You Cannot Eat the Elephant all in One Setting

With the holiday season upon us, it is a great time reflect on the past year and move forward with goals for the new year. Of course, you cannot ‘eat the elephant’ all in one setting, so plan goals for a smaller period of time first and put together over the whole year, it will be worth it!

Most people do best with 90 day runs or goals for a three month (quarter of the year) period. Set your goals for 90 days and the readjust and set them for the next 90 days until.... it never has to stop until you do. Each 90 day run will encourage the next 90 days and build on the last 90 days.

Remember, not to use excuses to slow you down. Life is going to happen in 2011, just like it did in 2010. This year has held it’s trials and blessings for many people including me. I often used life happenings as an excuse until someone asked me, “Is this your business or a hobby?”

Why is it that we treat a home based business like a hobby and not with the priority and commitment that a business should hold for us? (You have to answer that one for yourself.)

Does your business take precedence over the laundry, dishes, housecleaning, etc? I don’t mean that these things are not to be done when it is time to do them, just work them into your business schedule! not the other way around.

Here is a list that will get you started thinking about what You Need to be Successful in Your Business in 2011:

1. You MUST BELIEVE that YOU DESERVE SUCCESS.
2. You MUST BE CONFIDENT that FULFILLING YOUR PURPOSE in life
WILL CREATE SUCCESS.
3. You MUST HAVE A MASTERMIND of like-minded people, a TEAM of SUCCESSFUL
MENTORS.
4. You MUST USE the Product, RECOMMEND the Product and SPONSOR Partners.
5. You MUST remain FOCUSED on the DAILY TASKS that build, even the menial, repetitive,
Slight Edge, tasks that are Easy to Do and Easy Not to Do!
6. You MUST be READY to RECEIVE SUCCESS.
7. You MUST have CLARITY - What DO YOU Want? What is YOUR WHY?
The list could go on and it does...

Be sure to spend TIME on YOURSELF - Develop your mind and purpose first,
then you will BE ABLE to LEAD others become Successful, also.

I wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and The BEST EVER NEW YEAR!

Debbie Engler
http://ddengler2.bigmlmlies.com/?mad=53157

Your Passion in Life Will Build Your Business

“Ninety percent of new businesses fail the first year.

And 90% of the rest fail in the next 4 years.

THAT is tough.

You’re excited. You start. A thousand things go wrong.
You want to quit a thousand times.

Most people just quit.

You need a strong enough reason to do it.
Then if WHAT you’re doing doesn’t work,
You’ll figure out some other way. But if
You’re at all wishy-washy, you’re a goner.”

This quote from Michael Dlouhy’s book, Success in 10 Steps,
explains why we need to find and fulfill our passion in life.
That passion in your life will create a successful business.

So, why are you here (on earth, I mean)?

What do you enjoy doing so much that you can’t wait to get started in the morning?

God placed man on the earth initially to have fellowship with Him.
It was a joy for Adam, Eve, and God to walk and talk together in
‘the cool of the day’. We should have fellowship with our Creator.

We need to know what our purpose in life is. It will fulfill us so that we are overjoyed to work at accomplishing our purpose every day.

I don’t mean like the movie that shows someone who’s whole live
builds to a climax of doing a great humanitarian deed and then
passes on, though that may happen.

I am talking about day to day, burning, passionate, desires or dreams that become a reality because you pursue them with clear focus and purpose. Then you will be successful in your life, your business, etc.

First of all, you have to know WHAT you want. What is YOUR dream, your PURPOSE, YOUR PASSION IN LIFE?

Most people have been ‘programmed’ to think that once you reach adulthood, you are not supposed to dream anymore. (Not in the daytime, anyway)

WHY NOT?

Do you want to be STUCK in your 9-5, J-O-B from now until you retire without enough retirement to live comfortably?

Take responsibility of your life and actions and achieve your dreams.

Dream, and DREAM BIG, the BIGGER, the Better!

In the book, Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill says,
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

In the weeks to come, I will be sharing the steps that many
successful entrepreneurs have taken.

Then you, too, will be able to....

Find YOUR PASSION IN LIFE and BUILD YOUR BUSINESS.

Debbie

http://ddengler2.bigmlmlies.com/?mad=38179

How To Get Professionals To Understand and Join Your Business by Art Jonak

If a surgeon decides to quit operating, the money stops.

If a dishwasher decides not to wash dishes, the money stops.

If an attorney decides to stop suing people, the money stops.

If an IRS agent decides to stop auditing people, the money stops.



In almost every profession, when the person stops working, the money stops. But not network marketing!



In network marketing, it's different. In the beginning, you do a lot of groundwork and foundation building, and you don't make a lot of money. If you were being paid hourly, you could complain that you were underpaid or getting less than minimum wage.

However, most network marketing leaders look at this building period as a learning period. It's like going to school. But, instead of paying tuition, you can earn some money while you learn.



Once you complete the groundwork and foundation, the money formula changes drastically. Now, you are getting paid bonuses every month, even if you don't work hard or when you take a vacation.



So, in the beginning you do a lot of work that you don't get paid for, but in the end you get a lot of pay for when you don't work.

That's why professionals want to get into network marketing. They like the residual income and the financial security it brings.

On a sad note, there are some individuals who get into network marketing and build a foundation. But because they didn't feel they earned enough money during this learning and building stage of their career, they quit.



Yes, they quit just before they go into the collecting stage of their careers. I guess the rewards go to people with persistence and vision.



Written by Art Jonak, CEO of MLMPlayers.com

Have a great week!
Debbie Engler

Spotting MLM Cutthroats

At the bottom of page 11 of Success In 10 Steps, you see a reference to "greed and ego." That gives you another good point to make with your prospect.

Prospects don't come into this process thinking about "greed & ego". But if they have experience in MLM, there's a good chance they've already run into the problem. It's worthwhile pointing out that the greed & ego of sponsors and/or companies is one of the reasons so many prospects are never successful in network marketing.

Let them know how important it is to have their radar up and operating sensitively.

This doesn't mean you search for some Pollyanna who lives their life only for others. Putting yourself first is the natural order.

What it does mean is that you MUST avoid sponsors whose goal is to be successful no matter who they have to step on. You want someone who is determined to be successful by creating those win-win relationships with others.

A lot of times, you can actually hear this in their voice and in what they say about the business and about others. One of these clowns once told me that 95% of all prospects were dead wood, and he just kicked them out of the way. Not only was he proud of it, but he thought anyone who didn't do that was a fool. What more could you possibly need to know about this guy?

So you've got to watch and listen and train yourself to spot "greed & ego" before you join a company where you are smack-dab in the middle of it. Your best bet is definitely to avoid it from the start. Once you are in a group dominated by the greed and/or ego of its leader(s), you are lost. It's a situation you must train yourself to see and walk away from.

To build your own big income in M-L-M, the people you sponsor will need a constant stream of hot pr0spects. I can help you do that for them, and for yourself. For details, contact me at 864-379-8156 or debbieengler@gmail.com

To Your Success,

Debbie Engler
864-379-8156
debbieengler@gmail.com

PS: I hope you have had time to print it out and read the eBook, "Success In Ten Steps", there are only two things in life : reasons and results. The first one doesn't count.

