Positive Thinking Your Way to Direct Selling Success

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The complaints are the same, only the names and faces of the consultants have changed. "No one wants to book parties." "I can't find anyone who wants to sell!" "I can't find anyone that is interested!" "This is too hard!" "I'll never make it to leader."

If you are a leader with a Direct Selling company you've probably heard this from your downline. If you are a consultant you've probably had these thoughts or voiced these concerns to your upline.

Of all the things you can do to "increase your chance for failing" having a negative attitude is number one on the list. The problem is, when we focus on what we don't want to happen, we are actually creating the environment to continue more of the same thing. Come on, you know what I'm talking about. We become what we think about every day. If we consistently think that we can't book any parties, WE WON'T BOOK ANY PARTIES! If we consistently think it's hard to sponsor, IT WILL BE HARD TO SPONSOR!

So, can changing your thinking really change the outcome. Yes and No! Changing your thinking cannot change the outcome all by itself. You need to change your thinking as well as change your habits to change the outcome.

Here are a few ideas that can help you change your life to have successful outcomes. Take a notebook and draw a line down the center of the page. At the top of the column write Positive on one half and Negative on the other half. Then every day for a week, write down everything that comes into your thoughts under one of the columns. At the end of the week take a serious look at what you have been thinking about for the week. If you have over 50 percent of your thoughts on the negative side you are sabotaging yourself. Now, I'm not a "Pollyanna" (OK, maybe I am) and I know that all of us have some negative thoughts once in awhile but we need to make sure that there are two to three times more positive thought than negative to create an environment for change.

If you haven't already passed out from the shock of the previous exercise then it is time to take what we have learned and create an environment to change. It often takes an action to become "aware of the negative thought" and immediately replace it with a positive thought!

I practiced a technique that I learned from Mark Victor Hansen in "The One Minute Millionaire" that involved having a rubber band on your wrist. Every time you have a negative thought you snap the rubber band and replace the thought with a positive one. Your goal is to go a week without snapping the rubber band. Trust me, this is not easy. We are often pre-conditioned to think of the worst rather than the best possible outcome. Do something each day for a week that will include consciously changing your negative thoughts to positive ones. Think of yourself as already being the person you want to become. If you are looking to move to a leadership position with your company, put the vision in your head. If you would look and act differently make sure you include this mental picture of what you would look like into your vision.

After two to four weeks of training your brain to think positively rather than negatively, it's time to begin DOING things that will change the outcome. Remember, it's not just enough to change your thoughts, you also need to change your actions. If you've been thinking to yourself, "No one wants to have a party" and you've changed your thoughts to "everyone I meet is interested in my product and the opportunity to earn some by hosting a party", you will begin to act differently when you come in contact with people. Instead of avoiding people and being afraid to call you will be anxious to share with prospects and find a way that will be a "win-win" situation for everyone.

Refrain from returning to your "old bad thoughts and bad habits". It takes at least 21 days to create a new habit. I have been walking 3 miles every Monday through Friday morning for over 20 years and yet last winter when the weather was bad and I skipped a few weeks of walking I found that it took me about 3 weeks to get back into the habit.

Become persistent at having positive thoughts and actions and try not to let anything or anyone get in your way. Continually replace negative thoughts and actions with positive thoughts and actions and you will notice the difference within a few weeks. As Mark Victor Hansen states in "The One Minute Millionaire", control your thinking and you will control your behavior, control your behavior and you will control your results. It all begins with you!!!

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First of all, why is inner beauty important?

We have all met people in our lives – women (and men for that matter) – who are physically beautiful to look at on the outside. But when you get to know their personality and who they are on the inside, and it’s not very pleasant, didn’t it make you look at that person in a less desirable light?

In fact, that person’s outer beauty may have even diminished because you caught a glimpse of what was on the inside.

Or how about the reverse scenario? How many times have you met someone who may not have been a drop-dead gorgeous knockout, but once you got to know them and how beautiful they were on the inside, their outside physical appearance actually seemed to change – they were even more attractive to you than you remembered them being upon first meeting them?

When it comes right down to it, no matter how beautiful a person is on the outside, if it were all tragically stripped away somehow and they did not have their inner beauty taken care of, what would they be left with?

You see, the inner beauty is what makes the outer beauty even more stunning. And in the complete package, this complete beauty turns heads and becomes unforgettable to those they meet.

It would be advisable to focus most of your efforts on inner beauty strategies first. If you have your inner beauty developed, you will always be completely beautiful!

Let's take a look at the first strategy of inner beauty: confidence and positive thinking.

Why is confidence and positive thinking so important when it comes to being a complete beauty?

Self-confidence is arguably one of the most important things you can have. Self-confidence reflects your assessment of your own self-worth. It will play a large part in determining your happiness throughout life.

