Create A Cash Flow Show

The keys to success in business are like a recipe. As a former chef and still a food geek, I equate most things to food. A recipe is nothing more than a formula that creates a finished dish. The key to success in anything is to have a formula, recipe or system that works. Everyone who uses a recipe, formula or system will get the same results. When you make pecan pie and I make pecan pie using the same recipe it will come out the same. When you follow the same formula or system in your business that I do, you will get the same results. Here is a system that is the key to success in business. Every entrepreneur who incorporates all of these key ingredients into his or her business will have a successful business.

16 Key Ingredients For Business Success

There are 16 key ingredients necessary for the creation of a successful business. When you incorporate them all into your business philosophy, you will have what it takes to create your own business successes.

1. Dream Big

Dream big because massive dreams will achieve mighty big results. Create a vision for your future that is massive and visualize yourself living it. No one ever dreams too big and wishes that they had not gotten there.

2. Visualize Your Dreams

Keep your mission and dreams in your mind’s eye everyday. Write out a brief mission statement in the present tense describing your ideal life and stay focused on the results you are striving for. Create affirmations that validate your dream and fill your mind day and night with them. Remember the old saying: “As you think, you shall be.”

3. Become Committed To Your Mission

The very definition of commitment is that you will never give up until you achieve what you have decided to commit to. Create your vision or mission and commit to achieving it. When you become willing to go to any length to achieve your goals, you will always get where you want to go.

4. Be Consistent

Take small steps everyday. Consistent daily progress is more effective than huge progress intermittently. Everything does not have to be perfect to proceed. Take small steps every day to move forward on a consistent basis.

5. Live Outside Of Your Comfort Zone

When you are uncomfortable you are growing. You must always stretch your comfort zone in order to grow into your new person as well as in your business. Successful entrepreneurs make a habit out of living outside their comfort zone so that they are always experiencing something new.

6. Use Your Intuition

Your subconscious mind is capable of making better decisions than your conscious or analytical mind. Truly successful business owners learn how to allow their intuition to work without overriding it through conscious analysis. Your conscious mind frequently makes mistakes because of too many details getting into the picture. Frequently snap decisions will be better decisions. Use and act on your intuition, even if you do not understand it.

7. Recognize What The Worst Case Scenario Is

The catering industry is one which is overrun with daily problems and perceived disasters. An expression we often used to keep things in perspective was “no one ever dies”. Don’t focus on minor details that could go wrong and allow them to stop you from moving closer to your mission. Successful business owners make more mistakes than those not so successful because they are willing to take risks. What’s the worst that can happen? I mean really!

8. Keep Track Of Progress

Anything that is measured or watched will improve. Keeping tabs on your progress. Measuring progress will keep momentum moving forward. Anything that is of any significance for your business should be charted or monitored. You get what you focus on so measure your progress regularly. This absolutely works!

9. Manage Your Affairs

Anything not managed will deteriorate. Don’t give yourself the luxury of procrastination, laziness, or the “I can’t” attitude. Successful business owners own their business, which means they manage their affairs.

10. Collaborate With Like-Minded Individuals

When you network and collaborate with others who have similar missions, your efforts are cubed. Two people in collaboration have 4 times the results as one. Three people working together achieve 9 times the results as one, and so on. Success is easier with partners, even when those partners could be perceived as competition.

11. Solve Your Own Problems

Analyze your problems and seek solutions yourself. When you look for other people to solve your problems you will always be looking for an easier, softer way. Using steps 8, 9, and 10 of this recipe create systems to solve your business problems. This will give you an edge in the market place.

12. Hire Professional Experts

You cannot be good at everything. If paying someone $10, $40, $85, or $100 per hour to do something that is slowing you down, then pay it. It may be tech support, a baby sitter, or cleaning lady or even a lawyer. I personally pay an accountant each month to look at my checkbooks because the amount of time I would have to spend to do it right can be better spent on what I do best. You cannot achieve your mission when you are bogged down on details that you are not good at or that are slowing you down.

13. Realize That Life Is Never Fair

When you understand that life is never fair, then you will not be disappointed as often. Most of the time when you are looking at others and their businesses, you are only seeing how they look from the outside, or from a distance. Don’t compare how you feel to how they look. Life is not meant to be fair.

14. Don’t Take Things Personally

People are always acting from their own space. When you recognize that what other people think, do or say about you is not about you, it will free you up to move forward at a comfortable rate. Don’t let what other people think about you change your mission. Setbacks in business are not deliberately stacked against you. Bad things do happen to good people. Don’t take things personally.

