Peter Sorensen: Serious Strategies

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If you want to see the average earnings, please visit the page at www.empowernetwork.com forward slash income dot php. Welcome, everyone, and welcome to tonight's Empower Hour call. I'm going to be your host tonight. My name is Peter Sorensen. And for those of you that don't know me, I'll share a little bit more about my story and kind of how I got here and why I'm here and all about tonight's call.

But before I dive into tonight's call, I just want to, again, welcome everyone to the call. You know, it's a Monday night here. There's a lot of other things that you could be doing right now besides listening, you know, on a conference call to empower yourself. And to learn some new strategies and techniques to build your business. And I know there's a couple types of people on the call tonight.

I know that there's people that are, you know, current Empower Network members that are part of our amazing community, our online Internet marketing community, you know, teaching and empowering entrepreneurs how to go to business and have a life at the same time. And I know there's some of you on the call tonight that perhaps, yes, maybe you got invited here by someone, by a Facebook post or email, what have you. And for those of you that are guests kind of listening in, kind of spying in on tonight's training call, I want to welcome you as well. I want to acknowledge both of you guys and every one of the guys and gals that are on tonight's call because, you know, the bottom line is this. There's a saying that, you know, 80% of success in life in a business is just showing up.

And so I want to acknowledge each and every one of you for showing up, for paying attention. And as I get into tonight's information, I'm going to share with you some things that if you're open to receiving them, you know, if you're open for a moment to receive this information, it can have a profound impact in your life, in your business, in creating more money, getting more money, and being able to create really the life of your dreams for that matter, whatever that looks like for you. And I know no matter what that looks like for you, you know, living the life of your dreams, having the business of your dreams, it's going to take money, right? You know, at the time of this recording, it's the fall of 2014, and today's world we live in, it takes money. It takes getting money, having money, creating money, having money work for us to be able to really begin to live, you know, the life of our dreams, beginning to build, you know, success and freedom and wealth and all that good stuff.

So I'm going to share with you a lot of things. Right off the bat, I wanted to, you know, just kind of get into and share with you kind of what I'm going to be covering tonight, okay? And I'm going to be covering several things. If you're taking notes, feel free to take notes. And bottom line, we're going to talk about, you know, getting money and really overcoming the number one challenge that stops people from either joining a business, growing their business, expanding their business, creating more money, freedom, and that is money, okay?

And to really cover this topic, to cover this challenge, right? It's a big challenge, especially in today's world, today's economy. I'm going to have to share with you, you know, things that I've learned along my journey as an entrepreneur, you know, and that really is the inner game of money, the belief systems around money. So I'm going to share with you about that. I'm going to share with some of you guys that, you know, guys in the world that just need to make some money now, today, tomorrow, this week.

You know, start making some immediate sales, immediate cash flow. I'm going to give you some ideas and strategies that I did when I was first getting started to really go from zero to having my first five-figure month inside of, like, 90 days in my business. Now, income disclosure right off the bat, you know, my results aren't typical, and so any figures I make about income, what have you, you know, aren't average, to be honest. And you can see our average income disclosure at powernetwork.com forward slash income. But the bottom line is this.

When I'm applying these strategies, it really helped to transform where I was at, you know, broke and struggled. I mean, kind of new to this business model and be able to make some great things happen relatively quickly. So I'm going to share in that. So I'm going to share with you that, and I'm going to share with you, you know, really overcoming this biggest obstacle, overcoming the number one objection, which is money, and something that I have studied pretty much my entire adult life over the last 10 years, guys. I've really studied and committed and really became obsessed with this conversation around money.

I became obsessed with this conversation of understanding and the ins and outs of it, both from an energetic kind of universal, spiritual law principle-based to actual tangible stuff, understanding financial markets and lending markets and learning how to come up with money and raise capital for businesses and help other people do that. Because if you're in any business selling any product, service, especially, you know, higher-end products and services like we have, education products like we have here in Empower Network, one of the biggest challenges you will come and face, either for yourself, if you face it yourself personally, and or when you're marketing and selling, is money. So I'm going to share with you how to overcome that, and I'm going to share with you some of the questions that I have. I've got a crazy, untold kind of life story about myself, but many people, unless you're really close to me, you're close friends with me, they probably don't know. I'll share more about those strategies, you know, more about that and really how I got there and how you can do that.

But I've got to just tell you this. I've got to tell you, first and foremost, tonight I'm going to be very open. I'm going to be vulnerable with you. For everyone that's listening on the call, I'm going to share some things about myself and what's happened in my life, you know, starting at a very young age. And so, you know, you have my commitment to be open and to be honest and vulnerable with you and share some things, honestly, that I really haven't shared publicly in this way.

And I share that to share that with you because it's important in your business, in your marketing, when you're going to go out there, to be authentic. And that's one of the things I loved about this Community Empower Network and the leaders and the founder like Dave Wood and all the incredible leadership that we have here is that it was a high-level, high-consciousness group of people that were committed to being themselves, committed to being authentic, and committed to delivering value to the marketplace. And if you're going to create success in your life, in this business, in any business, I think that's just one of the best things that you can do to be authentic and to be vulnerable and to share yourself. And story with others, okay? So I'm going to just take a moment and share with you kind of first and foremost, you know, how I got here.

But before I do, I'm going to take you back years and years ago. And I'm going to take you back to the time, actually, when I was 8 years old. In fact, I remember it like it was yesterday. It was June 26, 1993. It was a Saturday morning.

You know, early morning, Saturday morning in a place called Thousand Oaks, California. And I was a little 8-year-old, a little old kid at the time. And my mom's boyfriend, kind of fiancé at the time, wanted to go out and kind of test drive a new sports car. And being the young, energetic kid I was, I was like, I want to go. I want to go, right?

So I go out with this gentleman to go and drive and test drive a car. It happened to be a 1993 Cherry Red Corvette. Any of you guys car fans know? I know there's a leader. Our community has a big yellow, new yellow Corvette.

And so this was a red Corvette. And I went out there, and he was going to test drive this car. And so I'll tell you more details of the story, but I'll tell you this for now. We went to test drive the car, and I'm sitting in the car. And this gentleman starts driving very, very fast.

We're going on an older gravel road up in the mountains. You know, this was before the days of the cell phone, before the days of a lot of things. And he starts driving very, very fast. And so fast that he reaches 115 miles per hour. At this point, being a young, scared, 8-year-old little child, I began, and I yelled out, stop, slow down, slow down, slow down.

And shortly after, just moments from yelling that plea, that scream, being scared to death, the car drops down to about 80 miles per hour. I see the digital dashboard. And that was one of the last visual shots I saw until, boom, the car flips, spins, rolls, tumbles in the air, something that you would see out of a movie, in a movie, massive, tumbling and rolling, flipping the air. And there I was, now, seconds later, being completely pinned underneath the car, my hand pinned underneath the car, laying there and having a moment. Maybe some of you have had this moment in your life where kind of your life flashes before your eyes.

And I realize in this moment something's wrong. And I might not make it. And there I am, laying helplessly, bleeding like no other, in this car, underneath the car, being pinned and trapped on a kind of mountain road, no one around, Saturday afternoon. Now, I'm going to stop right there because, obviously, you do know that I do make it. But I want to share with you, of course, at the end of this call, stay tuned.

