What I’m about to write in this post is going to piss off a lot of people.

Chances are your upline is going to wish you never read this post.

The reason for this is because what you’re about to read goes against the training of probably 95% of all MLM companies around the world.

MLM Training for Idiots

Let me start with by clarifying what I mean by “MLM Training for Idiots” so that we can get a better understanding of what I mean by “MLM Training for Non-Idiots”.

“MLM Training for Idiots” is not meant as a derogatory term in any way and it is not meant to make fun of anyone or any type of MLM training system out there.

It simply refers to a method of training people in MLM / Network Marketing companies which is built around a few core philosophies.  These philosophies are:

1. The only way a Network Marketing system works is by building a massive group (downline) of people “under” you.
2. The majority of people (over 95%) in the world are trained as employees, not entrepreneurs, and therefore they are “idiots” when it comes to business / entrepreneurship / marketing etc.
3. Therefore, we have to assume that in a large organization (downline) 95% of the people “under” you are going to be “idiots” when it comes to business / entrepreneurship / marketing etc.
4. The majority of people are also NOT interested in personal development or improving themselves as business people or entrepreneurs.
5. The majority of people also do NOT have the perseverance skills to stick it out and become successful in a business.

Therefore, based on these “facts”, the majority of all MLM systems out there follow a process which essentially focuses on these steps:

1. Step 1 (Selling the Fantasy) – Getting people into an MLM / Network Marketing opportunity by “convincing” them of the huge opportunity to make money QUICKLY and EFFORTLESSLY.
2. Step 2 (Pillage their Contacts) – Once they are in, immediately focusing them on creating a 25 or 100 name list of ALL their contacts – family, friends, neighbors, plumbers, real estate agents, co-workers, etc.
3. Step 3 (Selling their Contacts the Fantasy) – Getting in front of everyone they know and “convincing” them of the huge opportunity to make money QUICKLY and EFFORTLESSLY.
4. Step 4 (Rinse and Repeat) – Hopefully 2-5 of the 100 people on their “100 name list” will also be sold the fantasy, and then you simply go back to Step 2 with them, rinse and repeat.
5. Step 5 (Miracle Happens) – Keep at this for long enough until you have a large enough downline of “idiots”.  (I know some people who’ve been at this for over a decade.)
6. Step 6 (Collect Millions) – And supposedly one day you make millions of dollars.

Once again, I’m using the term “idiots” here to simply describe people who have bought into the “I’m not allowed to be smart, I have to follow an idiot-proof system to succeed.”

Essentially the idea behind a system like this is that most “business idiots” out there have no desire to become smart entrepreneurs.  Therefore, any system that requires any intelligence at all is not going to work.

Meaning, the fantasy that is sold has to basically revolve around statements like these:

• “It’s easy!  Anyone can do this!”
• “You don’t need any business skills.  Just sign up under me and you’ll make a tonne of money.”
• “Our company is exploding right now.  The timing has never been better.”
• “The only thing you need to do is find a few people who find a few people who find a few people and you can retire!”
• “Follow our very simple 3 step process.  Don’t complicate it any more than that, otherwise it’s not duplicable / duplicatable.”
• “You have to make it idiot proof.”
• “Keep it simple stupid.”
• “Talk to anyone with a heartbeat.”
• “Talk to anyone within 3 feet of you.”
• “Keep calling everyone you know and just keep following up until they decide to sign up.”
• “It’s so easy!  Anyone can do this!”

Essentially, all that these MLM systems are attempting to do is to “Go Viral”.

You “convince” 3/100 people of the fantasy of easy money, and then pillage each of their 100 name lists to do the same – rinse and repeat.

What’s Wrong with the MLM For Idiots System?

You may be wondering, what’s wrong with this system?

The truth is that there is NOTHING wrong with this system.

There are successful marketers in all different types of MLMs out there making millions of dollars running this system.

If you like this type of system, then by all means GO FOR IT.

If the “MLM For Idiots” system is working for you – then KEEP DOING IT.

Go with what works.

For me however, and for a LOT of people that I know, this system simply doesn’t work (anymore).

It may have worked in the 1980′s or 1990′s when a “business opportunity” like this was something rare and typically unheard of by most people, but today in 2012 most people have heard of MLMs, been in MLMs, have been sold the MLM fantasy of following the “MLM For Idiots System” and failed.

The industry stats show that 95% of people who join MLMs fail to make any substantial money and then quit.

It’s becoming more and more difficult to put together a 100 name list, and to convince your friends / family / plumber / real estate agent to sit down with you and your upline to listen to your “business opportunity presentation”.

20 years ago you could call 10 people from your 100 name list and you’d get maybe one out of ten saying “Oh I’m not interested, I’ve already been in a business opportunity like that.”

Today, the majority of the people you talk to have either been in an MLM (or more likely in multiple MLMs) and/or have friends and family who have been in MLMs.

They’ve been sold on this fantasy of “making millions while doing nothing!” and they are not interested in buying yet another “Starter Kit”.

They’d rather puke than make another 100 name list or try to call their friends and relatives and try to SELL them or CONVINCE them to watch a “business opportunity presentation”.

Yet the MLM For Idiots Train Continues

As failure prone as the “MLM for Idiots” system is, every single day millions and millions of people are joining yet ANOTHER MLM.

People who have been in 5 different MLMs before are joing yet another new one.

Why?

The reason is that as bad as the experience has been for them, there is something that almost every single “MLM For Idiots Victim” has been touched by an they can’t let go of it.

What have they been touched by?

HOPE.

The hope of being able to quit their miserable job.

The hope of not having to put up with their idiot boss anymore.

The hope that they will finally be recognized and appreciated for their accomplishments.

The hope of being able to work with positive, passionate people instead of the negative idiot co-workers they can’t stand anymore.

The hope of having more money left over at the end of the month than month left over after all the money is gone.

HOPE is a powerful thing, and that is what people cling onto.

This is why people keep on “signing up” for yet another MLM, yet another “system”, yet another “product”, yet another “ground floor opportunity”, in hopes that this time IT WILL BE DIFFERENT.

The Idiots Get Smarter Though

Most people who chase the fantasy sold to them are getting smarter though.

Deep down, most of them know that the idea of “make money doing nothing” is just a fantasy, but they don’t care.

They’re addicted to the hope.  They’re addicted to the recognition.  They like hanging out with other positive people at the meetings.

Making money, or treating an MLM as a business becomes a secondary concern.

Their MLM “career” turns into nothing more than a social club, where they get to hang out with other positive people and bitch about their lame jobs.

What’s more is that they also have their UPLINE calling them every day and pumping them up!

“You can do it Bob!  You’re awesome.  If anyone can do this, I know it’s you!  Just make your 100 name list and let’s get this thing rocking!”

“Wait till you see your bosses face when you walk in and quit on him!  He’ll be sorry then!”

I mean who wouldn’t want a “friend” like your typical upline?

Of course by this time fantasy seekers get much smarter.  They never do hand over the 100 name list.  Oh no…they’re MUCH smarter than that.

They just want to “hang out” and be “pumped up”.

They might make a few phone calls to see if they can also sell the fantasy to some of their other friends who are also fantasy seekers, but usually their friends are already in some other “thing”.

The idea of actually building a REAL MLM BUSINESS has long gone out the window.

The main question they’ll ask you is this…

“What’s the minimum AUTOSHIP I have to commit to?”

and…

“Do I get kicked out if I don’t buy every month?”

I’m not saying that everyone who asks these questions is a fantasy seeker – heck I ask the autoship question myself! – but everyone who is a fantasy seeker will ask that question and it will usually be one of the only questions they ask.

They just want to know what is the minimum effort (financially speaking) that they have to commit to in order to be part of the social group.

What will it cost them to “hire” you as their upline?  That is really what they are asking.

Is That What You Came For?

If you are currently in an MLM, and you are following their “proven” system – which your upline keeps telling you is the only “duplicatable” system – let me ask you this… how is it working out for you?

(By the way, the stats show that 95% of all people in any MLM fail to make any real money, so the only “proven” thing about their system is that it’s “proven” to have a 95% failure rate.)

For the sake of argument, however, let’s just say that the standard “MLM for Idiots” system I described above does work.

We do know that it DOES work at least 5% of the time for 5% of the people.  I won’t even go down the path that those 5% don’t follow the “MLM for Idiots” plan themselves anyways.  Let’s just say that it DOES work for those people who follow the system.

Meaning, let’s just say that the ONLY reason the system doesn’t work for someone is because:

• (a) they didn’t follow the system; or
• (b) they didn’t wait long enough

Let’s just say that this is true.  Meaning, let’s say that your upline is right – if you just follow the system and you wait long enough, it will work for you.

Is that what you came for though?

Did you make the decision to become an entrepreneur so that you can work a “proven” system which has been proven to attract and recruit business idiots and fantasy seekers who live their lives with an entitlement “something for nothing” mentality?

Does the idea of building the largest army of idiots really excite you?

Does the idea of having a well-oiled recruiting machine going where you bring in 100′s of people every month into your downline and put them through the “MLM For Idiots” system get your juices flowing?

If so, then keep doing it.  Keep following that system.  If it’s working for you and you’re already making a 6-figure or 7-figure income in the MLM opportunity you’re in, then STICK WITH IT.

As long as you’re enjoying it an it’s working for you then keep at it.

If, however, you are finding it harder and harder to stay excited about following the standard “MLM for Idiots” type systems out there, then you may be interested in another way.

MLM Training for Non-Idiots

For months now, ever since I got involved with a couple of really cool MLM companies last year, I’ve been doing a TONNE of research into MLM Training and systems that do NOT follow the standard process.

I wanted to see if it’s even possible to make money in a MLM structured company without using the standard training provided by those companies.

Since the majority of my success & experience comes from making money in traditional and online business models and not in MLMs, I wanted to see if there are others out there who have already gone down this route in the past.

I figured that by 2012 there must be people out there who have gotten fed up with the standard MLM systems out there and who tried doing it their own way.

I wanted to see if any of them have had ANY success in the industry.

What I discovered was rather shocking.

The shocking truth is that there are a LOT of people out there who are doing exceptionally well in various MLM companies who are NOT using the “MLM Training for Idiots” training systems given to them by their uplines.

They simply join an MLM (and in many cases MULTIPLE MLMs) and they apply their own marketing system to them and they kick ass.

Most of these people don’t have the largest downlines, but they do have VERY profitable downlines.

They don’t recruit “everyone with a heartbeat”.  They don’t recruit idiots.  They don’t recruit fantasy seekers or people who just want to be “pumped up” every day who never actually do anything.

They are making millions without having to surround themselves with idiots.

In fact they are doing the exact opposite.  They are surrounding themselves with other like-minded entrepreneurs who look at the standard marketing training provided to them by their MLM and see it as nothing more than BASIC info they devour in the first few days of joining that MLM.

From that point forward though, they implement all kinds of cool strategies that your typical “idiot” would never understand.

They DO NOT throw out an effective marketing strategy just because the average “idiot” wouldn’t understand it.

They use their intuition and unique talents and abilities to grow their businesses just like every other entrepreneur in the world.

In the standard brick-n-mortar business world you will never hear anyone saying “Don’t use this effective marketing strategy because an average person doesn’t understand it.”

Real entrepreneurs are always innovating and learning new strategies and developing special skills that 99.9999% of people out there would never understand.

That is how real businesses are built.