Click Here for the Ebook

Greed And Ego Are The Kiss of Death In Network Marketing

Every time we have ever seen a company or downline explode and go away, it does so because of the same 2 reasons: GREED and EGO.

True leaders are the Mentors with the servant's heart. It's never about the money. No Money Focus = No Greed. Build people and people will build the business.

People are people. They are not a number. They have goals, dreams & desires. Network marketing is not a sales business. Network marketing is a teaching & mentoring business. So the track record & attitude of leadership is critical.

When you've joined a business and someone calls you, telling you to make a list of your friends & family, I can promise you that they do not have a system. "Friends & family" is what has been puked downline for the last 50 years, and that is the reason for such high failure rates in MLM.

It's Really All About Target Marketing

You've got to find people who will raise their hand, looking for you and/or your product, your service, your opportunity.

Too often, somebody calls you up, pitching you. They don't even know who you are. They don't care who you are. They don't care anything about you.

I've heard certain network marketing leaders say, "It's a relationship business." And many of these people have never built a relationship with anybody. Nobody on their team would want to go on a one-month cruise with them.

Some "Leaders" Don't Even Want To Be Around Their People At Convention!

Why? It's all about the greed & the ego. The fancy watch, fancy jewelry, fancy suit, exotic cars, being the superstar, all that stuff.

Do they ever help the person who's been squashed by life? Do they ever pay for the next guy going through the toll gate? Do they ever just freely give their time to mentor others, expecting nothing in return? Do they ever use their income to buy good tools for those in their group who are obviously trying to build?

No, they don't.

Instead, it's always about greed & ego, me, me, me. It's never about the other person.

You truly have to care about people. And then you won't have the greed and the ego. And THAT is the kind of person who can build huge in network marketing, because you will attract people just like you!

To Your Success,

Deborah Engler

864-379-8156

debbieengler@gmail.com

"Be A Mentor With A Servant's Heart!"

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http://ddengler2.bigmlmlies.com/?mad=38179

We Are Going to Have to Fire You

Imagine you’re at work one day, and your boss comes to you and says,

“Bad news, we’re going to have to fire you. Business is bad. And the economy stinks.”
You feel depressed. No more career. No more regular paychecks.

And then the boss says,
“You know what? If you were to work just one extra hour overtime every day for free, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, we’ll let you keep your job and you can continue collecting your same paycheck.”
Now, what would you do?

Well, most people would say,
“Well, I will work the extra hour of overtime just to keep my job. I know I will be working the extra hour for free, but it is important to keep my present job.”
And then the boss says,
“Well, I know it’s kind of bad news for you but there is some good news. If you work an hour of overtime, Monday through Friday for no pay, just one extra hour a day . . . at the end of two years, we’ll let you retire at full pay.”
All of a sudden, how do you feel?

You feel like saying,
“Wow! Excellent! What an opportunity! Just work one hour overtime for free, Monday through Friday, and two years from now . . . I retire at full pay!”
So what would happen?

You’re working overtime and six months later one of your friends says,
“Hey, why don’t you quit doing that? You’re working an hour overtime and not getting paid for it.”
You say to your friend,
“No way! I only have 18 more months to go and then I’m going to retire!”
A year from now, maybe your spouse says,
“You know what, dear? You’ve been working that free hour of overtime for the past 12 months. Why don’t you spend more time here at home instead of working that hour overtime?”
You say,
“No, no, no! Just one more year and I can retire at full pay.”
And you would be at work faithfully, Monday through Friday, working that overtime so you could retire.

And you would be excited about the opportunity.

Well, we have the same opportunity to retire with our network marketing business.

We ask people to spend one hour a day, Monday through Friday building a network marketing business. And all you have to do is talk to some people.

And you don’t have to worry too much about what you say or how good you are, because you know what? You’ll get better. The longer you do network marketing, the more you’ll learn.

So maybe after the first month you say,

“Gee, I really don’t know what to say.”

The second month you get a little better and say,

“Well, I know the name of the company is the Wonderful Company.”

The third month you get better at this and say,

“I think this is a neat business. You might want to look at it.”

And the fourth month you get better and better.

Just invest an hour a day. And at the end of two years you might be pleasantly surprised and say,

“You know what? I can replace my full-time income, and retire for the rest of my life.”

So – would you take advantage of that opportunity?

If you are like most people, you will want to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity. But, you won’t do it.

Here is why you won’t do it.

A little voice inside of your head is saying,
“But what if it doesn’t work? What if I waste an hour a day over those two years? What if I’m not good at this? I don’t know anyone who has retired in network marketing. I only know people who retired with a pension from a job. This might not be a sure thing.”
Yes, you’re going to have some doubt. You will have a belief problem. And that’s pretty natural.

So here is what we are going to do to help you with your belief.

To encourage you along the way, every so often we’re going to send you a check in the mail — just to keep your spirits up as you build your two-year business.

When you get these occasional checks, you will say,

“I know it works! I’ve got these checks to prove it.”

And that is why you want to start your business today.

Written by Tom”Big Al” Schreiter from www.fortunenow.com

My Dad Would Have Been Great in Network Marketing

I'd like to tell you about someone who was very special in my life.

People ask me a lot why we do mentoring for free. They want to know what my angle is. Some of them really put time into figuring out how I'm going to take advantage of them.

Let me tell you a story.

I was a kid. Maybe 10 years old. My dad heard about a basketball court in a local churchyard where the old backboard & basket were in really bad shape.

Dad couldn't buy a backboard. So he went to the lumberyard and bought a 3/4" piece of plywood. He bolted it together, made a nice big, thick backboard, painted it white, put a basketball hoop on it, backed up his pick-up truck.

And he's standing there up in the bed of the pick-up, on a Saturday, putting this backboard up - when the preacher drives up.

The preacher asks, "What are you doing?"

Dad says, "I'm putting up a backboard."

Preacher: "Well, I don't know YOU!"

Dad: "No."

Preacher: "Well, why're you doing it?"

I'll never forget that. Now here's a man, a pastor, a man who leads a congregation, and he couldn't understand why my dad was doing that. Wow! I sure wouldn't want that pastor leading ME!

He couldn't figure that one out.

That's The Kind of Stuff My Dad Did All The Time!

I'm so thankful that I learned from him and just took it right over to network marketing.

My father had a garage in Cleveland, Ohio. He had a customer who used to come in, to buy gasoline from my dad. Dad serviced his car, a '57 Chevy. It had about 200,000 miles on it, had a bad motor, needed a valve job.

The guy's name was Ernie. He came into the shop one day and told my dad, "My wife and I & our 2 kids are moving to Florida. Can you check out my car, see if it'll make it?"

Dad said, "That car won't make it around the block."

Ernie says, "I don't have any money."

And all Dad knew was, this man bought gas from him. Didn't know him from Adam.

At the time, my Dad was feeding 5 children, 5 boys. Anyway, Dad did a valve job on that 6-cylinder Chevrolet engine. He put in new belts & hoses, got it in perfect shape, so it would make it to Florida.

And Ernie told my father, "Frank, when I get to Florida, and I get some money ahead, I'll send it to you."

