I just voted in a poll in the Bird  Channel.  Guess which one I voted for…

If you could afford professional house-staff, would you hire a …

Poll Results
a personal chef for your bird (11.09%)
a free-flight/recall instructor for your bird (13.39%)
a cage cleaner for your bird (and you!) (63.18%)
a speech instructor to teach your bird to talk (12.34%)

Wishing you your heart’s desire -

Wendy Weber, the Singing Network Marketer

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

I’m working on my lesson for the Wednesday Mental Cleanse call.  While I’m a little late with it, still it’s very important that I read the chapter we’re on and do the lesson, which means writing it out.  Even if it’s just one sentence.  And I put it to you – do you have faith for network marketing success?

You’ve probably heard that network marketing is a personal growth program disguised as a network marketing business.  And you may say, “Yeah,  right!”

Well, the fact is, that really depends on your point of view, where you start out in your personal journey, and where you are now.  Not to mention, where do you want to be.

The promise of network marketing success and the time and money freedom it said I could have gave me a reason to dream again.  I even did work on personal growth, but didn’t get very far.  I couldn’t do it by myself, I know now.

The Mental Cleanse mastermind calls have made all the difference.  I’ve had such personal growth – it’s nearly unbelievable.  Being able to figure myself out, to see why I was doing the things I was doing, feeling the way I was feeling, has been the doorway to letting go of the bad and substituting the good, even the extraordinary in my life.  Sharing with others and having them share in this very safe place works.

So, when I deal with the chapter 3 of Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, which is our text book for these lessons, the chapter on Faith, I now couple it with the Sixth Sense, (chapter 14). Having now been through the book a few times, all the chapters are falling into place, the concepts into relationships with each other that make sense to me.

I used to have difficulty with faith in God, or the universe.  I have learned to listen to my inner voice, to my sixth sense.  When I do I’m right, and when I do not I’m wrong.  Having faith that even the things that happen or that I cause to happen that are negative have a purpose and I may not ever know what that purpose is.  So I always throw off the inclination to complain or be angry and say “Thank you, Adonai (God).  I know there is a reason for this and I trust you know what is best for me.”  So, gratitude is another important component.

Life has gotten so much easier since I have been able to do this.  I attract more positive outcomes and positive people into my life.

So, do you have faith for network marketing success?  Here’s hoping that you do.

Wendy Weber, the Singing Network Marketer

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Tonight I caught a bit of the movie A League of Their Own.  I’m not sure why it always makes me teary at the end, but I guess I relate to reunions.  This movie puts me in mind of the importance paying attention to obtaining mlm skills – you never know when they’ll come in handy.

Take this movie.  I saw it when my kids and I were on our annual summer visit to Chicago to see my mother.  My son Daniel, my daughter Leila, my mother, myself, and a good friend of my mother, the late Jean Harrison, all went to see the movie at the movie theater.  This was a number of years ago.  I’d known Jean since I was born – she was one of my mother’s scrabble buddies.

By the way, if you play scrabble with my mother you’ll have a very tough time winning.

Anyway, some of you may know that Leila has Down syndrome.  This means that it’s more work for her to learn things.  Her brother Daniel spent lots of time teaching her about sports he liked, such as hockey, soccer, and baseball.

I didn’t think Leila would understand the movie about a woman’s baseball league, but that she’s just enjoy the action and some of the relationships.  Well, Leila did understand what was happening with the game.  All the time her brother spent with her talking to her about the the baseball action they were working on at home paid off.  We were all really pleasantly surprised.  So, because Leila had picked up the knowledge about baseball, such as hitting the ball, running bases, home runs, she really enjoyed the movie.  It transferred to the story she was watching.

Those of you in network marketing probably know it’s important to have some skills before you need them, otherwise you might miss some great opportunities.  And it probably wouldn’t hurt to practice them so that when opportunities arise they come out naturally.  And doing this enough times can lead to success instead of frustration.

I learn a lot from Leila, although she doesn’t know it.  We’ve always had to break things down into small steps for her to learn the skills she needs.  Simplicity is always best.  The rest of us often need to learn our skills one step at a time, as well.  And that’s okay.  Tom “Big Al” Schreiter demonstrates in his trainings, too.

If it’s good enough for Leila, it’s good enough for me.  How about you?

Wishing you the opportunity to obtain mlm skills – you never know when they come in handy…

Wendy Weber, The Singing Network Marketer

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Happy New Year to all my Jewish friends and family – L’Shanah Tovah, in Hebrew.

I burned out a bit with all the music I’ve been doing – I performed a lot and spent hours preparing.

Hopefully, the videos from my performances in Houston will come out okay and as they are posted to YouTube I’ll link them here.