I'm going to share with you what happened and how, if you believe in any type of higher power, some things work. Some things worked out and transpired for my greater good. So let me just, let me segue, jump into the training in tonight's call, which is about getting money, creating more money in your life, living the life of dreams, building your business while having a life, and the principles, the mindset of that, as well as the mechanics and the strategies to be able to do that. Now, I'm going to share with you from my experience, from my experience of building a business online with Empower Network over the last, just over two years. And I tell you, I'm coming from a business.

I'm coming from my experience. In my experience, it doesn't make it good. It doesn't make it bad. It doesn't make it right. It doesn't make it wrong.

It just makes it my experience, okay? And so what I would encourage you as you're taking notes and you're listening, to listen in, to understand, and to take on an open mind to receive this information and begin to ask yourself, how can I apply what Peter is sharing? How can I begin to apply this to my life? How can I begin to apply these techniques and these strategies and these principles to my life, right?

And when you do that, when you begin to be a student, you know, successful leaders, right? They say leaders or readers. Leaders are great followers. Leaders are followers of other great leaders, right? I'm not, you know, better or worse than anyone listening to this call, right?

I might know some things, some different things, and maybe some of you don't. I might be doing some things a little bit longer than some of you. Right? There's some people listening on my call that earn way more money than me, right, in this business. And there's people that have earned less, right?

No matter what it is, no matter what you're doing in committed in life, you've got to understand to begin to look at where you're at and get clear on where you want to go, right? So the first step, the first step when we talk about getting money, you know, a buddy of mine, Chris Record, over the years, we met several years back. And, in fact, this kind of goes to one of the briefs. The first breakthroughs I had in my life financially. I joined up as a young entrepreneur being involved in direct sales, network marketing organizations for years since the age of 18.

For the first several years, I struggled. But I struggled to get money, to make money. And, in fact, for the first four years, you know, I don't know if any of you guys can relate, but I did everything and anything. I tried business after business, you know, traditional offline marketing strategy, talking to people, three-foot wolf, flyers, bandit signs, networking. Going to seminars, you name it, I have done it, okay?

And for the first several years, I struggled. And later on, you know, as I started to create some success and have some breakthroughs in my business at the time, I realized there's some foundational fundamental principles I had to be able to kind of shift. I had to begin to shift my paradigm. I had to begin to shift who I thought I was. I had to begin to shift and create a new paradigm.

Because what I learned from one of my mentors, T. Harv Eker, a lot of training in self-development, he said, you know, you're out of the world, right? The results in your life, your business, how much money you're making is in direct reflection of your inner world.

You see, if you want more money in your business, if you want to get the money to get all in, let's say, in your business, you want to help people get all in your business and make bigger commissions, I'm going to give you some strategies on how to do that. But if you don't have the right foundation, which is your beliefs, being in alignment with money, what money really is, what it is not, being in alignment with who you think you are as it relates to that, as it relates to what you're doing, what you're selling, what you're promoting. If those things aren't in alignment, you are going to be struggling like I was at one point. You're going to be maybe taking action. Maybe you're doing the things that I'm going to share with you, and you're taking action, you're taking action, you're taking action, but you're not seeing those results.

If you're not seeing those results, chances are, it's because you're out of alignment. It's like a mixed message between what you're doing in the outer world with what's going on in the inner world, what Dave Wood talks about, all about our unconscious mind or subconscious mind. The programs, just like on a computer, the programs that are running and dictating your life, whether you know that consciously or not, dictating what actions you're taking in your business, how you perceive yourself and perceive others. So first step. I want you to write this down as you're taking notes and understand.

I'm going to share with you some fundamental, what Dave Wood called global beliefs, fundamental beliefs I have around money that are, again, not good, not bad, not right, not wrong, but that are empowering and supportive to getting more of it, right? Because the other day, you want to create any type of dream lifestyle and travel and send more time to the kids and things like that. Bottom line is it's going to take money. It's going to take a resource and the idea that we call money. So the first thing I want you to get down, the first thing I want you to get down is that money is simply an idea.

Circle that. Star that. Money is an idea. You say, well, Peter, what do you mean by that? Well, what I mean by that is anything that you want in life, right?

Think about any product, anything you spent money on. Money is an idea. Everything gets started as an idea. You know, there's the saying, thoughts are things, right? Thoughts are things.

Well, what does that really mean? Well, everything. Everything that's in physical reality is once a thought. It was a thought. Someone had an idea, right?

And they took the inspired action to turn that idea, let's say, into a product or a service, right? And then they sold and shared that idea, that idea which became that product and service with others. And they eventually transformed that idea into cash flow, into business, into money, right? So if you want more money in your life, you have to begin to believe. Believe and see, okay, that it's just an idea away.

Now, you might say, okay, well, all right, I'm sorry I didn't understand that, Peter, but, well, how do I really apply that? How do I make this changeable? Okay, so, you know, you've got an idea. We have an idea called Empower Network. We have products that we market and sell, teaching people, teaching entrepreneurs, teaching network marketers how to build a business online, how to, you know, self-develop as well, you know, how to get traffic, how to get leads, how to just convert sales, right?

So that was once an idea, got turned into our product. Now, we can market and share that product and as affiliates earn commissions selling those products, right? Now, money's an idea. So that was once an idea. Now we have the ability to turn that idea into profit.

And what's cool about Empower Network, especially as being an affiliate and being able to refer these incredible products to other people and other entrepreneurs, is that we don't even have to do all of that work. We just have to share it, promote it, you know, and find people that want that versus having to come up with the idea and turn that idea into a product and all the infrastructure and company resources and all this stuff, right? You don't even have to do all that. You have to just get to the last step, which is, hey, just go share that with other people. And I'm gonna share with you some ideas as to how I did that.

So that's the first thing, money's an idea. The second one I want you to write down is that money is all around you. Money is everywhere. Money is all around you, right? Again, this kind of comes in with money as just an idea.

People have the money, right? So if you're struggling in your business, maybe you're not all in yet, let's say, for example, okay, and you're maybe in our community, but you haven't been able to create that breakthrough, which is getting the money for yourself to get positions, get all into the business, to be able to get all the training, the resources, the mentorship you have, you know, when those that are in that position have access to, right? Kind of have access to this online marketing university, okay, which I like to call it. Now, if you haven't been able to do that, maybe you're not seeing that money's all around you. You say, Peter, you know, I'm struggling.

You know, I'm barely, you know, I'm living paycheck to paycheck, right? I get it. I was once there. In fact, many of you guys, I told you I'd be authentic and transparent. I'm gonna share some things with you in a moment that I've never shared really publicly before, simply because you don't never share the challenge when you're, or the struggle when you're in struggle.

Well, I'm not only in the struggle or challenge anymore, so I can share it, but there was once a time, not that long ago, it was a year or so, a few years back, where, you know, I was a young entrepreneur, you know, headed for success, getting committed. I got started in real estate investing at a very early on, okay? Studied, you know, how to get money and raising money and being able to buy real estate and sell real estate. And, you know, this is, if any of you guys have bought, you know, invested in real estate, especially back in 2005, six, seven, you know what I'm talking about. You know, right place, long time, didn't know what I was doing.

