When in business for ourselves, only having contact with our business partners via the internet, can leave us feeling isolated.

The tools we employ to keep ourselves motivated and focused are crucial to our success.

Writing our purpose, our why, our self-talk, and identifying the things that are important to us are how we develop dream boards.

“Me and My Dream House” 

Posting a visual representation of our dreams and goals on a bulletin board or on a desktop slideshow are easy ways to make a dream board that can be seen all day.

One of the keys to successfully achieving your goals and realizing your dreams is to set aside meditation time each day, preferable first thing in the morning.

If that timing doesn’t work for you, meditate while you are in the shower.

               
“My Dreams and Wishes for my Family”

• Find a quite spot, without distractions. 
• Close your eyes.
• Get a mental picture of your goal/dream in your mind.
• Most importantly, focus on how you will feel when you have that goal in your hands.
• Imagine that you are already there.
• Do not think about how you will get there.
• Just focus on the awesome emotions you will be experiencing when it is a reality.
• Meditate for 5 to 10 minutes.
• At least once a day, twice is better.
• And remember, don’t worry about how you will get there.
• Worry will only cause you added anxiety and fear of failure…the emotions that will surely stand in the way of your success!

Once you create the habit of visualizing early in the day, start visualizing at bedtime.

After you’ve tucked the kids (or pets) into bed, kissed your significant other goodnight, and turned out the lights, focus on those goals!

Don’t think about your day or what you have to do tomorrow.  Only think about your dreamboard and feel what it will be like once you are in possession of those things. 

“Hawaii, part of my dream vacation plans!”

I created an album on Facebook to share my dream board. This takes courage since some of the pictures represent very personal growth goals and dreams for my family.

To declare my intentions to achieve these goals to the “Universe” is an important step to accepting the abundance of receiving them.

I also want to share my dream goals with others who may still be struggling with making their own dream boards and can get some ideas from mine.

At home, I have some of my goals and dreams on the wall by my desk.

I also have 2 slideshows on my computer desktop.  I have Windows Vista which has the feature of a sidebar.  One of the gadgets is a slideshow and you can have as many as will fit.

One of the slideshows are my personal and family dreams and goals and the other slideshow are my specific goals and visualizations for my business.

I also say with my meditation a self talk I learned from Dr. Wayne Dyer:

“I honor my worthiness to receive God’s blessings and abundance.”

“My Goals for Building My Business”

If you would like help with developing your dreamboard, visualization techniques, and self talk (self affirmations),
then give me a call (1.541.484.5455, PST) or
email me at mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com .

I am always glad to offer assistance. 

Click here to see my Visualization Dream Board on Facebook.

Believe in Your Success, I Do!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com

Tom “Big Al” Schrieter!

Tom creates amazingly funny and simple trainings for all network marketers, no matter what stage of business building we are in.

You can sign up for Tom’s free newsletter at www.FortuneNow.com.

This training is one of Tom’s favorite topics How to Talk to Prospects.

I’m sitting across the prospects’ kitchen table. They are afraid to make a decision. They’re thinking:

“We don’t want to make a mistake.”

“What if we make the wrong decision?”

“Let’s think it over and delay any decision until we have to.”

“What if we fail?”

“Maybe we should just take our time thinking about this.”
And they’re thinking . . . and thinking . . . and thinking. Oh, if they would only make a decision, any decision, it would be wonderful. I could go home. They could get on with their lives.

But no. That would be too easy. The prospects insist on torturing themselves with indecision. They don’t realize that “not making a decision” is really making a decision to keep things just as they are.

 

For example, the train is pulling into the station. You don’t know if you should board the train or not. So you think, think, think . . . and soon, the train has already left the station. Your indecision actually made a decision:

You’re not going to be on that train.

You and I know this. Our prospects don’t.

Our prospects don’t realize that when they delay making a decision about our business, they are effectively making a decision to keep their lives the same.

And keeping their lives the same is okay. It’s just that they should be consciously making that decision.

 

 

So here are a few questions that you can ask your prospects. They’re innocent, non-aggressive questions. These questions will help your prospects make a conscious decision on what is best for their lives.

1. What will happen if you don’t join our business?

Of course the answer is:

“Nothing.”

But you don’t answer that question. Let the prospects mentally answer that question for themselves. They’ll probably be thinking this:

“Life will be the same. Tomorrow will look just like today. We’re going to wake up early, commute to work, come back late, grab a quick meal, watch a few minutes of television and go to sleep. Yep, we’re going to get this routine over and over again – until we’re too old to work.”

