GOALS

Chad Schapiro: Here, once more, is the simple, seven-step process that you can use to achieve your goals faster and easier than ever before.
First, decide exactly what you want in each area of your life. Be specific!
Second, write it down, clearly and in detail;
Third, set a specific deadline. If it is a large goal, break it down into sub-deadlines and write them down in order;
Fourth, make a list of everything you can think of that you are going to have to do to achieve your goal. As you think of new items, add them to your list;
Fifth, organize the items on your list into a plan by placing them in the proper sequence and priority;
Sixth, take action immediately on the most important thing you can do on your plan. This is very important!
Seventh, do something every day that moves you toward the attainment of one or more of your important goals. Maintain the momentum!
Join the Top 3%Fewer than three percent of adults have written goals and plans that they work on every single day. When you sit down and write out your goals, you move yourself into the top 3% of people in our society. And you will soon start to get the same results that they do.

Chad Schapiro: To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about.

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Chad Schapiro:85 LEADERS

I will be looking in on the goal sheets more often so I can encourage and help in given areas. Anyone that is disciplined and truly uses this tool for an extended period of time the way it's designed WILL have success. I don't promise much but this is the way it is.

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Chad Schapiro:Adversity

“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.” — Lou Holtz

Success in life depends upon being strong people with clear goals and focused discipline. Unfortunately most of us aren’t born that way. We grow that way. And that growth can either come from us entering into situations that will cause us to grow, like creating a business, or from the way we react when circumstances come upon us that we have not chosen. The latter is what we call adversity.

Most of us spend our lives trying to avoid adversity, and who can blame us? We shouldn’t pursue adversity, but when it arrives, we should welcome it, through our interaction with it, will make us into better people. Every contact we have with adversity gives us again the opportunity to grow personally and professionally and to forge our character into one that will achieve much more later on.

With that in mind, here are some thoughts on adversity, and how it can help you to succeed in every area of your life and achieve your dreams.
Adversity brings out our resources. Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. When everything is going well, we coast. There isn’t a lot of stress, and we don’t have to draw too much on the resources that reside within us. But when adversity comes we begin to draw upon each and every resource that we have in order to conquer the situations at hand. Adversity then, keeps us sharp. It keeps us using our personal muscle, if you will. That is a good thing because we grow through the use of our resources.

Adversity brings us together with others. Sure a team can have their problems with each other, but when they step on the court, when they experience the adversity of facing another obstacle, they pull together. One for all and all for one, as they say. The next time you experience adversity of some kind, keep your eyes open for how it can bring you together with your family, your mentors or your team. Then when you are through it, you will find a bond that was created that wasn’t there before.

Adversity makes us better people with stronger characters. Never underestimate the power of adversity to shape us inwardly. How will courage, discipline and perseverance ever flourish if we are never tested? After adversity, we come out stronger people and able then to use our character and influence in an even greater way to lead those around us and to improve their lives as well as our own.

Adversity makes life interesting. John Amatt said, “Without adversity, without change, life is boring.” How true. Have you noticed that while we are in the middle of adversity we only want to get out of it, but we then spend a lifetime talking about it to anyone who will listen? This is because it spices life up a little. Imagine how boring life would be if everything always went well, when there was never a mountain to be climbed.

Question - If you are in the middle of some adversity right now, what resources are you drawing on? Who are you drawing closer to and working with? What part of your character is being tested, and built up? What can you do to view this adversity as someone who will be better for it on the other side?

Remember the words of Napoleon Hill - “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” It is true!

Chad Schapiro:All Industry's Recruit

This was a quick article I read about a college football program in Minnesota. Notice their attention to recruiting and what the writer attributes the success of the top football schools throughout history.

"This was an indication of what a great recruiting job Brewster and his staff have done to try to attract athletes to Minnesota since he was named the Gophers coach. Their motto is "24/7/365," meaning recruit 24 hours, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and they have tried to do that.

And if they can recruit the outstanding athletes from outside Minnesota and win, it will make it easier to get the top kids in the state.

True, Brewster has never been a head coach or an offensive coordinator, and he has to prove that he can coach.

But I'm convinced he can recruit with the best. The reason Michigan and Ohio State win year after year is that they are able to recruit the best athletes."

Many times in Home Business we put an emphasis on other things but at the end of the day the best and most consistent recruiters have the best and most productive teams.

Chad Schapiro: WAY TO GO LEADERS!!

I wanted to take a moment to CONGRATULATE MARITA, MARK, AND ARDIE!!! These three Execs are really out there leading the way not only in their production but in their personal work ethic and commitment to the success of OurGV and the affiliates they work with around the world.

Chad Schapiro: Lead Yourself

There are two essential qualities of leadership. Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric says that the "Reality Principle" is the most important of all. What this means is the practice of realism in all things.

The realist insists upon seeing the world as it really is, not as he wishes it were. This objectivity, this refusal to engage in self-delusion, is a mark of the true leader. Those who exhibit the quality of realism do not trust to luck, hope for miracles, pray for exceptions to basic business principles, expect rewards without working or hope that problems will go away by themselves. These all are examples of self-delusion, of living in a fantasyland.

The motivational leader insists on seeing things exactly as they are and encourages others to look at life the same way. As a motivational leader, you get the facts, whatever they are. You deal with people honestly and tell them exactly what you perceive to be the truth. This doesn't mean that you will always be right, but you will always be expressing the truth in the best way you know how.

The second key quality of motivational leadership is responsibility. This is perhaps the hardest of all to develop. The acceptance of responsibility means that, as Harry Truman said, "The buck stops here."

The game of life is very competitive. Sometimes, great success and great failure are separated by a very small distance. In watching the play-offs in basketball, baseball and football, we see that the winner can be decided by a single point, and that single point can rest on a single action, or inaction, on the part of a single team member at a critical part of the game.

Life is very much like competitive sports. Very small things that you do, or don't do, can either give you the edge that leads to victory or take away your edge at the critical moment. This principle is especially true with regard to accepting responsibility for yourself and for everything that happens to you.

Refuse to Make Excuses! The opposite of accepting responsibility is making excuses, blaming others and becoming upset, angry and resentful toward people for what they have done to you or not done for you.Any one of these three behaviors can trip you up and be enough to cost you the game: If you run into an obstacle or setback and you make excuses rather than accept responsibility, it's a five-yard penalty. It can cost you a first down. It can cost you a touchdown. It can make the difference between success and failure.If, when you face a problem or setback, and you both make excuses and blame someone else, you get a 10-yard penalty. In a tightly contested game, where the teams are just about even, a 10-yard penalty can cost you the game.If, instead of accepting responsibility when things go wrong, you make excuses, blame someone else and simultaneously become angry and resentful and blow up, you get a 15-yard penalty. This may cost you the championship and your career as well if it continues.

Lead Yourself, Be A Role Model. Personal leadership and motivational leadership are very much the same. To lead others, you must first lead yourself. To be an example or a role model for others, you must first become an excellent person yourself.

Chad Schapiro: Develop Self-Confidence

In my opinion, there is nothing more important than your belief in your own potential for success and happiness, regardless of your age, gender, ethnicity, looks, education or background. The truth is, every day "You only sell you." You don't sell websites or a business concept. You sell the value of the person offering the websites and services. The decision of the buyer is based on the value of the seller. Just as products are described as "good", "expensive", "incredible", "worth-it" so, too, are individuals branded by others as "winners" or "losers."

