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  • Blessing in Disguise: The Truth About Trouble

    Blessing in Disguise: The Truth About Trouble

    Blessing in Disguise

    A challenge can serve as a blessing. Learn to be grateful for the challenges you face.

    Blessing in Disguise: The Truth About Trouble

    I had an interesting weekend a few weeks ago. I won’t go through all the details but you know what? Things happen which end up being a blessing in disguise and it reminded me of this quote.

    “God doesn’t save you from trouble, he saves you in trouble”.

    You can relate that to a lot of different things.

    God doesn’t save you from pain, but he will save you in pain.

    He doesn’t save you from failure, but he saves you in failure.

    God doesn’t save you from heartache, but he will save you in heartache.

    In our life, we’re always transitioning, and sometimes that transition can be a very, very tough thing. It can be painful.

    As I deal with things, I have to be grateful for dealing with them because number one, it makes me a better person. And number two, if you haven’t dealt with pain, it’s pretty hard to help others deal with pain.

    If you haven’t been through struggle, it’s tough to deal with others and help them get through struggle.

    In network marketing, one of the reasons why I’m able to help so many people get out of failures is because I spent five years in failure.

    The Biggest Blessings in Life

    It gives you an amazing reference and I think one of the biggest blessings that we have in life is the trouble, the pain, the failure, and the heartache because it’s what raises our consciousness.

    If you have not felt sadness, it’s tough to experience joy.

    And if you haven’t experienced darkness, it’s tough to appreciate the light.

    If you haven’t experienced failure, it’s tough to appreciate success.

    I’m grateful. I spent so many years in failure. It definitely has allowed me to appreciate success and I have had lots of roller coaster experiences.

    I should write a book just on the roller coaster of life. There’s a book title if you want to write a book before I write that one.

    The challenge we go through is we expect there not to be challenges. We expect there not to be trouble or pain.

    Find a Belief That Serves You

    I’ll just give you a belief that has served me. Is this belief true? I don’t know. All I can tell you is it’s a belief that serves me.

    In fact, a lot of the beliefs we have, we just make up. There may not be any evidence behind the belief, but if the belief serves us, I think it gives us a lot of power and the belief that I have adopted over the years is that it’s by design.

    God puts it in our life on purpose.

    I’m not saying that saves you from the emotional challenges. It definitely doesn’t save you from those.

    I’m not saying it’s wrong to be sad, upset, or to have any of those negative feelings, but I think it’s wrong to stay there, and oftentimes, the biggest challenge is getting out of it.

    If you can adopt some beliefs that will empower you, then it helps you through the process.

    I’ll just give you one.

    One of those is that whatever experience we go through, it is God’s plan. It’s God’s design for our soul.

    Whatever journey you’ve been on, good or bad, it’s God’s design to build your soul, to make you into the person that he ultimately wants you to be.

    Hopefully, that little belief can help you.

    Challenges are a Blessing and Give You Points of Reference

    If you can look at the challenge and be grateful for it, it gives you points of reference. It gives you experiences that will serve you in later parts of your life.

    When I went through a business failure and ended up $ 750,000 in debt, the debt was not my challenge.

    Most people would say, “Oh my gosh. $ 750,000 in debt? That must have crushed you”.

    The crushing part of that wasn’t the debt. The crushing part of that was I had associated my identity to the company.

    I was the founder and CEO of this company, a young success story, and was someone to be admired.

    I had associated my identity to that. So, rather than looking at my soul and saying, “You are your soul,” I identified with the position that I had as if that was who I really was.

    Looking back, I realize my position was never who I was.

    The person that I was, was that higher power. It was that soul who could look above it and look down and say, “All right. You are serving this role as founder and CEO. You are serving this role as a young success story”.

    When my business came crashing down, the challenge was my identity came crashing down.

    I would go to the bar in the middle of the afternoon and drink two double vodkas to get me through the day because I didn’t understand the principle that I’m talking about now.

    I would say I was grateful for the pain, but I wasn’t soulful enough to take on the pain, understanding that it was a massive blessing.

    I’d numb out. And during this particular weekend, that’s what I wanted to do.

    I wanted to find a bottle of vodka and numb the pain, and because I’ve changed my philosophy over the years, I decided to experience it and to go through the process.

    A year or so ago, I had a similar experience in business.

    I had a major, major challenge and because I had the blessing of the $ 750,000 debt in the past, the blessing of having my business come crashing down, the blessing of having my identity crumble, whenever I went through a challenge, I had that blessing, that reference to remember, and I was able to get through the challenge without having to numb out.

    I look back at the incredible challenge that I had, the incredible depression, the anxiety that I felt. One time, I had to borrow someone’s Xanax to get through a couple of days.