By the time I was 23, 2008, along this journey and kind of struggling at the business of different opportunities, you know, I found myself owning two properties I couldn't afford that were called negative capital. I had a half a million dollars in mortgage debt. I had tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt from a combination of just basically, you know, wasn't getting much money, paying for expenses out of my credit cards, learning the credit game, but I sure learned a lot about how to leverage credit cards, but I did that in maybe not the best way. And I found myself tens of thousands in debt, credit card debt, learning, going after seminar after seminar, buying product after product, you know, investing in myself, building the foundation, right? Doing a lot of great things, but yet money was still not there.

I wasn't making the money of why I wanted to make. I believed that, I started as I worked on my mindset, my belief, I believed I was worth it. I began to really believe on that consciously, but I wasn't yet making that money. I wasn't yet getting it, right?

I wasn't yet creating that success. And one of the reasons was because I didn't have this belief that money was an idea, money was all around me, money comes from people, okay? I had a limiting belief. I grew up with a struggling single mom with three kids, you know, living paycheck to paycheck. Now, we just always had enough, so I had a positive belief that said, hey, you know, there's gonna be enough money, and that showed up in my life.

Even when I was in tens of thousands of debt, could barely afford my rent, somehow, someway, I would make a sale at the end of the month, and I had enough money to pay for rent, or I had enough money to pay myself on bills, and the minimum payments on my credit cards, you know? Something would always happen where I would be okay, right? But I was never getting ahead, I was never creating any type of freedom, that's for sure, right, I was never kind of rising in the ranks, so to speak. And so, I began to challenge these beliefs, and I began to get around successful people. I began to continue to build my roots, continue to build the foundation.

I began to learn from other successful people, learn and model what they do, which is one of the other successful things, you know? Getting in communities and positive, supportive environments like we have here in Empower Network, to learn from these successful leaders, to learn how to build a business, and have a life at the same time, right? I began to do that, and what's interesting is I began, over time, to eventually reach the point that shortly after that, where I said, you know what, this slap of success isn't me, this is debt, all this stuff, this isn't me. And I reached a point in my life where I had to let it all go and start fresh.

I had to let it go and, you know, start over. Here's what's crazy. 90 days from that moment, 90 days. In this period, I also started to read a book I highly recommend, called Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace Wattles. Science of Getting Rich is actually the predecessor to Think and Grow Rich, which is written by Napoleon Hill, which most of you guys that are listening to the call probably know about and have read.

Well, Science of Getting Rich is a little thin. You can probably read it for a day or two. I began to read this.

I began to apply the principles that it teaches. Applied understandings that, you know, it's not about competition, but about cooperation and understanding how to create money in your life. You've got to give more value, more use of value, more value, more value, more value. And, you know, as we know, it's just so important that some people, you know, we're talking about other people tonight, but you don't want to use your money to fund your business, or your future business plan. You never want to invest your money to fund your business plan.

What you're paying for is your money value than you actually take in cash value, okay? So this is one of the principles you want to apply into your life and your business and your marketing business is you want to create and then share and give that value, okay, and give more of it than you actually take and expect in cash value. So if you're creating a video, you're creating blog posts, you're creating content, and you're sharing that with others, you're advertising, you're sending traffic, you're doing some of the strategies that we teach you how to do here at Empowered Network, okay, you're applying those strategies. You're applying them from a space of service.

You're applying them from a space of giving value. You're applying them from a space and belief that says this is going to be reciprocated with cash value. You expect it. You expect those good results to return to you, right? Just like in order to be a giver, there must be a receiver.

Does that make sense? So one was not better than the other, right? And that's a good thing. If you have to give and receive, both have a role to play, okay? So we take it back to the end of 2008, 90 days, I'm applying these principles, I'm in direct sales business, I'm just getting it going, you know, struggle, struggle, boom, I set a goal, 30-day intention.

I set a crazy goal. I set a crazy goal to make 50 grand in a month, age of 23. Set a goal. It was right around Thanksgiving time, 2008. It was a contest for our company, territories, yada, yada.

I don't want to get into detail. It doesn't even matter. The company's not around, all that stuff. But what matters is I set a clear intention. I set a crazy goal, right?

I set 50,000 in a single month. I was 23. I had never made that much money in like a few years combined, let alone in a single month. But I started reading this book, Science of Getting Rich. I started surrounding myself with successful masterminds and leaders.

I began to actually put a plan of action in place where it actually was possible to get me to do this. It was possible in this business at the time. It was a handful of sales. We weren't talking about like making thousands of sales or anything. It was a higher-end, top-tier product sale.

I'll actually teach you some strategies on how to do that because Empower Network has some higher-end products and stuff like that as well. So I got committed. I got clear. I started taking massive action, consistent massive action. I began to think, feel, and see.

I began to see myself on a daily basis creating that success in the present moment, becoming the number one earner in my company, in my territory at the time, this young guy, fresh college dropout, so to speak, and defying the odds, becoming unreasonable in what I was committed to. Now, for those of you, again, I don't want to say that I'm a genius. I don't share those results to brag or anything like that, but again, to share those with what's possible.

You know, a few months before that, I couldn't afford my bills. I'm getting foreclosed on my houses. I can't afford my credit cards. And 90 days after that commitment, right, I have a massive breakthrough. And the big reason, and I share that story, is in that breakthrough, and it relates to when I came into power, I share that because a big part of that was understanding this idea about money and how to get it.

And how to help other people get it. You see, in business, no matter what you're selling, no matter if you're selling a Power Networks product and what we do here, or if you're selling another business and another product, especially if you're selling anything that's, you know, more than just, you know, $2,500, you have that here, too. But if you're selling anything $1,000, $2,000, $3,000, $5,000, like I was, that money is going to be one of the common objections you get. So you've got to understand how to overcome that. And first and foremost, you've got to help your people, your prospects, your new team members, get in the line.

With some positive money beliefs that can actually help them, coach them, guide them to be able to go out there and get the money, right? To invest in themselves, to invest in their education, to buy your products or services, whatever it is that you're selling, right? So here in Power Network, when I first got started, this was just over two years ago, I was actually struggling again. You know, I made some money, and then, like many of you guys know, they're involved in real estate. The real estate market crashed, and that business pretty much crashed along with it.

And I found myself, a few years later, struggling. Struggling, wanting to do something different, wanting to get out of a traditional business model and selling real estate, doing stuff like that. And I wanted to be able to make money online. I wanted to be able to have time freedom. I wanted to be able to have location freedom.

I wanted to be able to experience one of my life streams of just, you know, moving to another country and living in a beautiful ocean home and being able to dip my, you know, toes in the sand every day. You know, I grew up in Fresno, California, so that was, a sand was a few hours away, okay? And so when I got started in this business model we call Empower Network, I didn't know much. I didn't know much when it came to what they were teaching. I didn't know much about online marketing.

I didn't know much about list building and advertising online. And in fact, I didn't have a list. I didn't ever advertise really online. I had some Facebook friends, you know. I knew how to communicate and connect with people.

I knew how to get money for people. I knew how to become resourceful. And so I used those skill sets. You know, I used those skill sets when it came to actually building a business with Empower Network, okay? So here's the thing.

One, we use these skills. We use these strategies to be able to help people get money. I did a few things when I was first getting started, right? I did a few things in the ability to help someone get started in the business, make a simple, you know, decision. Let's say get started with our blogging platform and our inner circle training, something like that, a low cost, low entry to barrier, okay?