Who you are shouts so loudly, that people either can't hear, don't want to hear, or listen carefully to what you are saying. Everybody loves a winner, and we all want to work with winners who pass their own value on to us.

Self-confidence isn't something you were born with. It's something you develop. Many of us were cultivated like weeds as children. We played inferior roles to the adults around us, who frequently reminded us of our faults and shortcomings more than our successes and abilities.If you had that type of childhood, as I did, you face a special challenge in building up your self-confidence as an adult. Here are some basic points to remember about yourself:

1. Realize that the most important opinion about you is the one that you hold. Long-term, nobody else is responsible for your life but you. Nobody else is accountable for your actions but you. Therefore, nobody’s opinion about you is more important than yours.

2. Don't demand perfection of yourself. An A is usually awarded to the person who scores 90 percent or better, and sometimes the score doesn't need to be that high. Professional basketball players only make half their shots. Professional quarterback complete only half their passes, and professional baseball players reach first base less than 40 percent of the time, and that includes walks. And we all know what our averages are in picking stocks to invest in that are always going up. That would be never! Give your best effort every day and keep going forward. Perfection is not only totally unrealistic to expect and virtually impossible to achieve, but it greatly takes you away from your ability to move forward. The person who is constantly looking over his or her shoulder at what might have been done better, can't possibly be focused on the future. Drive with your eyes ahead; don't drive by concentrating on the rearview mirror.

3. Develop a strong system of values. Take those values like striving for freedom, being the best you can be, persistence, showing love, serving others, or whatever and feed those values. Learn about them, immerse yourself in them so they grow and choke out the weeds around you. Your values will greatly affect how you relate to others. The stronger your values are, the greater the impact. If you are lacking in values, you will tend to draw from and even use other people to try to mimic their behaviors, if only superficially. Instead, seek to become a model, one who can help and give strength to others.

4. Don't reinforce your failures. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. Failure is a temporary setback, not a residence. Failure is a learning experience, not a person. Like success, failure is a growth process, not a status. Don't wallow in your mistakes. Correct them and move forward. Failure is necessary to move forward like bending a knee to step up higher. Congrats for your recent failures!!

5. Recognize that the most important conversations are the ones you have with yourself. Whether or not you are aware of it, you have a running conversation with yourself from the time you get up to the time you go to sleep. Your thoughts and ideas are "you talking to you." Have daily conversations with yourself that are supportive and reinforcing. We know the value of talking to people who praise us, reward us, recognize us, are happy to see us, and let us know they genuinely enjoy talking with us. Talk to yourself with those same qualities – silently as well as out loud.

6. Give each job or task your best effort. Countless individuals say, when confronted with a chore, "I'm too good to be doing this." They have negativity for their current lifestyle and the work that must be done, and get discouraged easily. Success is an accumulation of what you do in the minutes of each day. No task is too unworthy to do well. There are no small parts – only small actors.

7. To develop confidence, you must see yourself ultimately as a unique part of creation. You must recognize, with pleasure, that nobody else is just like you. No one else has exactly your personality, history or experiences. No one else has your footprints, your finger prints, your voice print or your genetic code. No one else has precisely your set of talents, capabilities and skills. You are one of a kind. The value is there. It just needs to be dusted off and polished.

Chad Schapiro: Keep On Keeping On

We all want to improve our results in many different areas from where we are currently. Be gentle with yourself. It has taken you your whole life to become the person you are today. If you are like everyone else, you are not perfect. You have lots of room to grow and improve. There are many changes that you can and will make in your character and personality in the course of becoming the excellent human being that you aspire to. But change in your personality will not come easily, and it won't come overnight. You must be patient. If you are not patient then you are going to get frustrated and it won't be as enjoyable a process.

Make a decision to stick with it no matter what. Once that commitment is firmly in place there will be less second guessing yourself and taking the easy way out by looking for the back door. The reason that people grow and become better and better over the course of time, is because they persist gently in the direction of their goals and dreams. They don't expect overnight transformations. When they don't see results immediately, they don't get discouraged. They just keep on keeping on. And you must do the same.

Chad Schapiro: Koi Pond

I have a beautiful Koi pond out back that is stocked with incredible Koi and turtles. Often the Texas heat will be so powerful that the algae takes over and the water goes from clear to looking like a thick pea green soup. The importance of having a filter in place and running effectively to keep the clean water moving forward and not stagnant while it picks up and filters the excess algae is the key to keeping it beautiful and a joy to see. The pond itself didn't change, just the clearness of the water.

When leaders invest in and take care of themselves they are much more able to create clearness and an attractive environment from which they lead. Conversely, if you neglect yourself, you are more likely to have murkiness in your relationships and the results can dramatically be affected. You can save money and skip the trainings, not invest in the tools, not focus on your own growth just like it would be cheaper to not have to buy some fancy waterfall and filter feature.

You may be the same person, but how you are perceived and how effective you become can be hindered. We all have the opportunity to create both positive and negative experiences for ourselves and those around us. As leaders, let's realize that investing in ourselves needs to be at the top of our priority list. For people to be able to enjoy you and be brought forward you have to keep moving, don't get stagnant, and clear the negatives out. You are a beautiful vision that the world will enjoy seeing.

Chad Schapiro: Positive Attitude

It is not what happens to you that counts. It is how you react to what happens to you, especially when you have unexpected problems of any kind.

Here are four things you can do to assure that your attitude is the very best it can be, under all circumstances.

Focus On the Future
First, whatever challenges you face, focus on the future rather than on the past. Instead of worrying about who did what and who is to blame, focus on where you want to be and what you want to do. Get a clear mental image of your ideal successful future, and then take whatever action you can to begin moving in that direction. Get your mind, your thoughts, and your mental images on the future.

Think About the Solution
Second, whenever you're faced with a difficulty, focus on the solution rather than on the problem. Think and talk about the ideal solution to the obstacle or setback, rather than wasting time rehashing and reflecting on the problem. Solutions are naturally positive, whereas problems are naturally negative. The instant that you begin thinking in terms of solutions, you become a positive and constructive person.

Look For the Good
Third, assume that something good is hidden within each difficulty or challenge. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, a major supporter of positive thinking, once said, "Whenever God wants to give us a gift, he wraps it up in a problem." The bigger the gift you have coming, the bigger the problem you will receive. But the wonderful thing is that if you look for the gift, you will always find it.

Seek the Valuable Lesson
Fourth, assume that whatever situation you are facing at the moment is exactly the right situation you need to ultimately be successful. This situation has been sent to you to help you learn something, to help you become better, to help you expand and grow.

Decide to Be Positive
A Positive Mental Attitude is necessity to your success. You can be as positive as you want to be if you will simply think about the future, focus on the solution and look for the good. If you do what other successful people do, if you use your mind to exert mental control over the situation, you will be positive and cheerful most of the time. And you will reap the benefits enjoyed by all successful people.

Chad Schapiro: Habits

So how do you break a bad habit? How do you give it the boot out of your life? Here are a few things that must be a part of the plan in order to see that stuff gone forever!

1. You must want them to go. That's right, some people want them to stick around. I have seen people watch tv instead of getting to work. I have seen smokers continue smoking while watching their parents die of emphysema. They don't want them to go. The first thing is to go deep into the recesses of your heart and ask, "Do I really want to give this up?"

2. You do? Good. Step two: Make up a list of all of the reasons you want to quit your bad habits. Make them positive. Make the list long! Start with the gigantic strong reasons first. Now memorize them. Put them in your mind. You are making connections between stopping the bad behavior with what good things you will get from doing so. If you want to build your business put the things like freedom, travel, giving, and any material items that would motivate you. If you want to stop smoking, picture your wife actually kissing you rather than sending you to the bathroom to brush your teeth!

3. Choose. That is right. Once you have the information, this comes down to one thing: It is an act of the will. Choose to do it. Say to yourself throughout the day, "I am choosing to..." Eisenhower rightly said, "The history of free men is written not by chance but by choice, their choice." It is your choice. You can write your life into whatever you want it to be. We are all like clay ready to be formed.

4. Take action! Point four is tricky because there are two philosophies about this. One theory is that you must take massive action. You must go all or nothing. Using the business example they have got to start with the highest investment, quit their job, focus 14 hours a day. They go all out! That works for some. Others would burn out on that, feel like failures and be worse off than before. They should start out slow, taking baby steps, but working diligently toward a planned goal. This person would decide to start at a more comfortable investment level. They would decide to attend a certain amount of live trainings each week, making a certain amount of calls each day. See how this works? Either way is okay as long as you get to the goal eventually.

5. Tell somebody. This is your accountability partner. Tell them your goal and tell them your plan. Write it down for them and have them ask you on regular intervals about your progress. This will prove invaluable!

6. Recover from failure. Inevitably most people will have setbacks. The key is to have them be setbacks and not turnbacks! Pick yourself up and get going again. Some people may get excited go call a few people, get told they are crazy, get depressed. Then they feel bad and give up. Don't! Get back after it! No one has every grown by successes alone. Chalk it off to experience! Say to yourself, "Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn."

7. Reward yourself. That's right. You should regularly congratulate yourself by rewarding yourself with some gift to yourself. Start small with small victories and plan a big one when you are finally and for sure over the habit.

Is it that simple? Most of the time, no. Habits are hard to break. There are so many intangibles that it would be hard to cover them all. But this is a simple and workable plan that will help you make great strides if you apply the principles.

Chad Schapiro: Challenges

When asked, "How do you develop mental toughness in life?", my response might sound negative at first when I answer, "Always be prepared for a surprise. The surprise might be a negative surprise. Something is going to happen in your day, whether you have no one home all day, have your cousin tell you you're crazy, or whatever -- something is going to happen... And the key is your ability not to take mole hills and look at them as mountains."

Problems are a normal part of change. Things are changing so rapidly that there are going to be problems you face. So you must look at failure as an event, not as a person. I'm not a failure. Maybe I've had a failure or a temporary inconvenience. I've had a stumbling block, and the idea is to turn the stumbling block into a stepping stone, and step on it instead of stumble over it.

So look at failure as the fertilizer of success.Fertilizer stinks, it smells. You see that guy putting it on his lawn and you say, "Wow, that guy fertilized his lawn, he's trying to make it better." You fertilize your mistakes. You don't wallow in them, lay in them, roll in them; you pick yourself up off your mistakes and learn from them. You try not to repeat that same thing again. But you look at it as a temporary inconvenience, as a detour -- a detour in life -- not as a failure.

These challenges are really opportunities that we have got to go through to strengthen us into the people we need to be to grow larger in our own awareness. We are going to grow to our success through these challenges and be a light that guides others through the same adversities they face in their lives.

Chad Schapiro: Working With Others

Motivate People to Give of Their Best
It is the vision of the future possibilities, of what can be, that arouses emotion and motivates people to give of their best. They need to understand how they can change the lives for people all around the world. How they can change their income to levels they never imagined. What if you had 100 affiliates active around the world and they each generated you only $100 a month? That would be 10k a month whether you worked or not. Imagine helping a non-profit have 1000 customers that they only earned $10 from each a month to have and extra 10k a month themselves to cover the dreams.

Keep Your Cool
Another key to leadership success is for you to "keep your cool." A study at Stanford Business School examined the qualities that companies look for in promoting young managers toward senior executive positions, especially the position of Chief Executive Officer. The study concluded that the two most important qualities required for great success were, first, the ability to put together and function as part of a team. Since all work is ultimately done by teams, and the managers' output is the output of the team, the ability to select team members, set objectives, delegate responsibility and finally, get the job done, was central to success in management.

Practice is Everything
The second quality required for rapid promotion was found to be the ability to function well under pressure, and especially in a crisis. Keeping your cool in a crisis means to practice patience and self-control under difficult or disappointing circumstances.

People Are Watching
The character and quality of a leader is often demonstrated in these critical moments under fire, when everyone is watching, observing and privately taking notes. As Rudyard Kipling once said, "If you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, then the world is yours and all that's in it".Your job as a leader is to have a clear vision of where you want to go and then to keep your cool when things go wrong, as they surely will.

Chad Schapiro: Gradual Adaptation

The older I get the more I notice that my metabolism seems to be moving slower than most glaciers. I was watching a turtle the other day make its way across the grass and I could have sworn that I heard my metabolism say,' Hey turtle, slow down…what is your hurry?'

It has become a monumental struggle to maintain the weight that I prefer to be at. Other than eating the right foods, I have become a runner. That is right – a runner. It is the last thing I thought you would ever hear me say. A few years ago, it would have been more likely that I join a circus as a fire juggler. Yet, here I am a runner.

A concept that running has taught me is the one of 'gradual adaptation'. When I started running 1 and a half miles seemed tough. As I lumbered around the block that first jog it felt as if my eyes were rolling back in my head. I could feel my lunch making its way to resurface and my lungs gasped to grab all the oxygen that they could.Now, today as I glide past the 1.5 mile mark I haven't even gotten warmed up. What made the change? Gradual adaptation.

A fellow runner suggested that I run for twenty minutes at a slow pace. He convinced me that it was the duration and not the intensity that was important. I soon reported back to him that I was able to run twenty minutes with great ease at 6.3 mph. 'Super!' he replied. 'Next time you run – run for 25 minutes' was his continued suggestion.In my mind, he might as well told me to sprout wings and fly. Yet, I nodded my head and told him I would give it a try. To my amazement the extra five minutes came easy. Within a few weeks, I was running 30 minutes, then 35, then 40, then 45 and then 60 consecutive minutes!If I had started at 60 minutes, I would have most likely been wheeled to the hospital afterwards and never ran again. Instead, I chose the option of gradual adaptation.

Whether your goal is running, building a business or learning a new skill the concept of gradual adaptation is one that you must implement to be successful.Don't attempt to change the world in a day. Most people over estimate what they can accomplish in a year (this is because they don't practice gradual adaptation) and underestimate what they can accomplish in a decade.

How to implement gradual adaptation:
- Decide what your ultimate goal is
- Understand this will also be a lesson in patience and do not rush the end result
- Establish stages or levels of the larger goal
- Focus on the next stage, not the end result.
- Remind yourself of the end result to maintain excitement and passion while still focusing on the next stage
- Measure your progress

Realize that your results in any endeavor will be slow at first but as you gain momentum the results expand geometrically. This is why most overestimate their accomplishments for a year and under-estimate the possible accomplishments of a decade.This six step process will work if you are building a business, a workout routine or learning a new skill. Remember that no one ever ran a marathon the first time out of the blocks and neither will you.Practice gradual adaptation.

Chad Schapiro: Wayward Winners

I believe there are three kinds of people. There are winners, who know what they want and understand their potential and the possibilities. They take life on. Next are losers, who don't have a clue as to who they are. They allow circumstances to shape their lives and their self-image.

I believe there is a third group as well. This consists of potential winners whose lives are just slightly out of alignment. I call them wayward winners. It may be that they just need to learn how to be real winners. Perhaps they've hit a bump or two that has knocked them off course and they are temporarily frustrated. A failed relationship, a lost job, financial problems, unformed goals, a lack of parental support, illness„many things can send us off course temporarily.Wayward winners are not lost souls; they just need some tweaking and coaching and nudging to get them back on course. Some mentorship and direction maybe nice. Many of these wayward winners are easily identifiable because they are always searching.

Right now, there are many wayward winners out there braving rain, sleet and snow because they, too, still believe that they have untapped talents. They attend motivational seminars and listen to inspirational tapes and they plunge onward, believing that sooner or later they will find their way again.Other wayward winners have temporarily given up. They are damaged and disoriented, their confidence badly eroded. They tend to drift through life aimlessly. The friends and relatives and loved ones of wayward winners see that they are out of sync and wonder why they can't be satisfied, why they don't settle down. They wonder how people who have such obvious abilities and great potential can be so disoriented and unsure.

It is difficult for others to understand the pain of a broken heart or the feelings of being lost with no direction. You and I know. We all have been there. Wayward winners know that there are possibilities out there, but too often they feel that they are not for them. Some are afraid to risk any more because of what they have risked and lost already.I know now that as difficult as it may be for you wayward winners to do, it is necessary to continue to test yourselves. Even though you have been hurt before, it is the only way to grow. We all have the capacity to change, to lead meaningful and productive lives by lifting ourselves upward to higher levels. Success is like the kid reaching for the cookie jar, as we grow everything becomes in reach. These lessons that are necessary for us each to learn are the steps up to even higher levels that we would've never reached without them.

You know there are going to be tough times as you go about changing your life, so brace yourself and you will be able to handle them. When you get into your seat on an airplane, what is the first thing they tell you to do? Fasten your seat belt. Brace yourself for the turbulence.When you decide to move your life to the next level of accomplishment, you must fasten your mental and spiritual seat belts because it is going to be a while before you reach that comfortable level again. You will reach it, but you must endure the turbulence of change in order to grow.

Try this technique to help you through the difficult times of change and growth. Find four reasons why you cannot fall victim to your fears and your troubles. Find those deep sources of motivation that can lift you out of the turbulence and above the clouds. You must change your life because, for example:
You have not yet tapped the talents given you.
You want to leave something more for your children.
You want to live life rather than letting life live you.
You want to do what makes YOU happy.
You want to give to life not take.

It is in these rocky early moments of bringing change to your life that you discover who you are. In the prosperous times, you build what is in your pocket. In the tough times, you strengthen what is in your heart. And that is when you gain insight into yourself, insight that leads to self-mastery and an expansion of your consciousness as a force in both your personal and professional lives. As you become more you have more. You grow to success.

Chad Schapiro: Become A Marshmallow Resister

A fascinating study was conducted at the University of Stamford some years ago. Four-year-old children were placed in a room, one by one, and a marshmallow was placed in front of them. Each child was told that if they didn't eat the marshmallow in fifteen minutes, they would get two; but if they ate the marshmallow in front of them, they wouldn't get another one. Two out of three kids ate the marshmallow.

Fifteen years later, there was a follow up to the study and what was found was incredible. Every child that participated in the study and hadn't eaten the marshmallow was successful and many of the children who had eaten the marshmallow were not doing well at all. Some had dropped out of school, others were not making good grades, and others still were very much in debt.

The conclusion of the study was that people who are able to delay gratification have a much better chance of being successful in life. There are marshmallow eaters and marshmallow resisters in our society, but the eaters outnumber the resisters three to one.

This principle is perhaps the only success principle that can be applied by anyone. If in the past you were like me and would've eaten the marshmallow right away it is time to change and resist. We have a future to build. Let's learn from our mistakes and follow the lead of the successful people.

Chad Schapiro: BUILDING SUCCESS

1. DREAM BIG. We have all heard the stories of people coming from no where to dramatic levels of success in all areas of life. What is stopping that from happening to you? Nothing! The only thing that every stops any of us is that we don't dream big enough. Make sure to get creative, think about the best case scenario, and dream big with no thoughts of failure.

2. STUDY. Once the dream is set you need to learn all you can about how to attain it. I remember watching vhs tapes on how to get started 30x over. These tapes had the most basic of content but were important for me to get every last detail to reach success faster. I spent $1000 a month or more on the companies training. Read every last thing the companies CEO gave us. Make sure you do all this and more as you work towards your dream.

3. INVOLVE OTHERS. We need a team of people to help us out. Many of us don't get enough prospects involved, we don't utilize our expert enough, we don't promote enough for trainings. I would get ever last person I could to be in my team and help me with referrals if nothing else. I never looked at it as "my team only". I looked at it as part of a bigger whole and that I wanted the help of every last available resource to help me with my team and the individuals involved. We need help by all the experts, materials, and any other possible positive influences.

4. GET STARTED. Set your plan. The most important moment is this moment. Get your goals down to the detail about what must happen now. Then do it. Don't be relaxed with your daily goals make them happen. Get started and take action! Success is the positive accumulation of moment by moment steps that accumulate towards your dream. I see many people afraid to jump in and take action, and I see others who have started but don't mind not hitting their daily goals. We need to constantly "GET STARTED" and work our goals set up.

5. EXPECT OPPOSITION. Not everyone wants to sign up with you. Not everyone thinks that you will make this work. You doubt yourself sometimes. Some think this is not real. You wish you could invest more in your business. You wish you were making more money sooner. You want more free time right now. You need to be retired like yesterday. It is too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry...I think you get the idea. There will always always be problems and opposition. The key to your success is to not act so surprised by the negative others, doubting feelings within yourself, and outside circumstances that don't fall into place fast enough. If you aren't shocked by them they can't hurt you as much. Do you think others have survived this opposition and more on their way to success? Do you think your team will have these issues as well? How would you like them to handle them? However you would like your team to respond is exactly what you should get into the habit of doing.

6. HAVE FAITH. If you relax and have faith there will be many things that you have no way of being able to comprehend at this point that will show themselves.

7. NO COMPLAINING. Every complaint is just wasting your time from finding the real solution.

8. DON'T QUIT. The old adage "quitters never win and winners never quit" is true. It is a simple rule and if followed fully will make all the other negatives smaller. People get into real trouble when they contemplate quitting. Would you want to work with someone who entertains the idea of quitting. I know I wouldn't want to go near that person. How can we take steps forward when we are hurting our self that badly. Focus on growing and getting to where you want to be. What must you do right now this moment to help you towards your dream.

9. CELEBRATE. Celebrate every last small thing possible. Create an atmosphere of success by celebrating every successful step along the way. Make sure you do that same thing with your affiliates. As you learn to celebrate the small successes you will then notice that you have come a long way in creating large successes. And...before you know it your BIG DREAM WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED!!!

Chad Schapiro: YOU CAN DO IT!

