal, see it as already accomplished (in this way you have just ‘set’ it)
- Ask for help to support yourself
Oh, those two fears we are born with? Fear of falling and loud noises.
In my book “Inspirational Goaling” http://www.inspirationalgoaling.com there is an entire chapter dedicated to belief systems with workbook exercises for you to do to increase your knowledge of belief systems and how they affect your goals.
Here’s a suggestion:
In Change Your Beliefs, Change Your Life, Dr. Nick Hall shows you how to recognize the impact your beliefs have on your life. The important thing is to know where any given belief comes from and understand how and why you internalized it – especially if it’s a belief you want to change. You also need to recognize those beliefs you’ve been suppressing or ignoring – beliefs that have become habits or beliefs that are preventing you from getting the most out of your life.
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Article written by Lynn Moore
6 Must-Have Secrets to Successful MLM Relationship Goals
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Had it not been for my career with an MLM company that lasted more than twenty years, my husband and I would not be able to enjoy our current free, very comfortable and adventurous lifestyle. We live in an RV resort at home in British Columbia Canada during summer and an RV resort in Yuma, AZ during winter. Our home is luxurious by motor coach standards and all we have to do is turn the key and drive the home down the highway whenever we wish to scratch the traveling itch.
I can’t say that I reached the highest pinnacle in this MLM Company but I can say it was close to that. What made me successful were my consistency in working the business, my tenacity and more than anything else my relationships with clients, colleagues and corporate staff. Because we are people first and business owners second, my relationships were the cement in my foundation. Nothing can be built on a flimsy foundation.
Thus, I put it to you that without healthy relationships in all segments of your life, your success in an MLM business, which is the epitome of Relationship Marketing, will be a struggle. I watched many a promising, talented woman crash and burn when a key relationship, either business or personal, went off the rails and fueled the fire of destruction.
MLM businesses tend to really appeal to women, especially if they are independently spirited. That could also be read as “I don’t want to be tied down to a J.O.B”. These women usually have entrepreneurial DNA in their genes and don’t take well to being followers. Most of us have a ‘leadership’ tendency, set our own timetable, rules and make our own choices. This is wonderful, but there is a downside. There is a tendency to run into more difficulties in relationships. We have the female traits of empathy and nurturing (right brained) which when combined with a strong sense of independence (left brained) can be akin to mixing babies with colic.
Relationships are complex; they will ride an up and down scale. The closer and more deep the relationship, the higher and lower it can ride on this scale. So how does one ensure that their array of relationships will help and not hinder their MLM success?
First, you must have relationship goals. This is the basis, the foundation. List the key people in your personal and business life (some may be in both lists). Decide what it is you want from each relationship. Decide what you want to give to each relationship. Let that person know.
Second, you need to expand your knowledge of human nature. Here is where you become a student, a voracious student. Read the Masters. You know who they are; Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer, Don Miguel Ruis, Jack Canfield, Bob Proctor to name a few of many.
Third, you must be willing to ask for help, usually before something becomes a crisis. Don’t allow things to fester, become deep rooted. Go to upline, go to corporate and if that isn’t feasible or appropriate, find a relationship coach. Not to act as negotiator, but to help you with your end of the relationship issues.
Fourth, know your own highest values. It is crucial that you live your life aligned with your values. Otherwise you are like a dog with a mouth full of peanut butter – your tongue will feel like it’s going to fall out from licking, but things remain stuck. What can you simply not live without? Freedom? Kindness? Organization? Find someone who knows how to guide you in a values exercise.
Fifth, know how to set your boundaries and inform others what they are. This is tougher for women than it is for men. Women have been traditionally raised to be of help to others, not stand up for themselves. It’s one of the reasons MLM appeals to women. But if you want to climb the ladder of success and independence, you must set boundaries. What is it you simply will not tolerate? Or, what are you tolerating right now? That will give you some hints.
Sixth, you have two ears and one mouth for a reason, become a true listener. It is in desperately short supply. It seems like no one really listens. Conversation goes back and forth with all sentences beginning with ‘I’. When we are not speaking we are running what we want to say in our heads rather than listening to the other person. When you deeply listen you can hear a person’s soul, you can hear what is not being said. It’s an art; an art that is truly appreciated and much needed. Hone it.
If you take all this in, you may find that you are doing pretty well with most of the secrets to MLM relationship success, you may find that you need to sharpen a couple, you may need to update yourself on all. Whatever it may be just start.
