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To conclude the short series on articles on network marketing or multi level marketing, I will reiterate the need to check out an opportunity thoroughly to see if it will help you in breaking free to find freedom.
An opportunity to try the business for free should always be available, as should a meeting where you, as a business entrepreneur, can meet people already involved and hear their opinions and experiences.
It really depends on you to find out all you can. Ask yourself questions such as ‘Does this suit me? Does it help me find freedom? Do I feel comfortable with the business? Do I trust the people I have met?’
Always check to see if the opportunity and its founders have a good track record. Before going it alone with the business, it might be worth doing a little research online (but be wary of those who run down an opportunity simply because they failed in it).
A bad sign would be if the existing operators are unhappy with your questions or put you under unnecessary pressure to sign up. You are a business entrepreneur: be self dependent enough to say goodbye if you are unhappy.
Never sign anything until you are happy with the business or the people involved.
Try to interview people as high up the organization as possible. The business depends on you and people like you to operate so you are interviewing them.
How do you react to the senior distributors or executives? A good sign would be if they have excellent people skills and communicate well. Do they make you feel important or is their interest elsewhere?
Be self dependent and try to understand the law and regulations of the country you are in. In Britain it would be worth researching the Direct Selling Association and the Government Department for Business Innovation and Skills. Find out if they are aware of the business.
Many countries demand new members of direct selling opportunities are allowed a cooling off period, usually a couple of weeks in duration, within which you can change your mind and pull out with no penalty. It depends on you to find out how long you have.
Good network marketing organizations do exist and can help you find freedom. There are massive success stories out there. Be objective. Act like the business entrepreneur you are.
Always be asking yourself, ‘What can I do with this?’ and ‘ Could it work for ME?’
In conclusion, you need to be self dependent and examine the prospective companies, their structure and get a feel for the people with who you will be dealing. Does it work? Is it fair? Does it suit me? Can I find freedom this way?
Always avoid dishonest businesses: they never last long and leave a line of victims. Do not be one of them.
I hope these articles have helped you understand about network marketing or multi level marketing and you do find freedom through business.
I wish you great success in all that you do.
“The Network Marketing business has evolved virtually overnight without fanfare or advertising and could eventually become the largest business system of them all. Its success relies on the referral-based distribution system and is driven almost entirely by the enthusiasm of its members. It is one of the most dynamic opportunities ever created by the mind of man.”
Allan Pease
When looking at network marketing or multi-level marketing as a means of breaking free to find freedom from the job market, it depends on you to be sensible about any claims made.
The universal law states ‘you don’t get something for nothing’ and so it is with becoming a business entrepreneur. All reliable businesses will require some effort.
Be very careful of any opportunity that promises a lot of return for little effort. You are unlikely to find freedom that way.
Actually network marketing can give you a greater return than a conventional business but to find freedom you still need to put in consistent effort in breaking free.
In any worthwhile activity it depends on you to push beyond what is comfortable and to grow. This will help you increase your self worth. But this is why so many people do not succeed as a business entrepreneur: they do not commit the effort needed or do not work at it long enough.
I know, as this is one of the mistakes I made.
Occasionally you may come across someone who tells you that success is guaranteed in his or her opportunity; that you will find freedom no problem. Do not believe them.
Success depends on you completely. It only comes if you do what is required and, as I have already mentioned, not everyone will have what it takes to find freedom.
Walk away from those who tell you that they can guarantee you will earn a certain amount of money or that you will find freedom. Do not trust them.
Of course positive thinking is good but watch out for this becoming misrepresentation.
As always, it depends on you to think like the business entrepreneur you are and assess whether the business is for you.
To continue the series of posts on network marketing/multi level marketing as an instrument for breaking free from the job market and to find freedom, today I include a short article on one of the most misunderstood aspects.
To be successfully going it alone as a business entrepreneur in the direct selling field, you have to understand about the pyramid structure of business.
In my time breaking free I have heard quite a few complaints from people who say that network marketing is a ‘pyramid.’ What does that mean?
To start with, the inference is that network marketing/MLM is connected to ‘pyramid selling’ operations, which are entirely illegal.
The business directory website defines a pyramid selling operation as:
“Illegal type of network marketing in which recruits pay an admission fee to join the scheme to earn commissions on persuading other people to join the scheme, but little or no product of any real value is exchanged. Such schemes are banned in most countries.”