The first thing we need for you to do is to become an expert in OurGV. Read all the blog entries, go to all the trainings, listen to all the videos, study the coaching site. Aim to be recognized as someone who is not afraid to pay the price of success. Someone who knows that success is not built from the ground up but rather from the individual like you and I up. Remember the person who has the expertise has a far greater contribution to make than the person whose knowledge is just average.

The second type of main area is skill. The better you are as an affiliate, the more you will be paid. The top 20 percent of salespeople earn as much as ten and fifteen times the average earnings of the bottom 80 percent. There are three keys to developing skill. First, make a decision to be the best. Pay any price. Make any sacrifice. Go any distance to become excellent at what you do. Second, engage in continuous improvement. Never allow yourself to become satisfied or complacent at your current level of skill. And third, always strive to exceed the expectations of your prospects, your expert, and the affiliates you serve. Always do more and better than you're paid for.

Chad Schapiro: 2 KEYS

There are two powers of personality you can develop that will increase your charisma and your ability to lead others.

Decide Exactly What You Want!! The first of these powers is the power of purpose. Men and women with charisma and personal magnetism almost always have a clear vision of who they are, of where they're going and of what they're trying to make happen in their lives. Leaders have a vision of what they're trying to create and why they're doing what they're doing. They're focused on accomplishing some great purpose. They're decisive about every aspect of their lives. They know exactly what they want and what they have to do to get it. They plan their work and work their plan.

Set Clear Goals For Yourself
You can increase your charisma and the magnetism of your personality by setting clear goals for yourself, making plans to achieve them, and working on your plans with discipline and determination every day. The whole world seems to move aside for the person who knows exactly where he or she is going. In fact, the clearer you are about your purposes and goals, the more likely people will be to attribute other positive qualities to you. They will see you, or perceive you, as being a better and more admirable human being. And when you have clear goals, you begin attracting to yourself the people and opportunities necessary to make those goals a reality. Men and women with charisma have an intense belief in themselves and in what they are doing. They are usually calm, cool and composed about themselves and their work. They have a relaxed intensity and are rarely stressed out. Your level of self-confidence is often demonstrated in your courage, your willingness to do whatever is necessary to achieve a purpose that you believe in.

The Secret of Attraction
People are naturally attracted to those who exude a sense of self-confidence, those who have an unshakable belief in their ability to rise above the current situation to attain their goals. People are also attracted to someone who gives from their heart.

Creating Self-Confidence
One of the ways you demonstrate self-confidence is by assuming that people naturally like you and accept you and want to do business with you. One of the best ways to achieve success in your relationships is to assume that people naturally enjoy your company and want to be around you, and then go forward on that basis. The very act of behaving in a self-confident manner will set you apart as a leader in the eyes of others.

Chad Schapiro: WE'RE BACK!!

Many of you did an incredible job holding down the fort and actually advancing our cause for donating 1 billion dollars to various non-profits around the world. We thank you for your hard work and apologize that we did not get you on this past cruise. It was AMAZING!!

Traveling the globe in one of the nicest cruise ships in the world is nice. Going to one of the top 10 beaches in all the world in Nigril, then on a submarine 110 feet below the ocean, and to a private VIP island where the filmed the corona commercials, all of this was great but would have been even better if you were there!

Spending time with Marita Ionescu, Mark Christensen, Ardie Wahl, and the President WJ Vincent II was the biggest treat for me. In a business where we build relationships all over the world thanks to the phone and the internet it is still such a pleasure and honor to meet with these incredible people face to face. To see the passion and hunger for the companies goals as well as their own lofty goals only inspires myself and all around them. I think we all walked off the cruise ship feeling like we let everyone down by not pushing harder to get you on there.

We know we each had to push through all kinds of personal barriers our self to reach these levels of production and should be helping you do the same. We will not let you down again, now is the time to push it and get you on the next one!!! We can not live in regret of wishing you had been there when another is so close to being here that we need to wipe the slate clean and get it done. Plan on going, take the time off, check into buying the plane ticket, take that week off from work (if you work), make any king of arrangements necessary to show yourself and the rest of the world that it is a done deal. Now all we have to do is roll up the shirt sleeves and get down to business!! LETS DO IT!

Will you be on the next one?? I am personally going to do everything in my power to get you there.

Chad Schapiro: CRUISE CONTEST

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Chad Schapiro: Empty Boxes And Orders

There are two types of sales people. The first type is called the 'It Is Not My Fault Salesperson' and will routinely bring back excuses on why they didn't make the sale. The second type is the 'Empty Boxes and Orders Salesperson'. This sales professional is given that name because that is routinely what they bring back – empty boxes that used to hold product and back orders for more product. Now we don't have boxes or products that go in boxes but I think you get the idea.

If you are in sales you must decide which group you will fall into. Now, does this mean that if you are an 'Empty Boxes and Orders Salesperson' that you will one hundred percent of the time bring back empty boxes and orders? Of course not, every now and then you will bring back boxes of product and no orders. You will have times when it seems like you can't sign up an affiliate that loves non-profits and can't wait to work from home. However, because you are not the 'It is Not My Fault Salesperson' you refuse to allow yourself to make excuses or blame the situation or prospect for the lack of sales. Instead, you ask the question – What could I have done differently to earn the relationship? What could I have said that I didn't say that might have caused them to move to action?

When you shift the responsibility for making the sale from the prospect to yourself you are shifting your mindset from a victim of sales to a creator of sales. Victims of the sales environment have skinny kids and empty bank accounts. Creators of a positive sales environment take their kids on exotic vacations and need their own personal banker to handle all the money.

I use to sign up more people than anyone in the office. When the day was over I would tell everyone that I thought I could have done a few things differently to get more the next day. People would look at me and say,"how could you have done any better? You were great and created excitement with every person in the room!' I kind of smiled and said, 'Yeah, I guess you are right.'But you know what? That is just my attitude, after every sales presentation that I give I always ask the question, 'How could I have done more? How could I have created more awareness?' In other words, what can I do to get better.

The 'It Is Not My Fault Salesperson' refuses to ask those probing questions of themselves because in doing so they are admitting that they alone are responsible for the outcome of their income.Take responsibility for your numbers and results and I can't wait until you are bringing back empty boxes and orders more often than not!

Chad Schapiro: Keys To Success

• THINK about what you THINK ABOUT… and if you catch yourself thinking about unhappiness, ill health and adversity, "change the channel" and think about what you want to happen!

• When something happens by chance, follow up. Lucky people tend to notice and act on good things that occur by happenstance.

• Believe that good things will happen. Expectations have a way of coming true.

• When bad things happen, look for the bright side; i.e., "what did I learn from that?" or, "how do I keep it from happening again?" Don't dwell on it, move on!

.• Don't look for love in the wrong places… not just romantic love, but the love of "stuff." Stuff is O.K., but understand the delusion of "I'll be happy when I have this or that… or, when I live over there, or when this happens." Happiness is a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant most of the time.

• Failure is a CHOICE made by the undisciplined. Failing to meet your objectives, regardless of what they are, is a choice, because something else has been given higher priority. If you fail, it is because you choose to fail.

• You don't "catch" depression and you don't "catch" happiness… you "create" it by the "thoughts" you put into your mind. Carefully choose what you read, listen to, and the people with whom you associate.

Chad Schapiro: ADVANCED TRAINING

INCREDIBLE TRAINING!! DO NOT MISS THE NEXT ONE!!

I was taught a long time ago that if we want things to change we have to change. If we want things to get better we have to get better.

