tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82060023290337398742012-02-11T19:01:02.765-05:00Just trying to do my little part in helping you realize that you are unique. That you have a right to seek your dreams. That your life can change. Trying to help you with the demands of living your life and building your business. Hopefully some of my words will encourage and help you to accomplish that which you truly desire. Life and Business in the context of ONE. Comments welcomed.Elaine Bullinhttps://profiles.google.com/106084657858593213210noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125ElaineBullinhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8206002329033739874.post-3874888870832329242012-01-26T06:43:00.002-05:002012-01-26T06:43:11.788-05:002012-01-26T06:43:11.788-05:00

Sometimes we all feel like this. All stressed out and believing we have no where to go. That there is nothing we can do to change the situation we are in. We feel like life is just too much for us to handle. Can't take any more. I am going to make a statement that I am sure that some will disagree with: Stress is not always bad. Okay, I know what you are thinking: I must have lost my cookies

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Millions of people a day use Facebook for socializing and business. Including myself. Most of us are moral, ethical individuals but not all. It is a sad state when we have to be on the look out for those that only want to cause us harm in some way. Today while eating lunch I happen to come across a TV show on HLN with Clark Howard. He does a regular segment on HLN and I have watched his

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A lot of times in our life we desperately need something or someone to help us move forward. The same can be said of those of us that own our own business. We just need a little boost. A little spark of something that will keep us going. And, give us some inner energy to keep moving forward toward our why we started down this path to begin with. I tend to be a very optimistic person but even

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The figures below are enough to make you pull your hair out, hold your head in disbelief and stress yourself to the max.So, why would I post something like this. It certainly isn't like anything else that I have shared on this blog. I try to give you inspiration and motivation not desperation. The reason: seeing facts can inspire and motivate all of us. Especially when those facts involve how

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“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” [Stanford commencement speech, June 2005] “I think if you do

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Yes, Vince Lombardi was a great football coach. I don't believe that you can argue about that. But do you know what his philosophy about life and business was that propelled him to be such a success? You see, what Lombardi expected was success. Nothing less! Success in his daily life. Success as a football coach - in his field of occupation - his business.  He communicates such strong visions

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I am sure that a lot of you have seen this video by Pat Petrini. Each time I watch it I have to laugh because it is one of the truest videos on the market showing just how wrong some people can think. As Jim Rohn said, "You can't say the wrong thing to the right person, and you can't say the right thing to the wrong person. ~ Jim Rohn (One of my favorite quotes - has sort of a tongue-in-cheek

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Change is Good - You Go First As a leader you must empower change to others joining you. In network marketing we build teams to promote a company/product. A lot of the people joining us may be set in their own manner of doing this. The reason for this might be that they have been in (direct) network marketing for many years and think that they have all of this down pat. Let me tell you my story

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There are some great truths in this movie. In life as in business we live as a team. No one can totally be alone. We have a family which forms a team. We have friends which forms a team. If we have a job we have co-workers which form a team. In our business we form relationships with others which forms a team. A team is a group of individuals that come together for a common purpose.  This

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Why don't your prospects believe what you are saying? Maybe because you are assuming that they will trust and believe anything you tell them. Do these sound familiar to you? 1. You can trust me... 2. You can believe me when I say ... 3. I am from North Carolina so sure you can take what I say to the bank... 4. I live near you so you know I wouldn't lie to you... 5. We have the best ever

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No, I have not lost my mind. At least not right now. Later maybe. I came across this video and I was taken back a few years to when I first started out in direct marketing so I decided to share it with you. Too many, almost all, try to enter the network marketing industry without even knowing how to start much less how to really make a lasting income. They play around thinking they are doing

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I realize that the title of this post may be insulting to some but I used it to get your attention. I hope it does. This blog is all about Life & Business so I don't apologize at all for doing this post about the most important life sustainable commodity: FOOD. And for making a plug for the company that I am associated with MPB Today. Now don't think that this post is all about MPB. It is not.

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It seems like no matter what we do life hands us a bail of manure from time to time. I know it has me and I am sure the same is true for you. So, what do you do? Hang on and ride it through. Don't allow the down times to take control. They are going to happen. Trust me on this. I know. Life was never meant to be totally free of fences and bears. The same applies to business. You try and try and

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Interesting question. Don't you think? The reason I pose this question to you is because I came across a post on another website that mentioned this entrepreneur, Barry Moltz. I found the entry about being lucky in business interesting. It gave seven areas for you to think about to see if your business is lucky. That is if you believe luck has anything to do with your business. To be honest I do

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A mostly missed way of getting links to your site. Increasing traffic to your website! We all want visitors to come to our websites. The question is how to get them there? I am only going to mention one in this post because I see so many people missing this great opportunity. You just bypass it all the time. Of course, if you don't have a website that is a different thing. But, if you do

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Practice what we preach: having principles may be natural for us but practicing them is something of a different story. This is probably one of our biggest challenges each and every day we breath not only in our lives but in our businesses. This reminds me of a TV commercial about a young basketball player that announces while in a huddle to his coach that he touched the basketball before it

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How to Turn Your Business Card Into Powerful Marketing By Allison Babb Take a quick a look a couple of the business cards scattered or piled somewhere in your office.   Have you ever wondered what those little cards are supposed to do?  Few business owners give much thought to what business cards are (and what they’re not.) Your business card is not just a “contact card” to showcase your

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I think we all get down about our business and feel like giving up. When you find yourself getting to this point remember this video from Todd Falcone. Remember: Keep Going. You might have to do something totally different for a while but if you really want to reach your dreams and goals never, ever just quit on yourself. Understand this: if you throw up your hands and quit, you ARE Quitting

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"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure." —Jim Rohn I have a personal story to tell you about my encounter with the word  'failure'. Years ago I decided that I wanted to be a

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I received an email from Dale Calvert yesterday talking about all of the ads out there for so-called 'increase your traffic software'. I have seen all of the ones he mentioned. Also in his email he reminded me of a long time internet marketer, Marlon Sanders. Marlon is famous for his Marketing Dashboard software which is just one of his many endeavors. This software has been around for several

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This may seen like an oxymoron statement: mixing business with laughter. In truth it is a good thing to add to your business and to your life. It is interesting that before I got this email with this movie in it I got an email from Hilton Johnson. Hilton publishes a newsletter, MLMU Biz Tips. Each day he sends out one little tid-bit of information about how to improve your prospecting/recruiting

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If you do any email marketing then you should know that there are certain words and phrases to stay away from. If you don't know this then be sure to read this list compiled by Jordan Ayan of SubscribersMail.com 1. 100% free                                                               2. 50% off 3. act now 4. all words that relate to sex or pornography 5. all words that related to cures or

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Gosh! It's been a while since I posted on this blog. Thought about it but just didn't get around to it. Been posting often about the Christmas season on my other blog: Inspiration Pathways Do you forget to post? What about material to post about? Can't find any? Not guilty of any of the above - I didn't forget - I just didn't do it. I collect material to write daily, so that is not the problem.

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I started to use this video on my Elaine's Vision blog but after watching it several times I changed my mind. For some reason the idea of "practicing what you want" kept bombarding my mind with the idea that it fits so well into the realm of finances and business. Yes, it certainly fits our total life but my thoughts kept tangling me up in the business arena. So many of us have dreams of being

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HOPE is one of our most precious life-saving thoughts. We have to keep hold of our hope. It means the difference between existing and surviving in today's world of stress and the unknown. Have you ever lost your hope? As George Weinberg states, "Hope never abandons you; you abandon it." I think this is so very true but sometimes we just feel like everything is going against us so we lose our

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