Frankly, at that point in my life, I didn’t have enough money to buy it, but I really wanted to purchase it because it meant that much to my wife. I was discovering even then how to Work Positive. So I changed my perception, released my imagination, conceived a complementary relationship, believed that I could find the money, and acted on my attention and intention so I achieved the positive result of buying that crib.

First, I remembered my shotgun. I had not been hunting for years with that gun, but it was still special to me. Santa Claus brought it to me when I was 13 years old. It was my “dream gun”—a Remington 870 Wingmaster pump-action 12 gauge with a 28-inch modified choke barrel. I drooled all over “her page” in the Sears Wishbook catalog that year. I stood for hours staring at her in the local gun shop. Not that I was attached to my gun or anything like that . . .

Then, in a flash I decided that the crib was coming and the gun was going. I would sell my shotgun and buy the baby crib. On my way to the gun shop to sell it, I stopped by to visit my friend, James, who said he wanted it. So I sold the shotgun to him and bought the crib, presenting it to my wife as a surprise baby gift. She loved it!

About fourteen years later, on my 40th birthday, my wife threw a huge birthday party for me. She had about 250 of my closest friends over for a meal and party. It was great.

After everyone left, she escorted me into our home and said, “There’s one more thing. Close your eyes and hold out your hands and I will give you a big surprise.”

I did, and then she said, “OK, open your eyes! Here’s your birthday present” and handed me my Remington Wingmaster 12 gauge shotgun that I had sold to buy the Jenny Lind baby crib.

“Where did you get it?” I said.

“From James,” she said. “I called him and told him that you were turning 40 and asked him if I could buy your gun back. And Joey,” she said. “He wouldn’t let me pay him. He gave it to me as your present.”

Business Truth 1: Love your customers and clients, employees and suppliers with the same reckless abandon that my wife, James, and I did. Commit yourself to solving their problems, to growing their bottom line, and to improving their lifestyle. They will remain loyal to you forever.

Business Truth 2: What goes around, really does come around. Serve everyone associated with your business based on their needs first. You will always have enough to go around.

Business Truth 3: Believe in your business. Work hard to love and serve. And at the beginning and end of each day, remind yourself that there are Work Positive resources converging that are beyond your ability to control or influence. You will succeed.

AFEs, etc.

Valentine’s Day

Your agents are focused on the romance of Valentine’s Day tomorrow, but did you know Valentine’s Day is good for business, too?

Share with your agents and team the “3 Business Truths for Valentine’s Day.”

Here’s the link: http://tinyurl.com/7a43fq3

Enjoy a positive Valentine’s Day!

Dr. Joey

www.WorkPositiveBook.com

Agents

Valentine’s Day

Sure, there’s romance in the air as we get ready for Valentine’s Day tomorrow, but did you know Valentine’s Day is good for business, too?

Enjoy these “3 Business Truths for Valentine’s Day.”

Here’s the link: http://tinyurl.com/7a43fq3

Have a positive Valentine’s Day!

Dr. Joey

www.WorkPositiveBook.com

Learn the management and team-building benefits of Herrmann’s Whole Brain Thinking™ used by 90% of the Fortune™ companies, the most successful firms in the USA. Discover how to use these skills to motivate and manage with the greatest results.   Identify the thinking behind courage and how to temper it with safety and develop a greater understanding of any firefighter who needs more support and how to fast track them to success. Learn how to motivate leadership skills in your team so that each member develops the ability to:

 1. Efficiently check all the data of the fire

2. Quickly review the big picture of what has happened

3. Effectively consider the needs of the people affected by the situation including the fire fighting team

4. Handle all the interpersonal communication in the most peaceful, cooperative manner and move the team from “fight or flight” to peace and clarity to enable to greatest results possible.

With humor and interactive conversations, the workshop will provide the most important take-away, how to have greater results and enhanced safety using whole brain thinking™. 