Since I discussed in an earlier post how it depends on you to check that genuine products exist, I am assuming you already know any network marketing business you may be considering as a business entrepreneur is legitimate or not.
In the correct form network marketing, multi level marketing or direct selling are simply another way of moving goods or services from the producer to the consumer. That is it.
Other complaints have centred on the fact that only a few self dependent people make it to the top levels of a network marketing business. This is seen as an unfair pyramid-shaped business.
There is no doubt it is true that the number who are breaking free to find freedom are few in number compared with those who do not but the truth is anyone can be a business entrepreneur and get to the top at the head of his or her own organization.
Most people either do not want to succeed as much as others so do not reach those higher levels or perhaps they are happy just staying at a level where they can just retail a few products. It all depends on you.
But then a pyramid is the natural shape of all businesses, of all organizations. Think about it, how many Managing Directors does a company have? How many Prime Ministers or Presidents does a country have? And this holds true whether we are talking about a democracy or a communist state.
In breaking free to find freedom, you are looking for a network marketing organization where those who find freedom at the higher levels are happy to see you succeed with them. The real advantage of the most successful groups is that you will only succeed if you help other people succeed.
Build you own pyramid and help other people do the same thing and you really will find freedom and improve your self worth at the same time.
I know one person who complained that someone above him in the network was earning money from his sales. Let’s examine that.
Say as a business entrepreneur within a network I earn £30 000 from my business. The person above me in the network earns £3000 as a result of my success. Would I benefit by complaining?
Certainly not. The only way I can earn the money is for that other person to teach me what he knows and help me find freedom. The point is, if that other person did not earn the £3000, he would not help me to earn £30 000.
Hopefully you will be in the same position in the future.
In network marketing you are largely self dependent as a business entrepreneur, but you are not alone. The support should be there to help you in breaking free to find freedom. After all, is it better to learn from the mistakes others made or to make them all over again yourself?
There are a great deal myths spread about network marketing, but the truth is the most effective businesses are those that do everything they can to help those who want to find freedom achieve everything they want.
Imagine how productive it would be if everyone in the organization was breaking free to chase their dreams.
In this short series of articles on network marketing/multi level marketing/direct selling we have so far examined understanding the people already running such businesses and how to discover if they are the sort of people with whom you can find freedom.
You want to be going alone as a business entrepreneur but also as a part of a network so you need products to promote too.
All businesses in all walks of life need products to sell: whether it is a solid item you can touch or a service.
80% of all businesses fail and this is true in direct selling. Often the reason is the products do not sell.
Of course it all depends on you but to find freedom it is always better to have a diverse range of products so if one does not sell well in a situation, you have another one to promote. The expression ‘not having all your eggs in one basket’ is especially relevant to people breaking free from the job market to find freedom.
In direct selling therefore diversification means strength: having one product is weak, two products are better but the ideal is a range of many products.
I repeat: any business has to have a product. This product has to be sold at a profit for an enterprise to survive and for you to find freedom.
It is essential you understand how any network marketing company makes money and how any bonus structure works. If the product is not specified and certainly if it does not even exist, make your way to the exit otherwise you may be entering into the dangerous world of money trees or chain letters.
The truth is there are widely varied ranges of products to be found in direct selling and it depends on you to find the ones that suit you and will help you find freedom.
Always avoid schemes where there are not benefits to everyone involved or there are no products.
It depends on you to be responsible for You Inc. or You Limited so you must be clear if it is worth tying your budding enterprise to the one offered. Are they really worth your valuable time and effort?
As with all businesses you have stakeholders to satisfy: your family. Act like the business entrepreneur you are.
But the benefits need not necessarily financial. Good direct selling companies will offer training, which can be valuable in its own right.
Are you clear how the training works? Is it good quality and well structured? Can you see how it can help you find freedom?
The principles of success are timeless and universal: they have been taught since at least the time of the Bible. They work if applied in the right way and will improve your self worth and help you in going it alone so ensure any training system teaches them.
Also satisfy yourself that the organization will stand behind you and support you all the way.
In his interesting book, ‘Why We Want You To Be Rich,’ Robert Kiyosaki puts it this way:
“Donald Trump and I recommend and support the network marketing or direct sales industry primarily because of the education aspect of the industry. Not only do most of these businesses focus on training people to be business owners, many of these businesses also have great personal development and sales-training programs. Select an organization for the education aspect more than for the compensation.”
