MLM Network Marketing | Entitlement, Laziness or Simply Lack Thinking??

Been wanting to get back around to posting here – so many directions to go in and yet it always works out that Network Marketing, particularly Internetwork Marketing (with a generous dash of affiliate marketing) is where my heart is.

Recently, my friend Jackie Lee and I opened learnitstepbystep.com, a membership site designed to help people learn how to do the little things that get in the way of online marketing. The reception has been wonderful – many compliments and happy campers both on the free and paid parts of the site.

With one exception – lol – there’s always someone, eh?

This person seems to feel as though we ‘owe’ her answers to her private questions. And time was when I would have spent half the day helping her …. really ENABLING her… and experience tells me she still wouldn’t have taken action. Nor would she have learned how to find answers herself. And my day would also be blown.

See that’s exactly why Jackie and I created this site, so we could help the people who are ready today to take action on their own behalf. This chick obviously isn’t. Not with her whole heart and soul – which is what it takes to make any entrpreneurial effort reflect in income the effort you put into it.

Nothing Wrong with Being a Newbie

Now don’t get me wrong – I am possibly THE most patient person when it comes to helping new people get online and functioning. Just ask the gobs of people I’ve taught to copy and paste and learn how to use their email more effectively…

But really, when the opportunity to short cut the learning curve presents itself by having direct conversations on the very topic you’re craving — in a site that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg for a month … complaining that your private questions aren’t being answered and then whining when the price goes up a couple of dollars before you’ve taken action seems beyond silly to me.

This is a new Internet marketer that I’m ranting about – but Network Marketing FOR SURE attracts the same kind of lack thinking folk. Ready to at the drop of a hat “blame the material” (upline, company, payplan, whatever) for their failure to take action.

Jackie wrote a fabulous article, Do You Want to Fish or be Fed? that is far kinder to this sort of entitlement mindset than I tend to be (one day I’ll tell my whole tale and it will be obvious why I’m so clear this does not warrant kid gloves).

Randy Gage is on an entertaining rant of his own in this direction called Government Provided Prosperity. Talk about someone who doesn’t mince words – ever. Good stuff for folks ready to expand their prosperity thinking to be sure.

And last but not least I was also emailed the post below attributed to Ron Paul (I haven’t checked to be sure it’s intact or accurately from him – just fyi) – entitlement has been VERY sewn into the fabric of who America has become. Interesting to see this take on it.

Regrouping and Refocusing

So how’s this all connect back to how to build your Network Marketing business?

Well, I think it’s super important to get clear on boundaries and not let time wasters who are stuck in lack thinking derail you.

Attraction Marketing not only draws just the right people to you – it also greatly reduces the amount of hand sifting for the ‘ready to take action’ and be self-motivated folks. People really and truly DO call you.

It’s a beautiful thing.

Provide value, attract like minds and build your business.

And if you aren’t attracting the people you want to – guess what – time to change your mind.

The power is within you – be brave and let prosperity in

I appreciate you!
Andrea

The Austrians Were Right
by Congressman Ron Paul

Congressman Ron Paul speaking before the US House of Representatives

November 20, 2008

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY

Madame Speaker, many Americans are hoping the new administration will solve the economic problems we face. That’s not likely to happen, because the economic advisors to the new President have no more understanding of how to get us out of this mess than previous administrations and Congresses understood how the crisis was brought about in the first place.

Except for a rare few, Members of Congress are unaware of Austrian Free Market economics. For the last 80 years, the legislative, judiciary and executive branches of our government have been totally influenced by Keynesian economics. If they had had any understanding of the Austrian economic explanation of the business cycle, they would have never permitted the dangerous bubbles that always lead to painful corrections.

Today, a major economic crisis is unfolding. New government programs are started daily, and future plans are being made for even more.  All are based on the belief that we’re in this mess because free-market capitalism and sound money failed. The obsession is with more spending, bailouts of bad investments, more debt, and further dollar debasement. Many are saying we need an international answer to our problems with the establishment of a world central bank and a single fiat reserve currency. These suggestions are merely more of the same policies that created our mess and are doomed to fail.