In the MLM industry though, I believe the idea of only using an “idiot proof / duplicable” system has run it’s course and is dying.

I think the MLM industry is one of THE most lucrative and exciting industries to be a part of.

I’m WAY more excited about it than I have ever been about making money online via Blogging or even Affiliate Marketing.

I truly believe that the MLM business structure coupled with ONLINE MARKETING strategies is one of the most exciting ways to build a huge income quickly and while having a LOT of fun.

However, for entrepreneurs who are “non-idiots”, the only way to do that is to go far beyond the “MLM Training for Idiots” strategies taught by your typical MLM.

Since this Blog post is already reaching the 2,500 word point, I’m going to have to end it here, but I plan on diving into what my research has revealed in future Blog posts and I plan on doing a lot of testing and experimentation myself with all these cool systems out there and how they can potentially be used to build an MLM organization without having to resort to the standard “MLM Training for Idiots” type systems.

Whether I successfully build a multi-million dollar MLM organization using these new strategies is yet to be seen, but others have done it and as Tony Robbins says “What one person can do, another person can do.”

Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t been writing a lot of content on this Blog for a while.

A big part of that is because I’ve been going through some major transformations in my life that have put me very much into “student” mode where I am re-evaluating and re-learning a lot of the previous beliefs I held in my life.

However, another big reason for my lack of “sharing” is that I have been feeling very disconnected from my Blog audience lately.

Meaning, after Blogging for over 5 years (almost 6 now), I have created a following of readers that I feel as a group I know fairly intimately.

When I normally sit down to write a Blog post I have a pretty good idea what my audience wants to hear.

I know how to break things down for them in a way that they’ll understand according to their current set of beliefs.

The challenge is that for a while now, but especially since becoming a GIN Member and since 2012 rolled around, my beliefs have been undergoing a complete re-vamp.

Becoming a member of the Global Information Network has lit a huge fire under my ass.  It’s had a massive transformational effect on me and I’m loving every minute of it.

Income Boost

One of the first things I decided to apply my GIN training to is increasing my income.

I always like testing out something new I learn by seeing if I can apply it to manifesting more money with it in my life.

The reason I do this is because money is a good way to “keep score”.  It’s not the only way to keep score, but it’s a convenient unit of measure to use to track progress.

Meaning, for example I could have used my GIN training to focus on improving my relationship with my wife or my dogs or my business partners or improving my level of health or fulfillment or sense of freedom that I feel every day, but those are much more difficult to quantify and track.

It’s much harder to test out a new “system of thinking” when applying it to something ambiguous.

Money is not ambiguous.  It’s specific and therefore really easy to track and test with.

For example, since becoming a GIN Member in November 2011, (just 3 months ago) my income has grown by 34%.

For me, that is a HUGE increase, especially since in the previous 9 months prior to that it hadn’t grown at all, and over the previous 18 months prior it only grew by around 20%.

So when I track my income I can see a directly, measurable, easily quantifiable boost to my income since becoming a GIN Member and applying the teachings taught within.

How much would your life change if your had a 34% boost in your income in the next 90 days?

What’s even more exciting is that my wife’s business has grown by leaps and bounds as well, and she has barely scratched the surface of the GIN training so far.  She has mostly just learned from me after I went through the training.

By using something like my income as a “testing ground” for the GIN training I’ve been able to prove to myself that the stuff that is taught within the GIN system really works – and is not just theory that “makes sense” but doesn’t produce results.

There are a LOT of systems out there like that.  Systems built on theory and logic and stuff that sounds like it *should* work, but which produce NO RESULTS.

Alienating My Audience

Now you may be thinking … Ok Paul, so you became a GIN member, and in the last 3 months you’ve focused on testing out the training by focusing on applying it to boosting your income and you boosted your income by 34%.

So how does that translate into feeling disconnected from your Blog audience and not writing a lot of content?

Well, the reason it translates into that is because as I learn and apply the GIN training I’ve been learning, and as that training starts to produce results in my life and completely transform everything for me, I have been growing more and more excited about the teachings taught within GIN.

Because of this I find it very difficult to NOT talk about GIN and the training within it.

Even with my “real life” friends, I find it difficult to talk about other stuff besides GIN training.

Why?  Because it’s so fricken awesome!  And it works!

I mean honestly… put yourself in my shoes for a second.

Looking for a solid, workable system that uses the Law of Attraction and a “Spiritually Aligned” process of increasing your income without “working harder” is something I’ve been searching for for over 10 years.

I’ve got bookshelves full of books and DVD’s on the subject and most of the stuff out there produces marginal benefits, and only if applied in conjunction with other stuff.

The stuff I’ve learned in GIN has been producing significant results in a very short period of time.

That’s super exciting to me.

Why wouldn’t I want to talk about it everywhere I went?

The challenge is that not everyone who reads my Blog is interested in making more money, and not everyone is a GIN member, and not everyone has listened to the Your Wish is Your Command, so when I talk about those things, I start to “alienate” some of my audience.

I’ve had people say stuff like “Can’t you talk about something else?  Why are you always talking about GIN?” to me, and it gave me pause.  I thought to myself “Hmm…maybe I have been talking about GIN a bit too much on my Blog lately…”

So I stopped writing for a while until I had something non-GIN related to say.

David Wilcock

A few weeks ago, while reading an interview with Richard Bartlett (originator of Matrix Energetics), I came across the name David Wilcock.

David has recently written a book called “The Source Field Investigations – The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies”.

I was instantly drawn to the book, bought it, and couldn’t put it down until I finished the 400+ page volume of wisdom.

Even though I don’t necessarily agree with every conclusion David makes from the scientific and well researched information he presents in the book, the research he presents is very eye opening.

I’ve been thinking about writing some Blog posts about the content he talks about in this book, and once again I found myself holding back as I didn’t think my audience would be able to relate to it.

The reason for this is because Wilcock dives into all kinds of stuff that is really “out there” for the average person.

I’m talking about stuff like secret government projects on remote viewing, free unlimited power devices, pyramid secrets, and even crop circles, alien / UFO cover-ups.

Even though I’ve always been very interested in that kind of stuff, I haven’t really written about it a lot on my Blog as I previously felt I should stick to topics like making money, health and fitness, and personal development.

So I thought about writing some Blog posts about what I learned in this book and other research I’ve done, but once again I felt like it probably won’t resonate with my existing Blog audience.

Matrix Energetics

There’s an upcoming Matrix Energetics Level 1 & 2 seminar here in Vancouver in March that I’ll be going to, and I’ve been really drawn to go to that seminar.

I’ve already done my Level 1 & 2 training, but I definitely want to go again, and I also want to do my Level 3 & 4 training later on this year.

Once again though, when I tried to sit down and write some content related to Matrix Energetics, I once again felt a disconnect with my audience.

Making a Change

I have essentially come to realize that in the past, as I’ve “scanned” through a lot of different things, I’ve shared some insights in many areas of my life, but never really dove deeply into anything that was of interest to me.

By keeping things “surface level” it’s been really easy for me to keep a connection to my audience of “scanners”.

Meaning, I’ve been writing my Blog posts with the intention of trying to connect to as many people as possible.  In order to do that, you need to keep things general and not go into too much depth.

However, I’m no longer going to do that anymore.

Instead I’m going to be writing my Blog posts from the perspective of not really caring how small of a group of people I’m going to be connecting with.

For example, when I talk about something like UFO’s or aliens, I know that a large percentage of my audience will be turned off by such things as not everyone believes in E.T.’s.

However, I don’t really care any more.

I’m going to dive into topics that interest me, and I don’t really care if those things don’t resonate with everyone.

I am now a lot more interested in forming a smaller number of deeper relationships with people, rather than a large amount of surface level relationships with a lot of people.

I’m going to start sharing some stuff that I have only shared with very close friends.

Buckle your seat-belts Dorothy, things are about to get really “woo woo” around here.

The world as we know it right now will end in 2012.

A new world will be born.

Humanity is about to go through a massive shift.

One of the energies that is accelerating that change is the awakening that many Lightworkers are going through right now in respect to “Dreamstealers”.

What Are Dreamstealers?

Dreamstealers are the people in your life who have these qualities about them:

• They fail to take responsibility for anything in their own lives.  Instead they always have someone to blame – from the Government, to the Rich, to everyone else.
• They always see the negative in every situation, and hide under the guise of “Just being realistic.”
• They are the first ones to point out everything that could possibly go wrong.
• They destroy your dreams, and hide under the guise of “I do it because I love you and I don’t want you to be disappointed.”
• They are often unhappy and miserable with their own lives, yet at the same time they believe their way of doing things is the only/right way.

Almost all of  us have people in our lives who exhibit these qualities – be it friends, co-workers, acquaintances or family members.

The 2012 Shift

Up until 2011, most of us tolerated Dreamstealer abuse and negativity because in a lot of cases it was just easier that way.

A lot of us even felt sorry for these people, especially in the case of friends and family members.

However, in 2012 and moving forward, that is no longer good enough.

Almost all of the Lightworkers I have spoken to in the last three weeks have begun expressing this energy of “I’m not going to let them steal my dreams anymore.  I’m done.”

I believe this is a global phenomenon.  We’re all awakening to this right now.

The Lightworker Rescue Mission Ends

Up until now, many Lightworkers were under the wrong impression that it was somehow their job to “rescue” these dreamstealers from their own negativity.

We would listen and allow these negatrons to spew their negativity, thinking that “It’s OK, I can handle it.  I’ll show them the positive side as soon as they’re done.”

We would let them “vent” and then offer a positive perspective/spin on what they just expressed to us, in hopes of “showing them the light” and helping them to feel better.

The challenge is that they don’t want to see the light.

What they do want is to temporarily feel better – (which is good) – but the way that they go about this is by STEALING your light instead of by connecting to their own.

You can’t help a Dreamstealer by giving them your light.  That is a short-term solution which leaves you drained and them only temporarily feeling better.

By letting them “feed” off of your positive energy, you’re in effect giving them their “fix” instead of allowing them to find their own inner light.

This is not in alignment with the highest good.

The Secret Weapon of Dreamstealers

However destructive this challenge of letting Dreamstealers “feed” off of your light energy is, it actually pales in comparison with the bigger challenge that this situation creates.

The bigger challenge that this situation creates is that it robs the world of the CREATIONS that Lightworkers are supposed to be creating.

You see, it takes a lot of light energy to bring an idea/creation into this world.

It takes a lot of energy to raise our own vibrations to allow us to create and manifest something new and amazing at a level higher than we have ever created.

Ideas and inspirations are like infants.  They must be protected and shielded from the outside environment, just like you would protect an infant.

A lot of Lightworkers I know have amazing ideas and aspirations.

They have great aspirations for starting & building businesses, or transforming their lives in some way.

The challenge is that most Lightworkers I know have not been aware of the secret “weapon” that Dreamstealers have, which kills and destroys their ideas and aspirations.

Many Lightworkers believe that if they invest X number of hours into a project, or new business of some sort and 99% of that time is spent feeding positive energy towards the project, then it doesn’t really matter what happens the other 1% of the time.

Most Lightworkers BELIEVE in their positive beliefs.  They believe that their new business idea or new project is the right thing to do.  They are convinced that they are right and no Dreamstealer will ever be able to convince them otherwise.

This is why most Lightworkers haven’t really cared about the negative opinions of a few co-workers, friends or family members they are exposed to from time to time.

