The key word in the title is “WORKING”. Most network
marketing organizations are filled with what I call
“Social Club Members”. They like hanging out with
the crowd, but have never really, CONSISTENTLY
worked their business.

This stage is predictable. It usually happens after
a distributor has been working for 2-3 years. They
have a group of 50-100 distributors or more, but very
few are producing.

These people have worked hard, but usually
feel over come with the question:

“Is it ever going to happen for ME?”

I recently read a Facebook post by a well known
network marketer who made the statement, “In
network marketing you get paid exactly what you
are worth”

I respectfully DISAGREE. That is simply not true. You
must understand the reality of the Time & Money
Chart that we have shared on various mlm training
programs.

In the BEGINNING you do a lot of work YOU DON’T GET
PAID FOR, but Later on You get paid for a lot of work you
don’t do. THAT IS THE TRUTH!

Let me share an email I received last week.

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Mr. Calvert,

I just wanted to let you know that your Frustrated &
Anxious Training on CD along with your Power of a
Dream DVD, stopped me from making the worst decision
of my life and quitting my business.

I had worked hard for 31 months and felt I had little to
show for my efforts. I was ready to quit. I had a talk
with my upline and told them of my intentions.

They made me promise to watch 1 DVD and listen to
1 audio CD before I quit. They sent me your Frustrated
and Anxious CD from your Pure Motivation set and your
Power of a Dream DVD.

I decided to give it one more year, to make 4 “90-Day Runs”
as you teach in another CD from the set. My 3rd 90 day run
I recruited a lady, that wanted it bad. I start her right
because my upline has incorporated your Start Right program
throughout his entire team.

To make a long story short, her organization is growing and
more important duplicating. I have also recruited a young
man (he came from a $100 Bill Drop Card) that is also doing
a fantastic job and building quite a team.

You are so right, after you finally find your 1st person that is
willing to work and be teachable, EVERYTHING DOES CHANGE!
I am truly excited about my business, and please let everyone
know that the Frustrated and Anxious training is worth 100X
the investment in the entire Pure Motivation Set.

I look forward to meeting you personally someday.

Nancy Withrowe
Colorado

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Ladies and gentleman, you have heard me
say it 1,000 times, but we all do follow the
same path to success in network marketing.
IT IS PREDICTABLE.

I also like to call the Frustrated and Anxious stage
the “How Bad do you REALLY Want it Stage?”
Persistence, is probably one of the most
overlooked factors of success.

Understand, that if you persist you succeed!

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Every competent upline, should have this set,
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In fact, you probably have people right now
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You don’t have to do anything special to receive
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I just returned from a trip to Budapest, Hungary.
I did 3 MLM training seminars in 2 days.

I did my best to teach and inspire the people in
attendence. When I travel, especially outside of
the United States it seems that I learn more than
I ever expect.

In my next issue of my monthly “No Fluff” MLM
Help newsletter, the entire issue will be dedicated
to this trip and be called “Lessons from Budapest”.
If you don’t subscribe to this content rich newsletter
you can right here:

http://www.mlmhelp.com/newsletter

The friendships you develop in the network marketing
industry are one of the most valuable benefits of being
in this industry.

Before I left for Budapest I got word that a former
downline member Barry Tiller had died in an automobile
accident. He was 44, and left his wife and 3 children.
In the mid-nineties Barry and I spent thousands of
hours together at training meeting, events and
meetings after the meeting. He was a good man.

The sad part is over the year we had lost contact. I
can only be thankful that our paths crossed and we
were able to make so many good memories.

While in Budapest I had a very interesting and unique
experience that reminded me of the importance of
friendship. I will talk about this and a lot more brain
tweaks I received on my trip in our August newsletter.

I hope you will enjoy it.

I hope you have had a great weekend, mine was awesome.

As I sit here this morning, I started thinking about all the
negative junk I read over the weekend about Mike Potillo and
his involvement in a company called 360.