Not a very pretty picture, is it? Now if the prospects choose to leave everything the same, if they choose to avoid your opportunity . . . that’s okay. They are making a decision. And that’s all we ask.
Try some of these to see if one fits your style.

2. If you don’t start your own business now, do you see yourself always working for someone else?

3. What do you think will happen next year if you decide not to make any changes this year?

4. Do you think your job routine (five days a week, two weeks of vacation every year) will ever change?

5. I see that you’re kind of stressing out about risking a change in your daily life. Why not just relax and enjoy your life as it is?

6. You don’t have to make a decision to start your own business tonight. Instead, you could simply make a decision to not start your own business and keep your present job routines.

7. You know, you might be thinking, “My daily routine isn’t so bad. Maybe I’ll keep living this way.” And that’s also a good decision. Do you think that might be best for you?

 

 

All of these questions remind our prospects that the pain of their problems won’t go away by postponing a decision.

So make it easy for your prospects.

Remind them to make a conscious decision about their futures.

And remember, this technique is rejection-free.

We’re not attached to the outcome.

We’re not responsible for the decisions they make in their lives.

We’re only obligated to give our prospects the choices.

The rest is up to them.

Isn’t Tom fantastic?!?

Another great benefit of getting Tom’s Newsletter, is knowing where he will be in the country so you can catch him at one of his seminars.

Meeting Tom in person and learning from him face to face is an experience you cannot do without!

See you there!

Believe in Your Success, I Do!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com

“Ogres are like onions, we have layers.”

Our personalities, our inner selves, are made up of layers, like an onion has layers.

As we work on our personal growth, we focus on different issues, major and minor, as they surface in our layers.

Our issues are not settled in our psyches in a chronological fashion.

We deal with old feelings, events, insecurities and hurts…what we call our baggage…on a very personal level.

It is all about our readiness.

Personal development (or self help) is just that, personal.  As you, the individual, work on your self and overcoming your old baggage, you will work on your issues as you are ready to at the time.

How do you know you are ready to work on something?

You will see it for yourself!  Whatever you are not ready to deal with, will remain invisible to you.

Then, as you keep working on your personal growth, different layers of your onion will be peeled away, and you will begin seeing issues you didn’t realize were there.

One of the best actions I have taken in my personal growth is in joining the Mental Cleanse.  I know I promote this group a lot, but it is with good reason!

I have been through the mental cleanse about 3 or 4 times.

I came to the place where I felt I worked as far as I could with the mental cleanse, so I stopped participating.

I still did activities to work on my personal growth.  I read motivation and self help books and I participate in other trainings.

These actions have all contributed to helping me peel back more of my layers until I was ready to see the next major issue holding me back in my success.

As I spoke to one of my mentors about my revelation, she told me to do the mental cleanse again!

Well, of course, I thought it would be a waste of time, after all I have participated so many times before!

But after talking with my mentor a bit, I knew the wisdom in her advise. 

So, today I will be on the mental cleanse call and I will speak up and participate.

I want to invite YOU to join me!

It’s easy, just go to http://www.30daycleanse.com/ 

• sign up for the free program

• download your free copy of Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich”

• read 1 chapter each week, you can start at any time anywhere in the book, so do the chapter we are currently on

• write your personal thoughts from the chapter, your “lesson”

• submit your lesson to the email address provided; if you do not want Michael to share your lesson with the others, include that in your lesson.

• also, when you are ready, send me a copy as your personal mentor to mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com 

• read the weekly email Michael sends out and read the selected lessons

• join in on the mental cleanse group calls, every Wednesday at 3 pm and 5 pm EST @ 1.218.936.3890, PIN 300300#

• participate in the conversations when you are ready to crack open your personal change 

I look forward to seeing you there and sharing the experience of peeling away the layers of our personal growth!

Believe in Your Success, I Do!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com

Most people who have no business background yet start a home based business, usually have a lot of work to do on their personal development and self belief.

One of the first steps a newbie in MLM (or any other kind of home based business) does is create a positive self talk or self affirmation.

The purpose of self talk is to convince oneself that he/she is successful, confident, healthy, wealthy, etc.

It is a daily exercise in changing your belief system.  If you believe in your ability to be successful in growing your business, then you will be successful.

Many people want to be successful and go forth with starting a business, but subconsciously they do not believe they can be successful.