Their thinking is “I know what I’m doing is right, those negative people can’t convince me otherwise.”

And they are right.  Dreamstealers, in almost all cases, CAN’T convince you that they are right and you are wrong.

The challenge, however, is that they don’t have to!

You see, the secret weapon of a Dreamstealer is NOT to convince you that you are wrong and they are right.

They know they don’t need to do that.  All they need to do to completely throw you off track is to introduce DOUBT and FEAR – even in small amounts.

Often times that is all that it takes to destroy your dream.

You see doubts and fears paralyze people.

If I was a Dreamstealer I wouldn’t need to convince you that your dream/idea/inspiration is WRONG.  All I would have to do is introduce REASONABLE DOUBT that your ideas is RIGHT.

All it takes is a little tiny bit of REASONABLE DOUBT and your idea goes POOF!

Let me give you an example.

Let’s say that you are currently working at a job you hate.  You know it’s not the right job for you and you have decided that it’s time to leave.

Sure enough, you manifest a business opportunity which you are very excited about.  This opportunity feels right, it aligns with your highest values and you are super excited to start building this business.

Deep down you KNOW that this business opportunity is better for you than the job you’re at.

So you start taking the necessary steps to build this business and to hopefully, one day be able to quit your job and do the business full time.

Now you come across a Dreamstealer who gives you their “opinion” of what they think of your business idea.

They themselves have never actually owned a business, operated one, or had any success with a business in their lives.

So basically they’re talking out of their asses when giving you this advice – but nevertheless that doesn’t stop them from telling you ALL about how your business idea is flawed.

After one hour of listening to their negative garbage, you’ve had enough.

You excuse yourself and go do something else.  You brush yourself off and keep trucking on.

Over time, however, your excitement about your business starts to dissipate.

You start to wonder if maybe there was some truth in what they were saying.

Is it really the right time to start a new business?

With the economy the way it is?

What if it doesn’t work out?

What if you lose your job because your boss finds out you’re starting a business?

What if this happens or that, or some other thing?

You see…what’s happened is that the Dreamstealer has INFECTED you with DOUBT.

They didn’t CONVINCE you that your idea was bad or that your business venture was not right for you…. they didn’t have to.

All they did is they just created a little, tiny, itsy-bitsy DOUBT.

And that’s all it takes to destroy most ideas at their infancy stage.

Let me ask you this… if you fed an infant baby healthy breast milk from the mother several times a day, every day for 3 months… and then just once fed it poison, what would happen to that infant?

I think the answer is pretty self evident, right?

Would it matter if you tried to then go back and feed it healthy food again?

No, once the infant is poisoned, it’s poisoned!

This is exactly what DOUBT and FEAR create in our lives.

The bad news is that the Dreamstealers in your life have most likely been responsible for poisoning thousands, if not tens of thousands of possible ideas and inspirations in your life.

The good news is that if you STOP allowing them to do this in 2012 and onwards – your life is going to transform so quickly, you’ll be absolutely amazed.

Our Addiction to Dreamstealers

This post is not about blaming the Dreamstealers, however.

You see, it’s not really their fault.

They are what they are.

Dreamstealers are like cigarettes.  They poison your body, but it is YOUR choice whether your smoke them or not.

You can’t blame cigarettes for being cigarettes.  They’re just pieces of dried up tobacco wrapped in paper.

It is our addiction to cigarettes that’s destructive, not cigarettes themselves.

It’s the same thing with Dreamstealers.

Most Lightworkers are addicted to being around Dreamstealers.

The reason for this is because when we begin to pursue our dreams and aspirations, we inevitably end up hitting the outer edges of our comfort zone.

Meaning, we have an inspiration and we get excited about.

We start to pursue it and everything is going great.  But sooner or later, in order for us to bring those aspirations into fruition, it means that we have to go past our comfort zone and GROW in some way, shape or form.

This is where most of us self-sabotage ourselves, by picking up the phone and calling a Dreamstealer or by meeting up with them in person.

Instead of facing our fears of going beyond our comfort zone, it’s much easier for us to distract ourselves by getting around someone negative.

We get around them, and listen to them spew their poison.

When the conversation is over, we have allowed them to poison our aspirations.

However, another part of us justifies this by thinking “It’s good I called them, because they were totally having a bad day (yet again).  I’m sure I made them feel better.”

And the destructive cycle continues.

You get to stay safe inside your comfort zone with your new aspiration now being suffocated and killed by the doubts injected into your consciousness by the Dreamstealer, and the Dreamstealer gets their “fix” of positivity for the day.

Shielding Yourself from Doubt / Fear and Negativity

2012 is all about letting go of this addiction.

It’s about surrounding yourself with positive, inspiring and encouraging people who will help you to GROW your dreams and aspirations, and will support your growth even if it means you having to get a little bit out of your comfort zone.

It’s about letting go of your co-dependencies on Dreamstealers who are just looking for their positivity fix.  It’s time to let them discover their own light inside, not to offer up a piece of your own.

It’s time to fully embrace your dreams and inspirations and let your light shine.

One of the terms that I often hear being used in my GIN training is the concept of “failure habits”.

Failure habits are habitual ways of thinking or acting that virtually guarantee we will fail at whatever it is that we are trying to accomplish in life.

One “failure habit” that I have very recently become increasingly aware of is the habit of creating “failure stories”.

What are failure stories?

Failure stories are little stories that we create in our minds to rationally justify why we failed to accomplish something we wanted to accomplish in our lives.

Almost all of us create failure stories in our minds unconsciously without even realizing it.

It’s very difficult to even realize that we have these stories running through our minds.  It’s actually a lot easier to spot them in other people than it is in yourself unless you really look for them.

So what do failure stories look / sound like?  How do we become aware of them?

Well, the first step is to start noticing them in other people.  It’s really easy to do that as most people spend their entire lives walking around telling people about their failure stories.

Here’s some of the types of examples I’ve heard before:

• “I tried doing that business, but at that time in my life I was way too busy with too many things and just didn’t have the time to really focus on it so it didn’t work out.”
• “I’ve tried losing weight, but I’ve got a genetic thyroid issue that makes it almost impossible to lose weight.”
• “I’ve actually made good money before, but I self sabotaged myself because of the lack mentality I grew up with when I was younger.”
• “My business idea was good, but it didn’t work out because the economy was bad.”
• “I tried making money online, but I got in too late.”
• “I could make so much money online but I’m not a marketer.”
• “The Law of Attraction doesn’t work for me because of my beliefs.  I tried it, and I know it works for others, but because of my beliefs it doesn’t work for me.”
• “The cake didn’t turn out because my stove is old.”

etc.

The next time you’re talking to someone, just listen to how often people tell you their failure stories.

Whenever someone tells you how something didn’t work out for them – whether it be a relationship, a job, a business venture, whatever – they always have a failure story that explains and justifies WHY it didn’t work out.

Look for the keywords “tried” and “but” and “because”.  As in “I tried doing that, but it didn’t work because of this and also that.”

Once you start listening for it you’ll be amazed at how often people walk around talking like this.

Once you become aware of just how often people all around us use failure stories in their day to day conversations, you will also probably start to notice yourself doing the same thing.

I know I have.

What’s Wrong With Failure Stories?

The biggest challenge with failure stories is that they simply aren’t true.

The reason we tell ourselves why we failed to accomplish something is almost NEVER the real reason why we failed.

There is a real reason, but it’s almost NEVER the one we tell ourselves.

How do I know this?

Well, think about this.  Consider something in your life that you’ve been successful at.

For example, lets say that you are successful at playing an instrument – like let’s say the guitar.

Now, think about all the people out there who tried to play the guitar and failed.

You know the ones.

Well what do they say to you when they see you playing guitar?

• “Oh, man you’re really good at guitar.  I tried playing guitar once, but my fingers are too small.”
• “I tried learning guitar but my fingers are too big.”
• “I tried playing guitar but I don’t have the time to practice for hours and hours every day.”
• etc.

Think about what you’ve been successful at…

Have you been successful at keeping your body fit and healthy?

Have you been successful at reading personal development books?

Have you been successful at raising a family?

Have you been successful at training your dog?

Have you been successful at playing an instrument?

Have you been successful at using the Law of Attraction?

Whatever it is that you’re successful at, when you talk to people who are not successful at that one thing, don’t they tell you the most ridiculous failure stories?

• “Oh I can’t train my dog, he’s too old.”
• “Oh I can’t stay fit, I don’t have time to spend 4h/day at a gym.”
• “I can’t play an instrument, I’m not talented.”
• “I can’t be fit, it’s not in my genes.”
• etc.

Aren’t most of the failure stories that OTHER people tell us about why they’re not successful complete bullshit?

Isn’t the REAL reason why they didn’t succeed at what they wanted to succeed at something totally different?

Just start listening to people tell their stories and you’ll know what I mean.

How do they know that the Law of Attraction doesn’t work for them because of their beliefs?  What if it’s something else?

How do they know that the real reason they can’t play guitar is because their fingers are too small, or too big?  What if it’s something else?

How do they know that the real reason they don’t read books is because they’re not good at reading? What if it’s something else?

Once you start seeing just how ridiculous most people’s failure stories are, it’s time to turn the mirror on yourself.

Why are you not successful at _______________ ?

Get a piece of paper out and write down something you wanted to become successful at in your life and then write down all the reasons why you think it didn’t work for you.

I did this last night with one really, really big goal in my life that I haven’t yet achieved.

I made a list of possible reasons that I have not been successful at this yet.

I ended up writing down about 7 or 8 possible reasons.

Telling the Truth

The next step is to tell the truth.

And I believe this next step is a very profound step.

What is the truth?

The truth is simply this…

… maybe, just maybe, we don’t yet know why we failed to accomplish something.

Admitting the fact that we don’t KNOW why we failed is a huge step in success.  For example, we could change the statements above to:

• “I tried doing that business and it didn’t work out for me, but I don’t yet know why it didn’t work out.”
• “I’ve tried losing weight but I don’t yet know why I haven’t lost it.”
• “I’ve actually made good money before and I feel like I sabotaged myself, but I don’t yet know why.”
• “My business idea was good, but it didn’t work out, but I don’t yet know why.”
• “I tried making money online, but I haven’t yet, and I don’t yet know why.”
• “I feel like I could make a lot of money online but I don’t yet know why I haven’t so far.”
• “The Law of Attraction doesn’t appear to work for me, but I don’t know why yet.”
• “The cake didn’t turn and I don’t yet know why.”

Just admitting that we don’t yet know why we failed is a huge step forward.

By opening up the “I don’t know what I don’t know” door, it allows the Universe to help you become aware WHY things actually didn’t work out.

Otherwise, you’re clinging onto a lie that doesn’t help you.

Failure Stories Rob You Blind

As a coach and mentor, I very often have people come to me asking me for advice on a specific challenge they’re having in their lives.

The challenge is that almost always, they also have a preexisting failure story attached to that challenge.

For example, they will say “Yeah Paul, I can’t seem to grow the traffic to my Blog because I don’t have an email list, what do you suggest?”

or “Yeah Paul, the Law of Attraction doesn’t work for me because I just don’t believe in it, so what do I do?”

They present the main challenge (no traffic, LoA not working) but then they throw in these assumptions of what THEY think the reason is.

The thing is that 99.9999999999% of the time, the reason that they THINK is causing them failure is NOT the real reason.