Let me start with a little background. I first met Mike in
the mid nineties at a convention right after he had joined
the company I was involved with. “Ignorance on Fire”
would be a good description of him at the time.

He was a very likeable young man with big dreams.

When I started my own company in 2000 Mike called our
office one day and said “I want to come to work for you”.
At the time I did everything I could to discourage him, but
about 8 hours later at $8.00 an hour he showed up at
my office with his car loaded down. He wasn’t going to
take no as an answer.

Over the next few years Mike worked in our office daily.
He loved the excitement. Many times I have wished he
could have been with me a few years earlier when I
could have had more time to provide direct business
building support.

Eventually, I decided that I did not want the responsibility
of a downline or owning a company and decided to semi-
retire and just focus on generic training, consulting and
seminars. That is what I have been doing for the last 8 years
or so.

Basically Mike, and my VP of sales at the time took the
company over and eventually merged it with Vita Mark
where Mike became the top money earner. I know that
Mike put his heart and soul into building his Vita Mark team.

From there he went to Ardyss in a corporate position and made
Body Magic a household name within the MLM community. Now
Mike is working in some corporate capacity with 360.

Let me say, that I basically have no opinion about the 360 comp
plan or product line. I have never had a reason to investigate it.
I know the internet is full of people that have tried to pick apart
the products and comp plan, but I have no firsthand knowledge
of either so I know better than to comment.

What I don’t get is how many network marketers don’t give other
network marketers the benefit of the doubt. I know, I know, I am
as out spoken as anyone about all the junk that “self proclaimed”
gurus propagate in the market place.

I have always said, “Do it, and then talk about it”. Mike
has done it. The only people that don’t have others trying to
pick them apart are the one’s that have never done anything!

I have said all of that to say this.

The highest compliment I can give any leader or corporate
officer is “They have a heart for the distributor”. This industry
is full of corporate people who feel the distributors are a necessary
evil and distributors with leadership titles whose only concern is
building a following, instead of other leaders.

I have known Mike for many years. I have known his wife Tiffany
and her parents Bill & Teresa since she was in grade school. I have
had dinner on multiple occasions with Mike’s parents.
THEY ARE ALL GOOD PEOPLE.

Has Mike said or done things in the past that maybe I have
disagreed with? Probably, and I am sure he would say the same
thing about me. I have also tried to live by the philosophy,

“Never try to explain yourself, your friends don’t need an
explanation and your enemies aren’t going to believe
you anyway”.

Give the guy a break! He is an only child, very excitable
person that grew up watching and loving Don Lapre infomercials.
He is not perfect, and MAYBE the 360 products and comp plan
aren’t either, so what?

Neither are you!

If you want to join, join, if you don’t…… don’t, but why waste
your time trying to make a villain out of someone whom you
don’t know that truly does have the best interest of his team
and the network marketing industry at heart?

It makes no sense.

Listen, I am all for throwing those people under the bus
that KNOWINGLY mislead and misguide people! I can say without
reservation that Mike Potillo is NOT one of those people.

“You must act in accordance to your program” I did not say
you might, you could or it is possible. YOU MUST ACT in
accordance with your program.

Think about this, who is a top money earner in your company?

Got one in your mind?

If you had their programming, you would have their results!
SIMPLE…THAT’S THE TRUTH!

I know you may be thinking, Dale what about all their skill
sets?

The skill sets anyone develops or doesn’t develop is based upon
their programming.

What about all their contacts?
The number of contacts people develop or don’t is based upon
programming.

All of our minds are made up of multiple programs.
We have programs about:

What kind of parent we are
How athletic we are or aren’t
How much we enjoy reading
How good of a communicator we are
How good of a driver we are
What kind of wife, husband or child we are
How good or bad we are at any skill or activity
and on and on and on.

You name it, we have a brain cell pattern (program)
for it.

I have said it many times, people who become
financially wealthy do so, because that is their
program.

Great network marketing leaders understand
that if you develop the program first, the results
will follow.