And then what I was good at, what I became great at was helping them to see the big picture, helping them to be able to see, you know, how to be able to have the right mindset to come up with the money. Make the commitment to get all in. Become resourceful to find resources. And again, on this call in a little bit, I'll actually share with you more kind of what I did and how I did that, okay? So that I could then begin to make the big money.

The big money was what's called the back end, okay? And I want you to write this down. This is an acronym that I learned, okay? Actually, matter of fact, I want to talk about investing in your education. I learned this at a $3,000 live seminar that I went to years prior.

This is before online. This is before I even had a clue. About online marketing, affiliate marketing, all of this stuff. It was called FEBE, F-E-B. And FEBE is an acronym for front end, back end, right?

So any of you guys that are familiar with sales funnels, things like that, obviously, you know, you have your front end, your front end offer. You know, at Empower Network, we have our front end offers like our viral blogging system or our top producer formula handbook and our recorded webcast, things like that. Low price point products where it's easier for someone to make an immediate decision and be able to buy something, right? To be able to create a sale. To be able to create a member.

Now, that's great, right? And if you're good at driving massive traffic and recruiting large numbers of people, you can make a ton of money just in the front end, okay? Now, for me, I was new to all of that, right? I didn't actually know how to do the front end stuff. And in fact, even my previous business where I literally made, you know, six figures over, you know, a couple years or whatever.

So not in a year like I've done at Empower. But even back then in my early 20s, I had only made like a dozen or so sales, like recruiting. I didn't actually make that many sales. So that was a challenge for me to be a top producer or top recruiter. This was a whole new, and it really still is to be honest, a learning curve for me.

But what I did know and what I did understand, what I did take years and tens of thousands of dollars to learn was how to actually help people get money, how to raise money, how to be able to have the right mindset and then apply some strategies and techniques and get resourceful within someone else's resources, help guide them to be able to come up, love them. And that was a challenge for me. I didn't have a large amount of money to buy what I was selling, right? So whether it was education or some type of business opportunity, whether it was investing in a real estate house that I was selling, I became good at working with people and consulting one-on-one and doing what we call in Internet marketing the back end, right? The upsells, right?

The high price point products, the high ticket items, okay? And so this is how, and this is what I really learned and mastered. That's why my buddy Chris would call me the get money guy because that helped, you know, his people. And my people would be able to get money. And that doesn't mean loaning them money or anything like that, but helping them have the right mindset, giving them ideas, having them become resourceful to be able for themselves to go out there to find the money, create the money, attract the money to them to be able to move forward in their business, to be able to assist them in being able to, you know, go all in their business and to get all the products or, you know, get to the next event or be able to do the things that they told me that they were committed to doing, do the things that they wanted to do, okay?

And that's one of the other keys that no matter what you're selling is that it's not about high-pressure sales and this, you know, exact closing script or strategy in my experience, but it's about really being there for those customers, those new team members, working with them, assisting them, and to be able to help them position themselves to create results, right? So in our business, you know, if let's say, for example, 9 out of 10 people don't get all in and the 1 out of 10 that do, well, that's a clue, right? And if you'll interview them, you'll find many times most of those people that did go all in or did end up creating the success they wanted, right, no matter what that was financially for them, you'll find out most of them didn't have the money, right? Most of them just didn't have the money sitting in their savings account, okay? And if they did, they didn't make the decision to use it until they believed they could actually get it back and so much more because that's the other thing.

People have the money. How do you get them to release it? Well, they release it when they feel and see and believe that they're going to receive more in value, receive more use value that they're giving, that they're letting go of, that they're spending, that they're investing in actual cash value, right? This goes back to one of the principles I learned years ago in Science of Getting Rich that's transformed kind of my whole awareness on this stuff, okay?

I want you to get that. Again, those results aren't typical. You can go to BowerDriver.com for your last income to see our average affiliate earnings. But I was able to make those results because I understood the back end. Okay.

While I was applying the front end marketing, okay, while I was applying, when I was first getting started, three free marketing methods, okay, these are three free marketing methods I personally did that really anyone could do if they choose to, and it's not the best or end all, be all. It's just what I did, okay? I chose to learn, learn, do, teach. Like Dave Wood says, learn, do, teach. I would learn something, I would do it, I would teach it, I'd create a video about it, and I would repeat that process, and I would do that on Facebook, YouTube, and sharing, you know, what I was doing.

Sharing my vision, sharing the product, and I would share that with people on my existing network. So, you know what? Most people, you know, when they first got started and when I was getting started, it was really big to, you know, the whole message was, hey, you know, put down the phone and pick up the paycheck, you know, do everything online. And I've got to be honest. I've got to be totally honest, transparent with you guys.

I actually picked up the phone and then began picking up the paycheck. For me, I was Mr. Tech dummy. For me, I didn't even know how to write a blog post. You know, to me, this Internet stuff was confusing.

But I tell you what I did know how to do. I know how to talk to people. I know how to connect with people. I know how to look on people. I know how to help people get creative and come up with money to do what they want to do, okay?

And I used those skills to be able to sell, to be able to create sales, to be able to create front-end sales, getting on the phone, as well as back-end sales, okay, to be able to create more income faster while I was learning this online marketing. So I was able to position myself to earn an income while I was learning to be an Internet marketer, while I was learning to be an online entrepreneur, okay? And that's what this opportunity you have. If you didn't know this, you're on the call right now. You have access to whether you're a guest or whether you're already a member.

You've got access. You can make a decision and move forward with us. You can make a decision to get in. You can make a decision to get all in. You've got access to be able to make an income, right, to earn while you learn.

You have the opportunity to go through these products and training products. And while you're learning and implementing them, you have the ability to share those with other people, share those with your network, share those with your contacts, share those with other people in the network marketing industry, share those with however, whoever, no matter what the marketing modalities and methodologies that you use, that we teach you how to do with the products. But while you're sharing that, you can make an income, and you apply it, and you begin to, over time, become a master, right? It's said that it takes 10,000 hours to become kind of mastery level. You know?

Generally, about five years full-time. Now, here's what's interesting in five years full-time. From 18 to 23, I was in that kind of modality, learning, learning, learning, spending thousands and thousands of dollars on my education and training and training and training. And I never had the, I never got the success yet, okay, in those five years. Now, here's what's interesting.

How many of you have ever heard the story of the bamboo tree? When you plant a bamboo tree, you plant it, right? You plant the seeds. You water the seeds. You soil, you fertile, you know, get the fertile soil, and you give that attention.

So, if you want a bamboo tree to grow, right, to be a strong tree, from the strongest, you know, kind of wood, what have you, tree there is in the, you know, nature kingdom, it takes a bamboo tree five years before it even sprouts a sprout above ground. In five years, nothing. In one day, like that, that bamboo tree, from nothing, what appears as nothing, five years of nothing, within six weeks, grows over 90 feet tall.

So, how long did it take the bamboo tree to grow? Six weeks? Or five years and six weeks? Five years and six weeks. The bamboo tree, and had you quit, and this is what so many people do, they quit, they say, this doesn't work.

I'm not seeing the results. I'm not seeing the fruits of my labor. And they quit. As another analogy is three feet from gold. Three feet from gold.

In this example, before their bamboo tree sprouts and becomes a giant, right, it took the bamboo tree over five years to just break ground, and then all of a sudden, like nothing, it grows to 90 feet. Just like when the seed can grow rich, and Napoleon Hill says, avalanches, the abundance will eventually come at you, like avalanches. Avalanches is abundant, and you'll be wondering, where was it all those years when you had nothing? You see, that was my experience a couple times now in my life. 18 to 23, nothing.