We must understand the law of nature in that our subconscious mind rules our conscious mind!  This includes our emotions. 

Only the dominant thoughts, beliefs and emotions in our subconscious mind will prevail.  Our success, wealth and happiness depend on our subconscious.

The only way to control our subconscious mind is through constant daily self talk (self affirmations) and mental exercises and habits.

• You must say your self talk every single day from the time you wake up in the morning until you go to bed at night.
• Say it at least 100 times a day.
• When you go to bed, focus on your self talk and your goals.
• Actively visualize yourself having what you want.

Many newbies to MLM continue to have a lack of success with their self talk and business building.

If a person’s belief is extremely damaged he has to start his personal road to recovery with very small baby steps.

Self talk will not work if you are constantly creating opposition in your mind!

If a person says:

• I am healthy.
• I am wealthy.
• I am successful.

but has so much negative subconscious programming that they cannot truly believe they are healthy, wealthy, and successful, it will never happen!

It is like the kitten in the mirror being told by her sponsors to “Believe you are a lion!” or say “I am a lion!”  But the kitten’s belief is so opposite to those statements, becoming the lion will never happen.

What if the kitten can’t get the subconscious image out of her head that she is stuck in a fishbowl?

For a person having trouble getting around their negative programming, they can say simply

• health
• wealth
• success

And that is it!
Get the belief in the words into the subconscious first.

Eventually, if followed through with, the person will feel more confidence and belief in their ability to be healthy, wealthy, and successful.

Then it will be time to use statements with “I am…” in them for self talk.

The road to personal development can be a long and winding road for some people.  It can also feel scary and treacherous.

You don’t have to do this alone!

Your success also depends on having mentors who will believe in you until you can believe in yourself!

Believe in Your Success, I Do!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com
www.preparetoachievesuccess.com

If you in any way, shape or form make money or have the potential to make money from content on your site, you have to disclose that to your readers.

This includes affiliate links or buttons and any kind of review you post on a product or service that you received compensation for.

Compensation could be receipt of a sample or actual payment for doing a review.

I found a terrific resource from CMP.ly that helps bloggers and website owners comply with the FTC Disclosure requirements.

Their four solutions programs are for Bloggers, Brands, Agencies, and Affiliate Marketing.

When you sign up for a free account with CMP.ly, register your site and then choose the type of disclosure you need.

The site has easy to understand explanations of which disclosure you need for which kind of activity you are doing.

• Post contains author’s own opinions and he has not been paid or has no material connection.  Author may receive unrelated payment.
• Post based upon a review copy or sample.  Author is not paid but did receive an item related to post.
• Post based on a sample or gift received that author was not paid for.
• Post based on an advertising relationship and author has been paid.
• Author is an employee or a shareholder.
• Author has included affiliate links on her site.
• Custom disclosure allows author to create a disclosure that is not covered in the previous 6 disclosures.

{information excerpted from CMP.ly Blogger Solutions.}  

They also give you tips on whether a disclosure can be in your sidebar or if it needs to be directly in the post.

It is well worth your time and effort to take advantage of this free service if you rely heavily on your blog or other website as a form of income.

Believe In Your Success, I Do!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com

A huge percentage of home based businesses are run by people with children.

Many of those parents are stay at home moms, with some stay at home dads thrown into the mix.

When June comes, thousand of children say farewell to their teachers and school books. 

They hit home one day and begin a 2 1/2 month siege on our schedules.

Learning how to stay focused on the tasks we need to complete for our business is critical to success.

When our children are home on school break, we are endlessly distracted with their activities and outings.

Make a point of scheduling for yourself a block of time during each day when you will be the least distracted.

Focus on completing the tasks you need uninterrupted concentration for. 

For me, this would be the time I work on blogs, website content, and correspondence with prospects.

During times you are more likely to be distracted, work on business activities that do not require close attention to detail.

This might be sending out Direct Matches emails where you use the same copy & paste material.

Whatever your business activities are, remember to prioritize the most essential and productive tasks.

Don’t waste time on anything that can be addressed another time.

Spend that extra time with your children and enjoy your vacation time with them!

Believe in Your Success, I Do!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com

Creating websites in today’s online home business environment has become the next greatest do-it-yourselfer project.

Anyone can make a website with minimal investment and practically no technical knowledge at all.

Owning your very own website goes far beyond simply creating a blog these days.

One of the factors to consider when choosing the design of your website is color.

The internet has accentuated how we respond to visual information. 