Another benefit to be sought in direct selling is the social side. I learned a lot from the success systems but have also made many friends too. That may be important to you and useful as a business entrepreneur. Once again it would be worth getting to as many meetings as appropriate where you can meet others breaking free to find freedom and ask their opinions.
Undoubtedly there will be a cost to the meetings and education system as no one can reasonably be expected to provide books, audio programmes, video programmes and meeting venues for nothing. But again it depends on you to assess if the costs are reasonable.
People have told me they were persuaded into parting £12 000 for support materials. Be self dependent : no-one can force you to part with large amounts of money without your permission. Keep aware and know when to get out when things are simply not worth the cost involved.
Be hard when assessing a network marketing business and understand if what is being offered really works and is of benefit to you.
Act like the business entrepreneur you are and you will find freedom.
In my second post on network marketing or multi level marketing (MLM) I will examine who you can trust and who to avoid.
Obviously when you are breaking free to find freedom it depends on you and your feelings about people: I can only guide you.
I believe every one of us is born with a natural sense about people a whether they can be trusted or not. You only need to observe young children and indeed dogs to see this in operation. Both children and dogs take an instant like or dislike to someone with no apparent reason.
Learn to trust your own natural instinctive intuition and common sense when breaking free and going solo. This is particularly true when choosing a network marketing company.
Find out all you can about the people with whom you will be working. Many hold recruitment meetings and you can use these to find out more and meet the people involved.
If at all possible, get to meet them face-to-face and look them in the eyes. Ask as many questions as you can. Ask yourself if you feel comfortable with them. Do you really trust them? What is their body language telling you?
Don’t be afraid to be a nuisance as at this stage it all depends on you to find out all you can. A confident businessman will be flattered you are taking such an interest in his way to find freedom.
If however those involved will not look you in the eye and will not answer your questions, say goodbye and walk away. You are a business entrepreneur and need to make the right decisions at this stage.
Incidentally, if you want find out more about studying body language, Allan Pease is an acknowledged expert.
I have learned to be wary of what I call ‘Flash Harrys.’ These are people who are hyperactive, shouting quick fire slogans and making you jump up and down.
The only sort of ‘ra-ra’ I like is a type of skirt. In business it seems simply false and does nothing for me and my efforts in going it alone to find freedom.
False friendliness makes my skin crawl too. Be careful of those who employ false smiles and flattery. I am also wary of men with dodgy facial hair. It may be me, but a pencil-thin beard is too perfect for my liking.
Don’t get me wrong, of course it is right to look your best when breaking free and wearing a smart suit is important in the right circumstances, but to me there is a difference between flashiness and classic style.
My preference is for someone who does not take himself or herself too seriously but is prepared to sit down quietly with me and discover my needs, wants and dreams and then motivate me accordingly. Someone who can be a genuine friend. They are out there.
Having said that, I think it is worth giving someone a fair hearing no matter how snappily dressed they are but it pays to be wary.
Watch for what I call ‘smoke and mirrors.’ Discover the man (or woman) beneath the image and hype. I am afraid I get little from the high energy selling and motivation that is all-too common. Above all, avoid the hard sell: if they are out to sell to you whatever, be prepared to rebuff them in as rough a manner as necessary. I have seen too many people buy something they didn’t need and regret it soon after. Huge sums of money have been lost in this way.
As you look for ways to find freedom, always avoid someone at the other end of the spectrum too.
If somebody cannot make the effort to look presentable but continually turns up in a ripped T-shirt and scruffy jeans or has some indescribable antisocial habit, go home. They cannot even be bothered to make an effort to look professional or to present a good image. Clearly they are not interested in helping you become a business entrepreneur or find freedom.
People are at the heart of any good business – even online – and it is worth getting good at assessing those with whom you deal. It is a great way to ensure you tie up with reliable contacts and even to later help other people find freedom themselves.
The best business entrepreneur in my experience is the best at people skills.
One of the methods of breaking free to find freedom available is network marketing or multi level marketing (MLM). There have been a number of criticisms of this method of going it alone so I thought over the next few days I would try to give a balanced assessment of this business type to give a sober review for those thinking of using this method to find freedom.
What is my experience of network marketing? I have been around the market for around twenty years with little or no success. You could say this method of breaking free has not worked for me.
My lack of success should sour my opinion of the industry and make me critical of this as a method to find freedom. This is the position of many of its critics. Actually this is not the case for me.