Self-confidence allows you to take risks, as you have enough confidence in your own abilities to be sure that if things do go wrong, you can put things right.

The way in which you are self-confident is important: if you are under-confident, then you will not take risks that need to be taken. If you are over-confident, then you can end up not trying hard enough and losing.

Confidence should be based on observed reality. It should be based on the achievement of performance goals: you should be confident that you will perform up to your current abilities.

Good self-confidence comes from a realistic expectation of success based on well practiced skills, respect for your own competence, and adequate preparation.

The success attained should be measured in terms of achievement of personal performance goals, not achievement goals such as winning.

Where you are under-confident, you will commonly suffer from fear of failure (which will prevent you from taking risks effectively), self-doubt, lack of concentration, and negative thinking.

Often you may find yourself blaming yourself for faults that lie elsewhere. Here you should use suggestion, visualization, and effective goal-setting to improve your self-confidence and self-image.

Over-confidence is dangerous - it can lead you into situations which you do not have the ability to get out of. It can set you up for serious failure that can devastate the self-confidence you should have.

Over-confidence is confidence that is not based on ability: it may be a result of misleading or pushy parents or others trying to help you without understanding your abilities, may be caused by vanity or ego, or may be caused by positive thinking or imagery which is not backed up by ability.

Goal setting is probably the most effective way of building self-confidence. By setting measurable goals, achieving them, setting new goals, achieving them, and so on you prove your ability to yourself.

You are able to prove to yourself that you are able to perform and achieve effectively. You can see and recognize and enjoy your achievement, and feel real self-worth in that achievement.

Importantly, by knowing what you are able to achieve, you are not setting yourself up for surprise failure - you almost always have a reasonably accurate assessment of what your abilities really are, which is unclouded by ego or vanity.

Imagery is also useful in building self-confidence, but only if properly applied.

Imagery should be used to imagine achievement of a goal that is being worked towards in order to help you to believe that that goal is attainable.

Imagery can help you “draw a picture” in your mind’s eye of becoming a more beautiful you!

For complete beauty, start with your inner beauty first.

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There are a lot of books out there and so called guru's that would lead you to believe that this whole positive affirmation and positive thinking thing is something you should invest your time in. They would have you believe that by saying positive things and thinking positive things that you can create the life of your dreams and have anything you want. Though it is a good start, it is not any where near enough to talk positive and think positive. There is much more to it than just that.

Though I will admit that using positive affirmations and thinking positive is a good start toward realizing the life of your dreams, I will also admit that there is often a large piece of the puzzle missing in a lot of information out there on the topic. What much of the information on the subject of positive talk and thinking is missing is substance. Words are just words, and the words themselves have no power. Words are nothing more than sounds strung together to create something that we all recognize and understand. Words themselves though have nothing in them. It is the substance of what is being said that makes the difference. It is the essence behind the words that creates your reality.

Imagine this for a moment. Have someone who doesn't really care about you take a look at you and tell you that they love you. How do you think that would feel? Would you believe it even if you didn't know they didn't like you? You probably wouldn't believe them. I am sure there are times where someone who does love you says I love you and it just doesn't have the punch to it that it does at other times. Now think back to a time when you were with someone you love who also loves you back. A time where the moment was great and there was an incredible connection. A time where everything was magical and they told you that they loved you. I would bet there was much more behind the words that time. An essence that could only be felt. A substance that made those words more valuable than anything else at that moment. This is the substance that must be behind every positive thought and positive affirmation if it is to serve you and help you realize the life of your dreams.

When you touch upon this substance, you begin to realize that it runs much much deeper than just the sounds coming out of your mouth or the thoughts flowing through your head. It runs to the emotional core of your being. When you know you love someone and you look at them and tell them you love them, every ounce of your being believes it. Every single atom in your body is in complete agreement with your words. There is an essence behind those words that is obvious to people. We all know this. We have all heard someone say something only to get the response "that's not what you said." We know that their body language and the energy of their words said something completely different than the actual words they chose to use. The message was completely clear and obvious.

So when it comes to positive affirmations and using positive thinking, it is not enough to just say or use the words. You must learn to convince yourself that what you are saying is true. You must learn to really feel that what you are saying is the absolute truth. If there is even a hint of doubt in your being, the words will be useless. Even the hair on your feet must be yelling in agreement with the words you use or the thoughts you choose. Learn to pay attention to what you are feeling as you begin to practice and use positive thinking and affirmations. Learn to recognize when you are not in complete alignment with what you are saying. It is ok to be honest with yourself. Not listening or trying to ignore what your emotions are telling you will only cause more problems for you in the long run. If you realize that something is not quite right, you can begin to take action to change those feelings of doubt and confusion into feelings of complete agreement. So don't just practice positive affirmations and thinking, also practice positive feeling. Positive knowing. Positive being.