90 days later, 50 grand a month. Now, what if I quit right before that? What if I said, you know what, this doesn't work. You know, there's not money. The economy's tough.

People can't come up with 20 grand. Are you kidding me? I was selling a 20,000-dollar product back then. 20 grand. People don't have the money.

The economy's starting to dip. People can't get it. Financing or credit card lending or whatever. What if I had quit? Well, I'd probably, you know, I don't know what I'd be doing.

I'd have to get a job or something, you know what I mean, to pay the bills. But I did it, right? I did it. And just like that bamboo tree eventually sprouted and created massive results. So if you're not seeing, if you're not demonstrating the physical reality results yet, I want to tell you right now, before I go into some of the topics I'm going to share with you on kind of what to do and how to do it, I want to tell you that you could just be right before that six-week period.

You could just be, you know, 30 days, 60 days, 90 days from your first five-figure month. When I got started in Power Network, again, I was new to this stuff. And, you know, I wasn't an overnight success. I didn't have to make five figures right out of the gate the first month like my buddy and my sponsor, Chris Record, did. You know, I saw Chris come in and in his first 30 days made about 10 grand.

Now I'll tell you what I did do. So instead of comparing myself to him, comparing myself to the skills that he had, I didn't do that. Maybe sometimes I did. I'm going to be honest. Maybe sometimes.

Right? I get down on myself a little bit. I'm not going to lie. But what I would do, you know, more often than not, was I would focus on let me just, let me do what I can do. Let me do what's a stretch here.

And let me go out there and while I'm learning this online marketing stuff, let me go out there and connect and network people on Facebook. Let me go out there and make some videos and share them. I'm going to share them on YouTube and then share them on Facebook and share them with my contacts. Let me generate some interest online and then let me have an offline conversation with someone, let's say, on chat or over the phone to be able to get them in the business, to be able to sell my front-end product, right? Be willing to be in the grind.

Be willing to not resist, to not resist that grind, to not resist that flow, but embrace it. You know, there's a law called the law of resistance, right? If you resist, persist.

But if you can let go, if you can let go of resisting that, right, if you can let go of being able to, you know, think it has to be done a certain way or comparing yourself to another leader, stop it. Stop comparing yourself to anyone else. You are your own bamboo tree. You are your own growth process. There's another law called the law of gestation.

The law of gestation basically talks about everything in nature has a gestation period, right, to, you know, those of you that are mothers online, you know, you gave birth to a child, that gestation period on average for human beings is about nine months, right? So if you wouldn't say, you know, the baby's not born after six months, you wouldn't say, oh, my God, this baby thing doesn't work. What the heck? Why isn't the baby here?

No. A lot of gestation for motherhood and for creating a baby is about nine months, right? You wouldn't want them to come out at six months, right? Let me maybe have an experience where you had early birth, and that's challenging, right? So the law of gestation, knowing this, understanding these universal laws, you know, I guess one of the things I can be grateful for among many is that I had an amazing mother who loved, inspired me, nurtured me, and shared with me a lot of these universal principles, spiritual principles.

She actually became an actual minister, began to learn these things as a teenager. But, you know, bottom line is, again, you want to, if you want to make those back-end sales, those high-ticket sales, you've got to be able to, you know, you've got to be able to do whatever it takes, whether it's the front-end or back-end. You've got to be able to position yourself, focusing on a couple of things that you can do, the things that have the shortest learning curve, okay? You know, so often people say, well, I've got to watch all these models and do all this. Well, I'm going to tell you right now, I'm going to let you in on a little secret from the leaders, the actual people that are producing income.

They're out there selling. They're out there promoting. They're out there advertising. They're out there taking massive action that's going to lead traffic leads and sales. It's going to lead to conversations that are going to lead to presenting an opportunity, presenting your product, presenting the value, and then asking for the money, asking them to buy now, asking them to click the link below and join, right?

So while you need to learn, while knowledge gives you the confidence, knowledge gives you the confidence to take action, you've got to go through the product. You've got to go through the training. But what you need to do is take action on that. You've got to do it. And then share what you're doing, right?

Create little successes. All along the way to big success. So getting back to overcoming money. I want to spend some time on overcoming money and overcoming that objection because the bottom line is if you're in sales is that you've got to be able to help people come up with money. And if you're struggling with this, maybe you're on the call right now and you're saying, Peter, I've got to get some money for me.

I've got to get some money to pay my bills. How that actually be tangibly possible, right? No guarantees in anything, but to actually position yourself where that really is possible. Okay? Here's the thing.

You've got to understand first and foremost, you've got to get those money beliefs in alignment. You've got to believe that money is possible for you. You've got to be able to believe that you have value, that you have value, you can give value, and you can receive cash value in exchange. That money is all around you and it's just an idea. So if you are struggling to come up with money, that it's just an idea away.

Okay? So there's a couple of ways to overcoming objections around money. Now, the number one way, I'll give you a couple of examples and some ideas, some kind of examples and stories you can use in your business. To help your prospects, helping your team member, let's say they just got started in your business, to be able to kind of reframe and think about money in a different way. Okay?

And then the second approach, what I'm going to share with you more, is kind of what I have mastered over time, is just helping people get good at getting money. Helping people become resourceful and coming up with ideas and strategies for funding and financing and this and that. And just so you know, I actually did two calls about this, in-depth on all this stuff, nuts and bolts, back-to-back calls that are going to be long-term. So if you're a member and you have access to our Inner Circle, you're going to want to listen to those. If you don't, definitely get the Inner Circle.

It's a no-brainer, because that's where we're going kind of more nuts and bolts, step-by-step on how to do this stuff. Okay? Actually, I'm recording a couple of calls that are going to be launched in the Inner Circle. So definitely get access to that. If you're not a member, I mean, just join.

I mean, if nothing else, I'm going to try and shoot my own horn here. I mean, there's dozens and dozens of the calls, but get access to that product, because it doesn't matter if you're marketing the Power Network or any other business, that just gives you incredible value. Okay? Thank you. It teaches you nothing but a lot of different ideas via audio on how to do that.

Okay. So number one, just overcoming the money objection. Here's a couple examples. So someone in your business, whether you're talking to them on the phone, online, whatever, they chat with you, they send you an email, they say, hey, I'd love to do this. I'd love to join.

I'd love to buy your product, but I just don't have the money. You know? So I'm coming to me and say, Peter, you know what? I'd love to get all in, but I just, that's like, you know, maybe, you know, it could be like, say, five grand, for example. You know, I don't have that.

You know? Okay. I totally understand. I know, here's one thing you can do. You just feel felt down.

Say, hey, I know how you feel. I felt the same way. You know, when I first got started in Power Network, I could barely come up with our first two product levels, $125. I could barely join at that. I mean, there's someone on the call right now that used to live in that house with me, okay?

And so he knows it's true. And how is that a point where, I mean, literally, I don't know. I have to say this. Well, it's my car payment. I had BMW from the time when I was making good money.

72 is BMW. My car payment was more than my little rent payment, okay? And so I was struggling financially. I was struggling with kind of getting back on my, you know, licking my wounds from losing a ton of money in real estate and all of that. And so for me, I didn't let that stop me.