And he did. It was about a year, but Ernie sent Dad the money. He had moved to Florida, and he started building homes. That was back in what they called the "5990s". You got a lot, a new home with a garage for $5,995. They were called the "5990s". And Ernie became one of the biggest homebuilders in Florida.

My mother had bad health, a bad heart. The doctor said the best thing for her would be to get out of Ohio and move to a warmer climate. Dad said, "How about Florida?"

Well, Ernie Russaw had invited my dad to come down there. Dad & mom went down for a vacation, and when I was 6, in 1959, we moved to Florida.

Diaster - Then a Miracle - In Ohio -

My father used to race stock cars. Work was tough to get in Florida, and after a few years there, my dad went back to Ohio to work in a garage he had. His old stock car buddies convinced him to build them some engines.

My dad built the engines, and his buddy went to the track. He set a new track record with the motor my dad built. My dad was setting the timing on the race car, and you have to rev the engine up to do it. You can't use the timing light, because it has a big cam in it.

So the car was idling, and Dad revved the engine a couple times. This was a standard shift with a pressure plate, and the pressure plate had a crack in it. It exploded, came out through the bell housing, hit my dad in the left leg. And it cut his left leg almost completely off.¬

It severed the bone, crushed the bone. Five inches of the bone was missing. Only thing holding his leg on was the muscle in the back.

So they got him on a stretcher and took him to the hospital. The doctor decided to snip the muscle in the back, amputate the leg.

And my father said, "No. You can't do that. I've got 5 children to support. If you cut my leg off, you may as well shoot me."

The doctor said, "Frank, there's no other way."

And Dad said, "Go to the track, find the bone, find the pieces, put that leg together, and it will heal. I believe it will heal."

So they got all those crushed pieces of bone, all the fragments they could find. They put the leg together, and they worked to make it the same length as the other one. they put the bone fragments in, sewed it up, put it in a cast - and it healed perfectly.

My father wore a brace for about 3 years. He could still dance with the brace on. He never walked with a limp. You never would have known he had a bad leg.

And Then, a Miracle In Florida!

We made a trip up to Ohio to stay with Dad. I worked several months on a farm to support the family. The labor I did paid for the rent and groceries.

And when we finally got moved back to Florida, my dad needed a garage. He had no money to put down for it, no way to pay. But Ernie built my dad a garage, fully equipped, and my dad ran that garage the rest of his life. Ernie paid my dad back for getting him started on his own trip to Florida.

Was that a stretch for my dad to do a valve job on that '57 Chevy? Yeah. We kids probably all ate beans for a few days. But he did it, because that's who my dad was.

People wonder why Linda & I do mentoring for free. I get asked all the time why I spend 15 hours a week doing conference calls for any network marketer, no matter what company they're in, for free.

And the answer is simple. It's the right thing to do. It's what my dad would have done. I loved that man, and he was a shining example of how to live your life. He would have been GREAT in network marketing!

Michael Dlouhy,

Mentor with a Servant's Heart

The Fall of a Leader

06/28/10

When a great leader falls because of a lack of integrity, it is
very painful for all involved. Tearing another person down to
build yourself up, only leads to a false impression of yourself.

When someone is tearing others down in front of You this is
a guarantee they will do the same to You behind Your back.
Ultimately you will crash and burn from your lack of character.

The question is:

Would You Want This Person As Your Sponsor ?

Life can give us challenges in many areas of our life. How we
handle those challenges ourselves and who helps us, can
determine our success or failure. Loyalty to do the right thing
enters into all decisions. Friendships built on loyalty and trust
are like support beams for a foundation.

A foundation is the beginning. This applies to your marriage,
your friendships, your home and your business. If you build
them correctly, they will sustain you your lifetime. If you
build carelessly everything will crumble around you.

Leaders are built. Day by day, Lesson by lesson. When a
leader chooses to fall, they sacrifice their integrity, their
honor and their character.

If after knowing the facts and fully utilizing their "critical
thinking skills" when someone decides to leave Your Team
please wish them all the best.

Excerpt from "Launching a Leadership Revolution"
Foundational Leadership Quality: Honorable

Integrity can be considered as the condition of "not doing
what's wrong." Character can be defined as doing the right
things, for the mere reason that it is the right thing, even if
that thing is difficult and unpopular.

The two sewn together make honor. Author Jeff O'Leary,
in The Centurion Principles, writes, " 'Honor' encompasses
the virtues of integrity and honesty, self-denial, loyalty, and
a servant's humility to those in authority above as well as a
just and merciful heart to those below."

Honor is such a rarely used word in our times that it seems
a little old-fashioned. But living a life of integrity and character
is timeless and, for a leader, absolutely necessary. It's about
choices, and a person's choices in life follow him to the grave.

Is this to say that a person needs to be perfect to become a
leader? Of course not. Perfection in this life is not possible,
and we, the authors, are certainly not exceptions. However,
a leader must strive continually toward perfection even though
she knows she can never exactly attain it.

It is a question of the heart. The most effective leaders through
out history have led with their hearts, in trust, and with honor.
If a leader cuts corners, misuses people, or misrepresents, the
truth, a time bomb begins ticking. Someday, somewhere, the
bomb will go off. It is obvious in our times only too often: public
figures at the pinnacles of power and fame crash and burn in
the cloud of self-inflicted shame. From political scandals to
high-profile corporate frauds, these calamities are brought
on by a lack of honor in the leadership.

"Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."

The difference between leaders we revile and those we praise
is their individual level of honor. In fact, honor is the force that
holds a leader's hunger in check.

Without honor, hunger runs rampant and ultimately serves
only selfish interests. Honor is the component that makes
hunger productive for the leader's fellow man. In fact, what
we are basically describing here is another "old-fashioned"
word: duty.

George Washington said of duty, "Human happiness and
moral duty are inseparably connected." So leadership is
spawned by hunger and held in check by honor.

Under that combination, leaders will find happiness in the
fulfillment of their duty to others. It has been said that the
character of a man is the only thing that will walk back
from the grave into the hearts of the people who knew him.

That is the legacy of a leader. The words a leader say and
the walk a leader walks must match. As the saying goes,
"Your word is your worth and your worth is your word."

Andy Stanley, author of The Next Generation Leader, says,
"To become a leader worth following you must give time and
attention to the inner man.

To leave a legacy that goes beyond accomplishment alone,
a leader must devote himself to matters of the heart."
Character is developed in the valleys and the peaks of life,
enabling a person to overcome obstacles and deal with
success.

Abraham Lincoln observed, "Nearly all men can handle
adversity, but if you really want to test a man's character -
give him power." Character connects a person to what is
right and true.

If reputation is what others think of you, then character is
what God knows about you. This concept of honor is so
important to a leader because people will follow a leader
only as far as they feel they can trust him.

People will not follow a leader they can't trust. According
to R. Ruth Barton, "We set young leaders up for a fall if
we encourage them to envision what they can do before
they consider the kind of person they should be.

" Warren Bennis tells us, "In the leadership arena,
character counts. I am not saying this casually, of studies,
observations, and interviews with leaders and with the
people near them.... I've never seen a person derailed
from [leadership] positions for lack of technical competence.

