Big Take-Away – “If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes” ~ David Sharpe
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
“If nothing changes, nothing changes” folks! Let me start by saying, if you’re NOT getting on the Empower Network “Empower Hour”call on Monday nights you’re missing out on the best self development and internet training in the direct sales niche.
If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes!
My big “take-away” from the Empower call a few weeks ago was Dave Sharpe’s statement “if nothing changes, nothing changes”. The truth of the matter is that success in your business, success in your relationships or success in your life depends on you recognizing you have to change yourself in order for your income to change, for your relationships to change and your life to change! It’s the “Law of Attraction” 101!!
Dave Sharpe laid out 4 essential elements that need to be present in your business and from my interpretation, if even one is missing, it means the difference between long term struggle or long term success!
1) Intention: It would be reasonable and goes without saying, that very little would be accomplished in one’s life if “intention” was a secondary matter. Zig Ziglar is quoted as saying “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time”! Intentions should be crystal clear and the more defined and specific your intention is, the better.
I was in an “old school” meeting just the other week and the issue of “intention” came up. The leader up front during the training session asked the distributors “what do you want to achieve here?”. A fellow spoke up and yelled out “make a lot of money”! The guy up front said “how much”, “why”, “what for”? He was emphatic about being specific and even creating a “vision board” as a daily reminder of intended goals.
2) Strategy: A strategy is the actionable steps to take in order to accomplish your intended goals. I pretty much live by the 5 indisputable principles in my daily marketing.
- Find a target audience
- Discover what your target audience is interested in
- Create compelling content
- Promote that content so your target audience will easily find it
- Repeat steps 1-4 over and over
In Empower there’s also the “Eight Core Commitments” that forms the culture and “glue” that gives affiliates a success “road map” and will keep teams together.
- Activate Your Payment System
- Blog Daily
- Market Daily
- New Member Coaching
- Empower Weekly Company Call
- Daily Audio
- Read Daily
- Attend The Events
3) Simplicity: This should not be thought of as being synonymous with “easy”. Simple and easy are two different things. Something may be simple but not necessarily easy. On the call Dave Sharpe uses the example of the game of Golf to demonstrate this and I think his point was right on. I think of Golf as a sport that probably has the simplest concept that exists and at the same time hitting a little white ball from the tee to a hole in the ground several yards away, has driven otherwise good people to the brink! It’s a good thing Golf is a simple game…LOL:)
4) Massive Action: Does this point really need any commentary? If intention, strategy and simplicity are all in alignment, then taking “Massive Action” will naturally fall into its proper place. One word of caution is don’t get distracted by the endless product launches, tools, apps, training courses, etc….that will add unnecessary complexity (not simplicity) to your online business! A “syndrome” people suffer from in home based businesses is the “perpetual education” syndrome. You’ve met these people….you know, the “professional student” types, who are always learning but never doing! They’re always preparing to prepare to get to work but just never feel prepared enough to get started!
-Jamie LeBlanc
-”Jobless Marketer”
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If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes!