Pearls Of Wisdom

We grow by dreams. All big men are dreamers, some of us let dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days... to the sunshine and light which always come.
Woodrow Wilson - 28th President of the USA

Teach Don’t Preach!

Knowledge is just Information until it is acted upon. Information can be accessed easily and usually within a short period of time.

However, when Knowledge is Acted upon that is when it is no longer just information. Now it has become a ‘Knowing’ in your Heart, Mind and Soul!

You can only Teach what you Know!

The Fruit On My Tree - The Action Plan

When my mentor first showed me this Action Plan I thought he was nuts. I was working 60 to 80 hours a week and stressed beyond belief. That is the reason I had sought his advice.

He simply encouraged me to begin by setting small goals. Small enough so that I could do what I said I was going to do and thus Be Accountable.

Slowly we increased the size of those goals until one day a couple of years later I noticed what had happened. I was spending more time learning and less time working and still earning the same amount of money.

Today I find the more I learn, the more I earn and the less I work. Isn’t that where we all want to be? If you agree then lets get started with my mentor’s 5 Step Action Plan which I will share with you over the next few weeks. I do this because that is how my mentor got me started. Doing just one thing at a time instead of overwhelming me with too much all at one time.

Step 1 of 5 – The Education Action Plan

Reading

It is said that readers become leaders. And people follow leaders!

Now I have always been a reader but the stuff I was reading, like John Grisham novels, were not making me any money and had no potential to make me money. I started reading stuff like Think and Grow Rich and The Magic of Thinking Big and suddenly things began to change.

The next problem many people have is that they have no time. You see the right type of reading is like putting fuel in your car. Can you imagine not having the time to fuel up your car? Eventually you will run out of gas.

When my mentor first spoke to me about effective reading I had already run out of gas. And many of you might be in the same place today. If you are you need to make the time. Even if it is only ten minutes a day!

If you are not a seasoned ‘effective reader’ a great place to start is with The Magic Of Thinking Big by David Schwartz. I have just picked up this book again and have started to read it for the seventh time.

Let’s read it together and share our thoughts on this Blog.

By the way a great way to get rid of the weeds in your mental garden is to read. So read and weed and soon you will lead yourself and many, many others to the promised land of financial prosperity.

Step 2 of 5 – The Education Action Plan

Seminars

Originally I intended to only share one of these steps at a time. The reason I want to get into it right now is that there are so many seminars that you can go to for free. Sure they pitch you stuff but they also give you a lot of knowledge to help you grow.

One seminar that has been so effective for me has been The Millionaire Mind Intensive. There is one coming up in Calgary, Alberta from November 11th to the 13th. If you do not have a ticket and would like one please email me and I will send you a special reference code you can use to get yourself registered.

Seminars are an excellent way to grow and meet people as well. Don’t underestimate the power of what one seminar can do for you. Within four months of my First Millionaire Mind seminar I had quit my job. Sure I had the right vehicle but then again how many of you have that same vehicle? They teach that the Roots determine the Fruits on a tree. That seminar helped me get healthy roots and today the fruits are bountiful.

Once again beware of that financially fatal disease called Excusitis. If you’re saying I can’t get the day off – that is precisely the reason to go. I called in sick when I went a year ago. I wasn’t lying! I was Sick! I was sick of not having money! I was sick of being told when I could take my vacation. I was sick of working for someone else.

Today I am happy to report I am not sick anymore!

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Don’t let the things that you can’t do today stop you from doing the things that you can do.

The Fruit On My Tree – The Third Secret

All of my mentors put a very high priority on Education but not the kind of education one received in the traditional schools of higher learning. One of my mentors when asked would say that the only degree he had was a PhD in Life!

Another mentor, a doctor, with many, many degrees and a highly respected Cancer Specialist had printed behind his Network Marketing Business Card “Even thermometers have degrees but look where we shove them”. If you are too young to get this one ask your parents where they used to shove thermometers in the old days.