15. Don’t Take Your Self Too Seriously

We do not have as much control as we think we do. Lighten up. Have fun with what you do. If you do not enjoy it, don’t do it. Make fun of yourself. Sleep well at night, knowing you did the best you could today and get over what ever you thought should have been different. We are not on earth for a long time. We are here to have a good time.

16. Smile Like A Tiger

You can always find a reason to smile and show your teeth. This is the single most important ingredient in this recipe because it is the one that creates success in all the others. Smiling creates power for you and for everyone around you.

A Recipe or System Works For Everyone

A Recipe or System Works For Everyone. So there you have it….Deb Bixler’s secret recipe for success. A good recipe, like a system or best business practice, will work for everyone who follows it. Remember that you committed to your mission in step three of this recipe. There is an old Chinese proverb that says that “The temptation to quit is greatest just before you are about to succeed.” Incorporating these 16 keys into your life will create success in both your business and personal life.

I teach business systems that when applied to your business will create successful results. The Create A Cash Flow Show CD set is a system of systems that will create a consistent cash flow in any home party business. Businesses and people never fail, only systems fail. If the system you are using is not working, then try another one that has worked for others. To learn more about Create A Cash Flow Show click Here.

Are you a procrastinator? Procrastination can be prevented when you understand what causes it. We all procrastinate to a point. It is not necessarily a bad thing unless it starts to affect the rest of your life or the ability to produce income. Just like the David Letterman Show, here are the top 6 reasons why e procrastinate, in reverse order.

#6: You Procrastinate Because You Haven’t Really Committed to Doing the Job

You may chronically put off an activity because you never really committed to doing it. This happens frequently when a spouse asks you to do something, and you say yes to keep the peace. It also happens often when you have a job and someone else is telling you what to do. You might think it’s not your job or somebody else’s job, or you just think the project is a waste of time.
Think about:
• What’s in it for me if I do it? The answer to this may increase your motivation
• What are the consequences if I don’t do it?

#5: You Procrastinate Because You Have Fear

It is hard for many of us to admit our fears. Fear may be keeping you from doing a job you need and want to do. If you can identify your reluctance as fear and track it to its source, you can deal with the fear and get on with the job. Here are three of the most common fears.
• Fear of failure: How about the student who never studies and flunks out. He can always tell himself, “If I had studied, I would have passed the stupid course.” But what if he had studied–and still failed?
• Fear of success: If you pass, people will expect you to do it again, or to go out and get a job, or to apply what you’ve learned. If you never try, you’ll never have to face the consequences of success, either.
• Fear of finishing: “If I pass the course, I’ll graduate. If I graduate, I’ll have to…..” It is sad to let such fears prevent you from ever trying. The fear won’t go away. But if the goal is worth pursuing, you’ll be able to act despite the fear.

#4: You Procrastinate Because The Project Does Not Have A High Priority For You

You’re sold on the idea that somebody ought to do the task. You’ll even agree that you’re the person to do it. You may even want to do it. This sort of procrastination problem may eventually work itself out. As the other tasks get done, those leaf-filled gutters work their way up the list. Or the problem may take on a higher priority after the first hard rain of the season.

#3: You Procrastinate Because You Do Not Have Enough Knowledge

Learn to discern between the legitimate need to gather information and a stalling mechanism whereby reading the book or going to talk to the guy at the hardware store is simply a way to put off confronting the job. If your problem is “lack of want to” rather than lack of information, you’ll need a different strategy, namely, what to do when…

#2: You Procrastinate Because You Just Don’t Want To Do It

On a 1 to 10 scale, giving Scoobie a bath rates a minus 2. It isn’t merely unpleasant. It isn’t just disgusting. It’s downright dangerous. He doesn’t like a bath. Last time you tried this little experiment in torture, you wound up scratched, the dog was traumatized, and the bathroom looked like a tidal wave had hit it. The fleas are back. Scoobie is scratching. If you don’t do something, and fast, you’ll have fleas all over the house.
You’ve got two choices, and you don’t need a book on time management to tell you what they are:
• Do It
• Delegate it

And the number one reason we procrastinate is: we have something else we would rather do more!