And remember to…
Keep On Goaling!
Lynn Moore is a certified life coach, spent 20 years as a leader in an MLM Company, is the published author of “Inspirational Goaling” and an expert in “Coaching the independent MLM woman to achieve her key relationship goals”
What Does It Feel Like To Reach Your Goal?
By · CommentsAn auspicious day in the life of Coach Lynn
How does it feel to reach your goal?
Have you reached an important goal and do you recall how it feels?
What is truly surprising to know is that goal achievement is a process and it is who you become during that process that is the real value in goaling, not the end result itself. This is one of the reasons you are advised to just set that goal and go for it and not attach any ‘success’ or ‘failure’ results to it. Whether you reach the goal or not, you have created value for yourself and it is important that you debrief every time you ‘go for it ‘ and find, write down and study those values and how they relate to your life. Then, based on your new knowledge, you set out again on the next goaling venture. You will succeed, it’s all part of the process.
Some people have told me that when they actually achieve that goal; have that degree in hand, drive off the lot in that new car, walk into the new job and sit at a desk, stand at the altar and wed the love of your life or see the larger numbers on an investment portfolio, it’s an odd feeling. One would think the flags would be raised, the Highland Pipers would parade the streets, horns would honk, and crowds would cheer. They don’t.
I don’t tell you this to discourage you. I tell you this because reaching your goal is an inside celebration. It’s a quiet celebration, yet a most powerful celebration. Others may congratulate you and say wonderful things to you, but you are the person who chose the goal, set the goal, went into the action steps, got up when you fell down, did not give up, and climbed that ladder one rung at a time.
You walk down the street with a spring in your step and/or a grin on your face because this is what you did, it wasn’t something you were given or won. You did this from the moment the idea crossed your consciousness. No one can feel what you are feeling, this is not something you can share with someone else because it is so personal, so uniquely yours. All yours to wrap around your heart, your soul, your body. No one has to approve to validate you or what you have accomplished.
There is no high like it. No drug could ever give you the high that is the confidence you feel and the self worth you’ve raised yourself up to. If your goal has put you in any kind of position wherein you can be of better service to your fellow human beings, you can take the feeling I have described above and multiply it by one hundred! At least. And here’s why….
The Divine Source, your Higher Intelligence, The Universe, whatever you wish to name It is the purest energy. You are energy, a part of that purest energy. Therefore, we are all one, and when you serve others you actually serve yourself through them. There is no telling how many people you serve with a helpful book, an article on the Internet, a donation to a helpful cause, teaching classes, giving physically challenged people a ride in your new car, setting up a scholarship with your burgeoning investments funds, helping people succeed in business, etc. That all comes back to you and there is no shortage of energy for energy never dies.
And to think, all that just for reaching for your heart’s desire and achieving it. There is nothing in the universe that is akin to reaching your goals and I want this for you! So much so that I wrote you a book called ‘Inspirational Goaling’ so you and I can get high!
If you would like to enjoy a quiet, inner celebration, wear a silly grin and bounce down the street you can get started here:
http://www.cleargoalscoaching.com/inspirationalgoaling
MPC Social Media Tribe
By · CommentsI would like to introduce you to an incredibly talented group of entrepreneurs. We work together using social media strategies to push each other to the top of Google. We support each other and learn from one another on a daily basis.
We are the MPC Social Media Tribe!
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Maybe you’ve heard this before: “We see things not as they are, but as we are.”
Less than a year ago I learned the real purpose behind the ‘shift’ our planet has made. Outwardly this manifested in financial chaos worldwide with all its repercussions. Naturally, this became the main focus for many of us and certainly the media. But there are some who could see more deeply and thank goodness I have connections with a few and learned that this shifting is sorting itself into a different energy and a raising of consciousness for our world. But that’s or a different column.
Today I’m here to let you know how it is affecting the world of business which has a great opportunity at this time in history. Often business feels the first waves of any economic attack but there are those business operators with vision who could see ‘something’ coming and started to implement changes ahead of the game. These businesses are the ones which will flourish while the world sorts itself out.
Maybe you’ve heard this before, but I don’t think we can hear it too often: “People don’t care about what you say; they care about how you make them feel.”
We have become cynical and for good reason perhaps. Greed has overtly shown up in business and politics. It used to be at least a little hidden, but not any more. How do you feel walking into a business establishment and sensing that this business is ‘all about them’? Then walking into a business that has the energy of its ‘all about you’? Where are you going to put down your money, place your trust and give your loyalty? You don’t have to answer that, I think I already know!
