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I know how you feel. I even know what your thinking right now.

It’s a consumable. It’s exciting. Everybody has one and wants a new one. Etc….

And you’re right!  Trouble is, your direct selling company can’t deliver the one thing that keeps all of us in those 2 year contracts.

Instant Gratification!

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If it is, it’s not because it didn’t work!

It’s because everybody is doing it, (or trying to).

10 years ago no one in the home business industry had heard of “attraction marketing”. When it came on the home business scene it was new. It was exciting and it created massive results.

One of those results was an explosion of self proclaimed “Gurus” in the internet marketing arena. All of them with email lists, similar tactics and, of course, something to sell.

Hey, I sell my stuff too, and I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with it. What I’m saying is that the more we see of anything, the more likely we are to completely ignore it.

Watch this. You’ll see what I mean.

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One Injured four arrested in parking lot altercation.

This headline, (or a similar one), is going to be coming to a newspaper and TV station near you, very soon.

Two companies, Data Network Affiliates (DNA) and Narc That Car are paying people to gather information on their friends and neighbors as well as complete strangers.

Under the pretence of doing something “good for your community”, these bottom feeders are recruiting an army of misguided people to invade your privacy and that of fellow citizens without cause or reason, (other than to make a buck).

The “job” of these representatives’, is to record your car’s license plate number along with the location and time it was recorded. This can be done by hand, (writing it down) or by taking a photograph. The information is then entered into the databases of these companies where it is sold to….. well, who really knows!?…

Both companies pay for these invasions of others privacy but not nearly enough to offset the risk and the certain damage to the reputation of anyone foolish enough to try and make a business out of these activities.

One of these companies, DNA , reportedly will pay $2.00 for every 20 license plates reported. At the time of this posting I have no payout information for “Narc That Car”.

I can tell you that both of these companies have at least one thing in common. Neither of them will support you in any way should you get into legal trouble as you go about stalking your fellow man for money.

Let me ask you something here.

• Exactly how little do you have to care about your professional and personal reputation to get involved in something like this?
• How are your unsuspecting victims going to react to your efforts to get their plate numbers?
• When your neighbors discover you writing down their plate numbers or taking pictures of their car in their driveway, what are you going to say? How are you going to explain yourself?
• When you’re so busy writing down plate numbers from two dozen motorcycles parked at the “Claw hammer and gun club bar”,  that you fail to notice that the owners of those bikes are now standing all around your car,,,,, What are you going to do? Flash them your “Narc That Car” membership card? Good luck with that!

If I see you stalking my wife and kids to get your 10 cent plate number, I can tell you exactly how I’m going to react.

I’m going to invade YOUR privacy on the spot.

You and I will both be arrested and when the police see your notepad or the photos on your camera you can try to impress them with your membership card while I’m filing charges against you for stalking my family!

Come on people, isn’t your reputation and personal safety worth more than a lousy dime to you?

Does it really make any kind of sense to risk life, limb and law suits to collect license plate numbers at 10 cents apiece for a company that will hang you out to dry when you get into trouble doing it?

No! Of course it doesn’t!

Aside from the obvious unethical and dangerous implications of these two companies there are also major legality issues.

Both of these companies have set up network marketing type compensation plans for paying their people and are advertising themselves as a viable home business opportunity. The problem is that they are not selling a product of any kind through their network of reps. They are paying people to collect data for use by the company.

No product or service to sell to an end user and a network marketing comp plan?

That makes these models Ponzi / Pyramid schemes and as such, illegal by any and all definitions I’ve ever read.

Both companies are illegal in their comp plans and are encouraging unsuspecting people to participate in activates that WILL, at best, stray into very gray legal areas and, at worst, lead to violence, arrests and prosecution for both civil and criminal issues.

What can YOU expect?

It is entirely likely that if you participate in and/or promote either of these companies, you will forever after be known as… “ that guy that spied on his friends and family for money”.

With that reputation hanging around your neck, your future business prospects are very slim indeed.

People do not follow, respect or even socialize with those they distrust. By putting yourself in the “spying business” your trustworthiness is put into very serious question. Every one of your friends will wonder, (and likely ask), if you turned in their plate number and even if you didn’t, they won’t believe you.

Building a business in this industry is about YOU!

Nobody cares about your company, your product or your compensation plan.

They don’t join your company or your opportunity, They Join You!

If, (God forbid), your name becomes widely synonymous with scams, ponzi schemes, illegal pyramids and ethically questionable practices, you have destroyed THE MOST…… No scratch that… You have destroyed THE ONLY thing of real value in your business. YOU HAVE DESTROYED YOU and now, literally, have NOTHING of value to offer to those seeking to succeed in a legitimate home business.

This is very sad but even sadder is how often it happens to those that are guilty of little more than failing to recognize the differences between scams and legitimate businesses and naively following those that seek to deceive them.

This is the entire reason that I preach about ethics and reputation to anyone that will listen.

This is the reason why educating yourself sufficiently to recognize scams from legitimate businesses is so important. Ultimately, these things become the reputation that is the YOU that others will seek to follow or to avoid.

In my opinion, these two companies, (Narc That Car) and (Data Network Affiliates), present the greatest danger to your reputation of anything I’ve seen in years.

The damage you will do to yourself with these two will be wide spread and will start very close to home and be very personal and painful.