The biggest challenge then becomes getting them to actually LET GO of the preexisting “failure story” that they already convinced themselves of, so that they can see the ACTUAL solution to their problem.

In almost all cases, it’s actually harder to get people to let go of their failure story then it is to get them to implement the real solution!

Imagine if someone came to you and said “I can’t tie my shoelaces because I’m not left-handed.”

Assuming you are right-handed yourself, and you know how to tie your shoe laces, what would you say to them?

You would probably say “Wait.  What do you mean?  You don’t need to be left-handed to tie your show laces.  I can teach you how to tie your shoe laces even if you’re right handed.”

Now imagine that they then say “No, both my parents were left-handed and so is my brother and they all knew how to tie their shoe laces very easily.  My brother learned it in 5 minutes.  I tried but it doesn’t work for me because I’m right handed.  That’s why I always buy shoes with no laces.”

You might say “Wait, that’s not true.  There are billions of people on this planet that are right handed, including me, and we can tie our shoe laces.  Let me show you…”

And imagine them saying “No, that can’t be right.  I already know that I’ll never be able to tie my shoe laces because I’m not left-handed.  Thanks anyways.”

Wouldn’t that drive you nuts?

Do you realize that there is a VERY high chance that somewhere in your life right now you are doing the exact same thing to someone else?

You’re very likely using your fictional, made-up “failure story” as an excuse not to be able to do something, and when someone tries to help you solve that problem you’re denying their help because you are convinced that your failure story is true.

How to Stop Failure Stories from Causing More Failure

The first step to stopping failure stories from becoming a failure habit in your life is to become aware of them.

Write down something you want to accomplish or wanted to accomplish in your life on a piece of paper.

Then, write down a list of possible reasons that pop into your head which would explain why you failed.

Those “reasons” are your failure stories.

It doesn’t matter how reasonable and logical and true they sound – they are just stories.  They may or may not be the REAL reason why you didn’t succeed.

Next, below all of those reasons write down “THE REAL REASON:”

And below that write down these words…

“The truth is that I don’t know why I failed to accomplish this yet, and I’m open to learning the truth.”

This truth statement will set you free.

Admitting that you don’t know is a HUGE step forward.

Only once we admit that we don’t know can we manifest the truth to come into our lives and to enlighten us.

We must first empty our cup of lies in order to fill it up with truth.

Next, seek the advice of people who are already successful at accomplishing what it is that you want to accomplish.

Ask them for advice and REALLY LISTEN.

Don’t assume you already know the reason why you failed.  Ask them to tell you why THEY think you failed.

Chances are that their opinion – having already accomplished what you want to accomplish – will be a lot closer to the real truth than any of your failure stories.

If you’re a GIN Member or have listened to “Your Wish is Your Command” you’ll recognize that this concept is related to one of the fundamentals of success which is “How Coachable Are You?”

Asking someone for a solution to a problem, and then ignoring their solution because you think that your solution is better than their solution is not being coachable.

If you’re going to do that, you might as well not ask for help in the first place.  If you already think you know the solution, then ask yourself “How is this working out for me?”

There’s a small, but powerful distinction I have recently learned which has helped me to manifest what I want much more quickly.

I have spoken to quite a few people in the last few weeks who are making the same mistake I used to when trying to manifest something, so I figured I’d write a Blog post about it.

The “flaw” in most people’s thinking is pretty clearly demonstrated in this conversation that I’ve had with many people in the last few weeks:

Paul: “Hi John, so how did you enjoy the Your Wish is Your Command program?”
John: “Oh it’s great.  I finished it a couple of weeks ago and I already started manifesting some things.”
Paul: “Cool.  So have you decided whether or not you want to become a Member of the Global Information Network?”
John: “No, I don’t have the money for that right now.”
Paul: “Right.  So have you decided whether you want to become a Member though?”
John: “Well I can’t. I don’t have the money to join.”
Paul: “Right.  But it doesn’t cost you any money to make a decision, does it?”
John: “Well, no, but I don’t have the money to join so what’s the point of deciding?”
Paul: “If you don’t have the money to join GIN, why don’t you use the teachings in YWIYC to manifest the money?”
John: “Well, I’m manifesting money for other stuff first.”
Paul: “What other stuff?”
John: “Oh I have some bills that need to be paid right away, and then I need to manifest some money for my credit card payment, and then I need to manifest money for my car insurance.”
Paul: “Ok, so why don’t you manifest the money for all that stuff and also manifest $1,000 for your GIN initiation fees?”
John: “Well if I manifested $1,000 I would use it for other stuff first.”

I’ve had a similar conversation to this with about a half-dozen people now, and there is a big flaw in their way of thinking about this.

The flaw is that they assume that the Universe helps us manifest stuff in a SERIAL fashion.

Meaning, most people unconsciously limit themselves to only asking the Universe for only one or two things at a time.

It’s as if they believe there is some kind of quota that they don’t want to go over.

The Universe doesn’t care.

If you ask it for one thing at a time, it will go to work for you to help you manifest only that one thing.

If you ask it for 500 things at the same time, it will go to work for you to help you manifest all 500 things.

That doesn’t mean all 500 are going to manifest at the same time, but it means that the Universe will be working on all of them at the same time.

So, in the example above, John’s thinking is that he must first manifest the money to pay his bills.

He thinks that only once those are paid can he ask the Universe for help to manifest some extra money to pay his credit card.

And then only then can he ask the Universe for help to manifest some extra money to pay his car insurance.

So, things like manifesting a new car, or a nicer house, or a relationship or better health or anything like that are not even part of his “wish list”.

The Universe – A Parallel Processor

One of the things I learned at the Matrix Energetics seminar I attended last year is that just like our subconscious mind, the Universe is a parallel processor.

This means that it can handle an unlimited number of parallel tasks.

This means that you can ask the Universe for an unlimited number of things on your wish list, without worrying about one task slowing down the manifestation of another.

See I think a lot of people think that the Universe is kind of like a computer.

They think that you can ask it to do one thing, or maybe two, or maybe three or four, but if you ask it to do any more than that – it slows down to a crawl.

The Universe doesn’t work that way.  You can’t “Overload” it.

It doesn’t care if you ask it for 1 thing, 5 things, or 10,000 things.  It goes to work on all of them.

What’s even more is that from my experience, I have found that actually the MORE things you ask of it at the same time, the more efficient it becomes at delivering EACH thing to you.

Think of it this way… let’s say you were going to send your spouse to the store to get some groceries.

Your spouse asks you what you want, and you say “Oh we need some potatoes.”

So your spouse goes out, drives to the store, gets some potatoes, and then drives back.

Once they get back you say to them “Wow, you got potatoes!  That is awesome.  Ok, now we also need some salt.  We’re really low on salt, can you go get salt?”

So they get back in their car, drive to the store, buy some salt, drive back.

As soon as they get back, you say to them “Ok perfect.  Now we need some eggs.”

See my point?

That is totally inefficient.  Your spouse would probably flip you the bird and tell you to go get the eggs yourself.

Don’t DO THIS!

Don’t ask for ONE THING AT A TIME.  It slows everything down, and probably drives the Universe nuts.

Now the spouse going to the grocery store analogy is not exactly perfect because it too has a limit to the amount of things that your spouse could get for you at the store, but the Universe is not like that.  It is unlimited.  You can’t use it up.  It’s completely abundant.

What I have actually found is that the more stuff I put on my “Wish List” the faster I get everything one-by-one.

The stuff might not manifest in the order that I wrote it down on my wish list, but things do manifest much quicker.

Success Builds Belief

One of the reasons I believe asking for more stuff at the same time is better is because I think it builds belief faster.

For example, lets say I had a wish list that looked like this:

(1) I want to manifest $500 to pay off my credit card.

Versus if I had a wish list that looked like this:

(1) I want $500 to pay off my credit card.

(2) I want a new iPhone 4s.

(3) I want $500 for an upcoming Matrix Energetics seminar.

(4) I want to lose 5 lbs of fat.

(5) I want a new BMW 7-Series, fully loaded, fully paid for.

In the second scenario I have 5 items on my list instead of just one.  Why is this better?

Well, the reason it’s better is because the more stuff you ask the Universe for, the more it goes to work for you to manifest each one of those things.

Let’s say that in the first example, after 2 weeks you still haven’t manifested $500 to pay off that credit card.  Where is your belief level at in such a case?

Probably not very high when it comes to believing in this “manifesting stuff”, right?

Well, what if it takes the Universe 3 months to line up the circumstances required to help you manifest an extra $500 to pay off that credit card?

That means for 3 months your belief levels are going down, and down, and down as more and more time passes.

This is bad.

See, in the second example the Universe has 5 chances to manifest SOMETHING to help you believe.

For example, what if the Universe can line up the circumstances to help you manifest a free iPhone 4s within 12 hours of you putting it on your wish list – with no “catches”?

Or what if it can help you lose 5lbs of fat very quickly – much quicker than any of the other things you asked for?

If this happens – such as for example lets say that you got a new iPhone 4s – what this does is that it helps to boost your BELIEF in the overall idea of being able to manifest your desires.

So manifesting the iPhone 4s now actually helps you to manifest the $500 you need to pay off your credit card even faster.

Meaning, manifesting the iPhone 4s boosts your belief and now maybe the Universe can help you manifest $500 in 1 week, instead of 3 months.

See what I mean?

So stop limiting yourself in your desires.  The Universe doesn’t not impose quotas of any kind on your wish list.

Ask for what you want.

If you decide that you really want something, then ask for it.  Don’t be scared to ask for what you want, because you think it will prevent you from getting something else you asked for first.

This is one of the best ways to get more of what you want faster.

I’ve spent a lot of time lately having conversations with people about dreams, goals and desires.

Ever since I got my hands on the “Your Wish is Your Command” training course which teaches us how to manifest our desires, my ability to manifest my desires has taken a quantum leap forward.

Every day I now wake up in the morning with the thought “I wonder what I’ll create / manifest today?” and I’m excited to jump out of bed to see what happens.

It’s like Christmas morning every day now.

That doesn’t mean that I don’t have challenges in my life that need overcoming, or that my life is an image of what the general public would consider as “perfect”, or anything like that.

But what it does mean is that I spend a LOT more of my time throughout every single day FEELING GOOD than I did before discovering the “Your Wish is Your Command” program.

I go to bed feeling good, and I wake up in the morning feeling good.

The amount of synchronicities that I’ve noticed manifesting in my life has also shot through the roof.

There’s just no words to describe how things have changed for me in the last few months since discovering that program, and especially since becoming a GIN Member and going through the Success Mastery program.

I Don’t Know What I Want

Since manifesting our desires has been such a focal point for me over the last few months and since I’ve spoken to so many people about this recently, I’ve noticed a common theme emerging with the people I talk to.

I have come to realize that a LOT of people – myself included – are virtually CLUELESS about what we really want.

See, most of us spend much more energy and time and effort on trying to figure out and implement “the secret formula” for manifesting our desires, than we do actually getting clear on what we really want.

In fact, most people I talk to seem to have no clue what they want.

When I ask people what they want, they don’t know.

Most people seem to be too busy WORKING towards HAVING what it is that they want, to actually figure out what it is that they want in the first place.

Meaning, a typical conversation might go something like this:

Paul: “What do you want from your life?”

Person: “I don’t know.  I haven’t had time to figure it out yet.”

