And I will tell you why in a moment. And no it is not to thump my chest, pat my back or blow my horn. But first, here is Eric’s blog post unedited in it entirety.

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Paul Douglas of Global Pros is a Strong Leader
Posted by Eric COLLINS on Friday, May 28, 2010

We have been seeing alot in the Wireless Niche in the last few months, And one constant that has been Positive, Is Paul Douglas, The master distributor for Canada. We wanted to acknowledge Paul for his efforts to the Industry as a whole, and We will do this on a monthly basis for Great Leaders in our niche.

Paul has taken the time needed to build out Global Pros in Canada, Doing Webinars, Calls, and being supportive to the team. We wanted to Recognize Paul Douglas as our MLM Wireless Leader of the Month.
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So why am I re-posting this? There is a marketing secret in this for you. Are you ready?

What other people say about you is far more believable than anything you will ever say about you. When third party individuals endorse you, your product and/or your company, your positioning or posture as they like to call it in MLM increases. So use it. Add it to your blog posts, websites, sales letters, and all of your other marketing material. Testimonials create believability and positioning you cannot buy for any price.

So make sure you find a way to add testimonials for your company, product and even yourself as a goto leader that people will want to follow.

Enjoy.

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Hey there,

I got this below email from someone in my organziation last night, extremely powerful words.

Now, I didn’t write this at all, but the message is so powerful that its one of those you MUST read.

When you are feeling down, take a read of this and think about what really is difficult in our lives.

Here is the message:

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Lately, I have heard so many people say how difficult Network Marketing is.
“Its hard.” “I can’t get appointments.” “This just isn’t for me.” “I didn’t
know how difficult it would be.”

Well, I am a single Mom of three who, before joining the direct sales
family, held down two jobs. I would get up at 4:00 in the morning and not
get to bed until midnight most nights, after returning from my part-time
retail job, packing lunches, checking homework and relieving my mother,
who helped out with the kids.

That, my friends, is difficult.

It is difficult always having to lower your dreams to meet your means.
It is difficult to miss your son’s football game because you have to
work. It is difficult knowing the rust bucket you call a car is eating
you alive in maintenance, but you can’t afford a new one. It is difficult
to realize that someone else is going to watch your daughter take her
first step or have your son say mama to the preschool teacher.

It is difficult knowing that you have spent 40 years of your life working
for someone else, only to realize that you will be retiring on one-third of
what you can live on today.

Or, worse yet, it is difficult knowing that
you have diligently worked all your life, only to be given an early retirement
and replaced by someone younger, more capable.

I will tell you what is difficult. It is difficult waking up one morning and
realizing that your children, the most precious things imaginable, no
longer need bottles, diapers, have tea parties, or are shorter than the
baseball bat they are trying to swing. It is difficult realizing it is too late
and that the time frittered away can never be retrieved. It slips through
our fingers one second at a time.

It is also difficult watching the spark in your partner’s eyes fade because
both of you realize the house you have been wanting is just a dream
because someone else is controlling your finances.

We have nasty habits about rationalizing, procrastination and skirting
important things, rather than facing the issues. Too often we allow
others who do not pay our bills, who do not share our dreams, to
direct our futures.

As children we have absolutely no freedom; we rebel in our teens
and scream for freedom. We reach adulthood and are finally free,
only to relinquish that freedom because we think it is too difficult.
We do not want to take responsibility. We do not want to make a
wrong decision, so we obligingly give that awesome power to someone
else. We wake up too late. We hear ourselves uttering phrases like:
“I wish I had only . . .” and “If I could do it over again.”

You have no one but yourself to blame. You had the chance.
Perhaps the opportunity was presented many times and each time
you elevated the trivial to a higher priority than yourself.

Let me ask you: Is Network Marketing really difficult?

How difficult is it write an article or build a blog of your own ?
How difficult is it to learn how to market your business to grow
knowing you are helping others in the process?

Is it so traumatic to show someone an exciting opportunity and an
awesome product? Is it so difficult to understand that if you work
this marketing idea for three to five years, you just might finally be
able to send your children to a college chosen by excellence, rather
than one chosen by price? That you could finally put your family
in the home of their dreams?

Would you work really hard for eight to ten years, so you could
mold a lifestyle of your choosing, so your family could live a
lifestyle of their dreams, rather than trying to live how someone
else thinks you should live?

How difficult is it, really, to share what you love with others?
Think about it.

Realize the awesome power you have in your hands with your
network marketing business. There are people out there working
three jobs. There are people drowning in debt; or agonizing through
bankruptcy, realizing they only needed a couple hundred more
dollars per month. That is difficult!

This business you have chosen has the ability to change lives.
Your business cannot “do” ANYTHING on it’s own.

But YOU can change lives with it. You are the one with the
life-changing ability. What are you waiting for?

There is difficulty and pain in success, and! there is difficulty
and pain in failure. Difficulty and pain in success will last a
short period of time; but pain in regret lasts a lifetime.
Which one is really more difficult?

You will pay a price for your actions, and your choices.

Which choice will you make?

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If you are ready to make that choice and really get your
business going online in the right direction, go here right
now and get this.

Choose to live life on your terms:

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I won’t bore you with too many details of the day. Nor is it my desire at this time to argue the ethics of hunting or for that matter, promote the sport. My goal is simply to share.