News of what are doing will alienate you from close friends and family by planting the seeds of distrust and the never ending question of whether or not you’ve violated their privacy and friendship to make a quick buck.

It will not matter that you haven’t done so. The question will always remain and every attempt you make to reassure them will only serve to heighten their suspicions.  Your very presence will cause your closest friends to become defensive and every time you even look in the direction of their car, they are going to wonder, “Did he just memorize my license plate?”

All this pain for 10 cents a plate?   I DON’T THINK SO!

Use the brains God gave you, keep the money you earn and never, never slow down!

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Have you seen the Golden Gate Bridge?

If you haven’t, here’s something you need to know.

The cables that bear the entire weight of the roadway are immense. They measure over 3 feet in diameter and are among the strongest ever built by mankind.

How hard would it be to break a steel cable like that and what does this have to do with motivation?

Each of these monstrous cables is made up of thousands of smaller cables, (27,572 to be exact), that were woven together one at a time to reach the point being nearly indestructible.

Each day of our lives we weave one more tiny wire into a giant cable that holds us where we are!

Every day we follow a routine.

• We get up at a certain time,
• We take a shower,
• Brush our teeth,
• Eat breakfast and
• Leave for work
• Break for lunch
• Leave work
• Drive home
• etc… etc…

This is a common routine and every day, we reinforce that routine and weave one more tiny wire into our giant cable.

Every now and then, we get the uncontrollable urge to change.

We want something better! We want something different! We want to succeed in life or in business so we do something to get ourselves “Motivated”.

We might attend a motivational seminar, or go to a regularly scheduled meeting where we get our batteries recharged and feel like taking on the world again.

Then comes Monday. And the giant cable we’ve been building yanks us back into the same old routine as last week, and the week before, and the week before that.

For most people, this cycle of “Getting Motivated” and then falling back into the routine is a life long addiction, (This is the biggest reason why people keep coming out of retirement!), it’s the addiction to the routine.

Motivation for most people is nothing more than the temporary rush. Much the same as the rush you get from a sugary energy drink. A high followed by a crash.

We get excited and sometimes even get started before the big cable yanks us back.

One thing you will notice about wealthy, successful people is that their “routines” are very different from that of most people. What did they do to break their cable?

They didn’t break it at all. They built a different, bigger cable!

21 Days!

That’s all it takes to become addicted…. to anything!
And, the very best way to beat an unhealthy addiction is to start a new, healthy one.

If you do anything for 21 days in a row, your addicted. Try it! Go for a walk for 21 days and on day 22 your body will need that daily walk. Eat a hand full of blueberries or an apple for 21 days and your body will crave it on day 22 and beyond.

It’s not magic, it’s just the way human beings are wired.

The answers and changes that we seek for ourselves simply can not be achieved by motivation alone.

Why? Because motivation alone is incapable of changing our habits and routines. The cable we have built can not be broken, it can only be replaced.

We have to change our habits and our routines NOT by “stopping what were doing” but by starting to do something else. We create NEW habits and routines that replace that giant cable with a new one.

Make sense?

Here’s a good place to start.

For the next 21 consecutive days, read for 30 minutes to an hour each day and start with some of these books.

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People -  by Stephen R Covey
• As a Man Thinketh -  by James Allen
• Think and Grow Rich – by Napoleon Hill
• The Greatest Salesman in the World -  by Og Mandino
• The Power of Positive Thinking – by Norman Vincent Peale
• How to Win Friends and Influence People – by Dale Carnegie
• The 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing – by Ann Sieg - FREE Download HERE.
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad – by Robert Kiyosaki

And the list goes on and on…..

Get one of these books and mark the day on your calendar. Read every single day for 21 days. See what happens for yourself!

Till Next Time

Micah

Talking to people is one of the most misunderstood arts in the world!

We’ve all seen that blank, glazed over stare that means the other person has completely “checked out”.

Maybe it’s not the person your talking to but the personality your talking to.

I recently had the opportunity to speak with fellow businessman about a service I offer. When I arrived I discovered that he had been called away but had made arrangements for me to speak to someone else.

We were introduced and I proceeded to lay out my proposal.

In short order I was looking a man with crossed arms, glazed expression and tight lips. He’d checked out on me and I knew exactly why!

I had gone in to talk to someone that was interested in my idea. Someone that was excited, creative and emotional. The problem was, that person wasn’t there and I was talking to the companies financial guy.

I recently attended a seminar where, among other things, we discussed four distinct personality types and how recognizing which one you were speaking with made the difference between closing a sale and wasting your time. Knowing what personality you’re talking to is at least as important as knowing their name.

Rather than trying to retype it all, I’ve put these notes into PDF form for you.

DOWNLOAD IT HERE

As you can see, people come in four basic “types”. Knowing what type of person you are talking to is every bit as important as knowing what language they speak.

These Types Are:

• The Aggressors
• The Expressive
• The Giver
• The Visionary

If you don’t recognize which one your speaking to, you are wasting your time… and theirs!

Here is a simple method to keep them strait.

1. Print out the PDF file
2. On each of the four pages, write down the name of the person it reminds you of.
3. The next time you meet someone you can say to yourself, “This guy reminds me of my friend xxxxx”.

This simple tip will increase your sales by 50% or more and make you look like a world class conversationalist!.

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