Susan Allan’s expertise is in team building and leadership. She is a certified mediator of the LA Bar Association and has offered trainings to the National Association of Conflict Resolution; The California Correctional System’s MERIT program, The Pasadena Police Department’s Youth Leadership Program, The Counsel on Drug and Alcohol Abuse and to Passages and others. She is an expert in Nonviolent Communication and is certified in Whole brain thinking™. Allan has appeared as a guest expert on hundreds of television and radio programs including Fox News and Montel Williams. Millions have received training through her 3 websites and training programs. 

http://www.susanallan.org

MORE AMERICANS SEEK A PATH TO SMALL BUSINESS OWNERSHIP

Small Business expert, Melinda Emerson, encourages Americans to Become Their Own Boss even during an economic downturn

Philadelphia, PA July 7, 2010 – It is no secret that our nation is in the middle of an economic crisis.   With more families struggling to make ends meets with salaries and benefits shrinking and nearly 15 million unemployed–many are turning to small business ownership to fill the gap financially.  Whether accidental entrepreneur or working a part-time side hustle business, Americans are seeing a “Silver Lining” by looking for opportunities to finally follow their dreams of starting their own business.  However, many are risking their family’s financial future on half-baked business ideas with no plan.

Professional speaker, small business coach and author of Become Your Own Boss in 12 months, Melinda Emerson shares, “Americans are strong.  Now is a great time to start a small business with proper planning.  People must to understand that entrepreneurship can be a dream come true, but there are no get-rich-quick schemes; you must plan for success, it will not just happen.”

Emerson encourages those who really want to live the American Dream of becoming their own boss to follow her step by step “Emerson Planning System”:

Month 1: Develop a Life Plan

Month 3: Set a One-Year Budget

Month 5: Visualize Your Business

Month 9: Build Your Marketing Strategy

Month 11: Launch Your Business

Emerson’s coaching style gives those who are really looking for a fresh start in today’s rough economy a realistic, month-by-month planning guide to start a sustainable and profitable small business.

Melinda Emerson is available for interviews and speaking engagements.  Sample interview segments to include but not be limited to:

• From Hobby to Business Owner
• Life Plan Before Business Plan
  •  How to Be a Successful Work-at-Home Woman Business Owner
  •  How to Avoid Work-at-Home Scams
  •  How to Build a Social Media Brand for Your Small Business

About Melinda Emerson:

Melinda F. Emerson, known as SmallBizLady is a seasoned entrepreneur, professional speaker, and small business coach. As CEO of MFE Consulting, LLC , she develops audio, video and written content to fulfill her mission to end small business failure.  Melinda specializes in small business start-up, business development and social media marketing. She has been featured on NBC Nightly News, and in the Wall Street Journal and Black Enterprise. She also hosts “SmallBizChat” weekly on Twitter for emerging entrepreneurs.  She publishes a  blog www.succeedasyourownboss.com Melinda is the author of the national bestseller Become Your Own Boss in 12 months; A Month-by-Month Guide to a Business That Works!”

Douglas R. Anderson

901 Raven Bend Ct.

Southlake, Texas 76092

817.488.9489 H

817.456.6125 C

Cliff is the founder and president of WealthNet Partners, LLC, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based Internet marketing and business development consulting firm. His deep commitment to helping small business owners create real wealth through entrepreneurship is driven by his belief that starting, funding, marketing and growing successful businesses is the best investment most people can make. It is also the key to a healthy, growing economy.

I knew I needed a partner—someone to hold me accountable, committed to our mutual success, and who brings out the best in me. Our younger daughter became my partner.  She helped me push away from my desk and get up and do what I intended.

We business owners often try to go it alone and do pretty well at first. After a while though, for a variety of reasons, we find more excuses not to do what we should.

Who is your partner? Who is someone with whom you can conceive positive outcomes in your business?

Here are the three key characteristics your partner must have for you to get to where you want to be in your business.

Accountability

A rubber band has a shape of its own which isn’t very useful. It just lays there in the palm of your hand without any obvious use. Put a little pressure on it, it changes shape, and suddenly becomes very usable for a variety of purposes.