Until I started going it alone in internet marketing I had thirty years in the corporate world working in marketing and administration at various levels with several well-known companies. I even spent a short time experiencing door-to-door selling! I have gained some good knowledge of business models and am by nature a curious individual so, when introduced to direct selling (initially with the Amway corporation) I started to find out all I could about this method to find freedom.
It is true I have come across some scams but then that is true in many industries.
My general opinion is that network marketing/MLM actually has massive potential for those going it alone – especially now it has transferred successfully online in the guise of affiliate marketing. Indeed there are those making success working both online and offline.
The industry has the potential to help many people find freedom as it can be a hugely powerful marketing tool. I believe the possibilities would blow your mind, especially with the online opportunities and the way the economy is going.
The main shortcoming of network marketing is also its strength: and that is it involves people. There are always people who are less interested in helping people find freedom and more concerned about making a fast buck at any cost.
There are always people who will simply rip you off.
The majority, however, are willing to help you find freedom and the business works best when ethics, honesty, integrity, and morality are employed. In any case, most governments have begun to tighten up the legislation controlling this method of breaking free.
My experience has given me a useful viewpoint from which I hope I can provide some honest recommendations for those who might consider this method of breaking free to find freedom. The intention is to set out these observations over the next few posts. It depends on you what you do with the information.
I must stress of course that these are my own opinions based on my experiences and no organization has had any input.
Look out for the next post to start this assessment.
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It you are breaking free to find freedom, you will want to follow those who have succeeded before.
This is a wonderful interview with a self dependent man who is well worth the listen.
Of course breaking free to find freedom is not the preserve of men or women but this article looks at challenges businesswomen going it alone might find.
However many men will face some of the same challenges when breaking free so they can read this too!
Originally posted to EzineMark articles.
The 12 Hidden Crises Of Entrepreneurial Women
Several years ago I conducted a yearlong research study with over 100 working women across the country about professional crises in women and how we can reclaim our lives to overcome them. I was astounded by the findings, and felt they were so universal and important for women, I wrote a book called Breakdown Breakthrough about these 12 crises, offering a three-step holistic model to break through these challenges once and for all.
Since the book came out in 2008, women from all over the country have written to me sharing sentiments such as, You are writing to me, about me, and for me, and Its as if you know exactly what Im living and feeling! My research shows that 9 out of 10 working women are experiencing at least one of these 12 hidden crises, and on average, women are experiencing three at the same time! And over half of these women dont know what to do about it.
These 12 crises are not just tiny bumps in the road but full-out, serious challenges that are marked by chronic disempowered thinking and a serious lack of ability to move oneself forward in positive, powerful ways towards ones goals and visions.
These 12 crises fall into four categories that represent how we relate to ourselves and the world.
These four levels depict the nature of our:
Relationship with Ourselves
Relationship with Others
Relationship with the World
Relationship with Our Higher Selves
In general, each crisis is characterized by an I cant do this! mantra, or some form of disempowered thinking, beliefs and actions. The crises include:
I cant speak up for myself.
I cant get out of this financial trap.
I cant escape this crushing competition.
I cant resolve my chronic health problems.
I dont like who Ive become.
I cant use my real talents in my work.
I cant balance life and work.
I cant do work and play that I love.
Entrepreneurial Women Experience the Same Challenges
As I move forward with marketing consulting work for entrepreneurial women around the country, Im finding that these same 12 crises are challenging women in their entrepreneurial ventures as well, and in the ways in which they view and run their businesses!
Entrepreneurial women are challenged on these same four levels:
Relationship With Themselves as Entrepreneurs
Key issue: Do I have what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, and am I good or smart enough to run this business?
Relationship With Others
Key issue: How can I forge a mutually-beneficial and supporting relationship with clients, customers, colleagues, and peers?
Relationship With The World
Key issue: Am I using my real gifts and talents in this business, and is my business providing a service to the world that I care about delivering, that others need and want?
Relationship With the Higher Self
Key issue: Does my business have a higher mission, vision and values that mean more to me than simply making money?
If youre an entrepreneurial woman and are challenged with any of the above issues in your life and work please know that there is indeed help out there for you, and these are very common challenges that entrepreneurial women face. Also know that new thinking and actions can indeed shift you away from feeling disempowered and unable to tackle the issues at hand. You can do this, and you can do it well, loving your work and thriving in the process. But you had to take action, and a kind of action that is different from what you normally would engage in.