So many of us want to put the responsibility for our success on the shoulders of anyone and everyone besides ourselves. We look to a company, a person, the country, or anything else to be the reason why we will be successful or as the reason why we are currently struggling.

The reality is its our life and we got ourselves here and we will be the ones who either improve it incredibly, fall backwards more, or stay the same as we are today. Do you want to go forward? Do you want to have more income, more freedom, more excitement, help more people?

The answer is probably yes and you can do all that and more. We just have to be willing to forge ahead and learn to be more than we are now. Make sure you are giving yourself that opportunity by registering for the next advanced training. Don't be someone who just waits for success. Go out and get it!!

Chad Schapiro: Bank Account

Bank Account
A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionably coifed and shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today. His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary.
After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he smiled sweetly when told his room wasready.As he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of his tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on his window.

"I love it," he stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.

"Mr. Jones, you haven't seen the room; just wait."

"That doesn't have anything to do with it," he replied.

"Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged ... it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it. It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bedrecounting the difficulty I have with the p arts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do.Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I've stored away. Just for this time in my life.Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw from what you've put in.So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories! Thank you for your part in filling my Memory bank. I am still depositing."

Remember the five simple rules to behappy:
1. Free your heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind from worries.
3 Live simply.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less.

Chad Schapiro: DREAM BIG

I want to encourage you not to limit your vision in any way. Let it be as big as it is. Dave Liniger, the CEO of RE/MAX, the country's largest real estate company said, "Always dream big dreams. Big dreams attract big people." General Wesley Clark recently said, "It doesn't take any more energy to create a big dream than it does to create a little one." My experience is that one of the few differences between the superachievers and the rest of the world is that the superachievers simply dream bigger. John F. Kennedy dreamed of putting a man on the moon. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of a country free of prejudice and injustice. Bill Gates dreams of a world in which every home has a computer that is connected to the Internet. Buckminster Fuller dreamed of a world where everybody had access to electrical power.


These high achievers see the world from a whole different perspective — as a place where amazing things can happen, where billions of lives can be improved, where new technology can change the way we live, and where the world's resources can be leveraged for the greatest possible mutual gain. They believe anything is possible, and they believe they have an integral part in creating it.

HOW DO YOU AND I DO SOMETHING BIG??

You accept yourself for the person you are, with good points and bad points, with strengths and weaknesses, and with the normal problems of a human being. When you develop the ability on a conscious level to stand back and look at yourself honestly, and to admit to others that you may not be perfect but you’re all you’ve got, you start to enjoy a heightened sense of self-acceptance.

Do An Inventory of Your Accomplishments
A valuable exercise for developing higher levels of self-acceptance involves doing an inventory of yourself. In doing this inventory, your job is to maximize the positive and minimize the negative. Think of your unique talents and abilities. Think of your core skills, the things that you do exceptionally well that account for your success in your profession and in your personal life right now. List all of them and take nothing for granted. You are an amazing person and now is the time go focus on those incredible parts that make you you.

Think About Your Future
Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind.

We are doing incredible life changing things and you are a GIGANTIC PART OF THAT!! DREAM BIG!!

Chad Schapiro: Develop The Ambition

Where does true ambition come from? There is really only one place and that place is within your heart. In every thought, movement, and your every motivation you will find your ambition blooming as an expression of who you truly are, your self-expression.

Isn't self-expression really self-direction? How you do things, how you move, how you motivate yourself. Ambition is a result of self-direction, and self-direction is a key principle necessary for building ambition. Positive self-direction says, "I know who I am and where I want to go. I am in charge of gathering the information necessary, the feelings needed, knowledge, and experiences to prepare me for the opportunities ahead." If you know where you are going you will have already started learning in that direction. Working on your attitude, confidence, discipline, work ethic, time management skills and all that it would take to make your goals a reality. And you constantly see yourself in the place you want to be, going in the direction you want to go.

Your direction will determine your destination. Driving in a certain direction will determine your destination just as you have control over your daily disciplines. So you must ask yourself, "Are all of my disciplines that I currently have taking me in the direction I would like to go?" Am I positive enough? Am I a visionary? Am I giving love and energy to others? Do I work hard enough to create the momentum I need? Do I spend enough time that my goals ask for? Do I invest enough money that I need to? Do I grow out of my different comfort zones that have me stuck at the level I am now? What a good question to ask yourself at the beginning of every month, week, day, and moment. Most people unfortunately kid themselves. They don't have the disciplines yet that it would take to accomplish the goals they have on paper but they defend their actions and try not to change things going forward. You can kid your neighbor, your parents, your expert, even me, but don't kid yourself. Fingers crossed hoping that somehow you will get lucky and become successful. Don't do that. Make sure you are developing into the disciplines you will need to take you in the direction you want to go. Others have done it and so can you!

Chad Schapiro: BECOME MORE

Each of us has two choices to make about what we will do with our lives. The first choice we can make is to be less than we have the capacity to be. To earn less. To have less. To study less and think less. To try less and discipline ourselves less. These are the choices that lead to an empty life. These are the choices that, once made, lead to a life of constant frustration instead of a life of excitement and anticipation.

And the second choice? To do it all! To become all that we can possibly be. To study as much as we possibly can. To earn as much as we possibly can. To give and share as much as we possibly can. To strive and produce and accomplish as much as we possibly can. All of us have the choice.To do or not to do. To be or not to be. To be all or to be less or to be nothing at all.

Like the tree, it would be a great service to the world to stretch upward and outward to the full measure of our capabilities. Why not do all that we can, every moment that we can, the best that we can, for as long as we can?

Our ultimate life goal should be to create as much as our talent and ability and desire will permit. To settle for doing less than we could do is to fail in one of our greatest opportunities to benefit the rest of the world.

Results are the best measurement. Not conversation. Not excuses. Not justification. Results! And if our results are less than our potential suggests that they should be, then we must strive to become more today than we were the day before. The greatest rewards are always given to to those who bring great value to themselves and the world around them as a result of who and what they have become.

Chad Schapiro: Catch The Wave

I have picked up some valuable lessons--life lessons--from surfing. Not that I have ever surfed before, but I love the lessons. Here they are:

1. To surf you have to paddle out to deep enough water to catch a wave. LESSON - In life you will most likely NOT catch a wave of success by standing where you are. Get out of your comfortable area and get ready. Success is caught by working to get to a point where you can have a possibility to catch a wave of success.

2. When paddling out, waves will try to knock you back and off your board. To keep this from happening lay flat on your board, duck your head down, push the nose of the board down and dive into the wave with your board. LESSON - In life obstacles will be there to knock you down and back. You must dive into the obstacles... they can't be avoided.

3. It certainly helps to get advice from other surfers. LESSON - In life get a mentor who has achieved success and ask them how (Suggestion - when surfing don't use the word 'mentor'. It is not 'cool' and you will certainly be deemed the geek of the group).

4. You can't surf if you are tense... relax. LESSON - RELAX!!!

5. In order to stay on your board you must be balanced. LESSON - Make sure your life is balanced... work, play, health, mental and spiritual.

6. When you do finally catch a wave the tendency is to lean back but this will only result in a fall. Lean forward and you will keep your balance. LESSON - In life, often the natural reaction is to pull back or relax after success, but the only way to keep momentum is to lean forward and keep pressing on towards more success.

7. You are not going to catch a wave on your first try. It is hard... hard... hard for a beginner. LESSON - In life, don't give up.