Every mentor of mine stressed this third and most critical secret – no matter the cost:

3- Get an Education

It is said that when Knowledge Meets Opportunity, Success Usually Follows! Today there is virtually no reason why one cannot attain all the knowledge they desire on any subject.

The old excuse that it is too expensive, does not hold true today. Given the Internet, Libraries and Free Seminars that are available to everyone, getting an education has never been more affordable.

The other excuse of having no time is probably more valid but should not be acceptable. We should always be able to MAKE time for the important things in life. And that is the key! How important is success to you? How strong is your desire for success (the fruit on your tree)? If the desire is strong and you believe it is important then you will wake up early, when everyone else is in bed and execute your Education Action Plan that will follow next.

We have an awesome opportunity in our hands. So if you are not already successful or if you are not as successful as you would like to be (and that’s where I am) then it might be a case of Opportunity seeking more Knowledge, rather than knowledge meeting Opportunity.

I hope you decide to Grow Now and Grow Fast so you can take advantage of the opportunity at hand.

Next I will share the Action Plan my mentor created for me. To say that it has drastically changed my life in every way would be an understatement.

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People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

The Fruit On My Tree – The Second Secret

Over the years I have had an over exposure to people who talk big and do little. Talk is Cheap and so today I look for the fruit on the tree rather than try to figure out who is going to do what. I don’t pay much attention to those who say they are going RVP next week or SVP in 30 days. Actions speak louder than words!

In fact I get really concerned when someone starts to speak like that because I know that they are going to end up in that Black Hole where big talkers end up, never to be heard from again.

My mentor taught me a critical method to avoid the Big Talker Black Hole and that is the Second Secret:

2- Be Accountable

If you are an adult there is only one person responsible for your growth.

YOU!

You can make excuses like I initially did, like I had no time and so on or you can make a little time each day.

You can blame others or you can say, “If it is to be, it is up to me!”

If you find it difficult to be accountable to yourself then find someone who can hold you accountable. I chose to have my mentor hold me accountable. It was a painful process at first because he would ask if I had done what I said I was going to do.

He taught me that Accountability simply meant that I have the Ability to Account for my Words with Actions.

These were the 5 rules he put in place for me to be accountable:

1- PLAN – He who fails to plan… Plans to Fail!
2- ACT – Consistently and Persistently Act on your Plan.
3- TRUTH – Be truthful to yourself or to the person you have chosen to hold you accountable.
4- CONGRUENCY – Align your Words with your Actions and DO what you SAY you are Going To Do.
5- TRACK – Keep an Account of your progress or Track your Results. Remember rule # 3 when doing this and don’t fudge the numbers the way some people do when they are golfing.

When you have a Plan and you are Acting on it and when you are being Truthful and Doing What You Say you will Do and Tracking your progress, people above you and below you will know that they can count on you and depend on you. You will then be given increasingly more responsibility and with all of that will come abundance.

That is what I was taught and I know and believe it to be true.
Make it your motto to “Do then talk about what you have Done”!

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Winners always find a way!
When they come to an obsatcle they go over it, under it, around it or they move it out of the way. If you think you can't do this then find a Winner and follow!

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No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others!

The Fruit On My Tree – The First Secret

Now whenever people become successful there are always a few people that think it is luck. If you are one of those people and think like that, you will be waiting a very long time for some ‘luck’ to happen to you. Like waiting, wishing and praying that you win the lottery!

There is another way! And that is what my old and wise mentor I wrote about in my previous email, taught me.

These secrets if acted up on will provide your tree with the nourishment it needs to grow and sustain a big, strong and bountiful tree.

Here is the first of the 3 secrets:

1- Be Teachable

There is an old saying that says, “When the student is ready, the teacher appears.” So what happens when the teacher arrives and the student is not ready? If this email and maybe even the last one seems hokey or rubbish to you then save it for another time. The teacher has arrived a bit early.

If on the other hand some of this makes sense then the first secret is to be open to learning. Allow yourself to be taught.