Accountability is the pressure your partner puts on you to move beyond your current business practices to ones that are more purposeful. You shift your shape toward more productivity and conceive more positively how your business can grow.

Mutual Benefit

I bought a bird feeder that promised to be squirrel proof. A counterweight system closed the gate on the bird seed slots when a heavy squirrel sat on the perch. It worked…until one day I watched as a squirrel ate eagerly from the perch while another squirrel sat on the counterweight. Then they switched places.

Now if squirrels can Work Positive for mutual benefit, we can find a partner with whom we can enjoy a similar relationship.

Insure that your partner is committed to your mutual success.

Brings Out the Best

When you are around some people, you look brighter, act sharper, and move more effectively to get things done. You just sense that you’re at your best.

Who brings out the best in you? Whether it’s offering you words of encouragement, or helping you assess accurately a situation, or doing some heavy lifting, your partner must be that person with whom you reach higher, accomplish more, and achieve greatness.

Regardless of how talented or skilled you are as a business professional, you develop personally and grow your business professionally more effectively and efficiently when you remember that it takes two to positively partner for greater success!

Conceive your business for positive profits and productivity starting today!

http://www.listentolife.org

Mike Wittenstein can help.

Whether it’s crafting your branded customer experience design from scratch, or providing a fresh take on a customer experience strategy you’ve already outlined, we bring an open-minded, informed perspective on how to deliver an amazing customer experience.  We will help you think hard and work hard to uncover problem areas and turn them into competitive strengths.

With more than 20 years experience helping companies differentiate their retail, healthcare, and other service brands through powerful customer experiences, we have the unique and uncanny ability to see something new in things everybody else sees as ordinary.  Or routinely dismisses because, “That’s the way we’ve always done it.”

And we always find compelling and clever ways to introduce them – in a profitable way – for your company.

We deliver customized, specific thinking and commercial-grade, market-proven methodology, not nebulous theory.  We will work with you to determine WHAT needs to be done, then help you actually GET it done.

We will help you design a customized plan for your team that includes insight and tangible direction for:

• Customer and employee experiences
• Customer service plans
• Service designs
• Encounter designs
• Brand strategies and frameworks
• Marketing plans
• Cultural change
• Websites, kiosks, smartphone apps, digital signage, web services, and more

We will also help you develop the Big Picture elements of your experience design.

• The Storymining^® Process – is a toolkit for brand clarity that connects the brand to the business. It can be used to set clear direction, establish accountability across departments, provide a brand framework for experience design work, set expectations, and create/maintain sustainable competitive advantage. Storymining delivers a playbook for achieving profitable harmony between the promises a brand makes and how it delivers on them. Using it gets everyone on the same page.

We will also help you create the internal Roles and Capabilities you will need for successful implementation of your customer experience strategy and customer experience design.

• The Innovation Accelerator – envisions and designs the supporting capabilities your business needs to deliver new and better experiences. It is especially useful if entrenched processes are holding ideas back. The Innovation Accelerator works by letting positive and negative conversations run in parallel without opposition before combining them into a winning design solution.

We don’t just recommend what needs to be done.  We tell you why, show you how, and get everyone on the same page.  So, you get new capabilities that your own people appreciate, respect and know how to operate successfully.

for additional information- http://www.mikewittenstein.com/

We will market you using the following processes each month. If you have other marketing pieces that you want to substitute for the items we suggest, we can modify the program to fit your needs.

Month 1 – Intro email with your photo and bio, “what others are saying” testimonial section and follow up with a phone call, link to YOUR website

Month 2 – Email discussing your services and directing them to your website

Month 3 – Email marketing piece such as a one- sheet, brochure, etc. and follow up with a phone call, link to YOUR website

Month 4 – Email Newsletter, article or tips to help them in their business, link to YOUR website

Month 5 – Email website link or link to a video

Month 6 – Email photo, bio and topics and follow up with a phone call, link to YOUR website

For additional information email Tracy- Tracy@isnworks.com

http://www.isnworks.com