Surfing looks fun and so is success - but both take work. The payoff in surfing is a 5-10 second wave to ride (that I have yet to experience) and in life it can be much more. So I am off to catch a wave, and here is wishing you a wave of success!

Chad Schapiro: Work Fast

We've all heard of being in the zone, state of flow, or any other description when all seems to be taking us towards success at an easier faster rate than usual. Where things seem more clear and we are even more competent and aware.

One of the key ways to get into this zone is to develop a sense of urgency. We've talked about this before in terms of closing the week or month strong and how it often relates to your recruiting. This however is directed at you for getting into this state more often. The key is to a desire and drive to get on with the task at hand quickly and get it done fast. This inner drive is an impatience that motivates you to get going and to keep going. It feels like the blood is pumping through your veins. The race is on but it's not against someone else it's against yourself.

With this higher activity level and urgency you develop a bias for action. You take action instead of just sitting around thinking and talking about what you are going to do. You are able to focus on what has to be done right now. Things that will help you towards your goal that you must take care of relentlessly moment by moment to get the long term results you desire.

Chad Schapiro: Get Off The Nail

One day a man was walking down the street on his way to work. As he walked down the street, there were dogs on just about every front porch and they all would bark as the man walked passed them. However, there was one dog that he remembered, because this dog was just sitting there and he was whimpering and whining and moaning, you know the little whimpering sounds dogs make when they are wounded or in some sort of pain. Well, this particular dog was just sitting there on the front porch making those sounds. The man was curious as to why this dog wasn't barking like the other dogs and why he was whimpering. He couldn't figure it out, so he just kept walking to work. The next day he was in the same situation where he was walking down the street and saw the dogs once again and this same dog that was moaning and groaning the other day was doing the same thing today and he just couldn't figure it out. Well, he walked passed for an entire week and everyday the dog would be there moaning and groaning. So, finally, the guy got fed up, he said, "let me find out what's going on." So he went and knocked on the door and a guy came out and said, "Yes, how may I help you?" He said, "Sir, is this your dog?" "Yes, that's my dog." "Well, what's wrong with him?" The owner of the dog said, "What do you mean?" "Well, he's been sitting here moaning and groaning, whimpering and whining for an entire week. The rest of the dogs are barking, your dog should be barking too, why is he moaning and groaning?" The owner said, "Well, he's actually sitting on a nail." And the guy said, "What! Your dog is sitting on a nail. Why doesn't he get off?" "Well, it just doesn't hurt him enough."

Wow! We all have comfort zones that we stay in because it is "easier" than growing and evolving. You know most people are like that dog sitting on a nail. I mean, sure, they would like to get off the nail, but what if they got off the nail and they hurt themselves or something? They never seem to stop to consider that maybe they would be healed, maybe they would be free, maybe they would be able to move about and discover some new and exciting options for their lives. But, noooooo. Instead, they just sit there on that nail because they're not sure what's going to happen if they get off. I mean, there are no guarantees of safety so to speak. Even though, it's not the best feeling in the world, sitting on a nail, I mean, it's not comfortable sitting on a nail, it kind of hurts, but at least they know what to expect. They know that they have $900 per week coming in so they can pay their bills and put food on the table and they can put some clothes on their back and a roof over their heads. You know, that's enough for most people. They may even get upset with you if you question their so called security, I mean, if invite them to an online presentation or tell them about a company that can give them some effective strategies for getting off nails, they may resent you for it. There is more security and more to life than that if we are willing to get out of our comfort zones and get busy. That is fine if they decide to stay there but you're different. You are willing to learn some effective nail removing strategies that could set you free because you and I both know that there is no such thing as security. Those same people maybe living on their credit cards, asking family and friends for extra money to get by now or in the future in their retirement years. Would you rather remove the nail now so you can live free of pain in the future? I know I would!!!

Chad Schapiro: Moment By Moment

When we were little we would grow bigger year after year, sometimes in spurts but our bodies were always growing. It may often seem like we were not growing at all if looked at moment by moment. That's how I would feel all the time about my personal growth. Like it wasn't happening at all. In reality I was driving myself crazy by trying to evaluate my growth way way too often and too soon. I ended up working like crazy for one full year and then saw a world of change within myself and where I had my business.

The key is to manage our daily agenda without trying to see if we took that big growth spurt. Daily discipline is the simple and harsh reality of success.

1. Make your future bigger than your past!! Ever notice that the front window of your car is bigger than your rear view mirror? It's because the past can help you a little but we must have a clear vision of where we are going to be safe. The past gives you little stepping stones to your desired future. The rest of your life is ahead of you so lets go get it!!! It comes moment by moment. Keep track of these moments in real time. Meaning the moments that you are living now. The past is already written but this next moment is being written as we speak. You are the author of all future moments!

2. Always make your contribution bigger than your reward. As you start to see success you will find so many blessings that you can get caught up in all of the praise, recognition, material possessions, and income. These are all great things but these rewards will never rise above the result of your life's contributions to others. Don't think about your stuff because you will limit it all, rather think about contributing more. Leading, inspiring, giving, loving, and all the rest to benefit others. You must give before you receive. Expect to serve before feeling like you deserve some kind of reward. Ask yourself each day, "who can I help today?". All consistent success is going to come through others. Lasting a big success will never come by yourself.

3. Get results more than applause. The top producers in anything strive to get better. No matter how successful they become they raise the bar to increase their goals and performance. Be more focused on growth than just goals. I love goals, but sometimes they can be too low and slow us down or too high and de-motivate us. Growth is a long consistent process that must be the main goal as we put the measurable things into place to help us along the way. We can not short-cut our own personal growth. We are going to have to go through our growth first before our income grows.

4. Make your gratitude greater than your success. We see the value in things and people through our proactive gratitude. Once we see the value in something we treat that thing with greater respect. People and things are drawn to where they are valued most. The world is attracted to gratitude making more of everything we want. Keep some record of everything you should be grateful for and do this continually.

Chad Schapiro: End Procrastination

Perseverance is the key to all success as gas is to driving your car. There will be times when we feel like we are spinning our wheels going no where but you will always get out of that rut with solid perseverance. Without it you won't be able to even start the car.

The opposite of perseverance is procrastination. Perseverance means you will never quit, you will do what it takes in the face of every adversity. Procrastination usually means that you never get started.

People make all kinds of excuses for their procrastination. "I'm a perfectionist." "If I do anything I do it 100%, all or nothing." "Everything has to be just right before I get started." "If I struggle or am uncomfortable something must not be right." Have you heard or said these things before?

These faults are being turned into things that are supposed to sound good. The perfectionist is trying to act like they are too good to struggle. Too good to grow through uncomfortable times of learning and growing. That they have already "arrived". That even though they will go to the bathroom sometime today and it won't be 100% of the day, that they think it sounds good that that is the only way they can take on a new endeavor. This is all just fancy defense mechanisms set up to make us fee good about our weaknesses, but in the end it's just excuses. The real reason for procrastination is not these feeble attempts but rather a fear of failure. That's what perfectionism really is. What's the difference of being afraid of being less than perfect or afraid of anything else? In each you're still stuck going nowhere. We are still being dominated by a negative vision that holds us back to do nothing. It is an unfortunate and convenient tool we all use.

How do you get around it? How do you turn procrastination into perseverance? It is really very simple and painless. But like all simple things to do they are simple to not do. Lets use these 2 techniques simply and pain free to change your life.