    Be Grateful for Every Blessing

    It’s such a blessing because going through that had me realize I can get through so much more.

    Whatever challenge you’re going through, realize it’s going to make you so much more powerful getting through the next challenge.

    Next time you’re going through the challenge, I want you to challenge yourself not to numb out. Challenge yourself to take it on and not just identify with your conscious mind that’s experiencing these challenges, but operate as your higher self.

    Operate as your soul looking down at yourself, watching yourself as if you’re watching yourself in a movie experiencing these things, these blessings, and watch yourself go through them.

    That’s my prayer for you.

    When you go through the challenge, elevate yourself.

    Realize that you are not your position. You are not your things. You are a much more powerful being, and going through those challenges, as overwhelming as they may be, are an incredible blessing.

    If you’d like to learn about how to overcome fear in network marketing, check out this blog post.

    Go make life an adventure.

    Thanks again for reading this week’s blog post about Blessing in Disguise: The Truth About Trouble.

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    Matt Morris
    #1 Best Selling Author of The Unemployed Millionaire

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  • 4 Writing Techniques To Grab Your Reader’s Attention

    4 Writing Techniques To Grab Your Reader’s Attention

    4 Writing Techniques To Grab Your Reader’s Attention  Want to hear an uncomfortable truth? The bloggers, the entrepreneurs, and the content creators who don’t immediately grab their reader’s attention… … will waste hours, days, or even weeks of time and effort every time they publish a blog post! It’s sad, but true. The fact is, […]

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  • Overcoming Fear in Network Marketing

    Overcoming Fear in Network Marketing

    Fear is the biggest emotion in network marketing

    Fear is the biggest emotion in network marketing.

    Overcoming Fear in Network Marketing

    Fear is the biggest emotion in network marketing and I’ve certainly found that to be the case.

    You may guess what I’m about to tell you.

    The first thing is probably what you would initially think and then I’m going to talk about something a little bit different.

    My favorite book about fear is by Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway. She talks about the five truths of fear and one of those is that everyone has fear. You’re not alone.

    One of those is realizing that if you don’t get over the fear, and you don’t do the thing that you’re fearful for, you live in helplessness the rest of your life.

    Hopefully, your fear of living in hopelessness is bigger than your fear of whatever it is you’re afraid to do.

    We know we can’t just flip a switch and eliminate fear.

    I had a lot of fear for a long time.

    People want to be an influencer online but they’re afraid of doing live videos.

    Maybe they’ve done one and it was such a scary experience that they never do another one.

    So, how do you break through that fear?

    The Secret to Overcoming Fear is Doing the Thing That You’re Afraid of.

    I’ll admit, when I first started doing live videos, it was a little bit nerve-wracking. There was a little fear going on.

    When I first started recording videos that I’d put up on YouTube many, many years ago, it was fearful and nerve-wracking.

    My videos sucked but I overcame the fear by doing the thing that I was afraid of. That’s the intuitive thing.

    Everyone talks about how the key to overcoming fear is to do what you’re afraid of and eventually the death of that fear is inevitable. That’s true. And we know that. I think you’ve probably heard that a million times.

    I want to dig a little deeper today.

    You Can’t Flip a Switch and Eliminate Fear.

    I’ve tried praying and meditating on it but the bottom line is you’ve got to do it. Do it and you’re going to overcome it.

    Someone can tell you do it, do it, do it all day long, and you still have so much fear, you don’t do it. So, what do you do to get yourself to do the thing that you’re afraid of?

    I think you probably know in your heart if you just kept doing it over, and over, and over, even if you’re afraid, you can get over it. Hopefully, you know that’s the case.

    It’s the same with public speaking.

    I Was Deathly Afraid of Speaking in Public.

    My mentor told me I was going to speak one night and I was like, “No way! I’m not.” And he said, “Yes, you are”.

    So, I eventually did it.

    I was pressured into doing it. I sucked and was terrible.

    The first presentation I did, I remember there being six people. Luckily, only six people showed up. There were supposed to be 100 and I was so bad, three out of the six walked out.

    Have you heard the saying in network marketing that you can’t say the wrong thing to the right person and you can’t say the right thing to the wrong person?

    That’s not true at all because one of the guys that walked out, someone else showed him the business a few months later, and he joined and became a top earner in our company. But he had seen part of my presentation and because I was so awful, he left.

    I said the wrong thing to the right person.

    Your fear is going to control you if you don’t have a commitment that’s bigger than the fear.

    I was really afraid of speaking in public but my commitment to being a success in my life, my commitment to being a hero to my unborn children, that was greater than my fear of speaking in public.

    Consciously, I chose that my fear of not being a hero to my children, my fear of not having financial freedom, and my fear of not rising to my potential was way bigger than my fear of getting on stage.