At least 90% of the cause for the financial crisis can be laid at the doorstep of the Federal Reserve. It is the manipulation of credit, the money supply, and interest rates that caused the various bubbles to form. Congress added fuel to the fire by various programs and institutions like the Community Reinvestment Act, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, FDIC, and HUD mandates, which were all backed up by aggressive court rulings.

The Fed has now doled out close to $2 trillion in subsidized loans to troubled banks and other financial institutions. The Federal Reserve and Treasury constantly brag about the need for “transparency” and “oversight,” but it’s all just talk – they want none of it. They want secrecy while the privileged are rescued at the expense of the middle class.

It is unimaginable that Congress could be so derelict in its duty.  It does nothing but condone the arrogance of the Fed in its refusal to tell us where the $2 trillion has gone. All Members of Congress and all Americans should be outraged that conditions could deteriorate to this degree. It’s no wonder that a large and growing number of Americans are now demanding an end to the Fed.

The Federal Reserve created our problem, yet it manages to gain even more power in the socialization of the entire financial system. The whole bailout process this past year was characterized by no oversight, no limits, no concerns, no understanding, and no common sense.

Similar mistakes were made in the 1930s and ushered in the age of the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the Great Society and the supply-siders who convinced conservatives that deficits didn’t really matter after all, since they were anxious to finance a very expensive deficit-financed American empire.

All the programs since the Depression were meant to prevent recessions and depressions. Yet all that was done was to plant the seeds of the greatest financial bubble in all history. Because of this lack of understanding, the stage is now set for massive nationalization of the financial system and quite likely the means of production.

Although it is obvious that the Keynesians were all wrong and interventionism and central economic planning don’t work, whom are we listening to for advice on getting us out of this mess? Unfortunately, it’s the Keynesians, the socialists, and big-government proponents.

Who’s being ignored? The Austrian free-market economists – the very ones who predicted not only the Great Depression, but the calamity we’re dealing with today. If the crisis was predictable and is explainable, why did no one listen? It’s because too many politicians believed that a free lunch was possible and a new economic paradigm had arrived. But we’ve heard that one before – like the philosopher’ s stone that could turn lead into gold.  Prosperity without work is a dream of the ages.

Over and above this are those who understand that political power is controlled by those who control the money supply. Liberals and conservatives, Republicans and Democrats came to believe, as they were taught in our universities, that deficits don’t matter and that Federal Reserve accommodation by monetizing debt is legitimate and never harmful. The truth is otherwise. Central economic planning is always harmful. Inflating the money supply and purposely devaluing the dollar is always painful and dangerous.

The policies of big-government proponents are running out of steam.
Their policies have failed and will continue to fail. Merely doing more of what caused the crisis can hardly provide a solution.

The good news is that Austrian economists are gaining more acceptance every day and have a greater chance of influencing our future than they’ve had for a long time.

The basic problem is that proponents of big government require a central bank in order to surreptitiously pay bills without direct taxation. Printing needed money delays the payment. Raising taxes would reveal the true cost of big government, and the people would revolt. But the piper will be paid, and that’s what this crisis is all about.

There are limits. A country cannot forever depend on a central bank to keep the economy afloat and the currency functionable through constant acceleration of money supply growth. Eventually the laws of economics will overrule the politicians, the bureaucrats and the central bankers. The system will fail to respond unless the excess debt and mal-investment is liquidated. If it goes too far and the wild extravagance is not arrested, runaway inflation will result, and an entirely new currency will be required to restore growth and reasonable political stability.

The choice we face is ominous: We either accept world-wide authoritarian government holding together a flawed system, OR we restore the principles of the Constitution, limit government power, restore commodity money without a Federal Reserve system, reject world government, and promote the cause of peace by protecting liberty equally for all persons. Freedom is the answer.

Ron Paul