Being teachable is being coachable and being willing to listen. When my mentors spoke I listened and took copious notes. I am so glad I did because today I need them for myself and for you.

If you have not noticed already, when I am around Super Dave I don’t do much talking. I want what he has so I listen. I take notes! I ask questions! I try not to get distracted because I don’t want to miss that one thing he might say that could get my tree closer to bearing even more fruit.

Teachers and Teachings come from many, many areas and you must be open to ALL those areas. In the beginning some of those teachers might be boring to you. Or they might preach too much for your liking. There is nothing wrong with those teachers. You might just need to grow a little bit more.

Finally, when you find the teachers that inspire you most and give you strength, follow them, listen to them and hang around them and their every word. Get yourself a journal and start writing and reviewing all that you learn. This is the fastest way to expedite your growth.

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Before we can change the world we must change ourselves!

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Make your DREAMS & GOALS stronger than your FEARS so that you are driven by your Dreams & Goals and not your Fears!

The Fruit On My Tree – The Facts

I just want to share something with you that I had the good fortune of learning from a wonderful, enlightened and wealthy mentor of mine many years ago.

We were sitting in his back yard and I wanted to know what I needed to do to be as successful as he was.
In front of us were two apple trees.
One was very large and the other one he had just planted and therefore was very small.

He said, “You see those apple trees?”
“Look at the branches on that big tree. There are many branches and they are strong. Look at the fruit on the tree. The fruit are big and hopefully will be as sweet as they were last year.”

“Now look at the tree that I just planted,” he said pointing to the much smaller tree. “First it does not have that many branches. The few branches it does have are small and weak. Do you suppose it could support those big apples that are on the other tree?”

He went on to point out that no matter how much the smaller tree ‘desired’ to have fruit like the bigger tree it would be a disaster if in fact it got its wish. The tree needed to be nourished and it would have to weather the winds so that it became stronger.

It is no different with us he pointed out. Except we need to be responsible for our own nourishment and growth. He pointed out that the size of the fruit on my tree was always going to be directly proportionate to the ability of my tree to support those fruit.

He laid out a plan for me to grow myself so that one day I would be big enough to grow and support large fruit and then sustain it.

Lots of employees or lots of shareholders or lots of customers or lots of leaders and a huge downline are all fruit. If you have not been able to attract leaders or if you seem stuck or if you can’t seem to grow past a certain point as far as attracting more people into your downline then your tree is probably not big enough or strong enough.

Over the next few days I will share with you my old and wise mentor’s secret for nourishing and growing my tree. I followed his advice and today I am experiencing some pretty decent success. My tree has many branches. Three of those branches are strong and have strong branches of their own.

Our own leader in Toronto is another person who has a big solid tree with many strong branches and big healthy fruit.

How did he do it? How did I do it? Was that success created just over the last few months or the last couple of years?

FREEDOM TRAIN

Here is why I chose the name Freedom Train for this Blog.

in the early 19th century and continuing well up to the Civil War, the so-called freedom train was a secret and extensive network of people, places, and modes of transportation that led runaway slaves from the southern United States to freedom in the North and Canada.

Freedom was always on the minds of African American slaves and the news of the Underground Railroad gave them hope. Even though every single one of them needed to be free, a very small percentage had the courage and faith to leap on board.

What does all this have to do with our business?

I believe that we offer modern day wage-slaves or job-slaves a way to escape by building real income. Our modern-day Freedom Train also offers hope to people who always have Freedom on their minds. We too have something that everyone needs but not everyone will have the courage and faith to leap on board.

That’s Okay!

Those diligent workers lead by Harriet Tubman in the early 19th century, who persistently toiled under great risk to them, did so because they knew what was at stake. They believed in Freedom and they were determined to free the oppressed.

We too must stay true to our cause of freeing the masses from their oppressive financial burdens. We have the vehicle to accomplish this worthy goal. Some will follow; others will not; but in the end the world will be a better place.

Allan