Number 1. Break it down.

People see the task at hand and they know it will not be a quick fix so they freak themselves out thinking about the long road in front of them. It could be anything. Weight loss, painting the house, retirement planning, and of course building their home based business. The key to any of these is to break it down into manageable pieces and then knock them off one at a time. Focus on this present moment and doing the best you can not thinking about the past or what is up in the future.

Suppose I was to ask you to sign up 300 affiliates. That would make most people to afraid to even start. What if instead I told you to sign up one affiliate today? That would seem easier. In less than 1 year you would have personally signed up over 300 affiliates. Seems easier but we may still freak ourselves out because we worry about doing it each day for the next 1 year. What if I told you don't look ahead at all but just do it today, not a week, month, or years, but just today. I would think most people would feel they can accomplish or learn to accomplish that, these people would be the same people that are feel incapable of doing the whole thing in 1 year or less.

If I said the same thing to you tomorrow, don't look back or forward just focus on today. Lets focus on being productive today, do you think you could take steps towards doing it?

One day at a time is the key. Break it down to day by day increments.

The second key is also very short and simple: write it down. We know how important goal setting is and keeping up with your daily goal sheets. If you focus on very short term goals you will conquer procrastination. Just as in really dieting if you right down what you ate each day you will be much more on top of your intake the same works for this key. Write down what you are doing with each 1/2 hour of your time. I know you will be amazed at how much downtime you really have that could be used to help you become more successful than anyone you've ever known. If it is inconvenient to write it down that second wait till later but keep track of it. This does not have to be in any fancy notebook just a running report on a piece of paper or spiral notebook. Keep track of this for at least a week and you will see some areas where you can take more action.

Break it down and write it down. Simple but powerful!!!!

Chad Schapiro: MAKE THINGS HAPPEN

Every adversity carries with it the seed of an equal or most times greater benefit. We are in control of our destiny because we are in control of our attitude.

The most important person in your world is you. As it should be. Each moment you have the choice like flipping a coin whether you are going to be positive or negative. For any and every occasion you can attract what is beautiful about that moment or repel things that make you happy. Don't blame anyone else for not helping you it is your choice. Simply keep your mind on the things you want rather than the things you don't. This maybe a new habit so don't get down on yourself if you can't do it 100% of the time right away. Take steps forward like any new habit so you will do it most of the time. The key to realize is it really is simple and you can do it.

One of our greatest gifts we have in life is our ability to work. We often look at it in such negativity but the reality is without it we would not be nearly as happy. Serving people is a deep part of our makeup as humans. That is expressed through our work. It doesn't mean you will always feel like you are helping others, in fact you may really help them after you've gotten good enough at the business to make 5k-10k per month or so, but at that moment you will realize that you can give them a world of change. In the meantime while you may not be at that income level you are like the doctor who is in undergrad learning to become someone who can serve people in the future. Who does their best to help out now wherever possible but understands they are only limited by there experience not ambition for making a difference.

When we don't feel like a success don't be surprised. Everyone in every field has felt that, especially when they were new. The reality is we need to develop an inspired dissatisfaction. Where we are motivated to change and grow to move ahead. Keep on working, your answer is in the future of your potential, how soon do you want to get to it?

Set high goals and then work on a burning desire to hit them. Your desire will not come from the reward at the end but in the satisfaction you learn to develop within yourself at becoming a goal seeking machine. Someone who thrives better at seeing a plan, working that plan, and achieving that plan. Anything else is really not in our nature and that's why we become dissatisfied and depressed.

We are put here to make things happen!!

Chad Schapiro: Bust Through The Comfort Zone

I have found that success in life is very similar to building muscle in the gym. If you are doing what you are comfortable with or can do easily you never will grow. You will never expand to reach your full potential. Growth only occurs in life when you are pushing yourself to something new. This could mean learning a foreign language, learning to play an instrument, conquering your fears or pursuing your life long dream of building a business, writing a play, authoring a book or talking to people that you normally would shy away from.

In order to reach higher levels of growth in our business we cannot expect to keep doing what we are already doing. Growth in life is going to come when you are pushing yourself to lift the weights of life that you can only lift with a spotter. This means that you should not be afraid to team up with others and rely on them in your effort to grow. If you are going to build muscle in the gym you are going to need to do two things: #1 Lift more weight; #2 Have a Spotter.

The answers for success in life are very similar. Sometimes a spotter in life could be your expert you work with. There is absolutely no doubt that they will push you to lift more weight and be there to spot you when you feel that you can't get the weight off your chest. They can see what is easy not to see about ourselves.

Chad Schapiro: The Key Question You Should Ask

The key question you should ask is "What is the most valuable use of my time, right now?" This is the question that dominates time management. This is the key to overcoming procrastination and becoming a highly productive person. Every hour of every day, there is an answer to this question. Your job is to ask yourself the question, over and over again, and to always be working on the answer to it, whatever it is. Do first things first and second things not at all. As Goethe said, "The things that matter most must never be at the mercy of the things that matter least." The more accurate your answers to this question, the easier it will be for you to set clear priorities, to overcome procrastination and to get started on that one activity that represents the most valuable use of your time.

Chad Schapiro: Enjoyment Is Between The Ears

I have been reminded that enjoyment does not come from any outside situation but rather inside ourselves.

One would think that spending time in Disney would be one of the most fun and exciting times in ones week, month, and perhaps year. It has become even more apparent to me that working with others to help them realize truly who they can be and how to reach their full potential is more fun than anything Mickey can provide.

It really is on the inside where all enjoyment starts and ends. Keep that in mind as you do your work. Don't look at it as "work" but rather an expression of yourself giving others the opportunity to change their lives. Look at this moment as you have control, not the outside. You can make this moment feel good, exciting, fullfilled. The same way you control the feeling of this moment you also control the next one and the one after that, and so on....

The key is putting as much happiness together as possible so that we can spread that love to the others around. When we have something in our possession and overflowing then we have ample enough to give to others, and soon realize it never depletes but only expands by giving it away. We sow the seed of hope and love to others and we will allow them to see the vision that much more. When they see the vision and they take action with you you will then reap the rewards. When these rewards come fully into play is not up for you to decide.

You only control this moment and where it rests is between your ears. Of course following this same advice I will enjoy Mickey more than any kid could!!

Chad Schapiro: Feel Like A Winner

I believe we would all agree that having a winning feeling is the first thing to achieving outstanding results. A person can't possibly expect to win if they're constantly focusing on failure! The real secret here is to capture that winning feeling of success as often as you can to create the environment necessary to succeed.

If you've been a little down in the dumps, feeling insecure or perhaps not feeling as confident in your ability as you'd like, I have a great tip for you. My suggestion to anyone looking for a success track to run on, or to a person who is looking to get back on one, is to start capitalizing on short-term victories. That means specifically focus on tasks you can achieve daily. The principle is to start with an adversity over which you can succeed, and gradually take on more and more difficult tasks. Nothing succeeds like success.

Another technique used by many people in developing or maintaining a winning feeling is what we call the reflection method. Think back during a time where you were really successful at something... we all have times to which we can relate. It could have been a sale, learning something tough in the past, a contest, or anything. Each one of us can reflect back on a moment in time to recapture that winning feeling.

Professional sports coaches often replay winning games of the past for their team prior to a big game to stimulate and create a winning feeling!