It's Gone!!

Yeeeee Haaaaa!!!

Our first product order has gone out today to a very major retailer.

After Christmas there is a much bigger one going out.

Now that is exciting!

If all goes well this could be massive.

"Winners never quit and quitters never win."....Vince Lombardi

Recession.......What Recession?

When the whole country is on the verge of bankruptcy it's actually hard to feel so concerned about your own personal circumstances!

Every day I hear that more businesses are closing down, more big companies are in trouble, and that more people are being made redundant.

I say Bring It On!!!

What a fantastic time to be in network marketing, especially with the new opportunity I'm getting involved with. This one actually saves people money rather than having them spend it on products, however good or useful they may be.

Do you know anyone who would like to save money given the current economic climate?

Do you know anyone who would a chance like to earn an additional part-time income given the current economic climate?

Yeah me too!! That's why I'm so excited!

Can't wait for 2009.

"People don't fail because they set their sights too high and miss, but because they set them too low and hit" Les Brown

So this is Christmas?

Although I promised myself I'd update this blog regularly it has been quite a while since my last post. I guess I still need to get better at creating good habits on a regular basis!

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going" Jim Rohn

Things are moving along now, albeit slower than I'd like. We've just had a good product order from a major retailer with another high street giant expressing a serious interest. This Christmas is going to be tough financially, but 2009 is going to be great!

New Opportunities

I'm actually very excited by another MLM opportunity I've been shown. I've always believed it would be impossible to do 2 at the same time, but this one doesn't conflict at all. In actual fact everything seems right about it, and what's wrong with offering your prospects a choice? I've got a hunch this could work really well.

So. I'm getting started in January and I can't wait!

"We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them".......Robert Kiyosaki

Things are rocking!!

I'm fired up and things are rocking! 2009 is going to be a great year, I can feel it. So much is happening and it's all good.

Some people may wonder why I'm so happy. After all it was less than 6 months ago I went bankrupt, but hey these things happen. I heard a great quote the other day from Earl Nightingale.

"Most people tiptoe their way through life, trying to get safely to death".

And the sad thing is he's absolutely right. Most people leave school and get a 'job' (arrrggghhhh!) and then try and stay 'safe' until they're 70 years old and retire. Then they can't afford to do all the things they've waited until they retire to do, because they're trying to manage on a third of what they struggled to get by on when they were working.

What sort of a plan is that?

That's all very well if you have no ambition. But I want more than that for my family. I want the best of things. Nice cars, nice houses, a great lifestyle, but most of all I want a good residual income every month. Not a 'wage' like most people, but something that gets paid whether I'm there or not. That's why I see books, online products, and MLM as a way to get what I want. All three offer the type of income I'm looking for. With all three you spend some time making them and then sit back and live off the profits.

That seems a better plan to me, and bankruptcy is just a temporary setback during the accomplishment of that plan. Call it a learning process, or a stepping stone.

Anyhow, I'm in good company. Here is a list of notable bankrupts, and there's many more that I haven't mentioned.

King Edward II - 14th century English king. His 14th century attempt to conquer France led to the Hundred Years' War, and the cost of this scheme put him £30 (approx. $60) in debt - over $7,000,000 in today's cash.)

Rembrandt 1606-1669 - the famous Dutch painter. He filed for bankruptcy at the age of 50 in 1656. Many of Rembrandt's paintings and his house were sold at an auction. After the bankruptcy, he continued to paint but was not allowed to sell his works directly to customers. He was able to circumvent this law by having his son take over his business and sell his paintings.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 - 1791, composer. He fell heavily into debt in his early 30s and when he died at age 35, was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.

Thomas Jefferson - when Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, his large estate and all his possessions, including 130 slaves, were auctioned off to pay his creditors.

Milton Hershey - founder of Hershey’s chocolate, his first four companies failed, his fifth is now one of the worlds largest chocolate manufacturers.

Walt Disney – Disney founded his first company (the Laugh-O-Gram Corp) in 1921 with $15,000 from investors, went bankrupt two years later when his investors pulled out due to distribution problems. His next company did rather better.

L. Frank Baum - he ran a store into bankruptcy in Aberdeen, SD, before he turned to writing. He wrote the “Wizard of Oz”.
Immanuel Nobel (father of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Peace Prize) - bankrupt twice.
Henry John Heinz - condiment manufacturer.
James Abbot McNeil Whistler - Artist
Abraham Lincoln - American president
Mark Twain - American author
Oscar Wilde - poet and author
Henry Ford – first two automobile companies failed.
William Fox - co-founder of 20th Century Fox
Charles Goodyear - inventor and tyre manufacturer
Mickey Rooney - actor
Lionel Bart - British composer
Harry Saltzman - film producer of James Bond
Isaac Hayes – Songwriter, composer, singer Soul Ltd.
Larry King - talk-show host
Tom Petty - rock star
Cyndi Lauper - rock star
Meat Loaf - rock star
Mick Fleetwood - rock star
Marvin Gaye - singer
Andy Gibb - rock star
Jerry Lee Lewis - Rock n’ Roll star
Tammy Wynette - country music star
Willie Nelson - rock star
Kim Basinger - actress
Gary Coleman - star of "Diff'rent Strokes"
Burt Reynolds - actor
Debbie Reynolds - actress
MC Hammer - musician
Natalie Cole - singer
Toni Braxton - rock star
Chaka Kahn - rock star
Mike Tyson - boxer
Chris Eubank - boxer
Anna-Nicole Smith - Playboy centrefold
Natalie Cole - singer
Lynne Spears - mother of Britney
Don Johnson - actor-producer
Eddie "The Eagle" - ski jumper
Heidi Fleiss