    I had to wrestle with myself and I had to have many conversations with myself about that.

    Make Sure Your Commitment Is Strong Enough

    If you are struggling with fear today, and you don’t seem to be able to break through it, you need to take a serious look at your commitment. Chances are that commitment is not strong enough.

    You want to develop reasons why your commitment is going to be stronger than the fear.

    When you figure out why you must overcome the fear, guess what happens? You figure out how to overcome the fear. You end up getting over it because your commitment is bigger than the fear.

    I look at my life and who I want to be.

    I want to be a hero to my children. That’s important to me. That’s something I’m amazingly committed to and because I’m committed to being a hero to my children, the fear of not living up to that commitment is bigger than my fear of doing a live video.

    Another part of my purpose is helping other people live up to their highest potential. My fear of not helping other people live up to their highest potential is greater than my fear of stepping out of my comfort zone.

    You want to stack these commitments.

    My fear of not living up to my own highest potential is greater than my fear of stepping out of my comfort zone.

    It’s why I am able to step out of my comfort zone.

    Why I’ve been able to do it consistently for years is because I have commitments that are greater than the level of fear of breaking out of my comfort zone.

    Be More Committed Than Your Are Fearful

    Figure out what you really want your life to look like. Get committed to those things and start programming yourself that you’re way more committed than you are fearful.

    And your fear of not living up to those commitments is bigger than the fear of stepping out of your comfort zone in whatever way that you need to.

    I hope this makes sense.

    It’s an extremely valuable process that I’ve gone through. You can almost relate it to “I am statements”.

    Who are you and who are you committed to being?

    I’ve got a list of things.

    Be a Super Daddy.

    Be one of the most confident men in the world.

    I’m committed to touching, moving, and inspiring people.

    I’m committed to making a difference and leaving a legacy.

    Also, I’m committed to leaving an impact that survives me so that I have a legacy that lives on.

    The more I step out of my comfort zone, the more likely I am to actually make that a reality.

    Once you’ve overcome the fear, you’re going to look back in disbelief at how fearful you really were.

    Take public speaking for an example. It consumed me. I was so incredibly afraid to get on stage. It was like butterflies in my stomach. I wanted to vomit. I always wanted to back out.

    Before it was time to get on stage, I was like, “Man, I wish I wouldn’t have done this because I hate this feeling” but my commitments were higher so I continued doing it.

    When I get on stage now, I can’t believe I was so afraid because today, the fear is gone. I’ve done it hundreds of times.

    There may be some people who’ve done it 100 or 200 times and they still have crazy amounts of fear, but what you find is in general, most people are able to get over that.

    Now, I still stress myself out but I almost consider that to be healthy.

    Before I get on stage, I’m always kind of stressing out because I want to deliver in a big way.

    My mission and purpose are to impact lives so I want to make sure that I say the right things, come from the right place, and I have the right energy. So, there’s still a little stress there, but the crippling fear has gone away.

    Same thing with cold calling people, meeting strangers, whatever it may be. Eventually, you’ll get to the point where you’ll look back, and you’ll say, “Wow! I can’t believe I was so afraid”.

    The joy in all this, and this is really what I want you to feel, the joy is turning into the person who is able to overcome a crippling fear.

    If you want to know some secrets to being very, very confident, that comes from you becoming the kind of person who has overcome obstacles.

    The more obstacles you overcome, the more confidence you end up developing.

    Overcome the fear because of the feeling that you get to have, being able to look in the mirror, and being proud of yourself, versus looking in the mirror and staring back at unrealized potential.

    That was the way I lived for a long time.

    When I’d stare in the mirror, what was looking back at me was unrealized potential.

    Today, I look in the mirror, and I certainly have a lot more potential.

    I have a lot of room for growth in a lot of different ways, but I’m proud. I’m proud that I was able to step out of my comfort zone in so many ways to overcome those fears.

    If you feel like this can add some value to some others, feel free to share this.

    If you’re looking for some advanced training on network marketing specifically, hop over to LeadwithMatt.com. I’ve got some leadership strategies there. Not only on becoming a powerful leader, but also on being able to attract powerful leaders into your organization.

    As we know, network marketing is a game of leadership. Leaders with leadership, we grow by multiplication versus addition.

    Addition is slow and painful. Multiplication is fast and fun.

    Appreciate you guys so much.

    If you’d like to learn about the value of promotions and why they’re so important in network marketing, check out this blog post.

    Go make life an adventure.

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  • The Value of Promotion in Network Marketing

    The Value of Promotion in Network Marketing

    Promotion in Network Marketing

    The value of the promotion is your attitude towards it and your promotion of the promotion.

