Are you creating your own Grand Canyon?
By jopeck | August 14, 2007
Have you ever seen the Grand Canyon in Arizona? Have you been there? Were you stunned by the sheer magnitude of this geological feature? How the colors change as the sun moves during the day… each change more beautiful and wonderous than the last?
I know I was. I went there when I was about 8 years old and to this day, I still remember my first impression of the place. More than anything else, it reconfirmed my belief that there was a God. There had to be… no one else could have created something that fantastic and on that scale.
Then during my geography classes in Secondary school, I learnt how the canyon was really created. A river ran through a plain a long long time ago… and over time, it carried off soil, rocks and anything else that it could manage. After years, decades, centuries even… the canyon would be created as enough material is carried away. Not in straight line but it curves and winds its way through the stream bed it has carved out.
This kind of reminds me of how I started out as an internet marketer. I knew nothing of the hows or the whys of what I was doing. Wandering through the various methods I was taught (in Success University), I looked for what I would be comfortable with. Methods that I could be confident would work for me.
It took time but slowly, I learnt and developed methods that worked for me. Whenever I hit more difficult areas, I adjusted my ‘route’ or methods til I found something that did work… at least for me.
So although my training materials show me straight routes, my learning curve meanders and discovers new things along the way. Its good to know that nothing is really set in stone!
Over time, I expect to find myself carving a deep ’stream’ bed that will stand the test of time. And who knows, in the years to come, some new internet marketer may come across my websites and say, “Wow! I wish I could reach her level.”
Are you carving out your own Grand Canyon? every little bit will help!
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Joanna Peck is an avid student of personal development, network and internet marketing.
Come see how I turned spare time into money at http://theprovensuccess.com
Tags: grand canyon, internet marketer, motivation, inspiration, success university
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originally posted on Frond’s Cash on Feb 16
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10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer - the video!
By jopeck | August 13, 2007
One of the blogs that I regularly read in my pursuit to improve my writing skills is CopyBlogger. Can’t say enough about how much I have been learning from him. A definite good resource to have!
Recently, Brian Clark wrote a post entitled “10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer” and Robert Bruce got inspired to make the following video.
If you substitute the word “write” with whatever you are aiming to do, it’d probably work equally well. No one can get better at anything without working and practicing.
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Thoughts about Network Marketing from Robert T. Kiyosaki
By jopeck | August 10, 2007
Just received this little gem in my inbox. It got me thinking about network marketing and why I was involved in it.
To help you and your prospects understand why Network Marketing is THE industry to be in, here is an excerpt from The Business School for People Who Like Helping People, by Robert T. Kiyosaki, with Sharon Lechter, CPA, authors of Rich Dad, Poor Dad. You may like to copy and paste it into a document and share it with your prospects.
I am sometimes asked, “Why do so few people make it to the top of their network marketing system?”
The truth is, the top of the network marketing system is open to everyone-unlike traditional corporate systems, which allow only one person to reach the top of the company. The reason most people do not reach the top is simply because they quit too soon. So why would someone quit short of the top?
Most people join only to make money. If they don’t make money in the first few months or years, they become discouraged and quit (and then often bad-mouth the industry!). Others quit and go looking for a company with a better compensation plan. But joining to make a few quick dollars is not the reason to get into the business.
The Two Essential Reasons to Join a Network Marketing Business
Reason #1 is to help yourself. Reason #2 is to help others. If you join for only one of these two reasons, then the system will not work for you.
Reason #1, means that you come to the business primarily to change quadrants-to change from the “E” (Employee) or the “S” (Self-employed) quadrant to the “B” (Business owner) or “I” (Investor) quadrant.
This change is normally very difficult for most people-because of money. The true “E” or “S” quadrant person will not work unless it is for money. This is also what causes people to not reach the top of the network marketing system: they want money more than they want to change quadrants.
A “B” quadrant or “I” quadrant person will also work for money, but in a different way. The “B’ quadrant person works to build or create an asset-in this case, a business system. The “I” quadrant person invests in the asset or the system.
As a “B” or an “I”, sometimes you don’t get paid for years; this, a true “E” quadrant or “S” quadrant person will not do. It’s not part of their core values. Risk and delayed gratification disturb them emotionally.
Delayed Gratification and Emotional Intelligence
One of the beauties of network marketing is that it focuses on developing your emotional intelligence as well as your business skills.