But I've seen lots of people derailed for lack of judgment
and character." And, as Heraclitus said, "Man's character
is his fate." Finally, it should be remembered that a major
component of honor is personal courage.

Without the courage to do what's right because it's right,
regardless of ramifications to self, one is not truly worthy
to be called a leader.

When people don't "Believe" they deserve Success they
will self destruct every time.... This is the reason we tell
everyone we meet to "Participate" in the 30 Day Mental
Cleanse if You want to own Your life.

www.30DayCleanse.com

We Believe In You
Michael & Linda Dlouhy
352--799--8779 anytime.

To Make More, You Have to Become More

Patti Blevins
MLM Success Story

Iowa - When someone called me about "Success In 10 Steps", I didn't even remember downloading the ebook. He kept leaving voicemail messages. I groaned ... I wasn't looking for something new. I was in my second network marketing company in ten years and I was not open to anything else.

But ... I was curious why he would continue to call to offer his "free mentoring and coaching". I finally read the ebook and got a new perspective. It explained why my previous 10 years weren't close to the success I had dreamed of.

Ten years ago, I resigned my 25 year career with the federal government ... to do network marketing full-time. My husband and I believed it would fall into place better if I committed to our business full time. Resigning was a financial risk. I REALLY was motivated to be successful.

I loved working from home. But it was tough to get friends and family to opportunity meetings. My sponsor didn't help. Frustration built. More time, more money. Home meetings after my husband got off work every night. Finally, we couldn't justify the time and expense any longer, so we quit.

Back to work as a church secretary ... and the pastor was an MLM distributor. Of course, they had perfect products that I quickly fell in love with. But, when I had to make a list of my friends and family ... again ... the sick feeling in my stomach should have been a clue.

They said to talk to everybody you run into about your business. I hated that. There wasn't an ounce of "salesman" in me. I hated to go shopping or to church, because I was supposed to move every conversation toward my product.

I resigned the church secretary position to work my network marketing business full time. The training in this company was more like listening to sermons versus the 'rah-rah' in the last company. But I was stressed out. I loved the products, I loved the people, I loved the company ... WHY no success? My upline said I needed to do more, talk to more people!

Now ... when I FINALLY took the time to read "Success In 10 Steps", my eyes were opened. I got on the training calls, and I felt like I finally had the cement block off my back. It was a goldmine of free training with no talk about any specific company or product.

I had been working on personal growth for over 20 years ... I had over 300 self-help books, highlighted, notes in the margins, some falling apart from being read so much. So, I loved the Mental Cleanse calls. The Mentoring For Free Mastermind is a group of supportive, encouraging, loving people who would never criticize or judge. It was a safe place, week after week after week.

I now love to share the Mentoring For Free education with other struggling network marketers. I've spoken to hundreds of people who have downloaded "Success In 10 Steps". When I ask if they are attempting to create an income from home ... they ALL say "yes". That is what you call a "targeted lead". I generated the lead, who already believes in network marketing. Perfect!

How can I help them? Whatever resource they need, they can probably get it in MentoringForFree. And if and when we are meant to be business partners, it will be for a lifetime. We will have built a relationship by then.

Michael says that "to make more, you have to become more!" That's what Mentoring For Free is all about.

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We Made Just About Every Mistake Possible!

Bob & Anna Bassett
MLM Success Story

Ontario - We started our network marketing career in 1999. Over the next seven years, we made just about every mistake possible!

We worked five long years in a "sponsor monster" money swap company with a pay plan so poor that we ended up with a remortgaged house, maxed out credit cards and a bad case of the "What's Wrong With Me's?".

We spent thousands of dollars buying useless leads and even bought ourselves twice!

We travelled thousands of miles and even walked on fire! Our feet got warmer but our check stayed the same.

We stumbled into an illegal pyramid which cost us thousands more. We tried a Ponzi scheme before we knew what the word meant. Ten thousand more went to a mentoring program scam which taught us how to earn $21 split three ways!

The flags were all there, but they weren't red enough.

In 2006, we read Success in Ten Steps and started to pay serious attention to the Mentoring For Free system.

Our business turned around 180 degrees immediately.

We've learned

1. How to spot personalities and build an instant relationship with them
2. How to evaluate MLM compensation plans and contracts written by company lawyers
3. Most of all - the 5 criteria you must evaluate to decide whether a company has good profit potential or not

It's a sad fact that well over 95% of networkers are failing, but as Michael says, "It's not your fault!"

If you'd like to find the support you need for the success you deserve, join us at Mentoring For Free.

You'll be amazed at how just a few hours of free training will open your eyes and help you avoid years of failure and frustration!

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The Pitcher Can't Win A Game By Himself

Kaye Stephens
MLM Success Story

New Jersey - I am "LUCKY". You might ask why I think that about myself. All of my life things have come to me easily until about 12 years ago when I joined my first M-L-M. I loved the concept immediately, but there was something lacking, I just couldn't identify what it was.

I am a huge baseball fan. In baseball, you need a team. Funny how the pitcher can't win a game by himself. He needs the catcher, the infield and the outfielders. There are 9 players on the team. Take away one player and you can't even play the game. Well, that is one of the important things that was missing. A TEAM.

At Mentoring For Free we have a TEAM that believe in you until you believe in yourself. No matter what company you are promoting, the team at Mentoring for Free will help you.

The second thing I was missing was ongoing training. Several days a week, Mentoring For Free has live interactive training that creates LEADERS. I knew I was a leader but you can't ride a bicycle without practice and interactive training. I am so grateful for the ongoing training that has given me the TOOLS to "Own My Life".

The third thing that was missing was "Mental Cleanse" where you learn "How to think" not "What to think". This training program gives you the confidence and the joy to share with other people and help them to become the people that they are meant to be.

I just want to thank Michael and Linda Dlouhy and the rest of the Mentoring For Free team for this wonderful program that is changing the world of MLM one life at a time.

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Network Marketing is like farming

Cindy Loewen
MLM Success Story

Manitoba - Rey and I have been married 30 years. We are grain farmers in southern Manitoba, Canada. We love to spend time with our 3 wonderful kids: Chad (about to be married to Kelsey), Derek and Janessa. We love travelling, boating, cycling, camping, and taking cruises.

We owned a trucking company for 13 years. I've been a bank teller for 10 years.

In 2004 and 2005 we had a crop failure. It had been too wet to even put seed in the ground. No seed, no harvest. In the winters of 2004 and 2005, Rey went long distance trucking to pay the bills. I needed to make extra money, but didn't want to work the 9-5. I wanted to work flexible hours, be home with the kids, attend their activities, take holidays when we wanted, and be available on the farm.

I saw a newspaper ad: "Make $5000.00/month returning phone calls." I love talking on the phone. $5000.00 a month was great. Sounded easy. That is the day my network marketing began.

But guess what? It wasn't that easy. Network Marketing is like farming. You have to seed before you harvest. It takes time for that seed to grow. But with cultivation, care, rain, and sunshine there will be a harvest.

I joined several companies, spent a lot of money on leads and advertising. I had downloaded the ebook "Success in 10 Steps", in March 2006, but never read it. I struggled for a year. I didn't know how to train people who joined me. I didn't know how to mentor, motivate or lead a team.