Paul: “Why don’t you have time?  What are you doing?”

Person: “I’m busy working.”

Paul: “Working towards what?”

Person: “I don’t know.  As I’ve told you… I’m too busy working to figure that out.”

This may sound like a ridiculous conversation, but it’s true.

Virtually ever person I talk to is too busy “working” or “surviving” to figure out what they want.

I’m no exception.  Until recently, my “vision” of what I want from life has been extremely blurry.

The True Reason Why We Don’t Know What We Want

So why is that?

Why is it that we all live our daily lives, waking up, doing our thing, and going to sleep every night, without any real clue as to what we want from our lives?

Is it because we’re too busy to sit down and figure out what we want?

NO.

I believe there is a different reason.

I don’t think the problem is a lack of time.

I believe the real problem why most of us don’t know what we want is because we don’t think we can get it.

Meaning, I believe that as we get older, we slowly start to ask less and less from life because we don’t want to be dissapointed.

Ask a typical 19-year old what their dream car might be and they’ll say something like a “Ferrari” or a “Porsche” or a “Lamborghini” or at least a top of the line “BMW” or “Mercedes” or something like that.  At the very least it will be a car worth over $100,000.

Ask a 40-year old man with 3 kids, two jobs and 9 credit cards what their dream car is and they’ll either say “The old Toyota I currently own, I just wish it was paid off”, or they’ll just say “I don’t know.”

Does that 40-year old man really DREAM about owning that old Toyota for the rest of his life?  Is that really his true desire?  Is that the best possible dream car he would want to own?

Probably not.

What’s more likely is that the 40-year old man has stopped dreaming.

Why?  Why do we stop dreaming?

I think most people stop dreaming because life beats the crap out of them.

For most people, as they get older, their belief in the statement “I can manifest my dreams and desires.” diminishes.

Meaning, they believe that statement LESS at age 40 than they did at at 19.

To me that’s a shame.

And like I said… Until recently, I didn’t even realize that this was happening to me as well.

I remember my huge dreams and desires from when I was 19 years old and even though I have been able to manifest a lot of cool stuff in my life, I haven’t really been expanding my dreams over the last 10-15 years.

If anything, they’ve been shrinking – until now.

Dare to Dream Again

I would have to say that probably one of the most exciting things that becoming a GIN member has done for me is that it inspired me to start dreaming really big dreams again.

The reason this has been happening is because my belief level in being able to manifest ANYTHING I truly have a burning desire for has skyrocketed in the last few months.

That’s not to say that I didn’t believe I could manifest my desires before.

The difference is in how easy it has become!

Why has it become easy?

For two reasons…

(1) Connecting to the Right Energy

By becoming a GIN Member I have connected to an extremely powerful energy / morphic field of wealth and success.

How does this make it easier for me to manifest my desires in life?

Well, the best way I can describe what GIN does for me is in this way…

… every day as I go through my day, there are thoughts, people and “facts” that show up which make it logically “impossible” to manifest those things that I want to manifest.

For example, if I wanted to manifest the interest rate on my credit card being reduced from 22% to 0% – several things might happen…

… the thought “That’s probably not very likely to happen.  Why would a credit card company want to reduce my interest from 22% to 0%?” might enter my mind.  Thinking this thought is like slinging black dirt onto the energy field of my desire.

… a person might say to me “Credit card companies never reduce interest rates to 0%.  Unless it’s one of those deals where you transfer your balance from one card to theirs and even then it’s only temporary… but outside of that, reducing your interest rate to 0% is impossible.”  Once again, this is like slinging black dirt onto the energy field of my desire.

Ten or twenty different thoughts might enter my mind at some point during the day, trying to convince me that the thing I desire is probably not “possible”.  It might not be my own thoughts that do this.  It might be someone in my life saying something to me, or something I see on TV, or read on the Internet.

The point is that whenever we desire something in our lives, there are “reasons” that show up which try to convince us that we can’t have what we want.

(Reasons, by the way are just thought-forms which use the limited human capacity of “reasoning” to try to convince us that if something is not “reasonable” it is impossible to manifest.  In fact though, unreasonable things manifest all the time.)

So if I use the analogy that limited beliefs, and negative thought forms, and “reasonable thinking” and people and resources and the media and the economy and any other “thing” out there which tells us that we can’t have what we want is like DIRT that is being flung onto our desires…

… then being a GIN member and listening to GIN training is like having a hot shower.

I set a desire for what I want.

I use the techniques taught in GIN training to communicate to the Universe what it is that I want.

Then “DIRT” usually shows up – in the form of “thought forms” , people, “facts” and that DIRT tries to convince me that what I want is not possible.

I then connect to GIN energy and their training and I allow that energy to literally wash away that dirt.

Depending on the magnitude of the thing I’m trying to manifest, more “DIRT” might show up.

I connect to GIN energy again and their training and I allow it to wash the dirt some more.

And then things manifest in my life in the easiest, fastest, most amazing ways possible.

When this happens, things like getting credit card interest rates reduced from 22% to 0% become possible.  Even when your mind thinks “No way, that’s impossible.”

(2) Letting Go of the How

The second huge reason why manifesting has become so much easier for me lately is because I have let go of the “how”.

Meaning, I no longer try to figure out HOW I’m going to manifest something.

I now leave that up to the Universe.  It’s not my job to figure out the how.

It may be my job to IMPLEMENT the HOW, once it shows up, but it’s not my job to figure out the how.

The more I’ve been letting go of the “How”, the faster and easier it has become for me to manifest things.

In fact THE most difficult thing for most of us to do is to LET GO of the HOW.

If you want to get out of debt, decide that you want to get out of debt.  Set that as an intention you want to manifest.  Don’t worry HOW you will accomplish this.

If you want to lower your credit card interest rates, decide that is what you want.  Don’t worry HOW it will happen.

If you want to manifest a new car, decide that is what you want.  Don’t worry HOW that will happen.

Delegate “How” your desires will be manifested to the Universe and you’ll be blown away as to how quickly you start manifesting things.

The more you try to control the how, the less powerful you are.

What Are your Dreams for 2012?

In 2012 and beyond I dare you to dream big again.

Put away your skepticism.

Let go of the past.  Let go of any disappointments.  Let go of any failures.  Let go of all the DIRT that stopped you before.

Start to dream again.  Dream something big.

Don’t say you “Don’t Know” what you want.  You know what you want.  You’ve just been too scared to admit to yourself that you want it.

If you truly could have anything and everything you ever wanted, what would you want?

What kind of house would you live in?

What kind of car would you drive?

What kind of plane would you fly in?

What kind of relationships would you have?

What kind of friends would you have?

What kind of events would you attend throughout the year?

What kind of vacations would you take?

What would be your ideal “job”?

How much money would you make?

What kind of clothes would you wear?

What would your body look like?

Would you want your own business?

What kind of business would you want?

Allow yourself to dream big.

Your dream life depends on it.

I’ve been involved in various multi-level / network marketing companies, on and off for about 15 years now.

Although I’ve never really had any huge success with MLM’s long term in the past, I have always been able to produce some rather quick and exciting results in pretty much every network marketing company I have been a part of.

Where things have always seemed to have fallen apart for me is not in me not being able to do what was asked of me, but rather in being unable to duplicate myself.

Even when my social circle was very small and long before I ever had a Blog, I was always somehow able to start off quick and attract 5 or 10 or 20 people into the network marketing company I was part of.

However, by some miracle I always seemed to recruit people who – in their own words would say something along the lines of “I’m really serious about being successful here Paul, but I don’t know anyone who would be interested in something like this.  What do I do?”

This led me to believe that the primary challenge in all MLM’s is:

1. People don’t have a warm market (friends, family, acquaintances) who is interested in their product / business.
2. People don’t know how to prospect / generate leads to find people interested in their product / business.
3. The company they are a part of doesn’t provide good training in #2.

I’ve seen this in many different MLM’s for over 15 years.

Even today if do your research and look around on the Internet, you will find that everyone is promoting “Lead Generation” as the ultimate solution to MLM success.

Unlimited Leads – True Source of MLM Success?

I myself have spent the last three weeks or so researching all kinds of online lead generation strategies for generating leads for myself and as a way to teach my recruits to do the same.

One such system is called MLSP and so far I really like the method of lead generation it utilizes.

It shows you a way to generate leads by offering free training webinars to people struggling to find leads for their network marketing businesses and it helps you build a relationship with those leads long before you ever ask them to join your MLM opportunity.

It also gives you the opportunity to make money and get paid for every lead you bring into the system even if they never join your MLM opportunity.

But is the lack of leads the real cause of failure in MLM’s?

No, I don’t believe it is.

The Real Reason People Fail in MLM / Network Marketing Companies

After 15 years of believing the “I don’t have enough leads” excuse, I have come to realize the following…

• Success in network marketing has nothing to do with having a “warm market”, as there are plenty of people who have succeed without one
• Success in network marketing has nothing to do with having a “warm market”, as there are plenty of people who have a warm market and don’t succeed
• Success in network marketing has nothing to do with having a “lead generation system”, as there are plenty of people who have succeeded without one
• Success in network marketing has nothing to do with having a “lead generation system”, as there are plenty of people who have one and don’t succeed

In reality there is only one real main reason why people fail to succeed in MLM / Network Marketing.

That reason is simply having the wrong mindset.

That’s it.

Mindset is the key.

A person with the right mindset and no warm market will succeed.

A person with the wrong mindset and an awesome warm market will fail.

A person with the right mindset and no lead generation system will succeed.

A person with the wrong mindset and a lead generation system will fail.

Examples of the Wrong Mindset

I’ll give some examples of what I mean by having the wrong mindset.

I will use slightly modified examples from real conversations I’ve had with some of the 50+ recruits I have in my Lifewave business and some of the 80+ affiliates I have in my GIN business.

I’m very well aware that some of those recruits will be reading this post, and some of them might be horrified when they see what I write here as they’re going to think I’m quoting exact conversations I had with them specifically.

If that is you, let me assure you that what I’m writing about here is stuff I hear ALL THE TIME.  Meaning, everyone with the wrong mindset says the exact same things to me.

So I’m not quoting your conversation with me.  I’m quoting the same conversation I’ve heard from a LOT of other people in the recent while and some of it going back 15 years.

Example #1 – The Non Believer

Recruit: “I spoke to a friend about the Lifewave patches today but they are not interested.”
Paul: “Have you tried the patches yourself yet?”
Recruit: “Oh yeah…”
Paul: “And what kind of results did you have?”
Recruit: “Oh I only tried them once so far.”
Paul: “And what kind of results did you have?”
Recruit: “Pretty good, but I have to try them more.”
Paul: “Why haven’t you tried them more?”
Recruit: “I am not sure if they work.”
Paul: “How can you be sure they work?”
Recruit: “Well that’s what I don’t know.”
Paul: “Have you watched the training videos on the site I sent you to which show you how to test the patches?”
Recruit: “No.”
Paul: “Why not?”
Recruit: “I haven’t had time.”
Paul: “When will you have time?”
Recruit: “I’m not sure.”
Paul: “Have you done anything else to try to learn how to use the patches properly?”
Recruit: “No, I’m not sure if they work.”
Paul: “How will you ever know if they work, if you don’t properly try them out?”
Recruit: “I don’t know.”

This is a typical conversation I’ve had with many people. They complain that their family / friends are not interested in hearing about the product they are selling. Yet they themselves aren’t willing to learn about the product they are selling.