Dwayne Gilbert is the founder of http://www.wealthylifesecrets.com and has been helping people in the area of self-protection and personal development for 10 years. He has authored some of his own books and currently teaches people self-defense and personal development strategies and tactics. To get more information on the law of attraction and how to apply it, visit http://www.wealthylifesecrets.com

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Affirmation Child's Craft - Building Self-Esteem With a Two-Part Craft Project

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One thing I know for sure – it’s never too early to start learning to think positive!

Here is a simple craft that children ages five through seven will enjoy creating. It involves two parts: one is making the three dimensional craft, and the other is writing and repeating an affirmation. Affirmations are positive first-person statements written in the present tense. They are often repeated throughout the day. It’s all a matter of giving our subconscious minds a positive blueprint for a happy, abundant life.

This project is suitable for a small group of children also, for say a classroom or a church group.

Materials needed: (available at your local craft store)

A small mirror, maybe 2-3 inches in diameter. It can be any shape. It needn’t be perfectly round.

A small amount of air-dry nontoxic colored clay. Crayola makes a brand of clay that will work fine. Because it is air-dry clay, the project will not have to be baked in an oven, and it will harden in 24 hours.

Method:

Step 1. Each child chooses a small amount of colored clay. The clay can be squished and blended, streaked or whatever design the children want to do.

Step 2. Mold the clay into a lumpy ball shape. Place one edge of the mirror on the top of the lump and push down, so that the bottom of the lump now makes a flat base, and the mirror is partway stuck into the clay. The lump should now “stand up” by itself, with the mirror placed firmly in the top part of the clay.

Step 3. The lump can be “decorated” by pushing in the blunt end of a pencil to make holes, and/or striations can be created by drawing lines in the clay with an open paper clip. The children can leave their thumb prints in one area, and smear another area so it is smooth. The only limit is the child’s imagination and common tools found around the house. Clay can be placed on the top edge of the mirror also, to hold it in place. Wipe the mirror clean before the clay completely dries.

Set aside this lovely mirror creation.

The second half of the project involves writing an affirmation to go along with the mirror. Some sample affirmations would be “I value myself.” “I honor who I am.” “I am worthy.” “I love myself.” “My life is filled with good things.” “My life is filled with love.” “I appreciate my special skills and talents.”

A good point to remember is to phrase the affirmation so it has meaning to each individual child. Affirmations can be used to change the energy around any situation.

As an example:

If a child is having difficulty in a certain area of their life, or in school, an affirmation can be used to change and heal the energy around that situation. Repeating “I feel loved and protected all day long,” would help a child dealing with fearful thoughts of feeling alone and vulnerable. “I know what is best for me,” for a child dealing with peer pressure. As long as the affirmation feels natural and not forced, it will have a calming, soothing effect.

It’s very important to phrase affirmations in positive terms, not in negative ones.

As an example, saying “I am no longer selfish” is not an affirmation, and would undoubtedly create a situation of more selfishness. Instead, to feel more generous, a person would repeat “I am generous and loving to myself and others.” And if the person were feeling selfish, perhaps because of an underlying fearful thought of never having enough, an affirmation would be “I am always provided for,” or “I always have everything I need,” or “The Universe is a safe and loving place. I am abundantly cared for.”

Negative statements have a tendency to create more of a situation that is not wanted. As an example, I ran into a friend of mine at the gym. She was upset because she had forgotten her gym bag and now had to skip her workout. She told me she’d been repeating to herself before she left the house, “Don’t forget your gym bag!” Her mind focused on the word “forget,” and sure enough, it created that very fact. If she had been repeating, “Remember your gym bag,” or “I always remember my gym bag,” perhaps she would have been able to work out.

Finishing the children’s craft project:

After the children have written out their affirmation with the help of an adult on a sturdy card or thick paper which when folded can stand up by itself, place the card and the mirror together. The mirror will remind the children of their inner beauty and self-worth as they repeat their affirmation throughout the day.

Anyone of any age can use affirmations to create positive thoughts which in turn will create a wonderful life of beauty, purpose and promise!

(Note: Enhancements can also be added to the mirror and affirmation if desired, such as sequins, feathers, paper cut-outs, etc.)

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Connie Bowen’s books have sold over 50,000 copies worldwide and still counting! She is the author/illustrator of the beloved children’s affirmation books I Believe In Me, and I Turn to the Light, and illustrator for The Sunbeam and the Wave, and Susan Chernak McElroy’s animal stories of Heart in the Wild and All My Relations. Inside pages of her books can be viewed and enjoyed as well as her stunning commission pet portraits at http://www.conniebowen.com/. Connie’s story of how I Believe In Me was created originally for her own son is featured in the last chapter of Rosemary Ellen Guiley’s book, Breakthrough Intuition.

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