Please don’t misunderstand me here. In the
book 6DMLMTraining.com I talk about that we
all need to learn how to program our minds with
the right information.

This is the foundation of all great books, as the
Bible says “As you believe, so shall it be done
unto you”.

There is no question that some people take this
reality to extremes and end up weird and way out
on a limb.

The “Secret” video and book revealed the weirdness
in a lot of self help gurus. This is not what I am talking
about at all.

Walking on hot coals, or chanting in a sweat tent is
not required to create the right programming in your
mind.

Truth is, it comes down to getting a hold of your
“Self Talk” as we talk about in Programming Your Mind
for Success.

It takes a conscious, daily effort to change brain cell
patterns and create new programs. I did it, and have
taught thousands of people the 15 minute a day system
at http://www.ProgrammingYourMind.com

If you have bought into this concept, I congratulate you.
If you are looking for a very thought provoking, affirmation
driven program, check this out http://www.DaleCalvert50-50.com

If you have not totally grasped this concept, NOW IS THE
TIME. Your results will not change until your program
changes.

PERIOD!

It is impossible.

People who get lucky and win the lottery ultimately
self-destruct!

Why?

They are not programmed to handle the money.
At the end of your life, your results or lack there of in ALL
ASPECTS of your life, depend upon the programs within
your mind.

If you want to change your results, learn how to change
your program.

RESOURCES
Programming Your Mind for Success http://www.programmingyourmind.com
50 Life Changing Success Principals http://www.DaleCalvert50-50.com

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First if you haven’t seen this mlm training video you should
take a look:

http://www.dalecalvert.com/LostDomain

As far as your downline being stagnate, the real
question is who sponsored them? Or should I
say “closed” them into the business?

As we talked about earlier this month, Sales people
close, network marketers develop leadership.

I guess I am going to be on this topic for a little
while, I can’t quite seem to get it out of my
system.

Yesterday I was reading a promotion for a network
marketing training seminar. The speaker promised
to share 8 different ways to close your prospects!

This is a MLM Training that may sound great on
the surface, but in all reality will hurt your business.

The truth is, you will learn 8 different ways to get
people into your organization,,,,,once they are
there you will have to waste a ton of time and
energy trying to get them to do anything at all!

The reason, your organization is stagnate is because
60% of the people are only in it, because THEY
COULDN’T TELL YOU NO!

There are highly motivated, determined, focused
people out there looking for a real opportunity,
however most network marketers will never find
them because they waste too much time trying to
motivate their existing team! Geeeezzzz this is
not rocket science guys.

I know, companies don’t help because they don’t
get it either. Running free sign up months, or join
for a dollar programs and then rewarding the lady
who sponsors 92 people like she is a superstar an
an example to follow.

The problem is 3 months later 91 of the people are
out of the business, because they didn’t want to
be there in the first place. Nobody really accomplishes
anything with this type of activity.

It is not just about sponsoring people. It is about
developing people. You are in the leadership
development business.

Take a good hard look at your team. The ones that
are producing are going to do the business with or
without you. The ones that are there because of you
or because they couldn’t tell you no, will ultimately
cost you in the long run.

Your time is the most valuable asset you have. Once
it is gone, it is gone. The time you spend trying to
motivate Suzie, yet again, is time you could be spending
prospecting for someone that can make an immediate
positive impact on your business.

You are not in the babysitting business, and if you feel
like you are you should probably re-evaluate your
recruiting process and who you are willing to have join
your organization.

Finding potential leaders and developing them is not
that difficult is you have the clear goal in your mind.
Most network marketers don’t, they are willing to sponsor
anybody they can “talk into” business.

If we have the chance to meet personally, don’t brag
to me what a “good closer” you are. Good closer in
network marketing translates in my mind as someone
who still hasn’t figured the business out.

As you go into 2010 you can change your approach, you
can get better. A shift in thinking can transform your
business.

If you continue to do what you have always done, you
will continue to get what you have always gotten.