The reason I have no problem attracting people to my Lifewave business is because I ** KNOW ** the product works. How do I know? Because I’ve done TESTING. On myself, on my wife, on my friends, on my family. Everyone who comes over to my house, gets the “Hey you wanna see something cool?” routine.

Ask my wife! If you come over to my house, you’re getting Lifewave patched baby! I think these patches are the most amazing thing EVER, and I want to share them with people!

Example #2 – I Don’t Have the Money

Recruit: “I don’t know anyone interested in these patches.”
Paul: “Have you ordered your patches yet?”
Recruit: “No, I don’t have the money.  My roof is leaking, I have no money for dog food, my credit cards are maxed, my kids are starving and the bank is about to foreclose on my house.”
Paul: “When will you have the money to order patches?”
Recruit: “I don’t know.”

- 1 week later -

Recruit’s Facebook Update: “Woo hooo!  Check out my new plasma screen TV.  The Superbowl is going to look awesome on this!”

I realize that many people are struggling financially and that is exactly why they’re looking for a home based opportunity to make some extra money.  However, what most people don’t realize is that in order to make money and to run a business, you MUST invest into your business.

Network Marketing / MLM companies have some of the lowest start-up costs of any type of business you could get into.  But it’s still an investment.

It may be $100 or $500 or $1,000.  Whatever the start-up costs are, they are NOTHING compared to starting a traditional brick-and-mortar business.

Recruit: “Yeah, but Paul I *really* don’t have the money.  You don’t understand.”
Paul: “I understand.  So when will you have the money?”
Recruit: “I don’t know.”
Paul: “Which package are you going to be ordering when you do have money?”
Recruit: “I don’t know.”
Paul: “How much will you need to get the package?”
Recruit: “I don’t know.”
Paul: “Are you studying the free company training I sent you in the meantime?”
Recruit: “No, I haven’t had time.”
Paul: “Why not?  Too busy watching the Super Bowl?” (OK, I didn’t actually say that.  I thought it though.  )

Seriously, money is NEVER the real problem.

Example #3 – I don’t know anyone.

Recruit: “My problem is that I don’t know anyone.”
Paul: “Do you have any siblings or family?”
Recruit: “Yeah, I have two brothers and two sisters, but they’re not interested.”
Paul: “Oh you spoke to them?”
Recruit: “No, but I know they’re not interested.”
Paul: “What are they not interested in?”
Recruit: “Joining an MLM.”
Paul: “Why would you want them to join an MLM?”
Recruit: “What do you mean?”
Paul: “Who said anything about asking them to join an MLM?”
Recruit: “Well isn’t that what I do?”
Paul: “Have you watched the training I sent you?”
Recruit: “No.”
Paul: “Have you tried the product?”
Recruit: “No, I haven’t had time.”
Paul: “So how do you know for sure the product really works?”
Recruit: “Well that’s the thing, I don’t know if it works.”
Paul: “So then why don’t you test it out and find out if it works?” (This typically leads back to Example #1)
Paul: “Do you have any aunts and uncles?”
Recruit: “Yes.”
Paul: “Do you have a realtor, an accountant, a best friend, a mechanic, a Yoga instructor, a chiropractor?”
Recruit: “Oh yeah, all of those.”
Paul: “Then you know people.  Do you know anyone who is currently in pain?”
Recruit: “Oh yeah, my Mom.”
Paul: “What kind of pain is she in?”
Recruit: “All kinds.  She has lower back pain, hip pain, arthritis and trouble sleeping.”
Paul: “Have you spoken to her about trying out the IceWave patches to see if they will help her with the pain?”
Recruit: “No, not yet.”
Paul: “When will you talk to her about it?”
Recruit: “I don’t think she would be interested.”
Paul: “She wouldn’t be interested in relieving her pain?”
Recruit: “No, no…I mean she wouldn’t be interested in joining an MLM – she’s old.”
Paul: “Who said anything about joining an MLM.  I’m just talking about helping her out with her pain using our product.”
Recruit: “Oh, yeah I haven’t had time to talk to her yet.”
Paul: “Does she have the pain right now?”
Recruit: “Oh yeah, every day…she can hardly sleep.”
Paul: “What were you doing before we got on the phone?”
Recruit: “I was just cleaning the fridge.”
Paul: “Your Mom is in pain.  You have a product that could potentially help her alleviate it.  And you’re busy cleaning the fridge?”

(Ok, once again I didn’t say that, but I should have.)

I mean seriously.  Am I from a different planet or something?  If your MOTHER is in pain, and you have a product that could potentially help her with that, is cleaning out the fridge really more important?

Seriously?  What am I missing?

The Right Mindset

I could go on and on with countless examples.  If you’ve ever been in any MLM I’m sure you’ve had recruits who have given you excuses like these, right?

In fact you may have had some of these excuses yourself.  I know I have!

So what’s the solution?

The solution is to develop the right mindset for MLM success.

The right mindset is responsible for 99% of your success in any MLM.  I don’t care what kind of product or service you’re selling, if you don’t have the right mindset – it’s game over.

So how do we develop the right mindset?

Want to hear the truth?

The truth is that most likely you will NOT develop the right mindset by listening to your Sponsor / Upline.

And yes that even includes me.

If I’m your Sponsor / Upline, I can’t teach you the right mindset yet.  And chances are that your current Sponsor / Upline can’t either.

Why not?

It’s very simple.  It’s because I haven’t yet BUILT a successful MLM business myself.

Even though I’ve been around MLM’s for 15 years, I only really started building my Lifewave and GIN businesses about a month ago.  I’m still very much a beginner.

I have had some success with recruiting people and starting to grow my organization, and I have already started to make some money with both my Lifewave and GIN businesses.

They are both turning a profit for me.  Meaning I’m making more money in the businesses than I am spending on products.

However, I’m not the one with the mindset you should be modeling.

Who you really should be modeling are the people who already have the proven mindset required for MLM / Network Marketing Success.

I’m not just talking about someone you find on the Internet who is making $10,000/m or even $100,000/m in their MLM.

I’m talking about people who have a long term, proven track record of succeeding in Network Marketing.

That doesn’t mean that you can’t learn things from your Sponsor or Upline.  Of course you can.

I can teach my people lots of things, but when it comes to having the right mindset to make BIG money in an MLM I can’t teach that yet.

I haven’t earned the right to do so yet.

The GIN Mindset Training

One of the HUGE and most important differences between how the Global Information Network is structured as compared to many other MLMs is in the way they do their training.

In a traditional MLM, a Sponsor teaches and trains his downline.

That downline then turns around and trains his downline.

That downline then turns around and trains his downline.

And so on.

Bob sponsors Bill and trains him.

Bill sponsors Cathy and trains her.

Cathy sponsors Terry and trains him.

Terry sponsors Joe and trains him.

What’s wrong with this?

Well, what’s wrong with this is that it is the BLIND teaching the BLIND.

Even if Bob has the right mindset for success because he already created success in his organization, Bill might not have that mindset.

Bob tried to teach it to him, but until Bill implements the training he doesn’t have the mindset.

He just has theory.

Bill then teaches this theory to Cathy – making some small changes along the way… leaving out some key components.

Cathy then teaches this theory to Terry and also leaves out some key components while at the same time adding in some of her own theories and ideas.

Terry then teaches this theory to Joe, once again making some minor “adjustments”.

Well guess what… Joe is now being taught the WRONG mindset.  He is not getting the same training that Bob offered Bill.

It’s been changed.  It’s been watered down.  It’s been altered.

This is what most MLM’s do.  They have the blind teaching the blind behind the guise of “being duplicatable”.

It sounds good in theory, but it doesn’t work!

The only person you can REALLY learn the right mindset from is from someone who is already achieving the things that you want to be achieving.

If you want to build a 6-figure MLM business, you need to be trained in the right mindset by someone who is already running a 6-figure MLM business.

Anyone else will just lead you down the wrong path – me included.

That is what I REALLY love about the Global Information Network (GIN).

When you become an affiliate in the GIN network you get access to mindset training from the VERY TOP.  You get access to Kevin Trudeau and some of the top leaders in GIN who have also built massive downlines in multiple MLM’s over the last 15-30 years.

You don’t have to rely on me or any other “Sponsor” or upline.

Even if I train you on 95% of the right mindset, it might not be enough.

The only way you will know for sure that you are being taught EVERYTHING you need properly is by learning from people who are achieving the results you are seeking.

A common saying in most MLM’s is “Plug into the system.”

The challenge is that a lot of times “The system” is wrong, because “The system” teaches you to get your training and especially mindset training from your upline / sponsor.

The reason for this is because for most companies that is the only way that training can be disseminated to everyone in the organization without everyone crowding around the top level people.

The challenge is that like I said before – this doesn’t work because the training is watered down and changed along the way.

What I like with GIN’s setup is that when you become an affiliate you plug into training DIRECTLY from the top.

My responsibility as your Sponsor / Upline is NOT to train you.  I’m not qualified to train you – yet.  And you’re not qualified to train your people – yet.

My responsibility is simply to work on MY business and to encourage you to plug into the training directly from the TOP.  That’s it.

Don’t listen to me.  Listen to the training coming from the top.  From the people in the company who have already built long term residual income streams in GIN and other MLMs.

But My Company Has Training

I know a lot of people say that their MLM has training put out by the people at the top.  They have a website with a bunch of videos teaching you all about the products and such.

For example, Lifewave has this type of training as well.

This type of training is NOT what I am referring to.

Product training from head office, or recordings from some company events and a few audios from some of the top guys in the companies is NOT ENOUGH.

Most company training programs like this barely scratch the surface of what’s needed.

What is really needed is a constant stream of ongoing MINDSET training from the top guys in the company that are producing results.

The training must not only focus on the product or service of the company, but on the MINDSET itself.

Mindset is 99% of the problem / solution to MLM / Network Marketing success.

GIN offers hundreds and hundreds of hours of training on Mindset.

There is also new additional training that is being added weekly.

No other company has this caliber of training.

My Recommendation

I strongly recommend that ANYONE interested in having success in their MLM become a member of the Global Information Network and utilize the GIN mindset training to help them succeed.

You don’t have to participate in the GIN affiliate side of the business if you don’t want to.

The GIN affiliate program is not for everyone.  I totally understand that.

However, the GIN Mindset training is second to none.  It will help you with whatever MLM / Network marketing business you’re a part of.

Learn your mindset from GIN and apply it to your MLM.

This is exactly what I’m doing with my Lifewave business.

Lifewave has an awesome product.  They also have awesome product training.

But they don’t have anywhere near the quality or quantity of mindset training that GIN does.

No other MLM company out there does.

December Special in GIN

For the month of December, GIN is currently running a special offer.

They are offering people an opportunity to test-drive the GIN system for 12 full months before you have to pay the $1,500 initiation fees.

Normally the initiation fees are paid up front, and then you pay a $150/month membership fee, but for the month of December they are letting people get into the system and defer the initiation fee for 12 months.

That means all you need to pay to get started is the $150/m membership fees and you have a whole year to decide if this is for you.

If at any point in time during the year you decide that GIN is not for you, you can cancel your membership and never pay the initiation fee.

They are doing this because they know that once you experience the benefits of the Global Information Network, you’ll really see the value they provide and you’ll want to stay.