You have some host calls to make and you decide to do so, after you fix a cup of tea, then sit down to make the calls and real quick check the email. Thirty minutes later after responding to a friend, the tea is cold. Let’s go warm it up and get to those calls. While in the kitchen, let’s get that dishwasher unloaded, and heading back up to the office the phone rings and you chat to Mom for 20 minutes. Now, it is time to hit the calls and uh-oh, it is 9:15, too late to make calls now! Has a similar scenario happened to you? Truly, we allow things that we prefer to do more stop from doing what we intend.
Procrastination is nothing more than allowing more enjoyable tasks come first. We procrastinate because we like to do something else better. When you understand this, you can begin to take responsibility for you choices and keep procrastination in check. Solve this and other problems.

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One of the reasons that the industry has an image problem is that everyone has heard of many people who started a direct selling business and stopped before they reached their dreams and successes. There are thousands of network marketing and direct sales success stories, yet few people have heard of them. Sharing success stories of direct sellers who have used the industry to reach their goals will go a long way to improving the industry image.

Changing Direction in Life

My story of leaving the corporate world and becoming an entrepreneur is a direct selling success story. Most of you know my story, so I will only share it briefly here. After thirty years of dedicating my career and efforts on someone else’s business I finally realized that all the hard work and dedication were never going to realize my personal or financial dreams. I then decided to give up the stress and pursue my own direction in life. I quit my full-time job and started my direct sales business. With determination, focus, study and education I built my home party business to replace my $80,000 year job in only 9 months. My home party business became a vehicle for me to pursue my dreams. Throughout my life I have used this same determination in the corporate work to achieve the goals of my employers. I also used it in the pursuit of many other personal goals. Now I am using my determination and joy in creating my future to make a difference in the world through speaking and educating others.

Direct Selling - Keys to Success

The key to success in direct selling is determination, commitment and education. What do these people have in common: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. Other than the obvious, that they were presidents, is the fact that none of these men were born into wealth and prosperity. They each became the most powerful person in the world without a background of wealth and prosperity. All of these men came from families that required them to create their own future despite odds at home. Nixon declined an award from Dartmouth to assist his family financially. Ford is the only president to be adopted, and he coached boxing in order to pay for his college education. Reagan, was the son of an alcoholic. Clinton’s father died 3 months before he was born and Clinton was raised by an abusive stepfather. They all set goals. They all had determination and constantly educated themselves. It was only with perseverance, determination and commitment that they achieved their goals.

Network Marketing Success

Success in network marketing is achieved the same way, through determination, education, and commitment to your dreams. The joy of what you are doing coupled with the willingness to do what it takes.

One of the reasons that people are frequently doubtful about direct sales or network marketing is that they do not know anyone personally who is successful. There are many successful direct sellers and network marketers. Introducing a potential consultant to your leaders or bringing them to meetings may assist them in seeing the vision.

Starting a Home Business

When I first started my home business, I went to my first home party show and the presenter was Don Funt. Don’s direct selling success story is one that inspired me to take the step out of the security of my job. As a matter of fact, had any other consultant been the presenter that day, most likely I would not have been open-minded to the possibility that direct sales would lead me to success. Don’s story is that he also quit his full time job to get out of the rat-race. He treated his direct sales business with a professional attitude and created a 6-figure income from the comfort of his home. One of my concerns with my new career was that I may be perceived as being a home-party-lady or unprofessional. Don’s business positioning and attitude showed me that direct sales is a respectable career. That was when I realized that carrying the professionalism from my “real” job into my direct sales was going to be my key to success. I am grateful to Don for giving me the gift of a new life. Don’s success was my inspiration. As we sometimes say in the business,” Don, I am glad you asked!” That should be a lesson to everyone not to prejudge. Had Don decided for me that I was already too successful for him to offer the opportunity to me, then I would not be experiencing a better quality of life today and achieving my dreams.

Myron Golden

Another success story that I would like to share with you is my friend and mentor Myron Golden. Myron’s success story will intrigue everyone in network marketing or direct sales because he struggled with the network marketing business for many years. As a matter of fact, the story he tells is that when getting started in network marketing he worked at his new business for over a year before he got his first paycheck. When Myron got married and started his family he was a garbage man. Now he is a millionaire. During his trash days, Myron spent his lunch breaks and the times spent sitting in traffic in the truck reading self improvement books or listening to educational tapes. He turned his trash truck into a university on wheels. The years of study paid off because now he frequently makes more in one month than he made in the entire decade of the eighties. This success did not happen overnight. Myron Golden is now an accomplished author who shares how he went from the trash man to the cash man in his book The Ebony Treasure Map:. The Road Map To Riches For African Americans. This book is a step-by-step guide that teaches simple steps that will teach anyone who is committed to accomplish the same thing Myron did. Myron’s book teaches a simple system that will work for anyone regardless of race and handicap. I have completed Myron’s seminar training on coaching and presenting the Ebony Treasure Map. This is a seminar presentation that teaches attendees at schools, churches, clubs or organizations how to create a mindset and personal life plan that will make financial freedom an attainable goal. This is an awesome presentation that I enjoy presenting, and especially to young people. I wish someone had shared with me the concepts in The Ebony Treasure Map when I was in my teens or twenties! As a trainer, for Myron’s book I can offer it to you at a discount. It makes an awesome gift for teenagers. Click here to order The Ebony Treasure Map $20. (no shipping)