There are four key steps to overcoming these types of challenges:
1. Step Back to gain a fresh, empowered perspective of your situation and what it is telling you about what needs to change
2. Let Go of the thinking, actions, and behaviors that are keeping you stuck and holding you back
3. Say Yes! to your compelling future visions of your business and of your success as an entrepreneurial woman
4. Create It – create a S.M.A.R.T. plan with concrete, measurable goals and action steps — and find someone to help you become accountable — for moving on your way to achieving your visions of success and fulfillment.
Try this experiment! Pick up a copy of my book Breakdown Breakthrough and read it. (Try carving out a bit of time just for yourself over the holidays and read the chapters that really speak to you.) As you read the book and the powerful stories and advice presented by women who have transformed their lives and work, focus specifically on the concepts and information that elicit a feeing of resistance in you ideas or words that make you say to yourself, Oh, I really dont want to look at that, or Thats not me! Then take one, targeted action that will help you address the area you resist the most.
One of the most powerful concepts I learned in therapy training is, What you resist, persists. Watch closely what you resist, because resistance is a sign that youre overly attached to one particular view or approach, and youve closed yourself off from openly exploring other avenues. Ive found that the biggest breakthroughs, learning and growth come when we muster the courage to walk directly toward — and through — what we resist the most.
Articles Source: The 12 Hidden Crises Of Entrepreneurial Women
Originally posted to Ezine articles.
Sometimes when we are breaking free to find freedom, motivation can be a problem – especially when you have a cold morning and you don’t want to get up! This article examines motivation and how to improve it.
Mastering Motivation – Lessons in Creating Forever Change
By Craig Harper
Motivation (a few definitions):
(1) A psychological concept with no single universally accepted definition, but which organisational sociologists believe concerns the determinants of intent, effort and tenacity, factors that push or pull us as individuals to behave in a particular manner.
(2) Feelings that drive someone toward a particular objective.
(3) The push of the mental forces to accomplish an action. Unsatisfied needs motivate. On the biological level basic human needs of food, shelter and survival are powerful motivators. On the psychological level people need to be understood, affirmed, validated and appreciated. On the business level motivation occurs when people perceive a clear business reason for pursuing a transfer of knowledge or practices.
If you look up the word Motivation you’ll find many contrasting, and almost contradictory definitions of what it is (I found over fifty in five minutes).
It seems that even those who define it aren’t exactly sure what it is.
It is definitely (in my opinion anyway) the most over-used (and mis-understood) word on the personal development landscape.
We all kinda know what it is… but at the same time, we don’t.
It seems that motivation is (represented by) different things for different people.
I just asked someone (a random person in the gym) what their definition of motivation was and they said, “something which makes us do stuff”.
I said “well fear can make us do stuff… so is fear motivation?”
“Er yeh, guess so.”
“Well vanity makes us do stuff… so what about vanity as a motivator?”
“Yeh.. guess so.”
“Food, sex?”
“S’pose.”
The reality is that we are motivated by many things.
Different things.
And the same things.
But what we’re talking about in this post is the motivation that helps us create that forever change, that amazing life, that incredible body, that spectacular relationship, that new and improved reality… not the motivation that sees us standing in front of the fridge an hour after our dinner.
For many people, motivation is an emotional state which helps them get certain things done (for a while).
“I felt motivated to go for a run this morning.”
“That experience gave me the motivation (changed my thinking and emotional state) to create new habits.”
“Whenever I read Craig’s amazing, incredible, insightful, clever, witty, life-changing posts (okay, I over did it), I feel inspired and motivated to turn my life around.
The problem with motivation being (essentially) an emotional state (or a place we get to in our head) is that it’s temporary. And when the motivation disappears (which it will because our emotions and mental state fluctuate from day to day and moment to moment), then so do the new-found (desirable) behaviours.
In other words, we lose momentum.
We stop doing what we need to do to create the outcomes (realities) we so desperately desire.
For others, motivation is simply a reason to (have to) do something.
“I’ve gotta work ’cause I have five kids…. I’m not particularly excited about that… don’t love it… just needs to be done.”
“I exercise three times a week because I don’t want to die from a heart attack like my father did.”
The truth is that most of us alternate between can’t-be-bothered, kinda-motivated and totally-in-the-zone… for much of our lives. Many of us step in and out of ‘motivation’ on a daily (if not, hourly) basis.