On this particular October afternoon, the weather was anything but typical. It had rained heavily in the morning. The afternoon, was overcast, and humid. It was unseasonably warm for a Manitoba Fall day, but very enjoyable. Yes the thunder would rumble occasionally, and at times I was briefly pelted by hail. But for whatever it was worth, I was thoroughly enjoying my day.

As the day drew near and end, I decided it was time for me to head back to where I parked my truck. I was walking through a hay field that was located at the Northwest side of my Grandparent’s farm property. It was about 500 yards wide going North to South and was a half mile long going East to West. The bush this field sat against was also a half mile wide going East to West and over a mile long, North to South. And it was filled with swampy, marshy stretches, and very thick underbrush. However at the East end of the hay field, there was a small trail that went through the bush to the hay field that was the Southeast part of my grandparent’s property. And it was there, that my truck was parked.

Now at this time it was almost dark. If it wasn’t cloudy I would have seen the sun set 30 minutes earlier. As I followed the ATV trail that wove through this field, I made a mistake. I walked into the bush to get to my truck prematurely. As I followed that ATV trail into the bush it quickly became a deer trail, that soon became a squirrel track that ended at a tree. I realized that at this point, I was on the wrong trail. And I had two choices. Turn back the way I came, or, cut through the trees, heading east and intersect the correct trail. I chose to travel through the bush.

Now remember that I told you this bush was swampy, marshy and full of thick underbrush. Well it did not take long to come across this barrier. Hey no problem, I will just go around it. And I went around the next one, and the next, and the next.

Oh oh.

There is nothing that inspires panic more than the sudden, sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach when you realize you are totally and completely lost in the woods after dark. I was almost overwhelmed by panic. I had to force myself to remain calm. I just had to regain my bearings, that’s all. As soon as I find North, I am good. And to answer your question no I did not have my compass or a flashlight with me. It was too dark and cloudy to use the sun for my bearings. So I looked at the trees. You know, moss grows on the North side of trees. Well that is a lie. Moss grows wherever the trees stay wet. That wasn’t any help what so ever.

After that discovery, I turned in a big circle. I wanted to find the big trees. My logic was the biggest trees will be on the edge of the bush. There was less competition for sunlight there, allowing them to grow bigger than the rest. I found them, and I focused on them. I would not take my eyes off them as I headed toward them. I was on course and heading East to where I parked my truck.

Now, did I come across the impenetrable underbrush that spun me off my original path? Absolutely. But I was focused on my goal, the big trees. I would not take my eyes off them. And I kept trudging toward those trees that I was positive were beside my truck. By the way, that plan would not work if you are deep in the woods. I got lucky.

Now as I neared the edge, I saw yard lights. I was really confused. You see by heading East as I thought I was, there should have been nothing but hills and trees where those lights were. I was completely baffled, until I came back out in the hay field I originally started from, facing North, not East, and about 100 yards further away from my truck than I was when I started.

Now obviously I got out safely or you would not be reading this story. So what lessons does this story teach? Here they are.

• When you embark on a venture, have with you the tools you need to stay on track. I went out without a compass or flashlight to keep me oriented. I became hopelessly lost because of that. 

  In business your compass are your business plan, financial plan and marketing plan. When you go off track in business, and you will, it is your plans that will allow you to adjust your course back on the correct path. Go into business without your plans, you will get hopelessly lost.

• You must be focused on your goals. When I entered the woods I had a vague goal. Get to the truck. Because it was a vague goal, the obstacles I came across spun me off track and completely disoriented me. However, when I focused on my end results, refused to take my eyes off the prize, obstacles were no more than detours for me. 

  What obstacle is currently holding you back? Refocus on your goals, and bypass that obstacle.

• Conventional wisdom is not always true. Moss grows where ever the tree gets wet. Go figure. Holding on to what everyone else holds to be true can be disastrous to your business. Don’t accept anything to be gospel truth until you have tested it for yourself.

• Shortcuts rarely are shortcuts. I chose to cut through the woods to save time rather than back track and lose time. Then I got spun off track, got lost, got delayed. 

  Every day you will be offered shortcuts. You may be tempted to take them. Don’t. Most shortcuts in business rarely are. They take your focus off your primary goal and use up valuable resources, time and energy. Should you discount all shortcuts. No. Just use your common sense, make sure it is in alignment to your goal, and that the potential reward exceeds the potential risk.

• Your perception does not always accurately reflect your reality. Remember while I truly believed I was heading East, I was in reality traveling North. My belief was so strong that when I saw the neighbors yard lights in the distance, I was bewildered. It didn’t even dawn on me that maybe, just maybe I was heading North. 

  Are you in denial? Is your perception contradicting your reality

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  ? Sometimes it is hard to tell because it is so hard to override our beliefs. But if you change your perspective, gather more facts and data your perception and reality can be more aligned.

• And finally, “Don’t Ever Panic”. Panic is an emotional response to fear. Logic on the other hand is the polar opposite of panic. Don’t ever allow yourself to go into a panic. Every year we read about hunters who get lost, PANIC, and run pellmell into the woods. Deeper and deeper. Until they finally succumb to either exhaustion or the elements. An organized and logical plan would have saved their lives. 

  What is happening in your business that is causing you to panic? To make snap decisions. STOP! Take a deep breath, and come up with a logical plan to get back on track.

For the record, I did not bring my quarry home on this hunting trip. The life lessons I learned were far more valuable than venison in my freezer. And now you have these valuable lessons as well.