Any body else as veggie (and flower) garden crazy as I am?  (Yes, even in the dead of a Canadian winter!)

Thanks Anita for sharing…

“Carrots in the car park. Radishes on the roundabout. The deliciously eccentric story of the town growing ALL its own veg.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2072383/Eccentric-town-Todmorden-growing-ALL-veg.html

http://www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk/projects

Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Complete transcript: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

While looking for something interesting to add to my summer reading list I came across this list on “Seeds of Success”.

It’s an inspiring list of reads from some of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time.

Click here to see the list.

So what’s on your summer reading list and where in the world will you be when you’re reading it?

Best regards,

Marie Bennett

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The rumor is true, it was announced earlier today that Facebook and SKYPE have partnered and as of today video chat is incorporated into your Facebook page.

Oh, and if we have not already connected on Facebook – let’s!

http://www.facebook.com/marie.d.bennett

See you there!

I first posted this very short video in December…

ENJOY!

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Salt Lake City, Utah resident Ryan Davis has a unique approach to raising funds for charities.

It all started with a single penny that he traded for one object, which in turn he traded for a second object and so forth and so on. So far he’s traded up to a truck valued at $5,000. The idea is that after a year, what ever he has traded up to, will be donated to a charitable organization.

Working from home definitely has benefits.

What, how, why and why great leaders and companies reverse the order to why, how what. ENJOY!

20 years ago when I first got started in the networking industry I internalized a couple of “sayings”. If you have been around the industry at all you will have heard at least a few.

One that I personally internalized and that I continue to marvel that more people don’t get is:

Treat your business like BIG business and it will pay you like a BIG business.

Treat it like a hobby and it will cost you like a hobby.

How often do we see distributors enroll in our industry and then fail to have a written business plan? Would that be the case if they invested their life savings, mortgaged a home, borrowed money from family and friends and financed their business through a bank? Hopefully not. We would assume if they were starting a traditional business that they would have a written business plan, one that included exactly what their goals are and how they are going to achieve those goals, including hours of operation. Otherwise how would they get financed in the first place?

So often, because our industry has an extremely low cost of entry that doesn’t require special financing new distributors don’t take the time to have a written business plan. Something as simple as scheduling specific times for recruiting on specific days of the week can make a huge difference in the success of a new distributor.

Do you have a written schedule of times that you are going to devote to recruiting?

Traditionally when someone starts a new business one of their “whys” is they are accountable to friends, family and bankers! As a result they don’t want to lose face, or their life savings, so they get up early, stay up late, make sacrifices and apply consistent energy to building their business. Successful networkers know the power of having a strong “why” and teaching others to have a strong why, otherwise the first few times someone tells a new distributor that they are crazy to be involved with network marketing, or “no”, they are out of the business.

When I got started in the networking industry my why was that I wanted to be able to spend my winters some where warm. When someone told me I was crazy or no, I simply remembered why I was building a network and persisted.

What is your why? Do you have it written down or better yet have you developed a “dream board” that illustrates what your life will be like when you have achieved your why?

What “sayings” have you heard during your time in this industry that have helped you build a successful business?

This very short video perfectly illustrates the power of words. (1 minute and 48 seconds).  Enjoy!

Best regards,

Marie Bennett
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