I said, I can't. Well, I can't. I don't have the money to get all of it. I said, how can I? I said, how can I?

And I got to a big event. I got to the very first event in Power Network did in Atlanta with my buddy Chris Record and my buddy George and Arthur and a few of us. And I was like, I don't know. And by the first day of the event, and the first day, I was like, holy crap, this is amazing. I've got to do this.

I've got to find a way to get the money. The second day of the event, I got creative. And inside of 24 hours, I committed and I said, I asked myself, how can I get this money? How can I come up with it? How can I raise it?

And inside of like 24 hours, I bought our $500 product, the Costa Rica Intensive, and our $1,000 product, the 15K Formula. Inside of 24 hours, because I became resourceful to find the resources. Because I saw the value. I was at an event. That's another tip for you.

Want to make big income? Get as many people as you can to big events like the one we have coming up next month in Orlando. Okay, that's just a tip for success. It's one of the eight core components of the business. Now, so I got resourceful.

I started asking myself, okay, if there was one thing I could do, what's one thing I could do? What's one person I could contact that would have the money? What's one thing I should do? I know I probably should do this. I know I should probably reach out to this person.

And what's one thing if I would do it? If I would contact this person, more than likely, I'd probably come up with the money. And so instead of saying no to those, instead of not asking those questions, instead of letting the fear get to the best of me, because I didn't really want to do that, or reach out to someone, or sell something and have to, or whatever the case may be, whatever the strategy was. And, you know, I don't need to go into detail on that right now in this call, but the bottom line is I did that. And I went through that process, right?

And I saw the value in the leaders and what was possible. And I got the money, right? And so if you're going to sell, if you're going to get people all in your business, if you want to create a big back end, and I'm not talking about, you know, those two chicks on the back of you. If you want to create a big back end in your business, if you want to create more money with less sales, if you want to be able to help more people, and you want to really understand and know that. When someone is fully all in, when they're invested, when they're committed, they're going to have a much higher likelihood of success, right?

Because easy in, easy out. That's what I learned as well, you know? The reason why most businesses, you know, network marketing, for instance, fail, people fail is because it's easy in, easy out. They, you know, little skin on the line. Why do most franchises and franchisees succeed?

Two, one, because they have a system. We have a system here. But number two is they have so much money on the line, there's no way they could possibly think of quitting. Could you imagine if a person bought into a franchise? Let's just say like a $100,000 franchise, you know, let alone the ones that are like a million, right, that we know of.

No way in hell, right? It's like there's no way. They work 18, 20 hours a day, whatever it takes, you know? They mortgaged their home. They borrowed money from everyone they know, like, you know what I mean?

They did everything to be able to buy that franchise. Why? Because they believe, right? Whether it's good or bad. I mean, that's why people buy into franchises.

So when it comes to traditional network marketing, you're on the opposite end of the scale, and you've got little in, little out, right? And so here comes the power network, kind of this hybrid model, be able to be a franchise-style like system. Obviously, I'm not a franchise, but to be able to have training products you can market and earn high commissions on, be able to make front-end money, but also big back-end money with our higher-end training products, right? Be able to earn a lot of money, thousands of dollars per sale, okay? Well, for you to do that, either for yourself, and be able to help your team members do that and duplicate that process, okay, like I've done, and I know so many people have done, is you've got to do two things.

You've got to demonstrate value, okay? Price is only an object, okay? It's only objection, and the absence of value. So, tip number one for you on overcoming the money objection, you've got to demonstrate value.

You've got to be able to share it with people, show people through stories, through examples, ways that what they were buying, what they're in cost, the cost of admission, right, so to speak, is nothing in comparison to what it will get them, what it can get them, right? What the opportunity is, what they could make, right? Never guaranteeing, never saying, you know, you'll do this. If I've done this, you'll do this. No, but here's what's possible, and sharing stories, facts tell, stories sell.

You've probably heard that one, right? Facts tell, stories sell. So, if you want to get more all-in sales in your business, you want to overcome the money objection for yourself and others, you've got to be able to demonstrate the value. If you're not all-in yet, chances are it's just because you haven't seen, experienced, you don't believe the values here, right? Now, that's your belief, right?

Not necessarily right or wrong, but it might be unsupportive to your goals that you say you want, right? And if it's helping other people do that, if it's helping other people to be able to make back-end sales, be able to make high-end sales, you know, for your team members and be able to help your team succeed, well, you know they need education. You know they need more resources and value that can benefit them, just like if they wanted to become a doctor, they would literally spend years and years in school and about tens of thousands of dollars, right? So, what's it any different? If it takes five years, the cool thing here is it doesn't necessarily need to take you five or ten years to be successful, right?

I mean, in my story. Now, to me, that's massive value, right? So, overcoming the money objection. Let me give you a couple examples and tips, all right?

Let's say someone says, you know, I love to go all in, but I don't have the money, right? Two questions you want to ask them. So, number one, okay, besides the money, Mark, is there anything else that would hold you back from moving forward? No, okay. Are you committed that if I can help come up, if I can help you, you know, create a way, you know, find a way to be able to come up with the money to do this, are you committed to doing this?

Are you committed to your future? Are you committed to making this thing happen? And they say yes. So, you confirm that. You need to give their confirmation a couple times that they're really serious, that they're really committed, because it doesn't matter.

You know, you can lead the horse to water, an abundance of water, but if they don't want to drink it, they're not going to drink it, right? So, that's number one. Number two is to give them a couple examples. Just hypothetical. Say, hey, Mark, I'll tell you what.

What if, you know, who's somebody you love? Mark says, well, I love my mom, you know. I would say the same thing. I love my mom to death. I say, you know, Mark, your mom's been put in jail.

Something happened, crazy circumstances, not her fault whatsoever. She's totally innocent, but she's put in jail. And she can't get out of jail until you come up with money for bail money, okay? So, she's going to be stuck in jail until you can come up with $5,000 for bail money. Let me ask you a question, Mark.

Are you going to find the money to bail your mom out of jail? Mark probably most likely would say absolutely, okay? Well, your mom's going to be stuck there in jail until you do so. How long are they going to be there? What are you going to do?

What's one action you can take? Who's the one you can tell, you know, help get the money to get your mom out of jail? Right?

I'll get my mom out of jail for sure that night. I'll find a way. Why? Because the motivation is so high, right? People act out of motivation and from emotion, right?

People make decisions emotionally. They justify logically, right? Logically, well, of course. My mom's innocent. I don't want her in jail.

Emotional. It's my mom. She's in jail. What could happen to her, right? She's innocent.

So people make decisions based on that emotion to justify it with logic, right? Here's another example. I'll give you another kind of cool, fun example. One of my favorite kind of new cars is this Tesla Model S. Souped up.

It's about a $100,000 car. And let's say I've got this car. I've got the homey hookup. I've got this car, and I say, you know what? I'll use my buddy Chris and go, hey, Chris, you know, dude, I just got this hookup.

I've got a Tesla, brand new, fully loaded, $100,000 electric car. Honestly, though, I don't need it at all. I don't need any money, whatever. I'll just hook you up. It's 5Gs.

But you've got to give it to me tomorrow. I mean, I've got, obviously, anyone I could sell it to. Just $5,000. Give me $5,000. Pay the taxes on it, okay?