Emotional intelligence is an entirely different matter from academic intelligence. In general, someone with high emotional intelligence will often do better than someone with high academic intelligence but low emotional intelligence. That explains, in part, why some people do well in school but not so well in the real world.
The ability to delay gratification is a sign of higher emotional intelligence. In a recent study of emotional intelligence, it was found that people who could delay gratification often led more successful lives than those who could not.
This is why the educational system inherent in a good network marketing opportunity is so important. It’s the emotional education or emotional intelligence aspect of their programs that I find so valuable for people.
Many people write me and tell me they loved my book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, but I fear that many of them don’t get the most important point of the book: Lesson #1, “The rich don’t work for money.”
Once I have built or bought an asset, that asset works hard to make money for me. But I will not work for money-I will work only to build or buy assets. Those assets make me richer and richer, while I work less and less. That is what the rich do. The poor and middle class work hard for money, and then buy liabilities instead of investing in assets.
What Kind of Asset is a Network Marketing Business?
Remember, there are two reasons required to be successful in network marketing: to help yourself, and to help others. Reason #1 means helping yourself get to the “B” side of the quadrant. What about reason #2?
The beauty of most network marketing systems is that you don’t really make much money unless you help others leave the “E” and “S” quadrants and succeed in the “B” and “I” quadrants. If you focus on helping others make this shift, then you will be successful in the business.
If you only want to teach yourself to be a “B” quadrant and “I” quadrant person, then a true network marketing system won’t work for you. You may as well go to a traditional business school, which focuses only on your becoming a “B” quadrant person.
The beauty of a network marketing business is that your goal is to create assets, which are other “B’s” working under you-and their job is to create other “B’s” working under them. In traditional business, the focus is for the “B” to have only “E’s” and “S’s” working for them.The type of business I was taught to build is a business with me at the top and “E’s” and “S’s” at the base. I really don’t have room at the top for many other “B’s”, which is why in my businesses, I strongly recommend that all my employees look into network marketing as their own part-time businesses.
The traditional corporate system really is a pyramid, because there are a few “B’s” and “I’s” near the top, and more “E’s” and “S’s” at the base. A network marketing system is a reverse pyramid: its primary focus is to bring up more and more “B’s” to the top.
One type of pyramid, the traditional type, has its base on the ground; the other type has its base in the air. It’s a pyramid that pulls you up instead of pushing you down. A network marketing business gives everyone access to what used to be the domain only of the rich.
That it from me… enjoy your weekend!
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You Do!
By jopeck | August 8, 2007
Just finished watching Oprah today. It was a show entitled “The Secrets of My Big Success” originally aired April 23rd. (in Singapore we get all the reruns… sigh)
It featured Russell Simmons. “Who’s he?” you’ll probably be asking… I did too. He is the ‘Father’ of Hip Hop. This guy was the one who brought a street phenomenon to the mainstream and made it a cash cow. (more on him here) All in all, a pretty motivated self-made businessman. What impressed me was his down to earth attitude throughout the show. Maybe its just an act but he came across as being genuine and just a regular guy.
He spoke about the importance of being the person you were meant to be. Not the person that everyone wants you to be. In other words, “DO YOU!” Search inside for the passions, dreams and goals that you want. Not your mother, wife, teacher or even Pastor. Then go out and do the work to fulfill that potential.
He just published a book “DO YOU!” which talks about 12 Laws allowing you to access the power in you to achieve happiness and success. I’m planning to go find it and read it. Given the rave review by Oprah and other reviews on Amazon… I hope you do too! 
This is served as an important reminder to stop every so often and check that I’m still on the right track. That I am still focused on my goals and dreams. Are you?
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New Home… New Look
By jopeck | August 7, 2007
Its been a couple of months since my last post. Life has been extremely busy and hectic. So what’s been happening…
Well, we’ve moved from one housing estate to another. Given that my husband works full time and my oldest child is only 5, the packing and unpacking of the house fell mostly on my shoulders. Its been a tough road and I’ve still got boxes to unpack but life must go on!
Along the way, I lost a good friend and mentor to cancer, nursed my daughter through a bout of chicken pox and survived three weeks during which we all took turns to have high fevers.
While all that was happening, I had engaged the services of Randa to help give my blog a face lift. I wanted something that looked fresh and inviting. Please do let me know if we’ve achieved that aim!
I’ll be posting more often… got quite a few ideas simmering in my head already. 
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