It has been more than 50 years since The Beatles captured the world attention with their music on the Ed Sullivan Show, launching their career.  Yet the band almost never got off the ground because they flunked an audition at Decca Records because “Guitar groups are on the way out.”

Jack Canfield’s best-selling book “Chicken Soup For The Soul” was rejected by 144 publishers.

World-famous opera singer Enrico Caruso once had a teacher tell him he had no voice at all.

Dancer Fred Astaire, who mesmerized generations of adoring fans, was told in 1933 after his first MGM screen test: “Can’t act. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.”

Walt Disney was blasted by a newspaper that said he was lacking ideas. (Huh? Disney?)
Gritty Green Bay Packers coach, Super Bowl champ, and NFL Hall of Famer Vince Lombardi was described this way by one ‘expert’: “He possesses minimal football knowledge and lacks motivation.”

The Wright Brothers were the first to successfully invent pilot-controlled flight. But they endured years of criticism and doubt from a skeptical community when early attempts failed.
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Robert Fulton’s plan to build the first steam-powered boat was met with much ridicule and laughter from doubters. But the skeptics were silenced, standing dumbfounded on the riverbank, as Fulton’s boat steamed by.

So what’s the one unifying thing that could have derailed all their success? Very simply, it’s the negative opinions of so-called experts yet they didn’t listen. 

ACTIONS FOR YOU

How does this relate to you?
Every day, someone will attempt to dampen your enthusiasm with words of doubt, hesitation, or disbelief. Maybe even a close friend or loving family member — a person you trust to tell you the truth. Someone you cannot easily or hastily disregard.

Right now, do you have an idea, a dream, a goal, a wish — something you want passionately — but someone — or several someones — are casting doubt, raining on your parade, calling you nuts, urging you to quit?

If so, it’s decision-time. Do you listen and halt? Or ignore and press forward?

My suggestion: Never let another person — even a loved one — choose your path, or control your life. Or talk you out of the one you’ve already selected. They may doubt it can be done… underplay its importance… or have no passion for it.

They are not you. And they don’t have the dream or the flame that burns inside you.
Decide and have confidence in yourself.

 How does this relate to you?

Every day, someone will attempt to dampen your enthusiasm with words of doubt, hesitation, or disbelief. Maybe even a close friend or loving family member — a person you trust to tell you the truth. Someone you cannot easily or hastily disregard.

Right now, do you have an idea, a dream, a goal, a wish — something you want passionately — but someone — or several someones — are casting doubt, raining on your parade, calling you nuts, urging you to quit?

If so, it’s decision-time. Do you listen and halt? Or ignore and press forward?

My suggestion: Never let another person — even a loved one — choose your path, or control your life. Or talk you out of the one you’ve already selected. They may doubt it can be done… underplay its importance… or have no passion for it.
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They are not you. And they don’t have the dream or the flame that burns inside you.
Decide and have confidence in yourself.

NEVER LET ANYONE STEAL your DREAM!!!

I love it when someone says they think they know all about something.  Or they say they don’t want to learn to be a sales person.  Everyone is a sales person and has been since they were in diapers.  If you doubt that tell me you have NOT done any of the following: 

• a few extra dessert cookies,
• staying up past bedtime,
• ice cream for the team (after losing!),
• after-school snacks even if you brought home a bad grade,
• borrowing the car,
• begging 25 or 50 bucks for a date,
• shoes and a purse to go with that new dress,
• a lighter sentence after missing curfew.

Do I need to add more – every adult has done one or more of these as a child and I suspect several times.  As a child you continued to grow through learning.  Even at a young age YOU ARE A SALES PERSON.  You achieved results without any formal sales training.  Imagine what you could have accomplished with training.    

It baffles me that most adults flatly refuse to grow, develop, or polish essential life skills thinking they are beneath them. They become stagnate and fail to grow as a person. When you get down to it – YOU are the only asset you own and have complete control over the outcome – why wouldn’t you want to improve. 

Continuing Education is the key to that improvement.  I do not care if you ever build an Amway business, you owe it to yourself to grow as a person.  Network 21’s CEP offers life lessons on dealing with adversity, overcoming obstacles and life setbacks, setting goals and taking steps towards those goals each day.  The books provide a positive reinforcement to help you deal with everyday issues that we all face. 

You have a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips.   Nancy Dornan has often said, I can tell you what it may cost to purchase CEP but I cannot imagine the tremendous cost for NOT investing in yourself using CEP. 

Don’t be one of those persons that let years go by only to have a midlife crisis saying
”I’m not where I thought I’d be at this point in my life… my career hasn’t taken off… I haven’t accomplished much… too little in savings… don’t have a lot to show for my age.”

Get up off the couch and order CEP today.

ACTIONS FOR YOU

There are two: (1) Learn to improve yourself and never stop learning. (2) Teach your kids and never stop teaching.
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There’s an infinite supply of available learning resources: books, CDs, downloads, magazines, newsletters, workshops, seminars, webinars, peer groups, search engines.
I don’t know where your life will go from this day forward, nor where you wish it to go. But this I do know: The likelihood of you achieving all or most of what you desperately want is greatly enhanced if you continue to grow and learn as a person.  Then teach others.      

Why anyone would deny, ignore, or run from this, is beyond me.  You are the only asset you have complete control over – make something out of it.