They also know that if you listen to the training, you should have no problem manifesting the $1,500 initiation fee within a year.  It only took me a few weeks to manifest mine.

If you’re interested in joining the Global Information Network, you can use my private invitation link:

http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin

My affiliate invitation code is “paulymath” if it ever asks you for that.

If you’re not 100% sure if GIN is for you, I highly recommend getting access to “Your Wish is Your Command” – the 13 disc audio series put out by GIN which teaches you how to manifest your desires.

If you like that training course you’ll LOVE what’s waiting for you inside as a GIN member.

To get access to “Your Wish is Your Command” as well as about 25 hours of additional training from GIN free of charge, follow these steps:

(1) Go to this link: http://www.paulymath.com/go/gin
(2) Fill out the application form there and click “Continue”.
(3) On the next page select the “Affiliate” option. This will allow you to sign up to get access to some of the free training put out by the Global Information Network.
(4) Continue on the next few steps to complete the registration.

One month ago I became a Global Information Network member.

Around the same time I also became a Lifewave distributor.

One thing most network marketing “Uplines” will tell you is that you don’t want to join more than one network marketing company at one time.

They’ll try to convince you that you need to just focus on one opportunity and build that out exclusively.

Sound familiar?

For the average person, that is awesome advice.  Most people *should* focus on one thing and do nothing but that one thing.  But that’s because most people are not scanners.

As a scanner type personality though, I choose otherwise.

I chose to join and build out TWO network marketing companies at the same time.

Sorry, but that’s just who I am.  I’m not going to take my biggest strength (being a scanner) and have anyone convince me that it is a weakness.

In fact, after one month of being in these two companies I’m already seeing some awesome benefits of being involved in two MLM’s and not just one.

Before I dive into some of those benefits, I just want to share some of my results after just one month of being in each company.

Global Information Network

After one month or so, this is what my GIN Business looks like so far.

The big blue dot in the middle represents me.

The 58 slightly smaller green dots represent all the people I’ve signed up so far as affiliates.

The 8 blue dots represent the 8 people that have signed up as GIN members.

And finally the 12 smallest green dots represent people that my Team Paulymath Members / Affiliates signed up so far.

That’s a total of 78 people so far in my GIN business.

And that’s all done part-time.

Lifewave

This is what my Lifewave business looks like after one month.

I’ve got 56 distributors in my business, which includes the 18 people I signed up myself and the 38 people my upline signed for me.

The actual hierarchy of my Lifewave business is not exactly like this, but it’s too complicated to draw it out with with proper hierarchy relationships so I just made a graphic that shows the number.

So far I’m pretty happy with the results I’ve gotten in both companies.

Insights After One Month

Considering that I’ve been in both companies for only about a month or so, and also taking into account the fact that I’m only working on these businesses part time (10-15hrs/week), I’m pretty happy with my results so far.

However, even as a scanner type personality I have to say that if you’re going to be getting involved with more than one network marketing company at a time – you MUST choose your companies very carefully.

In fact I would say that in most cases, trying to build more than one network marketing company at one time – even for a scanner – is not recommended.

The main reason why I think it has been working for me is because both of these companies are so synergistically aligned.

I love Lifewave because they have such an amazing product and anyone interested in more energy, health, weight loss, anti-aging, or pain relief without the use of drugs or pharmaceuticals is a potential client.

That’s a HUGE market.

I love GIN because their success training is the best I have ever seen – anywhere – and it has produced results FAST, not just for me but for pretty much everyone I have shared it with.

The two companies fit in so synergistically for me because GIN produces a product for the mind (success training) and Lifewave produces a product for the body (natural health).

So the two fit perfectly.

Also, my distributors in Lifewave who are also GIN members are benefiting from the success training in GIN to also help them with their Lifewave business.

And of course as a GIN member myself, I’m utilizing the Lifewave Energy Enhancer patches to help me have the daily energy I need to grow my GIN business.

It’s a win / win.

Hidden Benefits of Being in Two MLM’s at Once

I have never been a part of two Network Marketing companies at the same time before.

This is the first time I have ever attempted to do this.

And I have discovered a somewhat unexpected benefit from doing this.

See, when you start building a network marketing business – or any business for that matter – you will eventually run into some challenges.

There’s no such thing as a business that just produces instant results without any obstacles.

There are always going to be obstacles in any business you run, and that’s a good thing.  Obstacles or challenges that come up help us grow and through that growth we prosper.

However, one of the challenges that sometimes comes up when you hit a “brick wall” in a business, is being able to discern whether the “brick wall” you’re running into is a flaw in the business model you’re a part of or if it’s some kind of internal shift within yourself that needs to happen.

Let me give you an example of what I mean by this.

Let’s say you join a network marketing company, and you start to build things up and after a while you realize that you’re running into an obstacle.

Let’s just call whatever this obstacle may be – obstacle X.

Now the question is, how do you know if obstacle X is actually a “flaw” with the particular network marketing company you’re a part of, or if it’s just something that YOU are manifesting in your reality?

Well, for me being a part of both GIN and Lifewave has made that abundantly clear.

I have run into a few challenges already and right away I could tell that it’s not a flaw in either company because I was seeing the same problem in both places.

In this way, the two opportunities have been acting like mirrors for me.

If my Lifewave team and my GIN team are running into the same challenges, then it most likely isn’t Lifewave or GIN at fault.  It’s us.

Access to this “awareness” has been great because most people who fail in any network marketing opportunity leave that opportunity blaming the company they were a part of for their failure.

In this situation, by being a part of both companies, it’s hard to blame the companies for any challenges you run into if you’re seeing the same challenges in both places.

This awareness forces you to look at YOURSELF as the source of the challenge and helps you to take 100% responsibility for owning it and solving the challenge.

It has helped me tremendously already.

Looking for Scanners

If you’re a scanner type personality and you are interested in building a home based business and earning a long term residual income stream for yourself and your family, I want to connect with you.

Hit me up on my Blog here, Facebook, Skype or email me and I’d love to connect, chat and see if GIN and/or Lifewave is for you.

I’m still just getting started, but I’m pretty happy with my results so far – especially considering that this is just a “part time thing” for me right now.

I believe that starting a network marketing business with the right company is one of the greatest business opportunities on the planet today.

Coming from an Internet Marketer who just two years ago thought that network marketing was a dead business model in a post-Internet world – that says a lot.

Let me explain why.

My History With Network Marketing in a Nutshell

My first experience with a network marketing (also known as multi-level marketing or MLM) company was in 1998.

At that time I was working a 9-5 job I hated at a company that sucked.  I liked many of my co-workers there, but the company itself sucked.

So I started working with my first network marketing company part time.

The atmosphere at that company was amazing.  Nothing but positive energy, support and enthusiasm.  This was a huge contrast to my day job.

So shortly thereafter I quit my day job and decided to do network marketing full time.

This was also when I first started to get into personal development.  Everyone I knew in the network marketing circles, was reading books.

I learned a lot of new skills, met a lot of people and developed my confidence as an entrepreneur.

However, after two years of trying to make the business work I found myself on the verge of bankruptcy and I had to quit.

Unfortunately at the time, this particular network marketing company did not offer the ability for a person to do the business part time, so there was no way for me to do it part time.

I decided to quit and get a “real” job so that I could pay my bills.

That was my first departure from the network marketing world back in 1999.

From the network marketing world I went into the corporate world and began working for and then eventually running several companies.

I always knew that the majority of my success in the corporate world came directly from all the skill and confidence I built as an entrepreneur while working for that first network marketing company.

By 2008/2009 I decided to leave the corporate world to pursue running my own Internet based business from home.

At the same time though, two other network marketing opportunities presented themselves to me.

One of them was with the very same company I used to work for back in 1999.  I actually joined that company again and saw some very quick success almost immediately.

The second one was with another network marketing company promoting a health related product.

Although I liked the energy behind both companies, there was something HUGE that I found missing.

Network Marketing Without the Interwebz

Both of the companies that I was a part of in 2009 had one very important missing piece to them.

Both of them had absolutely no clue what they were doing in terms of having an Internet strategy.

They were both still trying to teach and use the exact same marketing strategies that have been around since the 1970′s and 1980′s.

You know what I’m referring to right?

Join the company, make a list of 25 friends and family members that you know and then go pounding on their doors to try to “convince” them to join your business.

Marketing scripts that say that this is an opportunity for everyone and that anyone can make a six-figure income simply by signing up.

If you’ve ever been in any network marketing company, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about.

The challenge is that those types of marketing strategies don’t work!

They didn’t work in 1999 and they sure as hell weren’t going to work in 2009! (or 2011 for that matter)

I guess I shouldn’t say that.  Maybe they DO work for some people.  But they don’t work for me.

Trying to build a network marketing business ONLY from a “25 name list” is retarded.

I’m sorry, but it is.

The truth is that your friends and family are probably NOT interested in joining your network marketing business.

They may be interested in the product, if the product is good, but chances are that they are probably not interested in the business.

To build a successful network marketing company today in 2011, you need to go beyond  your friends and family.

In order to build a successful network marketing company I believe you need to embrace and utilize the Internet to help you build it.

The challenge is that most network marketing companies today FORBID you from marketing your business online.

That is exactly why I quit the two network marketing companies I was a part of in 2009.

I found out that I wasn’t even allowed to MENTION their names on my Blog.  I wasn’t allowed to share any testimonials or success stories of how the products or services have worked for me or my friends.

I wasn’t allowed to even put a banner on my site and link to the company’s website.

I wasn’t allowed to talk about the companies on Twitter or Facebook.

How stupid is that!?

The challenge is that a lot of the network marketing companies that are around today are ran by people who built massive MLM hierarchy’s back in the 1970′s and 1980′s – long before the Internet was around.

So most of them think that the best way to build a company is the same way they built it.

May of them still push and promote marketing strategies and scripts that they used in the 1980′s.

Strategies like making a list of your friends and family members, and then writing them a letter to tell them you’re excited about a new business opportunity and then mailing it to them.

A letter!? WTF?!

Who writes letters to their friends and family in 2011?!  Seriously?  A letter?

Ever heard of email?  Twitter?  Facebook?  Text Messaging?

That is why I quit those two marketing companies back in 2009.  Their marketing strategies were PREHISTORIC.  There’s now way I could see myself building a business based on marketing strategies from the 1970′s or 1980′s.

My Search for an Enlightened Network Marketing Company

After quitting those two companies I went looking for another network marketing company to join that embraced the Internet and all the amazing communication methods we now have at our disposal, instead of BANNING any Internet based marketing efforts.

I searched and I searched but was disappointed.

All I could find was companies that either had crappy / scammy products that I would never promote, or companies with decent products but who once again had a very specific “No Internet Marketing Allowed” clause in their contracts.

That is when I realized and thought that network marketing was dead.

Any business model that doesn’t embrace the Internet in today’s market isn’t going to survive – no way.

I just don’t see how.

So I gave up looking.  I thought to myself… “It’s a shame… network marketing has so many positive aspects to it.  I’d love to be a part of a network marketing company again and to build a solid long-term residual income.  However, I just don’t see how I could be a part of any company that treats the Internet like it’s ugly step-sister.  Companies need to embrace the Internet, not ban it as a means of marketing.  It’s not the 1980′s anymore… oh well.”

Enter GIN and Lifewave

More than two years later after I pretty much gave up on network marketing, two companies who DO embrace the Internet showed up in my life.