And we'll call it a day. Let me ask you a question. If that was you, would you be able to come up with $5,000 to buy that $100,000 Tesla car? I bet you actually would. Excuse my French.

I'm pretty sure you'd probably find a way to come up with that $5,000. And I'd say, you know what? You know, look, Chris, you know, Chris is my prospect. Now, of course, there's no guarantee. But I know I've done that for myself and more and so many other people, right?

I'm just silent. At that point, generally the person's thinking, dang, I've got to do this. I've got to come up with the money. I've got to become resourceful in finding the resources to be able to get all in, to be able to move forward, to be able to, you know, join the mastermind, to be able to get access to something that most people don't have access to.

It doesn't matter whether you're selling, you know, all of our products here and Empower Network is an affiliate and getting people all in or whether you're selling something else. If it's a high-ticket item, if it's, you know, thousands of dollars, money is going to be a challenge for people, right? Okay. So, again, people will find, or they'll let go of the money if they have it only if and only if and when they have the value and the motivation to do so, right? And these are a couple of strategies and techniques that you can use when working with your people, when working, you know, doing a one-on-one new member coaching session, strategy session. You know, how I've been able to do that, I actually created a whole hour of training call that's going to get uploaded into the Inner Circle. So, you have Inner Circle. You'll definitely get that and listen to that.

If you don't, I mean, just get it and listen to it. It's awesome. But, anyway, so becoming resourceful to find the resources, right? This is really key in getting your people to do that, all right? And then once they do that, at that point, if they don't have the money, now they're going to be open for you to ask them some questions.

Now you're going to be open to going out there and finding it, going out there and maybe talking to the person they didn't want to talk to, right? Being able to maybe get some what I call love money, okay? And this brings me to a quick story. When I was starting my business in 2009, and I got to a point in my life, and, again, I needed some money. I had to break through, and then the business started to fall apart.

I was left, you know, fall of 2009. I remember it was yesterday, okay, five years ago. And I had no money. At the time, you know, I had a leveraged job. I'm living my dream lifestyle, all in a beautiful condo on the water in Marina del Rey.

I got this 7 Series BMW. I got this office. And I'm freaking flat busted, bro. I need five grand just to pay my monthly bills, okay? Not a fun place to be.

And I called my mom one night. I literally walked. I walked down, like, a few blocks. And I'm not saying, like, this is some, like, horrible, tragic story. Some of you guys have way more tragic stories than this.

But for me, it felt like it was so deceiving because here I was, I mean, this young, successful entrepreneur. You know, none of my family was entrepreneurs. No one's really made it financially. And I'm going to do this thing. And here I was.

I couldn't even pay my bills. Couldn't pay my rent. My girlfriend at the time was about to leave me because of this. And I called my mom. I mean, it's a little $2 slice of pizza.

It was for dinner, okay? And taking the change I had to be able to buy some pizza for my meal for the day. And I talked to my mom. I started bawling, just absolutely in tears because I don't have the money. And I don't know what I'm going to do.

And I reached out. And it's definitely something I didn't want to do. But I reached out. I said, Mom, I've got this new business, some real estate stuff I'm working on. And I know I can deal with it.

I can just sell it and get this going. But I need some money. I need some oxygen. Money is kind of like oxygen for me right now. So I could breathe for another month and do this.

And luckily, my mom believed in me enough. Even though she didn't have a lot of money, she believed in me. And she actually loaned me $5,000, true story. And I tell you what, when my mom, she wired me that money the next day or whatever. So I had $5,000.

My mom and my stepdad wired me $5,000. And I teared up with joy. And I tell you what, that lit the motivation in me.

Like, you have no idea to take massive action and do whatever it takes to make money and pay my mom back. And you know what? Within 30 days, I did just that. Now, I share that. How does that relate?

Well, maybe it's your business or what you're doing. I share that because I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't have taken that uncomfortable action of asking my mom for a loan. Are you kidding me? I've never done that in my entire life.

And she's not like she had a bunch of money to begin with, right? $5,000 is a lot of money. She had to sell some things to be able to give that to me. But I did that because I had the motivation.

I reached a point where I saw it was possible that I could pay her back. I had a business at the time. So I could see it, right? You've got to be able to see it and believe it. You know, in our business, I could see where I could do this, and I could get someone all in and make a few thousand dollars or several thousand dollars.

So it's very possible, right? But I had to get to that space. I had to get the motivation to be able to take that action. For me, at the time, my loan was kind of my funding source, right? And so that lit a fire in me to do whatever it takes and make it happen, right?

Now, I'm not suggesting, you know, that's your strategy or that's what you tell people to do or whatever, but I'm just sharing it from a story, from the context of when someone is motivated, when someone believes and sees something that's possible for their future for success, and they have a vehicle to do it, but they need the resources to be able to get in that vehicle and to drive that Tesla, where they need the $5,000. They're going to drive that Tesla and take off like no other, like the Tesla knows how to do, okay? Well, I was motivated to do that. I was motivated to just do whatever it took, and that was just the first thing that popped in my mind, right? So when you're helping people and yourself or others be able to do this, be able to get the resources, be able to get money, to be able to move forward in their business, right?

Whether it's just starting a business or growing your business or having more money for advertising or, you know, having money to take a vacation or whatever, making more sales in your business, right? Again, that motivation's got to be there. The value's got to be there. You demonstrate, and then becoming resourceful. This is the biggest thing, guys, is that when you tap into your own inner resources, when you become the person that says, what not, you know, I can't, but what if?

How can I? How can I do this? How can I find the money? How can I make the sales? What can I do?

What's one thing I know I can do? What's one thing I know I should do? What's one thing I will do? To be able to do this, right? And that's really the secret to success.

If you want to become a master at anything, if you want to master this stuff, you know, take consistent massive action. Be coachable, right? Be the type of person that goes through this process and is obsessed with it. Successful people in life just become obsessed. Look at anyone successful at anything.

You know, a classic example is take someone that's very successful. They're a bodybuilder, right? They're obsessed with building and training, building their body. They're obsessed with that mental image that they want to look like and they feel like, right? And they dedicate hours upon hours and they invest in their supplements and they invest in training and coaching and trainers and they invest, right?

And they learn and they take massive action and they're in the gym once, twice a day, two days, right? Every single day. Why? Because they're obsessed, right? They're obsessed with the work.

They're obsessed with that process and they're obsessed with them sharing that value. They want to share that value. So become obsessed. Find something that's positive and supportive and empowering, right, in your business. They get obsessed with becoming the best at it.

You know, for me, I was getting obsessed with, I just want to understand this game of money. I want to, you know, have breakthroughs and be able to help other people create freedom in their lives, not only financially, but so many other areas of life that I realize so many relationships and things like that, businesses and relationships fail because of a lack of money, right? If I could just help myself and others overcome this one challenge, this major challenge that we all face as human beings, no matter what we do, the conversation is called money, right? This conversation, if we can create lasting breakthrough and change, what is possible? What else could be possible, right?

So I committed to studying that. I committed to learning that. I committed to becoming resourceful. I committed to, at multiple times in my life, having to come up with $5,000, $10,000, $20,000 to join. I committed to having a business opportunity to go to invest in my education when I didn't have the resources, when it didn't look like I could succeed, and now I've been able to share that with other people and help other people become resourceful, right?