I read the Mentoring For Free website. I didn't believe Michael Dlouhy would really mentor me, that he would teach me and my downline to do this business. In March 2007, I finally read "Success in 10 Steps", and went on my first conference call. It clicked. I knew I had found a mentor and a proven, duplicatable system, step-by-step instructions that anyone can do.

I learned how to evaluate a company, how to be a critical thinker, how to generate my own leads for free, how to call leads, how and where to advertise, personal development, how to identify my prospects by personality.

Best of all, Mentoring for Free is a network marketing family, a safe place where people open up and share their struggles & their past, with no judgment from anyone. When I joined, I didn't believe in myself. When Michael said he'd believe in me until I believed in myself, it gave me hope that I could be successful.

To have the harvest I want in MLM, I needed to get the weeds out of my mind. That negataivity and low self-esteen had to go. I learned to paint new pictures in my mind, of who I want to be, and what success looks like to me. Now I speak my future into reality. It takes focus and persistence and faith. You have to believe it before you can see it. I know that if you plant corn, you will harvest corn. And if you plant good seeds in your mind by reading good books and getting together with like-minded positive people, then you will reap a great harvest.

Network Marketing is not about the money - it's about people. Build people and then the people will build the business. Even if we would never make any money in this businesses, we're growing and becoming the people we were meant to be, and we're helping others grow into leaders.

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We Couldn't Duplicate

Walter & Julie Reade
MLM Success Story

Wisconsin - Julie and I were married in college. For seven years we lived broke and happy while we finished our undergraduate and then graduate programs. I entered the corporate world, where the money was good and the work was fast-paced.

Over time, though, I noticed two trends. First, the stress and time commitment grew faster than the salary. Worse, I started to see hard-working productive people down-sized when they were too young to retire, but old enough so it was tough to find new employment.

The Time Was Right

Then an old friend moved near where I was working. We had dinner, and he told me about a network marketing company with some impressive technology.

For the first 15 years of marriage, Julie and I avoided network marketing. We had watched family members who had joined a well-known MLM company. They were taught to live beyond their means (fake it 'til you make it), use deceitful recruiting practices, and shun anyone who didn't join their business. After three years of hard work, all they had to show for it was massive debt.

As my friend talked about this company, my natural inclination would have been to blow it off. But the combination of job stress and concern had me open to an alternative. I joined the company on the spot.

We Couldn't Duplicate

Julie and I started building our business. With significant time, travel, expense, and brute force, we started sponsoring people and making a check. But we quickly hit a wall. The people we sponsored could not duplicate our results. We were left with a largely inactive organization.

After we became completely burned out, we joined a different company, more geared towards building on the phone and internet. We made some progress, but it wasn't until we joined Mentoring for Free and learned the skills needed to build a business that our organization really took off.

It's About the System

The reason for the growth in our organization was simple and obvious. We finally had a turn-key SYSTEM that we could teach others to use to grow THEIR organizations. For the first time, the growth of our organization wasn't about us. It was about the SYSTEM.

This is truly significant. Mentoring for Free allows us and others on our team to build our business without having to change who we are. The system is flexible. Anyone can use it and tailor it to their strengths. This is what made network marketing a truly enjoyable experience, rather than drudgery. I have my strengths. Julie has hers. We both use Mentoring for Free successfully.

We enjoy improving our skills. We love helping others learn to build their business. That's the other remarkable thing about Mentoring for Free. We used to view network marketers in other companies as competitors. Now, we absolutely enjoy helping any distributor in any company learn the skills they need to become successful.

What's Next?

Mentoring for Free is the only organization I know of that provides both the foundation for a successful network marketing career as well as the skills required to build on that foundation. Having a coach and mentor take Julie and me by the hand and walk us through the process has been a rewarding experience. Now we are giving back, and we're having more fun than ever.

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NETWORK MARKETING IS A BLAST!

Tony and Melissa Casteel
MLM Success Story

If you are not having fun, then you are not doing network marketing right! We love network marketing and what it offers! People ask us, "What the key to success?" The answer is simple:

"FINISH!"

It's not WHAT happens to you but HOW you react to it that matters. -Epictetus

We were married in 1994. Network marketing has been a big part of our lives since then. We have endured losses and thrilled in our success. Success is a lot more fun.

Some time back, we joined a financial education company. How ironic ... the financial education company went belly-up due to poor management. (If we had known then what we know now, life would have been far different.) We built to the top level ever reached in this company and helped one of our frontline leaders build to the same level. Life was great! We lived in our dream home in a gated community on 640 acres. We had deer and turkey in our back yard. We had horses, 4 wheelers and all the toys. We drove new vehicles paid for by our company.

We spent summers on the lake on our houseboat with a ski boat and SeaDoos. We built our business from the lake. We had finally reached our dreams, it was possible!

For 4 years we worked from home together. Life was great - together we would drop our son off at school, go to breakfast or workout, talk to people and just do what we needed/wanted to do on our terms. Best boss we ever had!

Then, our company went belly-up, leaving us high and dry. We lost it all...ALL! We were devastated.

Mentoring For Free was then presented to us and everything changed. Reading SUCCESS IN 10 STEPS changed our outlook, our thinking, and our lives! We had hope - we were given directions on how to do mlm right! We learned how to read our mlm contract and how to understand our policies and procedures.

Do you hear that? That is the sound of stomachs churning ... churning at the mention of:

1. Make your list of 100 people
2. It takes 100 "No"s to get one Yes.
3. Throw them up against the wall and see who sticks.

AAAAHHHH! STOP! We had enough!

Thank goodness for Mentoring For Free. What a revolutionary approach ... let's EDUCATE and HELP instead of bullying folks!

We spent too many years in "old school" network marketing, only to have it all crumble. Now we understand why, and we know what really works. Everyone claims to have a "proven" system. Frankly, it's exciting to have a true workable system. The difference? We've seen Mentoring For Free work. This system makes sense, and it builds for the long term ... not just the here-today-gone-with-the-next-big-promise tomorrow. This IS solid business building.

You always have choices. You can go on the internet and get some tips on how to get through your day at the job you hate. You can keep plugging away with that "old school" marketing approach and remain frustrated. Or you can have fun building a life in network marketing with a user friendly system. Remember, NETWORK MARKETING IS A BLAST. You owe it to yourself to join the party!

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We Did Everything Wrong

Doug & Kathy Karnuth
MLM Success Story

Minnesota - When we first started in MLM we did everything wrong, trying to build our business. We went for the 100 No's. We chased family and friends ... away. We purchased leads, then purchased better leads, and then purchased the best leads. Over $8,000.00 later, we had little to show for it. Today, we are not making a dime on any of those leads, not even the really good ones. None of it worked.

Can you make money in MLM with leads? Sure. Here's the secret; build a downline, and send them all your affiliate link to buy leads. Tell them they MUST buy leads to be successful. A lot of them will believe you, and you'll make a pretty nice affiliate income from that. Of course, your downline will lose money, because leads do not work.

We understand now why people do this. They don't have a system that works, and they hope leads will work. So the easiest solution is for you to buy leads - which pay them a commission. And if that doesn't work, it must be your fault.