I’ll be singing in choir for the upcoming holiday, which is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.  Leila always joins me for services for these High Holidays.  We also fast for this day.  It makes it a little hard to sing without drinking water, but we manage.

So we sort of look back at the year past and look forward to the new year.  We ask forgiveness of God for any transgressions knowingly or unknowingly against God.  But God cannot forgive us for transgressions against our fellow human beings.   We must apologize and ask them for forgiveness.  That can be the most difficult thing of all, but very rewarding.

There’s much more to these holidays than I’ve mentioned, but it’s a good time to connect with ourselves and re-dedicate ourselves to our goals and the path forward in life.  It’s a good time to be retrospective and then forward-thinking, be visionary.

May it be a sweet year for us all.

Wendy Weber, the Singing Network Marketer

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

It’s been a long time since I thought of this, but I remember having passion spurring the courage to defend someone I loved.

When I was little my family and I lived in an apartment in a building about two blocks from Lincoln Park in Chicago.  That also means it was close to Lake Michigan and great beaches I spent a lot of time at in the summer.  The street we lived on was in the Uptown neighborhood and had a variety of people from lots of places and who eventually, like my family, moved away into other parts of Chicago or the suburbs.

My only sibling was an older brother.  Peter, a handsome boy with brown eyes and thick, straight dark brown hair, had been retarded from an illness not long after birth and also had epilepsy.  He talked okay but was a bit slow and didn’t have top notch coordination.  He was able to ride a bike and sometimes Mom, Dad, Peter, and I would ride on the bike paths in Lincoln Park.

I loved my brother very much.  He was a very sweet boy and, well, he was the only brother I had. 

Me, I was a shy little girl.  I loved to sing and perform even then, however, and still sing well.  But I wasn’t much of a communicator with new people.  My mother told me I was quite a serious little person.  I always hated confrontation and still do.

One afternoon when Peter was out front sidewalk of the apartment building and maybe 500 feet to the south of our entrance, he was confronted by two or three “tough” boys and made fun of.  I was so mad that I, much younger and shorter than they, without thinking butted in and told them off.  Today I don’t remember at all what I said, but it must have been good because they backed off and left us alone.  And, to my knowledge, they never bothered Peter again.

Why would I, a shy little girl who hated confrontation, do that?  I had to save my brother who needed me.  My passion to protect him was larger than my fear.  I had courage and was able to step out of my comfort zone.  While I didn’t remember my words, I remember the feeling I had.  Wow!  What if I can create that on demand when I want to do my network marketing business.   What if I can use that burst of passion to take advantage of opportunities when they appear.

Network marketing is a mentoring and coaching business.  I have the skills to do it and, like most of us, just need to keep the passion  to help others at a high level, which also improves the level of self-confidence. 

So what in your life reminds you of having the passion to do your business?  All the training in the world won’t work if you don’t do the work.  Just remember when you felt that way, feel it again, and take the next step to courage.  Perhaps this goes back to your “why”, which needs to create the passion, hence the courage.

Wishing you to have the passion, the outcome courage, hence success,

Wendy Weber, The Singing Network Marketer

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Yesterday was my anniversary – eleven years in my house, in my home.  Actually, I took possession 11 years ago, yesterday, August 31, 1998, but it took time to move from my house 3 1/2 miles away.  We were downsizing after a year of trying to sell the other house.  Divorce has it’s consequences.

I recall that I had lots of help moving from great friends, and my oldest daughter came in (at my request) to also help.  It was a nightmare.  I hate moving!  Can anyone relate?

One thing I remember – usually people don’t move the stove.  I was going to, because that was part of the deal, my stove came with me because it was unique – it has microwave (which I don’t use anymore for health reasons) and heat at the same time.  Well, I forgot to have the movers move it!  What a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach when I realized that.

So I had to find a quick mover group to do it later the day of the big professional move – and it cost!  It worked out, but it was awful.

Anyway, as I continue to de-clutter and to adorn the walls with my treasures, and the air conditioning upstairs works, the house feels more like my home than ever.

Of course, if your ask  Sueño and Gracie, it’s their home.

Wishing you great experiences in your home, wherever it may be,

Wendy Weber, The Singing Network Marketer

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

It doesn’t matter how persistent you are if you do not have a solid business plan and the plan works.  So, if your business plan doesn’t work, try a new one.

Recently I did an Ezine article called “My Greatest Mentor for Network Marketing Success – The Bike Lesson“, which described the persistence of my daughter while learning to ride her bike.  She fell hundreds of times but kept getting back up till she attained her goal – to ride her bike without training wheels.