Help other people get on their journey. Now, I don't know where you're at in your journey. I don't know where you're at in the gestation period of your bamboo tree, right? But I know this. If you keep watering the soil, you keep getting it sunlight, right?

You keep getting an education and knowledge. You keep taking action. You keep planting seeds. You keep sharing the opportunity, right? You keep exposing your business.

You keep connecting with people. You keep adding value to the marketplace. You keep blogging. You keep doing videos. You keep sharing that.

That it's not if you'll succeed. It's not if you'll finally break through the ground and grow to be the strong, giant bamboo tree. It's just when, right? It's just when and how much. So this gets me back, brings me back to that Saturday afternoon, June 26, 1993, being stuck under the car of a cherry red Corvette, bleeding to death, thinking, this could be it.

As a young child, actually having the thought, I've seen my life flashed before my eyes and wondering, in and out of consciousness, and figuring, I might not make it, when all of a sudden, for no real reason, but there were some workers down the road, saw an old dirt country gravel road, one lane each way road, and there were some construction workers that were kind of doing some maintenance down the road, and they saw the accident. They came running to the car, dragging me out of the car, my bloody hand, my hand was completely skin and bones, bleeding everywhere, inside and out. They ran it to a local house. They knocked on some doors, found someone that had a phone, again, this was before cell phones, and they got to call 911, got an ambulance, got me out of the car, obviously, the ambulance took me to the hospital, right?

They were able to kind of repair the physical hand. I had multiple surgeries in the hospital for weeks, had a year of physical therapy to be able to rehabilitate my hand. I could see, be able to feel my hand, feel the feelings in my hand, to be able to move my hand, to be able to make a fist.

I do these physical, simple physical things, right, that most of us kind of take for granted. They just do. We just do them. But I had to relearn. I kind of had to relearn over the next year.

Now, I overcame the physical challenge of my hand. It took me about a year to do so. But the mental and emotional challenges, the mental and emotional scars, I have the physical scars today, but the mental and emotional scars took me years to overcome. You know, being picked on as a kid, being called names, being able to not have a lot of friends, being kind of shut down. There was this, before my accident, bright, young, curious, talk-to-anyone kid, and for a while after that accident, I was the most fearful little boy you can think of.

I didn't want to get in cars with people, didn't trust people, didn't trust men, for sure, because I never had any men in my life until that point, really. And here's one that was coming into my mom's life, and sure enough, almost gets me killed, right? So I had to mess up beliefs in this. And it took me time, you know? It wasn't an overnight thing for that either, right?

It took me time to overcome this challenge. It took me time to get my self-confidence back. It took me time to get my self-esteem. You know, I actually did my first training with like a leadership development camp for kids when I was like 14 years old. And at that moment, that weekend, kind of transformed my paradigm of what was possible for myself.

And I began to do these similar types of camps every summer for five years, in the age of like 14 and 19. And that five-year period was some of the most transformative time of my life. I went from the shy kid with no friends, insecure, fearful of everything, to being a strong, confident, you know, charismatic young man, which led me into the world of entrepreneurship, which led me into the world of direct sales and network marketing, which led me into this world of personal development. And I was able to do that all out of the pain and the pressure that I was under.

And I was able to do all of that in just a moment, out of the deep scars and emotional issues of almost dying in a car accident at eight years old.

Seeing my life kind of flashy for my eyes and wondering what if. Is that all I get to do in my life? And I decided, I made a decision that I was going to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes to become the person to master different areas of my life and to share that with others, to be able to make a contribution to the planet, right? Not knowing if and when, not knowing our time, but knowing we all got a time, right? And that led me on a journey.

That led me on this decade-plus long journey of entrepreneurship. And it led me to this trial and tribulation. So my plea to you, my gift to you, my encouragement to you is that you have within you what it takes to overcome any challenge. You have all that is needed within you right here, right now as you're listening to the sound of my voice, maybe getting those goosebumps on your arms and through your bodies, knowing that you are at the right place at the right time for the right reason and have everything you need within you to succeed, to experience abundance in your life, to experience the joy in your life, to experience the relationship and the health and vitality in your life, to be able to do what you want, when you want.

You have it all right here, right now within you. And when you make that decision, to commit your life to daily self-improvement, commit your life and your business to daily business improvement, right? Taking income-producing actions, that you will become the strong, indestructible, giant bamboo tree, the giant within, right? As Tony Robbins says, awaken the giant within you. You have that giant within you.

You have that greatness within you. You have more. You have more energetic potential to light up an entire small town for a week within the cells of your body. We know this scientifically. And to know, and when you get this, when you believe without a shadow of a doubt that you can do it, you can do whatever you want, right?

That you have all the resources within you to get whatever you need to get, to get the money you need to get, to get the resources, to get the training, to get the mentorship, to take the actions you need to take to transform the areas of your life that you're committed to transforming. So what are you going to be committed to more? Are you going to be committed to your dreams?

Or are you going to be committed to your doubts? Are you going to be committed to your dreams, your passion, your reason, your why, your purpose for your life? Are you going to be committed to your doubts, your fears, your worries, your concerns? Because get this, successful people have doubts. They have worries and concerns.

Every single one of us, every single leader on this call in this company, they all have worries, they all have concerns, they all have challenges. They just become bigger as you make more money sometimes. But the difference is they act in spite of challenges. I choose to act in spite of this fear because I am bigger than my fear. I am bigger than my challenge.

I am bigger than my circumstances. There's a saying that if you have a setback, maybe you're facing a setback right now, that your setback is just a setup for a comeback. In 2012, when I enjoyed this opportunity, I was setback. But I used that setback to have myself have a comeback.

And I had the biggest comeback I've ever had in my life. And I'm just getting started. And so many of you, if you're listening to my voice right now, you have all that is needed with you right now to have your biggest comeback and your biggest breakthroughs and share your story and to share your message with the world and get handsomely paid for it. And use your gifts to share to the world. Instead of just chasing money, right?

But to use your gifts to make an impact and the money will come. So guys, Peter Sorensen here. I've been talking to you for a little over an hour. I want to say this. If you're not already on board with our community, to get, just to join.

You know, one of the reasons I love Empower Network is because it's a community of empowered people. It's a community of self-development disguised as an internet marketing training company, disguised as a leadership development company, you know, as a leadership development, really, it gives you the access to knowledge, to information, to cutting-edge marketing strategies. And more importantly for me, it gives you access to people that will believe in you when maybe you don't quite believe in yourself. So if you're not in, get in. If you're in, but you're not all in, get all in.

Make a decision that you're going to find a way, that you're going to find the resources to get all in, right? That you're going to apply these strategies on tonight's call and the calls that I made for the inter-circle, and all the other leaders' training, and all this, but to get access to all the training products, and to go through it, and to apply it, and to give up your story of why you can't, and to go out there and grab your dreams. So with this being the case, I want to congratulate you. Either way, if you're making a decision right now to click the link and join in our community, if you're making a decision to do whatever it takes to find the resources to get all in, if you're making a decision right now to re-commit to your business to get to our next event next month in Orlando, you're committing to yourself, to your family, to your business, to step into your power, to step into your greatness, I want to commend you. I want to honor you and congratulate you for making that decision.

And with that being said, guys, love you, appreciate you, grateful to have you, and with that, Peter Sorensen signing out, saying love you, take massive action. Go out there, pursue your dreams. I look forward to seeing you at our next live event. Take care.