Members of the Jackson family - first Michael's parents with debts of $45m , then some of the children - Tito, Jermaine, Randy and Rebbie. Apparently, Michael and his songbird sisters Janet and LaToya did nothing, saying they had no part of the family firm. La Toya Jackson then went bankrupt herself, & Michael is rumoured to be heading for bankruptcy himself. At one point, he'd managed to reduce his spending to £1m a month.

Yours Truly – Bestselling author, publisher, fitness expert, network marketing guru and motivational speaker. Yours truly went bankrupt in June 2008 and within 4 years had amassed a fortune from his books, mlm business, motivational talks, and the sale of a company. He now lives the life of his dreams in New Zealand and shows others how to do the same.

Watch this space!

"Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living, profits make you a fortune"
Jim Rohn

It's all happening!!

Wow! Things are looking up.

The book I told you about? Well it seems that people are loving it. We have sold a couple of hundred already and we haven't even put it on Amazon yet! When we put our marketing strategy into place things should really kick off.

You know how it is when the law of attraction starts working? Well this week I did a couple of things I've been meaning to for a while.

1. I cleaned my car

2. I wrote a vision statement

So, cleaning your car doesn't seems that important, but if you'd seen my cars in the past the word 'skip' may have sprung to mind (that's dumpster if you're from the USA). I have always used them for taking the dogs out and various things, and they always seem to get full of junk and hairs.

I read the other week that if you see someone who's car is in a state they will usually have their credit cards maxed out, so I thought a clean was in order.

The vision statement is something I've always told other people to do but never done myself. I started with a date 4 years into the future (my 50th birthday) and wrote about my life, my goals, my family, and my daily routine. It's awesome and it has really brought home to me what I want from life. Now I feel I can, as Steven Covey would put it, start with the end in mind because I know exactly what the end result needs to be. Everything is so much clearer now. I know my 'Why', my reason for doing what others won't so in the future I can do what others can't.

I know my core values.

I feel powerful.

"People may forget what you said, and people may forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel"
Maya Angelou

Did I tell you about........

Did I mention that I've recently written a book? Didn't take long, and the feedback so far is very good. This weekend I did an exhibition and if half the things we talked about work out we'll be laughing. As Del Boy would say, "This time next year........"

It's amazing what you can do when you get the debt out of the way.

"What you do today can change the course of your life far into the future. Today is critical. Today really counts" Ralph S Marston Jr

Motivational Words

This is something I look at each morning and it never fails to inspire me. From one of the scrolls in the great little book 'The Greatest Salesman in the World' by Og Mandino, it goes like this:

"I will persist until I succeed.

I was not born unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion, and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. I hear not those who weep and complain for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

I will persist until I succeed"

Powerful stuff!

"Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills".......Jim Rohn

The Plan

For years I've been a dabbler in MLM. You know, the kind of network marketer who sees the potential of the business but never really does what it takes to succeed. I joined Amway when I was 20 but never did anything. Later I joined another MLM company and again did nothing.

A few years ago I joined yet another, but this time it seemed different.

This time there was support. Training. Structure. Amazing people. And mind blowing, unique products. This time it was there for the taking.

The problem was I didn't really take it.

I saw it as a way to supplement my other business interests. The ones that had cost me the large investment and the re-mortgage.

Yet again, I dabbled.

Some people just can't see what they have their hands on sometimes!

When my bankruptcy was imminent I started taking a bit more action with my MLM business, and since the bankruptcy I've decided to step it up another gear and see what happens. My wife is also taking more of an active part in it, and the results are speaking for themselves.

In the last 3 months we've moved up our companies marketing plan to the level we call 'manager' and taken our growing team with us.

One of our team also got to the same level, and we are now earning a royalty income, just like they told us we would.

Now I'm a doer, not a dabbler.

Things are getting better!

"Never give in. Never, never, never"........Winston Churchill

The End.....Or a New Beginning?

I was declared bankrupt in June 2008. Business wasn't booming and it suddenly all got on top.

I had a great idea, but it didn't happen quickly enough. There was a combination of too much risk, not enough planning, and a seemingly endless line of credit thrown at me by the credit card companies and banks. I guess it was because up until now I'd always been able to pay on time.

Yes I know I didn't have to use it all, but when you believe in something with all your heart you'll use any way you can to finance it, always believing it will come good in the end.

But the interest got the better of me.

Since losing the debt, although the times are tough, I have become more determined than ever to succeed next time around.

I have a plan, and I'm motivated to succeed.

I aim to be experiencing a high degree of success by June 2010, to be financially secure by 2012, and to work the motivational speaking circuit telling my rags to riches story. This blog will follow my story from the dark days to the glory days.

Stick with me for the ride..................it'll be a blast!

"Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better".....Jim Rohn