A few years ago, we had success in conventional brick and mortar businesses. It took a ton of hours and hard work to keep it going and growing. When we found Network Marketing, it looked easy. Just find a couple like-minded people, then sit back and collect the checks.

WOW! We quickly learned how wrong that was. We knew there had to be a way to make MLM work, so we went looking for answers.

Most people wonder what Mentoring for Free is all about when they first find it. We were certainly part of the "what's the catch?" group.

One day, we found Mentoring for Free. We downloaded and read the free ebook "Success in 10 Steps." It seemed that book was written with us in mind. At last, we understood the "inner secrets" of MLM companies. It was such a relief to realize that our lack of success was not our fault. "Success In 10 Steps" proved that to us. Anyone who is coachable and willing to become a student of the industry can learn the techniques to have success in this business.

I remember the first time we talked with Michael on the phone. He said "I will be your Mentor and we will believe in you until you believe in yourself." He is a man of his word. You always end up at the truth. Michael figures it's easier to just start there.

The team at Mentoring for Free helps us work daily on personal improvement, developing new skills, and learning about online and offline resources that you can use to build your business. Each week there are calls to help us grow. Everyone we meet here becomes a friend and part of this big family. They help you and you help them. It's how network marketing should work. The Mentoring For Free system helps average people make above average income. Build it correctly, and you will own your life.

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Michael Believed In Me Until I Could Believe In Myself

Bill & Cynthia Breed
MLM Success Story

I grew up in South America -- Brazil and Argentina, and witnessed the haves and the have-nots of deplorable poverty. I Want my children to see this. I Want gratitude and God to be present in our lives each and every day, and I want the freedom to travel and see the world with my family at the drop of a hat.

2001 was the worst year of our lives. I lost my father in May. Bill lost his favorite Aunt in July. In August, we rushed Bill to the hospital for major surgery. He was away from the office for 6 weeks. September brought 911. November brought our third child, who spent his first two weeks in Intensive Care.

I shut down my ad agency when my largest account closed their US operations. We went from a two-income family down to one. I refused to have daycares raise our children, so I stayed home and depleted our retirement. We lost tremendous amounts of money that year in our office supply company and took forever to dig ourselves out. Yet we persevered with the help of family and friends.

In May of '06 I was working very hard in MLM, but I was racking up thousands of dollars in credit card debt, and getting very little back. I was struggling to build my Network Marketing Business, approaching people in coffee shops and parks trying to convince them that what they REALLY wanted was to make millions working under me in my MLM company. I cringed inside every time I approached someone. As a matter of fact, Bill and I had done Network Marketing a total of 4 times over a 20 year period and failed each and every time. My self-esteem had taken a beating and I struggled to stay positive, organized and calm for my family.

Then Mentoring for Free came into our lives.

I had many personal struggles to overcome and Michael Dlouhy helped me. He mentored me and helped me grow into the person I am today. He taught me the importance of eliminating the negatives from my life. The news, which is almost ALWAYS negative, the radio and negative people, were impacting my view of life in ways of which I was totally unaware. He taught me the importance of studying books for personal development. And by providing us a weekly Mastermind Group for personal growth, I most certainly grew in major positive and success oriented ways by eliminating any negative ghosts that haunted me.

Michael helped me get to the core of my WHY, the difference I want to make in this world. The PURPOSE I am to fulfill in my lifetime is to help abused children understand what is happening to them by providing them with professionals that can help them wade through the messes that adults created in their lives.

I owned an advertising agency for 6 years. Bill has successfully run our print management/office products company for the last 16 years. So we couldn't understand why we were failing at network marketing. Michael showed us why and what to do about it.

Michael believed in me until I could believe in myself. Now I build my MLM business coaching, mentoring and believing in people until they can believe in themselves. It starts when they download the Success In 10 Steps ebook. I follow the Mentoring For Free System like it's been designed to be used and now I am building a huge organization as a result ... Mentoring for Free is a proven, duplicatable system, and my business is growing as a result of its duplicability.

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"A Big Relief Came Over Me When Michael Said, 'Penny, It's Not Your Fault!'"

Penny Dude
MLM Success Story

I live on the east coast of Canada in Ammon New Brunswick, just outside of Moncton. I work full time outside the home as a Office Manager and I work any where from 40-50 hours a week. The people I work with are all pretty amazing and are very caring and loving. I love what I do and that is why I am there.

So I came into network marketing about 4 years ago from an ad I saw in our local newspaper. You can make $5000 a month. Let me find out about it. I was at that point, working as an office manager of a Carpet, Upholstery Cleaning and looking after a Telemarketing office in the same building and I was at a total standstill in my life. No chance of advancement.

But that job served the purpose I needed. My middle daughter Danielle was in and out of hospitals most of her life. I needed to be able to leave my job at the blink of an eye if I needed to and be gone for anywhere from a few hours up to two weeks at a time. My boss and job allowed me to do this. But Danielle got better (thank the Lord) and did not require this anymore. I am a mother of three beautiful daughters Jennifer 24, Danielle 21 and Candice 11.

But I also wanted more in life, and I wanted a secure financial future. I have been in Network Marketing for over 4 years now. As most people starting out, I really had no idea how to build a network marketing company because I did not really know anyone who had built one. I had tried to build two companies but was getting nowhere. Then I was offered this ebook called "Success in 10 Steps", and I could not put it down, it just made so much sense to me why I was not successful.

I had a three way call with Michael Dlouhy. I listened to what he had to say and heard him tell me "Penny it is not your fault." This big relief came over me then when he offered free training calls, so I could learn the skills and get some knowledge I needed. I have been with Mentoring for Free for over two years now and my learning has never stopped.

Michael has always been there for me and everyone else who wants to truly have success. There are 10 training calls a week to learn new skills all the time, learning how to focus, how to speak to people, and you learn from many leaders from around the world. The one call that really has changed my life is the 30 Day Mental Cleanse that is held every Wednesday. We read the book Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. We learn to shut off the chatter and focus only on the positive to push all negativity away. For my personality it was a must.

The training, the skills the knowledge I have recieived from Mentoring for Free is priceless and it is all for Free. Thanks Michael for all you do.

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I am Making My Dream a Reality

Jennifer Wideman
MLM Success Story

I was introduced to network marketing a few years ago. He did not have to tell me twice. You mean I can use and share this product and possibly never have to work again? I worked so very hard, even with 4 kids under the age of 6 at the time. My husband was such a great support. However, my upline talked me into 2 more deals, tried for a third and I said there has gotta be a better way.

I went to the internet and bought an ebook. I asked for help, joined their team because they would sell me leads, teach me how to convert those leads, and at least I'd have real people interested. That's a long story, but the outcome was a great learning experience. I am still reaping the benefits of the relationships I built there. I cold-called 350 leads or more, converted a few, and learned how to talk to people much better than I had. I also spent a good bit of money without much in return. The leads dried up, the leader moved on to selling other information products and I was told "Good-bye, good luck."

One of my associates in that organization stumbled across an ebook called "Success in 10 Steps" and thought I'd like it, so she sent it to me by email. I didn't read it right away. I called the person I got it from and asked lots of questions. "Just read the book." She wouldn't tell me what company she was in, just assured me this group of people could help me.