If a business does not have a #1 goal to practice ‘relationship marketing’ today, they are done for before they open the doors. We want to be acknowledged as ‘persons’ before we become ‘patrons’ and the far sighted businesses are doing this now if they haven’t been doing it all along.
There is one industry that has been doing this since its infancy. That industry is Multi Level Marketing. No matter what opinion you may have about MLM, and people love to bash it usually because they don’t understand it or have failed at it, it is a mainstay in business, consistently growing and is a master at relationship marketing.
Those who fail at MLM are those who do not grasp the concept that people are their business, not their product. Some MLMers have jumped from one MLM company to another thinking that their lack of success was because it was the wrong product and a new product would make all the difference when they should have been looking in the mirror. The successful MLMers are those who really ‘get’ and practice relationship marketing.
Business is people and not product. Our western society is awash in a confusing array of products and now is the time we shift back to the original purpose of business and that is to practice relationship marketing, and with a passion. Not just put up signs that say exemplary things about your service, but do exemplary things with your service. Talk with people, not at people. Get to know something about them, their name, etc. have a conversation (give and take) not a sale’s pitch (a solo performance).
Part of the global ‘shift’ is the raising of consciousness on many levels; I just chose business for this column and if your business is in a ‘recession’ it’s time to reassess your goals for your business, prioritize them and perhaps look for some expert guidance before the axe falls.
And always keep uppermost in our mind that people just don’t care what you say, they care how you make them feel.
Make it a goal!
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How Just One Goal, One Person, Can Touch Millions
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Marathon of Hope
Terry Fox, a Canadian hero.
His name is known around the world and this is why. At the age of 20 Terry was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in his right leg. Treatment necessitated the removal of his leg and a prosthetic leg took its place.
This young man from British Columbia, Canada wanted his experience to stand for something, he wanted to do something to help future generations and perhaps save another young person from losing a limb to cancer. His decision was to run across Canada (7,821 km) from the Atlantic Maritimes to the Pacific Ocean to raise money and awareness to fight cancer. Now that was some goal for a person with one leg!
He started out his Marathon of Hope by dipping his artificial leg in the ocean at St. John’s Newfoundland thirty years ago on this day, April 12th. From there he averaged 42km a day, a marathon by itself.
People couldn’t miss seeing this curly haired, good looking young man running along the highways often wearing just shorts and a T-shirt and moving with a very distinctive skippidy-hop gait caused by having to swing his prosthetic leg. This attention caused lots of questions and before long Terry and his entourage were joined by media vans and a police escort in every city and town. Every Canadian watched the evening news to see what progress Terry had made that day, what weather challenges he had and how he felt.
On September 1, 1980, in Thunder Bay, Ontario and after running through six provinces in 143 days (5,373 km/3,339 miles), Terry was forced to abandon his run because the cancer had returned. Terry Fox died on June 28, 1981 at the age of twenty-two. He had told his mother Betty, “It has to keep going without me.”
But his spirit and everything it stood for lived mightily on. Annual Terry Fox Runs are performed in villages, towns and cities across Canada and many in the USA and other countries. The Terry Fox Foundation http://www.terryfox.org/Foundation/The_Terry_Fox_Foundation.html and the Terry Fox Research Institute flourishing, mostly due to the HALF BILLION DOLLARS raised in his name during the past thirty years.
His example spurred others to wage their own personal campaigns to help other people. Steve Fonyo, another British Columbian and from my home town of Vernon, also a leg amputee from Cancer, ran Terry’s route and was able to complete it. Rick Hansen, again from BC, and a paraplegic due to a car crash pushed his wheelchair around the world (40,000 km) to raise awareness for spinal cord research. As a result we now have the multilayered Rick Hansen Foundation www.rickhansen.com
All of these heroes began with just a thought, an idea. They gave it energy and passion and it grew more, they told others and got support and the result is one person, one goal, grew to touch millions of fellow human beings in positive ways. Lives were changed in numbers we can never know.
Never doubt your thoughts, your ideas. Just think how many of us get an intuitive message which strikes a cord with us and then we discount it because of a fear or feelings of “I could never do that”. If you are given the message, you can do that. Otherwise your Divine Source would not have sent it to you.
The next time you receive a ‘message’, think of perhaps millions of people who might not be touched by your spirit if you don’t follow through.
What if Terry Fox hadn’t?
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