We are no longer bound to black and white text.  We now have a sensory menu of color, images, animation, and videos.

We have come to expect a website to be visually appealing and tantalizing…entertaining us with every click of the mouse.

The colors we choose for a website are far more important than picking our favorite colors.

There is a psychology of colors that should be considered when choosing your theme color palette.

Color Wheel Pro created a page on the meaning of colors on their site that is worth reviewing.

One of the things you define when planning your website is your target niche or audience.

Based on who they are you determine their characteristics, needs and desires.

Most people make their initial decisions based on emotion, not intellect.

You need to decide how you want to present the value in what you have to offer and who you are as a servant.

What emotions or impression do you want to inspire in the minds of your site visitors?

You have about 10 seconds to make your first impression.

You then have about 30 seconds to 2 minutes to make your point and convince your reader that YOU can help them solve their problems.

The color you use in your website will strike the first impression, even if your visitors are not consciously aware of it. 

This is particularly true of the header banner which is the first thing your visitors see.

Some color examples:

Black is formal or death.

Red is danger or sensual.

Yellow is warm, happy or intellectual.

What do you feel when you put black and red together like a man in a tuxedo with a red rose in his lapel?

What do you feel when you see black and yellow together like when you see a bee?

On the contrary, what do you feel when you see a sunflower?

The color blue often relates calm, cool, and confidence.  When the Mother Mary is painted as a Saint, she is often wearing a cloak in deep blue.

When blue is combined with red and yellow, we get Superman.

So, remember, put careful thought into your website color scheme when creating your online image.

Believe in Your Success, I Do!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com

Facebook is rolling out their new wave of changes to your profile.

As announced, all of your activities, interests, music, movies, and books you listed in your profile will now be connected to a corresponding fan page.

Soon, when you log into your account, a box will pop up prompting you to chose the pages you want to belong to.

If you only want to belong to a few pages, or none at all, any pages you do not select will automatically delete that topic from your profile!

I found this out the hard way.  Fortunately, it was on my personal profile and not the profile I use to network for business.

If you have set up your business profile correctly, the topics in the activities, interests, movies, music, and books give a snapshot of who you are.

You need a little bit about personal interests so others have something to relate to you with.

You also need some things about you as a business professional, but not so much that you are a flashing neon billboard.

I would “select all” when asked which pages to join.  Once we see the effect of these changes, it will be easier to decide what to delete and what to keep.

Believe In Success, I Do!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com

With the way Network Marketers use the internet to create a high profile presence for themselves, the information may be of use to some of us.

There is always a chance that people we network with us will post something that would shed a negative light on us.

Or maybe there are family or friends that have posted something about us that would be seen as unsavory in the business world.

Since most Network Marketers are building their businesses part-time around a job, or a spouse’s job, negative material created form our MLM lives could be damaging to our professional 9 to 5 lives.

Check out the article and keep the information in the back of your mind if the occasion ever arises to need to use it.

Believe In Your Success, I Do!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com

The great inspirational leader, Zig Ziglar, once said, “Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.”

What does planning a wedding have to do with building your Network Marketing business?

Everybody knows how much time and money a bride-to-be invests in her wedding. It is very easy to get caught up in the hype and be seduced by the glittery gowns, shiny limos, and fine foods to be served at the reception.

Before she knows it, the bill is $10K or more, and sadly…50% of marriages end in divorce.

If only the couple had put as much planning and effort into building a strong foundation and having support systems in place for the bumpy times.

Starting a Network Marketing business is a lot like planning a wedding.

We get starry eyed and hooked on focusing on our dreams. It is easy to get sidetracked with all of the glitter and hype.

We think we are prepared and have the guidance we need to succeed, but so often, many of us find achieving our goals and reaching our dreams far out of reach.

Then we quit.

Wouldn’t it be better to know there was a way to plan for building a strong foundation and have the support systems in place for the bumpy times in our business building?

Wouldn’t it be better to know how to succeed at being the 3% who actually make it in MLM?

There’s no great secret to this…no special person you have to become.

Be Yourself.

Be Committed.

Be Persistent.

Be Focused.

Be Informed.

Learn how to ask the 5 Critical Questions to your Success and Know How to Get the Answers.

Send me an email to mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com requesting an audio training of the Five Pillars to Success.

Believe In Your Success, I Do!
Karen
email: mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com

“The Future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their Dreams.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

PS: Be sure to check read our FREE eBook which shows you step-by-step how to reach your dreams.
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