How do you deal with a lousy sponsor?  The answer is easy – don’t.
Too many new distributors feel that their success depends on the sponsor they have chosen.  Your success is completely within you.  If your sponsor is helpful, great!  If your sponsor is useless, oh well!  It doesn’t matter either way.
Your business begins with [...]

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We have all suffered from the “What’s Wrong With Me’s.”
We look around and see others succeeding in our business, but we seem to be getting nowhere.  The temptation is to think that the successful have some kind of magical talents that we don’t have.
Believe us, they don’t.  They are just doing the right things consistently, [...]

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Tom ‘Big Al’ Schreiter tells us that we will have people on our team at three levels of commitment.

“I’ll try.”  This is the lowest form of commitment.  When it doesn’t work, people will leave to try something else – the Opphoppers.
“I’ll do my best.”  These people will quit when their best is not good enough.  [...]

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Thanks to Tom ‘Big Al’ Schreiter for this tip from The Big Al Report 2007:
Our distributors fight success every step of the way. And why do they fight success?
Because success requires change, and we all hate change!
Think about it.  We have knowledge and habits now that give us our present results.  To get new results, [...]

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We’ve just discovered another excellent site that has joined the fight against Alan Kippax and Business In Motion.  Shyam Sundar, a journalist his whole life, has been waging a battle against pyramid scams and money circulation schemes.  Visit his blog Corporate Frauds Watch.
The articles are so good that we’ve quoted parts of them here.  Our articles are [...]

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Another huge nugget from Tom Big Al Schreiter …
When the whining distributor calls and talks on and on about why the business isn’t working, this is what I would really like to say:
“Forgive me if I am wrong here, but it appears like you are trying to explain this in a way so that it [...]

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It’s a great idea for you to hold a weekly training session, but just be careful that you are still promoting independence.
Schedule a call for your team to bring questions, but DO NOT hold a regular session to do the training that your team should be doing.  Duplicatable systems are designed to be passed on.  [...]

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You have to walk a fine line as a leader.  You need to help and train people but you also have to know when to leave them alone.
Tom ‘Big Al’ Schreiter says that on any team you will find 3 kinds of people …

People like you who will work, work, work, and see [...]

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Brian Tracy teaches a wonderful lesson in efficiency called “Eat That Frog!”
Here are a few of his benefits and rules for avoiding procrastination:

If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.
If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn’t pay to sit and look at it for very long.
Starting [...]

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As a leader, you have to set the example and set the pace.
We always run the risk of slipping into ‘management mode’ and making the mistake of working too hard with people who are not working as hard as we are.  We are looking for three or four key leaders who will do the [...]

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