And it has. Many people in the Mentoring For Free family have helped me realize that I truly can do anything through education and teamwork. My husband, Terry, is the most incredible person in the world. He has stayed with the kids, taken over when he comes home from his job, supported me even when there was no money coming in yet. HE is the real reason I am so successful. My own incredible team also inspire me to be a better person every day. I give God full credit for putting it all together on my behalf as my primary business partner.

We have 4 beautiful kids, 3 adopted from Liberia, Africa. I want to go back with lots of food, medicine, Limu, Bibles, school supplies regularly to this little country and help other children and their parents.

The Success In 10 Steps ebook and the Mentoring For Free group are helping make this dream a reality.

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Eureka! I Knew I Had Found The Truth At Last!

Ruth Marks-Bradford
MLM Success Story

2004 was the year that took me way off course. My youngest sister Teresia lost her battle with cancer. Eight months later my older sister Scheryl lost her battle with cancer. I was the primary caretaker for both. My manager allowed me to work part time to perform this labor of love. I eventually took a leave of absence from my job. This allowed me to spend invaluable quality time with my family. Something that I have longed for since learning about Network Marketing. The time freedom was wonderful but, I had no money to do the things I longed to do. I was determined not to go back full time at my job.

When I was 6 years old my parents were told that I had a disability. I am legally blind. My parents taught me to live life on my own terms and never to label myself disabled. They taught me to focus on my abilities. So I have always done that. My vision will never be perfect. There are visual aids that help though. Life will not be perfect. Business will not be perfect.

Sitting at my computer one day in 2005, a mentor stepped into my life. I downloaded an eBook called "Success In 10 Steps". Here was the truth about why I was struggling to have success in network marketing. Here was yet another tool that gave me a "slight edge". Here also were people that were smart, caring, and eager to help me reset my sails. So each day I sat reading, with my many mentors helping me gain the skills and knowledge to get back on course.

I was ready to do whatever it took as long as it was moral, legal, and ethical. My husband and I had been toiling away for years losing money, time, and friends trying in vain to have success. We joined a company located in our hometown and thought we had it made. But once again we were not successful.

On that hot day in June, 2oo5 I clicked a link on the Internet that led me to a free ebook called Success in 10 Steps. I printed out a copy and read it immediately. Eureka! There it was! All the answers to my questions of WHY we failed over and over and over again. Finally the truth at last! And to my surprise I discovered that it was not my fault (as I had been told it was my fault over and over again)

When I finished all 90+ pages, I was standing a bit taller. I had found the truth at last. I also found the courage to change my circumstances. My next course of action was to call the person I downloaded the book from. Wow! What a great experience that was. Here I was for the first time talking to a stranger that I met over the Internet and it felt like I had known this person for years. What a great day that was! And every day since I found Mentoring for Free!

We are actively living the life we dreamed of for so many years. And best part is that we are now the ones helping others discover Mentoring For Free. It makes Network Marketing purposeful and meaningful when you can assist others in realizing their dreams. This is not a sales business - it is a teaching and mentoring business.

Mentoring for Free has taught me to succeed by giving me a proven system for success that extends to all areas of my life. I cannot say enough about the training and mentoring. It has exceeded my wildest dreams.

In Mentoring For Free, I now have a "dream team" of mentors and teachers to help me keep my sights and sail on the right course. Michael and Linda Dlouhy have attracted the best trainers from around the world to Mentoring For Free

Download the book as I did that fantastic day in 2005, and you too will benefit from the best of the best in our industry today, for FREE!

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Grateful for the Freedom That We Have

Judi & Earl Sheehan
MLM Success Story

Earl and I were married in May 2006 and between us we are proud parents of four wonderful sons and two beautiful daughters. We are very grateful for the freedom that we have at this stage in our lives, that allows us to spend so much quality time together.

Earl is looking forward to retiring from the fire department in the next couple of years and joining me in my network marketing business.

I have spent thousands of dollars on training programs and leads over the years with absolutely no success. Now I am enjoying building a very successful business in Network Marketing easily and consistently without stress using the Mentoring for Free System.

I was first introduced to Network Marketing about 12 years ago while working as a hairstylist in my salon. I quickly fell in love with the concept of creating a lifestyle of freedom and helping others to do the same. I'd worked for myself, most of my adult life but owning your own business doesn't give you the freedom to do what you want, when you want, and with whom you want.

I was searching for answers online to help me to find out how to be successful in this industry, when I came across Michael Dlouhy's ebook "Success in 10 Steps". That book was truly an answer to prayer for me. I had worked very hard over the past 12 years trying to create that lifestyle of time freedom. I did everything my sponsors told me to do and more. I had personally sponsored well over a hundred people during my networking career but it never duplicated into a successful long term business and I certainly couldn't help anyone else find success when it wasn't working for me.

I knew that I needed a mentor who was already successful and a proven system that I could plug into and duplicate. That's exactly what I found with the Mentoring For Free System.

I have learned how to build my business exclusively online using the internet and telephone without friends and family or buying leads or making cold calls. Mentoring for Free has taught me the skills I needed to generate my own targeted leads online for free and how to teach others to do the same.

I am truly enjoying the personal growth that I am constantly experiencing myself and also watching the growth happening in others within my team who are using the MFF system. It is such an amazing feeling.

I know that I would still be floundering online today, if it wasn't for Michael and Mentoring for Free. I will always be grateful that I took the time to download and read "Success in 10 Steps", the wonderful ebook that changed my life!

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Nothing Seemed Legit or Legal

"With the Ebook And Michael And 10+ Hours of Training a Week, How Could We Not Have Success?"

Paul & Anne Sorgi
MLM Success Story

Persistence, it's the one word that can describe my Success Story. Thinking back to when I started looking to create an additional income takes me back to my teenage years. I always dreamed of building an empire that would pay my children's children. What was missing for almost 20 years was a plan. The statement: "Failing to plan is planning to fail" describes that time period in my life.

Overcoming Obstacles

In 2003 I decided to see what all the fuss was about making millions on the internet. I watched a few informercials and got a few websites out of the opportunity section of some magazines and I was off on my journey to discover the end of the internet!

Everything I looked at made my stomach crawl. Nothing seemed legit or legal. I finally came across a free program and I spent 6 months being frustrated. In those 6 months I had no contact, other than emails, with any of my upline. I finally headed back out on to the internet to find a new opportunity. I spent almost 2 years with my next adventure. I had an awesome direct upline that had joined 1 month before me and we clicked right away. There would still be many hurdles for us to jump over.

I was constantly scratching my head trying to figure out why the upline was so diligent in making it so difficult for us. They constantly held back information, they played the favorites game, they played people off of each other and they manipulated downlines. My team was growing and the money was trickling in, but I was really struggling.

Then through advertising, I came across a sweet lady who asked if I had ever read "Success in 10 Steps"? I had seen the ads for it all over the internet but I kept passing it over. I finally decided to download the book based on this sweet lady's recommendation.

A month passed and I finally decided to read the ebook. After being beaten up and kicked around, I was skeptical. But I could not put the book down. I immediately felt the relief. My LACK of Success was NOT my Fault. WOW!

I called the lady who had recommended the ebook. I jumped on the weekly training calls and when I heard how easy it was to talk to people about the ebook, I knew I had found the system and training that could grow my business.