The American Dream

The fact that 5 of the last 7 presidents of the United States came from normal families with struggles just like you and me is testimonial enough to say that anyone can achieve the American Dream when she or he puts their mind to it. Direct sales can be your dream come true, or it can be the vehicle to your real successes. To learn more about Deb’s transition from the corporate world to the life of an entrepreneur, check out the Power UP For Professional Results CD Set. Do you have a network marketing or direct sales success story? Post a reply to this post and share it with us!

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Wasting Valuable Time with Television

I hardly ever watch TV because there is nothing worth watching. Tonight I had some time and thought, “maybe I will just relax and watch a bit of TV”. No such luck!

I turned it on at 8:00 and found only the amazing talents of a bunch of goofballs. I turned it off and spent an hour listening to a teleseminar conducted by Larry Benet. I had taped it last week and this was a good opportunity to listen to it. The topic was on increasing your memory. Lately, I have been studying Ron White’s system to improve your memory and Ron was the guest speaker on Larry’s weekly call last week. I was glad to get this opportunity to listen to it.

At 9:00 PM I turned the TV on again and the same show was running another episode. There was a brightly dressed rubber man, bending himself into paperclip shapes to the sounds of music and stuffing himself into a little box. I turned the TV off and went for a walk with Scoobie. It was finally cooling off a little from the hot summer weather and the evening was nice. We walked over to the bank, about a mile, and made the deposit and enjoyed the evening. On the way out we stopped at the neighbor’s house. Joan and Bucky joined us. We take late night walks often. Joan and I walk at the same pace and Scoobie and Bucky always enjoy the companionship of fellow species. Bucky is a black lab and Scoobie is a black Belgian Sheppard mix.

10:00 another check to the TV and WOW! we are really lucky, now it is the story of a woman who was killed and her baby nursed next to her for 3 days before they discovered her. I changed the channel immediately. I hate to see blood. My only other TV choice is PBS and I am now listening to a documentary on gardens in Europe while I type this post on my laptop.

I know that you are probably wondering why I don’t have more channels. You guessed it, no cable! I don’t have cable because there is not much better on all of those other channels. I do not see the point of paying to be traumatized. Even when I did have cable, I never found anything worth watching. It is one violent crime show after another. All of those shows are full of negative gory scenes that imprint on my mind for days. Of course I could always watch cooking shows, or learn how to build a house, or plant a garden or blow out eggs to make cute little crafts. I remember one really exciting show that I used to catch occasionally on knitting and another on painting pictures. Do people ever actually utilize what they learn on TV? Of course if you are a sports fan, you definitely need cable. It would be a real hardship to have to get up off the couch and go out to watch a live game. Probably a boring local school game where the kids would really appreciate your support.

How much TV do you watch? I would say if you watch more than an hour or two a week then you have no reason to ever say you are “too busy” for anything. TV is a total waste of time. It is not even a good resource to use for relaxation. The negativity that TV puts into your mind is conditioning you to be apathetic. It is giving you a feeling of hopelessness about life. If you are allowing other people (TV people) to put more into your mind than you are putting into your mind, then you will always struggle with success. How on earth can you expect to be focused, positive, self-assured, open minded and proactive with the negativity of TV filling your thoughts?

Your TV time will be better spent relaxing with family and friends, or walking with your dog. You could study your chosen trade, (there is a free network marketing or direct sales teleseminar every night of the week ) Click here to learn about the Cash Flow Power Hour. You could give some of your time to those less fortunate than you, or providing some community service. Hey, how about, just read a positive book.

You have choices in life. I suggested that you choose to turn off the TV. If you are not going to do it for yourself, then do it for your kids. TV STINKS!

But that’s just my opinion…..