    The Value of Promotion in Network Marketing

    I just got off a webinar with over a thousand people and maxed out the Zoom platform to roll out a promotion for our company, and the fact that myself and my other business partner did the promotion is a huge, huge lesson that I want to cover with you because whether you’ve got one person in your group, or you’ve got a million people in your group, you are a leader. And my biggest calling is rising up leaders in our profession.

    If you’re in network marketing, chances are your company will run promotions from time to time. Maybe your up line is the one running the promotions. And I will tell you, as you start developing a team, you should be running promotions for certain things.

    I’m not talking about any groundbreaking promotions. I’m talking about any promotion. It may be to sponsor one person this month and you get to go to a dinner.

    That is one of the best promotions you can possibly run because it makes people feel special.

    Maybe it’s you sponsor X amount of people and you make some money. Maybe it’s a 20% discount this month on your products and services, whatever it is.

    Duplication of Leadership.

    The key in leadership is not having a bunch of followers, it’s not just making a bunch of money, it’s helping other people rise as leaders.

    Our real value in leadership is helping other people become leaders. That’s where the real duplication comes from. It’s always the duplication of leadership. It’s not necessarily the duplication of someone who goes out and gets one, then that person gets one, or two who gets two.

    The real money is all in duplication of leadership.

    It’s where financial freedom comes from. It’s where you can get to the point in network marketing where you can throw away your cell phone, never answer it again, and your income doesn’t skip a beat. You’re financially secure.

    That’s what I want for you and that’s why I do these lessons.

    The Value of Promotion

    The value of any promotion is never just the promotion itself.

    The value of the promotion is your attitude towards it and your promotion of the promotion.

    Our company just rolled out a big promotion.

    Now, if I want my check to go dramatically up and I want my leaders checks to go dramatically up, I have to follow this advice.

    I can’t just rely on the promotion itself, no matter how good it is.

    The people who follow my advice here are the ones who are going to capitalize on it the most.

    You may get a little increase without doing this because the promotion is really good, but you’re going to get nowhere close to the total value that you can get from it if you don’t follow this advice.

    Your Attitude Towards a Promotion

    Number one is your attitude towards a promotion.

    You have to be excited about the promotion if you want your team to be excited about it.

    Let me explain behavioral psychology very briefly.

    The way it works is if we want to have a lot of success in life, where does that come from? It comes from you and your team taking the right actions.

    Where do actions come from? Actions come from feelings.

    Your action is going to be based on your feelings. 

    More importantly, in network marketing, this is a game of leadership.

    You need your team to be excited. Your team will take more action is they’re excited, motivated, and confident.

    You have to be excited, motivated, and transmit a level of certainty and confidence if you want your people to feel certainty and confidence.

    Belief Comes from Programming

    Actions follow feelings which follow belief and belief comes from programming.

    Why did I do a webinar today with my buddy? I want to program my team to be excited.

    I want to let them know I’m excited. I’m certain. I’m confident. I know this is going to be a game-changer, right?

    If I want my team to have that certainty, I’ve got to transmit that certainty to them. That’s the attitude you need to have towards a promotion.

    Within a few hours of our company rolling out this promotion, I did a big team webinar to announce it to everyone and promoted it because if I don’t promote it to my team and they don’t see me promoting it, guess what happens? They don’t promote it because they think it must not be that good.

    Realize that no matter what the promotion is, you need to be excited about the promotion. You need to transmit that excitement and you need to promote the promotion.

    If you don’t promote the promotion, you get a tiny value.

    What happens is companies roll out a promotion and some leaders capitalize on it. It allows them to make way more money. Some leaders make a little bit more money and some leaders don’t make any more money.

    What’s the difference? It’s the leader’s attitude in their promotion of the promotion. That’s it, my friends.

    This is a simple but incredibly important lesson as leaders and is one that you cannot ignore. You cannot forget this.

    If you feel like this can add some value to some others, definitely share it with them and I always appreciate the comments so let me know what you got out of this.

    If you want some more advanced training on leadership, hop over to LeadwithMatt.com. And I’m going to give you some strategies on becoming a powerful leader and showing you how to recruit some powerful leaders as well.

    If you’d like to learn about why you’re not selling in network marketing, check out this blog post.

    Go make life an adventure.

    Thanks again for reading this week’s blog post about The Value of Promotions in Network Marketing.

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    Matt Morris
    #1 Best Selling Author of The Unemployed Millionaire

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  • How to Close Bigger Packages in Network Marketing

    How to Close Bigger Packages in Network Marketing

    What You’ll Discover In This Episode:The REAL REASON you want to close bigger packages in your network marketing business… this goes way beyond making a commission.​​WHY starting with a bigger package gives you an advantage to growing your business fast.How CLOSING bigger packages becomes much easier than closing small packages.​ 0 shares Share0 Tweet0 Share0 […]

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