Leila, who happens to have developmental delays, was determined.  Most of the practicing she did by herself.  But she had expert help to learn how to ride and she had support of her family.

While Leila didn’t know she had a plan, a plan, however informal, was created for her, nonetheless.  Leila’s plan was sound.  She had the correct help to learn, she had support, and all she needed, then, was supervised practice…and practice… and practice… and so on.  So she was on the right path and never quit till she attained her goal.  I’ve never seen anyone more determined.

Now what about me?  As I tried to do Leila’s example and not quit with my network marketing company, I tried and tried to do the business but didn’t succeed.  I couldn’t succeed.  It was the wrong business model for me.

Napoleon Hill says that “if your first plan fails – try another!” Don’t keep working a plan that is not working.  Replace it with another and another till you find one that works.  This sounds a lot like Thomas Edison, who failed 10,000 times till he found the correct combination for the electric lightbulb to work.  He knew it would and just kept trying.

Because I didn’t understand the book the first time I read it, I didn’t “get it”.  I was in the wrong company with the wrong business plan for me and nothing I tried worked.  I didn’t understand what was wrong.

I didn’t have the benefit of a mastermind of leaders with the expertise and training who could help me.  When I finally found that mastermind group, when I finally learned the truth that the business plan I was focused on was the wrong one for me, that’s when my life changed.

Ultimately I needed to recognize the truth for me.  I have the attention and coaching of people who are building organizations now.  I have the benefit of multiple mentors who invite me to ask for help.  These are people who are not looking to recruit me into their business.  These are people who care about the network marketing industry and want everyone to succeed.

So, persistence isn’t everything.  Leila had a successfully working learning model to master the bike-riding.  Therefore her persistence could, and eventually did, culminate in success.  And I had to find the same for my business to have similar results for me in my endeavor.  Thus, for network marketing success, remember that if your business plan doesn’t work, try a new one.

Wishing you a business plan that’s working,

Wendy Weber

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

For any of you who’ve been following this blog, you know that I have been without air conditioning in my upstairs for the whole summer – and we’ve had some very hot days in Phoenix.  And that means it’s been quite uncomfortable to work in my office and I just didn’t do videos for that reason.  And for much of this time I was sleeping downstairs on the couch.

Actually, the a.c. unit went out last summer.  I can tell you, I really learned how much electricity money the old unit cost me when I didn’t have it working.  My monthly electric bill went down my $50.00 a month.  Wow.  So now I’m going to replace the unit downstairs, because it is the same vintage as the old upstairs one.  That should really reduce my bill further.

In addition, I also use a computer controlled electric unit that regulates when certain appliances can run.  For instance, my water heater only runs from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm weekdays and all weekend.  I’ve been doing this for many years and that also makes a difference.  My dryer and the dishwasher are only run during those times.

I’m looking into solar – Phoenix is a great place for that – I would love to be paid for generating electricity.  All this new technology will eventually pay off for energy in general.  I would imagine that an efficient solar car would be lovely for Phoenix – except it wouldn’t work when parked in the garage or covered parking.  Efficient battery plug-ins, perhaps…

Anyway, the new a.c. unit for downstairs has to work – that’s where Sueño and Gracie abide.

So as the summer ends I have a more-or-less whole house again.

Wishing everyone has a whole house – and  A.C. where necessary,

Wendy Weber, The Singing Network Marketer

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

I’m very much into network marketing success, staying plugged in.

T.G.I.F.  Why do I like Fridays so much?

Well, first of all, it’s choir rehearsal at my job and I get to sing the last two hours of the day, unless I am the substitute rehearsal director, which I will be next week.  Then I need to listen more and help people with parts.

Secondly, while there’s no Mentoring for Free training calls to plug into on Fridays, I know that Saturday I have an early morning small group company training where I hone certain skills, a team training call mid-morning, and the usual Saturday night training call.  Tomorrow the subject is Compensation Plans.  Most people haven’t a clue about how theirs works at their network marketing company.

That means, they are unaware about how many hoops they have to jump through to get paid.  And that means that retention of the average part-time networker is dismal – if even that good.  And that means there’s little or no residual income.

I do not know about you, but I do not want to be going over and over the same territory.  I do not want to keep replacing people who quit.  That would mean I am walking in place and not getting ahead.   And that would mean that I would be in an endless cycle of sponsoring and will never be able to retire while having earnings coming in month after month whether I am still building a group or not.

Since the training tomorrow night is on compensation plans, the people who plug into it, are open to the truth, and are coachable, will be the people who will ultimately have success and be able to retire, say, with me!

Wishing that you have network marketing success staying plugged in,

Wendy Weber, the Singing Network Marketer

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!