With the ebook and Michael and 10+ hours of training a week, how could we not have Success? It gave us a proven duplicatable system to build our business. We have sponsored a few who have sponsored a few, and so on, and so on. I have the support of Michael Dlouhy and the dynamic team at Mentoring For Free who share information and offer guidance. Anne and I thank them from the bottom of our hearts!

Anne and I are solid users of the MFF system and have been using it for 3 years. It is as simple as 1,2,3. Without MFF and its duplication we never would have reached Diamond in our Company or been able to help others reach Diamond as well.

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I Was Skeptical About EVERYTHING

"I've had some pretty good success in MLM. I was one of the top distributors with one company. But apparently I wasn't doing a very good job of teaching, because few people who joined me could duplicate my success.

"Eventually, I stumbled across Michael Dlouhy and his mentoring and coaching approach to building people. As a 'Green', (learn more about that from the "Colors" training), I was skeptical about EVERYTHING Michael said and did. But as I tuned in to various conference calls and coaching sessions he'd host, I was amazed at his patience and consistency. Michael is the real deal."

Mike Duffey's
MLM Success Story

Wisconsin - I've been lucky most of my life to have had above average success at most things. But after a few years of network marketing, I was frustrated that my success was not being duplicated by others I introduced to the business.

I began to doubt my choice.

After 4 years in the Air Force in the early 1970's, I've been self employed most of my life. I've been a professional dog trainer and hunting guide, dabbled briefly in the real estate industry, and had a successful insurance and financial planning business ... which taught me the power of residual income.

Although I liked real estate, my wife and children didn't appreciate my 70-80 hr, 7 day-a-week work schedule. Eventually I realized that even though I was "successful", I still woke up unemployed every morning.

Our income totally depended on me getting out every day and selling.

By the way ... before real estate, I would never have thought of myself as a "sales type". I was shy, not comfortable in crowds or talking with strangers.

Like Most People In The World ... I HATE To Be Sold!

Years ago, a move back to Wisconsin from Washington state had us looking for a home. We ran into some "bad apple" real estate agents. They made it obvious their only interest was selling us a home to earn a commission.

So I thought to myself, "Boy, if these obviously self-interested jerks can make a living doing this ... what would happen if I took a sincere interest in HELPING OTHER PEOPLE find whatever THEY were looking for? I'll bet I could do really well!"

Less than a year later when my job wasn't panning out, that thought came back. When I mentioned it to the people I was working for ...

They Looked At Me Like I Had Three Eyes!

They laughed. They didn't see me as any kind of salesman. They thought I had NO CHANCE for success.

That was all the extra motivation I needed.

The thought of them laughing at me kept me going during the tough times. I'd do anything to put off picking up the phone to make a "cold call" or knocking on the door of a home for sale "by owner". And in the beginning, both literally made my palms sweat.

I got past those difficult times and started having some success by focusing on HELPING OTHER PEOPLE. But the long hours were taking a toll on my wife and small children. So I started looking again.

I ran across a blind ad in our hometown paper that seemed right up my alley. They wanted someone with a sports or teaching background and a strong desire to succeed. I was disappointed when I showed up for the interview to find out it was about selling insurance. I didn't (and still don't) consider myself a "sales type".

But the person I interviewed with, who would be my manager, was a down-to-earth former high school physics teacher. And again I thought to myself, "Well he doesn't seem like the typical 'sales type' either. And if he's having so much success, MAYBE I can too."

And the move put us back closer to old friends and our families. So we gave it a shot.

My Toughest Job Ever

I worked hard for a couple years for one company, then went "independent" to do a better job for my clients. Unfortunately the long hours were tough on my marriage. My wife picked up and left, leaving me as a single parent with two small children.

That day, parenting became my toughest but most rewarding job ever. And it gave me a completely different perspective and total respect for all good mothers and single parents everywhere.

But building a new business while I was raising 2 kids was quite a juggling act.

Eventually in my business I specialized more in employee benefits and group health insurance because it involved more daytime hours. Within 2 years I had a pretty good monthly renewal check coming in. So I took a couple months off to pursue some of my passions. That's when I realized ...

Our System Is SERIOUSLY Screwed-Up!

We go to school for years to get an education to qualify us for a job. Then we slave 30-40 years to get to retirement.

Great. Except we're often too old or in too poor health to do the things we'd really LOVE to do. And many people can't afford to do the things they'd REALLY like to do. Wouldn't it be better to do the things we LOVE, while we're still healthy and capable of doing them?

Fortunately for me, the RESIDUAL INCOME I had coming from my employee benefits and business accounts gave me an option. So in 1984, at the ripe old age of 34, I went into "semi-retirement".

Ten years later I married my current lovely wife. Marcie had a regular job, and wasn't quite sure she liked all the free time I seemed to have. And I didn't think I was making enough for BOTH of us to be "retired." So in 1997 I decided it was time to either revive my semi-dormant retirement & financial planning business or look for other options.

Network Marketing Is the Only Business Model
That Harnesses THREE Powerful Forces

After months of research, checking out business opportunities, franchises, etc., it became obvious to me that network marketing had what I was looking for. It took advantage of 3 powerful forces:

1. Passive residual income
2. Leverage of your time and money, and
3. Geometric growth potential.

Now to find the right company.

I put together a system to analyze all the options. From this, I found a good company that's still in business today. But good coaching and training from my upline was missing.

So I struggled for 18 months. I didn't make any money. In fact, I spent a lot. But I did learn some important lessons. So I decided to apply them with a "better" opportunity.

Within a short time I was having pretty good success with the next young company I joined.

I Became One of Their Top Distributors

But apparently I wasn't doing a very good job of teaching what I had learned, because very few people who joined me ever duplicated my success. Eventually the company dramatically changed the compensation plan and my commission checks got slashed.

I've tried a couple other companies in the meantime and had some moderate success. But the duplication and the retention were not there for the long term success and FREEDOM I was looking for.

Eventually I stumbled across Michael Dlouhy and his mentoring & coaching approach to building people. As a "Green", (learn more about that from the Colors Training) I was skeptical about EVERYTHING Michael said and did. But as I tuned in to various conference calls & coaching sessions, I was amazed at his patience and consistency.

Here's A Guy Who's The Real Deal!

Michael is sincerely interested in HELPING OTHERS. He often talks about "getting things from your head to your heart". And until you do, those words don't mean much. But eventually the "light bulb clicked". And I realized I've come full circle.

My success in previous careers earlier in my life was NOT because I was the greatest salesman on the planet. I never was, never want to be, and never will be. But I focused on HELPING OTHERS.

That's exactly what Michael and members of his Success Team do. And when you get that from your head to your heart, magical things start happening in your business and life.

I still have a lot to learn and a long way to go on my path to personal development and TRUE SUCCESS. But it's great to have a mentor and support TEAM so willing and eager to help.

I've been around network marketing for several years, and have had the privilege to personally meet and work with some of the icons in the industry. But I've never experienced anything remotely close to what this TEAM has going.

Plug into our free generic training. You'll love the RESULTS. I strongly believe we can HELP YOU have more success.

And thanks for taking the time to read my story.

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