“I can’t be bothered today” is a line I’ve heard thousands of times in my job.
“Do it anyway” I say.
“But I’m not motivated!”
“So do it… despite your lack of motivation.”
“Perhaps in the doing… you’ll get motivated!”
“It’s not normal… but it is possible.”
And the amazing thing about doing ‘stuff’, the stuff we know we should do (even when we’re not ‘motivated to do it’) is that once it’s done, we’re SO glad we did it (and we usually discover we actually are legitimately motivated after we’ve done it)… and then we also discover we’ve developed some new getting-crap-done-even-when-we-don’t-feel-like-it skills!
Good skills to have.
Trust me.
If we only do the things we need to do (to create our desired outcomes and achieve our goals) when we feel like it… then we’ll never achieve much because we’ll be perpetually starting and stopping.
After all, nobody feels motivated (excited, pumped, positive, focused, in-the-zone) permanently.
Lesson one:
People who succeed are usually the ones who continue to do what they need to… even when their feeling of motivation isn’t there.
It is my (not particularly popular) opinion (based on a lifetime of observation) that most people who start most endeavours don’t finish them.
Great at starting; crap at finishing.
We don’t want to think that we’re like that.
We don’t want to acknowledge it.
But we are.
Often.
Many of us have a history of starting and stopping all kinds of projects and endeavours… might be academic stuff, might be some short-lived, self-improvement journey, might be a potential business or money-making venture, could be a diet or an exercise program or it could be dealing with (or not dealing with) some undesirable habit.
Or a million other things.
You know what they are (for you personally).
We start reading books, we get to chapter two.
We join a gym, we go four times.
We change our eating habits… for three days.
We plan our ‘new’ business venture…. for ten years!
We get pumped… we lose focus.
And while there are always a range of ‘reasons’ why we never finish what we start (some of them legitimate, some not), the truth is, we spend far too much time rationalising, explaining and justifying to ourselves and others why we never get the job done.
Lesson two:
Motivation needs to be a commitment, a philosophy and a choice, not an emotional state.
I consider myself to be a highly-motivated person… but I often don’t ‘feel’ motivated.
I have made the choice to be a motivated individual.
I walk into a room (to do a presentation) and I have already made a commitment and a decision to be (personally) motivated and (publicly) motivating.
This is how it works for me:
(1) I choose to be motivated.
(2) I ‘behave’ motivated… even if I don’t ‘feel’ like it (body language, communication, energy, attitude).
(3) Usually within a short period of time I start to feel genuinely different (excited, positive, happier)
(4) Not only am I ‘behaving’ motivated but now I’m actually feeling motivated.
Tony Robbins calls this ‘changing state’.
It’s called different things by the various ‘experts’, but my experience is that if people genuinely make the effort to do this, it works.
Not everyone agrees with my thoughts on this subject.
That’s okay.
I know what works for me and many others I’ve worked with, so I teach what I know to be true.
Some people believe I over-simplify complex issues.
I believe some people over-complicate simple issues.
Wanna be motivated?
Then behave like you’re motivated.
Talk like you’re motivated.
And make the decision to be motivated, irrespective of how you’re feeling.
Doesn’t mean you can’t have a bad day or be down… it simply means that most of the time, you’re doing what most people won’t.
By choice.
Lesson three:
Don’t make emotional (or reactive) decisions (when it comes to creating forever results).
Spur of the moment, reactive, emotion-based decisions rarely result in life-long change.
Make sure your motivation, your passion and your emotion are all attached to a sensible and logical plan which factors in the frailties of the human condition (that is, our ability to run hot and cold).
So while some people consider motivation to be something that’s almost beyond our control; we either have it, or we don’t (on a given day)…. I believe it’s something we (can) have complete control over.
For me motivation is choice.
I choose to be motivated.
I choose to be a motivator.
I choose to create my own (internal) reality.
I choose to be motivated, even on the bad days.
I choose to keep ‘doing’ even when I don’t ‘feel’ like it.
Craig Harper (B.Ex.Sci.) is an Australian motivational speaker, qualified exercise scientist, author, columnist, radio presenter, and owner of one of the largest personal training centres in the world.
He can be heard weekly on Australian Radio SEN 1116 and GOLD FM and appears on Australian television on Network Ten’s 9AM.
Motivational Speaker – Craig Harper
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