What is the Magic of 10,000 Hours in Your Direct Selling Business?

The widely touted theory, highlighted in a 1993 psychology paper and popularized by Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers, says that anyone can master a skill with 10,000 hours of practice. Whether you believe this to be true or not about the exact number of hours it takes to be world class at anything, there is no […]

What to Measure for Business Success

Last week I asked if you were serious about your business and talked to you about setting SMART goals. This week I am going to talk to you about measuring.                               Let’s look at your business like a cake recipe. You […]

Your biggest investment? You!

When you start a business, you spend most of your time attending to its growth. As an entrepreneur you don’t get to turn your business off. It’s going 24/7. That can be very daunting and stressful. So don’t forget to pay attention to your biggest investment: YOURSELF!   Your business can’t succeed without you. You […]

Accountable to Achieve Your Goals

This is it, the last blog of 2016 with only a few days left of the year. This is the week that everyone is throwing around the word – resolutions. I am going to encourage you to be resolved in your goals and dreams and to put an accountability plan in place starting on Monday, […]

2016 Progress and 2017 Plan

Take a moment today to chart out what your progress has been thus far in 2016. Please keep going if you are striving for or working on a goal. However, charting out your wins or successes allows you to hit the ground running to create a plan for 2017 that will continue your journey of […]

What’s your Why? Mission, benefits, purpose.

So this is the week that most people think about all they are grateful for. It is the season to reflect on what worked, went well and what did not. If I were to ask you, “What is your why?”, would you be able to quickly and succinctly respond? Most people can not. If you […]

Finding The Perfect Follow Up System

Finding a follow up system that works for a group of people is tricky. Why is that? Well it is because, finding the perfect follow up system that works extremely well for an individual is difficult. Part of the reason for this is we live in a technology based world with so many ways to […]

Rock Networking On Vacation

There’s always an opportunity to meet new people – especially while on vacation. Whether it’s sitting next to someone on an airplane or waiting in a never-ending line, use the time to strike up a conversation. It can’t hurt your network marketing skills, plus, if they’re interested, you’ve got a new client. The super nice […]

Expanding Your Comfort Zone

We all have them – those familiar patterns of behavior we resist changing. They become so automatic we hardly even think about them. We like what is familiar and predictable. So how do we become aware of our comfort zones and work our way OUT of them in order to find success?  David Krueger, M.D., and contributor […]

Get Your Writing Skills Up To Par

In business writing is an important part of the job. You want to be clear, informative and strategic in your communications. How you present yourself in writing matters. So it’s best to confront your fears when it comes to writing and push onward by asking yourself three basic questions to help improve those skills. Am […]