The first is the Global Information Network (GIN).  Great company, awesome product and they fully embrace the Internet as a marketing platform.

One of the awesome things I really like about being a GIN Member is that you get to network and interact with other like-minded people.

As soon as I got involved with GIN I was approached by someone who is part of a network marketing company named Lifewave.

At first I felt very skeptical about the company and their product as it seemed way too good to be true, but then I found out that the products really work.

I shared my story of that in my previous Blog post.

So now I am a part of not one, but two network marketing companies who I believe offer amazing products.  What’s even more exciting is that the products complement each other.

GIN’s product is access to exclusive success training, tools and resources to help you succeed in all areas of life.

Lifewave’s product is a set of natural, non-transdermal patches that stimulate the body’s acupressure points to provide benefits such as energy enhancement, pain relief, anti-aging, weight loss,  stress relief and more.

Why Network Marketing

So why do I think Network Marketing with the right company is one of the greatest business opportunities on the planet today?

There are so many reasons.

Compounding

Firstly, you can’t argue with the power of compound marketing.

Network marketing companies utilize a concept called compound marketing to distribute their products.

Compound marketing is very similar to viral marketing which most of us are familiar with in today’s Internet age.

The concept behind compound marketing is that you essentially just focus on building a core team of distributors that you work with in the company.

Let’s say that you recruit, train and develop just 5 leaders in your business.

If trained properly, those leaders will understand that the power in network marketing comes from duplication, so they will go out and train 5 leaders each themselves.

That is where the power of compounding starts to come into effect.

Imagine if you brought in 5 leaders, who then went out and got 5 leaders each themselves.  That would mean that you would now have 30 leaders in your company – 5 who you brought in yourself, and 25 who were brought in by those leaders.

Now, imagine of those 25 new leaders also brought in 5 people each.  That would now mean you would have an organization of 155 leaders.

5 at your first level.

25 at your second level.

125 at your third level.

Of course this is a very simplified model of how it works.  Not every person you bring into a business is going to become a leader, and not all leaders will be able to bring in 5 leaders each.  Some will bring in less, and some will bring in more.

However, the point is that compounding is a HUGE benefit to network marketing.

No other business model allows you to tap into this massive benefit of compounding.

Awesome Products

Not all, but many network marketing companies make awesome products.

The reason for this is because network marketing companies have two characteristics:

1. They invest a lot of money into product development, rather than on expensive marketing.
2. They rely on word-of-mouth / network marketing to promote their product so their product has to be great.

In order to even have a chance of success, network marketing companies have to create products that aren’t just good – but great!

Good products that are just slightly better than another similar product get sold at major store retailers.

Network marketing companies must create AMAZING products in order for them to have a chance in succeeding through word of mouth / network marketing.

Think about it… there is no way that people will recommend and share a product with their family, friends and everyone else they know if the product SUCKS or if it’s just MEDIOCRE.

In order for people to want to share a product with someone, it has to be GREAT.

That is why many successful network marketing companies have amazing products behind them.  If the product they developed was just mediocre, it would never spread through world-of-mouth / network marketing.

Awesome, Positive, Entrepreneurial Minded People and Support

Unlike most other business structures, network marketing companies typically attract positive, entrepreneurial minded people into their ranks.

Negative, employee mentality type people who walk through life feeling “owed” never succeed in network marketing companies.

Being a part of the right network marketing company can have a huge positive impact on your life.

You can get access to successful people, mentors and leaders who you would typically never get access to in a typical corporate structure.

Many network marketing companies have compensation structures setup in such a way where the people who came into the company before you, have a vested interest in seeing your succeed.

For example, the person who brought me into Lifewave would love nothing more than to see me succeed within the company because he has a very real and tangible financial interest in that happening.

He doesn’t care if I “take his job” or even blow past him.  If I surpass his “level” in the company, he doesn’t care – because it helps him!

In a typical corporate structure you don’t have that.  The people “above” you have a vested interest in keeping you “below” them.

The only time the guy “above” you in a corporation wants to see you move up, is AFTER he gets a promotion himself and in order to get promoted he first needs to train a replacement.

So in a typical corporate structure, your ambitions are always being stifled by the people above you.  That’s just how the structure is set up.

In network marketing companies, the whole structure is setup backwards from that.  The BETTER the people “below” you do, the better YOU DO.  Not the other way around.

That means that the minute you join a network marketing company, EVERYONE “above” you in your “upline” wants to see you succeed!

If I was to sponsor you into my Lifewave business, for example, I would want nothing more than to help you succeed.  Which is actually exactly what I’m doing with everyone I sponsor!

Connecting to a Mission

There are many other benefits to being a part of a network marketing company.

Too many to cover in this Blog post.

But the one that I’m most excited about is connecting to and being part of a mission.

If you can find a network marketing company with a product or service that you feel will change the world – it can be a very fulfilling and exciting part of your life!

For example, one of the reasons I’m so excited about Lifewave is because I understand that their products can change the world.

For example, I’ve seen people who have had long-term daily pain in their bodies have it disappear in a matter of minutes using the company’s IceWave product.

What’s even more exciting to me is that this was done without putting any drugs, or chemicals or pharmaceuticals into their bodies.  In fact, nothing was put into their bodies.  The patches are non-transdermal, which means that nothing goes into the body.

The patches work by communicating with and balancing the body’s natural energy / communication network.

I realize that when most people first hear this they will probably be thinking “what the heck does that even mean?”

That was my reaction when I first heard about these as well.  However, after researching and trying these out myself – I know they work.

And one of my favorite things in life right now is sharing that same experience with other people.

There’s just something magical and amazing that happens to people when you place these patches on them, and they feel them working.

Also, every day as I do more and more research and read all the studies and watch all the training videos that the company has put together I’m growing more and more excited about this product.

I truly believe this product is going to change the world.

There’s nothing else like it on the market.

I also feel the same way about the Global Information Network.  They have a great product and I think it’s going to change the world.

This is the type of thing you can connect to when being part of a network marketing company.

If you choose the right one, you can really get inspired and become part of something that is greater than yourself.

I’m excited about sharing the awesome products that Lifewave and GIN have to offer the world and I’m also super excited about helping other entrepreneurial minded people like myself to create success in their lives doing the same thing.

I have already started to work with a small, core team of entrepreneurial minded people and mentoring them on being successful within Lifewave.

That is why I do this.

It’s so much fun!

Paul’s Network Marketing Checklist

Not all network marketing companies are created equal.

You have to pick the right one for you.

Here’s my little checklist of what I believe to be very important things to consider when choosing a network marketing company to work with:

1. Product Must Be Unique & Awesome – Probably the most important thing I look for is that the product has to be great.  I won’t join an MLM/Network Marketing company if I don’t believe in their product.  For example, there are quite a few nutritional supplement companies on the market right now which are producing what I would consider “sub-par” products.  They are products that I would never use myself if I wasn’t a part of that company – therefore how can I possibly feel good about promoting the product.  The product MUST be 100% awesome and it has to be unique.  I won’t work with a network marketing company who has the same type of product as 20 other companies, and which tries to differentiate itself simply by saying “We have a better compensation structure” or “We have a better system”.  The product must be awesome.
2. Product Must Be Long Term Consumable – I always look for companies with a product that is consumable.  If you are selling a consumable product, it means that there will always be residual income you can count on for a long time.  If the product is something that a consumer just buys once, it’s going to be very difficult to build any residual income.  Also if the product is “short term”, it won’t work either.  What do I mean by “short term”?  Well let’s say for example you were part of an MLM that sold a cream which helps people to get rid of eczema.  They put on the cream, for a week, and the eczema goes away.  Success.  Guess what?  Now you’ve got to go find another customer.  Short term products don’t work in this structure.
3. Company Must be Internet Friendly- Read your distributor agreement.  Don’t assume just because all the other people in the company are promoting themselves on Facebook or on their website – that the company actually allows it.  Most distributors in MLM’s don’t realize that the agreement they signed doesn’t allow them to market themselves online.  They break the agreement without realizing it.  The company might not enforce that policy today, while the distributor is small, but one day they might.  Why would you want to waste all this time building a business with a company who’s agreement you’re breaking from day one!?  It’s just a ticking time bomb.Read the distributor agreement and make sure you’re working with a company that is OK with Internet marketing.  If they’re not, find one that is.  You’re wasting your time if you’re working with a company that doesn’t allow Internet marketing.  Incidentally a “replicated website” is NOT what I’m referring to when I say “Internet Friendly”.  All MLM’s nowadays offer you a replicated website.  Those are mostly useless.  That is not what I’m referring to.  Are you allowed to write Blog posts, make YouTube videos and promote your business online?  Find out.
4. Get in at the Ground Floor- I usually won’t join network marketing companies that have been around for over a decade or that are so successful that everyone has already heard of them.  If you waited THAT long to join the company, chances are the opportunity is probably already tapped out.  You want to find a company that is just starting to take off marketing wise.  Notice I didn’t say a company that is just starting out product wise.You want to find a company that has an already established and tested product, with lots of endorsements and testimonials, but one that hasn’t yet hit critical mass with their marketing efforts.
5. Solid Leadership – Find a company that has good leadership behind them.  People who share the same values that you do.  Is the company all just about money, or are they creating a product that will be truly beneficial for the world?
6. Solid Sponsor / Upline- In a lot of ways, your sponsor / upline can be the difference between success and failure in network marketing.  I have personally experienced the difference between being part of a team with a solid sponsor / upline, versus working being sponsored by someone who has no clue what they’re doing.It really makes a difference.  It doesn’t matter if your sponsor / upline is brand new in the business.  That in itself doesn’t mean that they are not a good sponsor.  Other things matter.  Are they positive?  Are they successful people?  Do they inspire and uplift people or are they “Negatrons”?  Are they only in it for the money, or do they believe in the product they are promoting?  Are they leaders?  Can they help you become successful?

These are the main 6 things I look at when choosing a network marketing / MLM company to work with.

That is also why I’m super excited about GIN and Lifewave.  They are both companies that fit in with all of the criteria I mentioned above.

I’m still looking for a few more positive, entrepreneurial minded people who would be interested in joining me and building a GIN and/or Lifewave business with me.

And no harassing of your friends and family is required!

If that sounds like something you might be interested in finding out more information about, please contact me today.

Late last night I had an amazing experience with the Icewave patches from Lifewave.

Even though it was 3am in the morning and I was super tired and ready to go to bed, I decided to pull out the camera and shoot a quick video to capture my excitement.

Looking For Three More People

I’m looking for three more people to personally mentor as part of my Lifewave team and to build this business out with me.

If you’re serious about building a long-term recurring income stream, I want to work with you as part of my team.

Here’s what I can bring to the table:

• Business mentoring and coaching (I normally charge $95/hour for this)
• PSYCH-K Balances to bust through any limiting beliefs – conscious or unconscious you may have about growing your Lifewave business (I normally charge $190/session for this)
• Matrix Energetics practitioner (I normally charge $190/session for this)
• Law of Attraction coaching / mentoring (I normally charge $95/hour for this)
• Connections and mentoring from top level Lifewave distributors who are exploding their businesses right now
• ALL OF THIS FREE!  IF YOU DON’T SUCCEED, I DON’T GET PAID!

If you’d like to be one of these three more people I’m looking to mentor, I will do everything in my power to help you succeed as a Lifewave distributor.

But I only have three more spots left, so hurry.

Contact me if this is you.