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One of the traits many entrepreneurs have tends to confuse the rest of the world: delusional optimism.

Delusional optimism is the total inability or unwillingness to look at the reality of the situation because the vision of what you want is so much greater and clearer in your mind. This manifests itself when entrepreneurs ignore obstacles or view obstacles as an opportunity to grow and get better rather than slow them down.

Other people say you should be reasonable, but entrepreneurs don’t deal in reason. They deal in vision. They deal in the big picture, with a can-do attitude and philosophy that says, “I’m going to figure it out.”

While everyone else is trying to make sure they look good in front of people so they  are not embarrassed, the visionary doesn’t care about that stuff. They care about their vision, and they are going to do everything they can to make it happen. That is why other people call them delusional.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was called delusional. Churchill, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates all had delusional optimism about their vision. Until you get delusional optimism about your vision, you are putting a lid on your capacity to influence other people.

If you’re prepared to put yourself out there and see every obstacle as an opportunity, you will learn and grow as you adapt and course correct along the way. Once you adopt delusional optimism, your vision will become stronger than any obstacle in front of you, and nothing will be able to stop you.

 

 

Some Recent Facts About Jobs

In our opinion, there really is no such thing as job security, at least not like it used to be. There have been big, “safe” companies to work for that have cut jobs and pushed out seasoned high paid individuals to save money and stay profitable. Some high paid sales professionals get higher, near impossible to hit quotas that end up greatly reducing their income.

Some Examples:

• Target announced it was removing 1,175 jobs, including 465 layoffs (source: USA Today)
• Microsoft announced a planned headcount reduction of 18,000 (source: USA Today)
• Hewlett-Packard told investors that it plans to cut an additional 11,000 to 16,000 jobs (source: USA Today)
• Coca-Cola plans to cut 1,000 – 2,000 jobs in the coming weeks (source: CNBC)
• BP Oil will cut thousands of jobs by the end of next year in a $1 billion restructuring program (source: Reuters)
• Sprint plans to cut 3,700 jobs this fall (source: Kansas City Star)

This is just a quick sample of what is happening in some of the bigger companies. If these big companies can cut large numbers of jobs, hopefully you can start to understand that there may not be job security in ANY job.

Tragedies crush families every single day. Health and job tragedies rank way up there in the stress department. You should NOT walk around wearing job security as your sole badge of safety. Here are three suggestions that will give you REAL security.

Three Steps Better Than Job Security

1. Get an investment vehicle that will create tax reduced or tax free income. Yes, it is better to start when you are younger, but you can still have hope at an older age. Investment grade life insurance is one example of an investment vehicle that provides living benefits that are tax free.
2. Create OPTIONS. We never tell someone they should quit there job to do a home business full time. But we DO tell everyone to create more than one income stream. It’s totally insane to rely on only one source of income and have that one source come from a job that is beyond your control. While this doesn’t mean you have full security with a network marketing company, having an additional income source is definitely a smart thing to have.
3. Recognize the REAL thing that is BETTER than job security. Adaptability. If you learn to adapt, you can overcome any scenario. If you learn the principles of connecting with people and providing value, you can apply it to any niche and make a living.

What will give you the best results in network marketing when it come to growth for your business?

We’ve heard this particular insight told in different ways from many different sources, but the most recent was from the founder of Habitat for Humanity. Here’s the quote: “It’s easier to act your way into a different level of thinking than it is to think your way into a different level of acting.”

It’s easier to act your way into a different level of thinking than it is to think your way into a different level of acting.

What this means is that thinking about something rarely changes action. What changes action is when you do something and make a move. When your activity creates enough movement, it will change the way you think. Tony Robbins says motion creates emotion. If you do something, that will start to change physiologically, mentally, and emotionally all the ways that you think about it.

You can study all you want, watch all the videos, read all the books, but nothing is going to replace action. If you want to learn how to overcome your fear, then take action. If you want to get a huge group of people to join your business, then take action. Take action and you will start to change your thinking about it.

This also applies to the concept of success loves speed. It’s better to recruit a large number of people in a short period of time than it is to recruit the same number of people over a long period of time. If you take action in a burst of energy, that will help to reprogram your mind to put less weight on fear, doubt and uncertainty. The action itself actually reprograms your mind.

Think about something that has been holding you back that you know if you did would help you, but you haven’t been doing it for whatever reason. Today, act on that thing! Study the results and see what happens in your mind. The action itself will create the result. Remember, the learning is in the doing. So, take something you’ve been avoiding and act on it today.