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Are You Too Good to Be Successful?

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“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.” ~ Jim Rohn

One of the key elements to achieving success in any area of your life comes from fostering an attitude of staying humble, grateful and serving others.

If there was one attitude that I have seen destroy a person’s chances of achieving success more than any other it would be the attitude of thinking that you are too good to do certain things.

As an entrepreneur I value my time and I outsource certain tasks that are not my strength to others who are much better than I am at doing those tasks…

However, I don’t have an attitude of “Oh I’m too good to do that” like some people do.  Instead I foster an attitude of gratitude for others who help me by doing the things that are not my strength.

For example, my wife and I are both entrepreneurs and in the last few years we have started to outsource our house cleaning to professionals who can do a much better job at it than we can.

My strength doesn’t lie in cleaning my house, so I prefer to hire someone else to do that for me while I focus on the things I AM good at such as making money online.

However, even though I have someone who comes to clean my home, I don’t see myself as “too good” or “above” doing that kind of work.

Instead I am grateful for the work of people who do help me with those tasks, and sometimes I do roll up my sleeve and do some cleaning myself.

In business, there are certain tasks that I outsource or hire out to other people, but once again I don’t have an attitude of thinking that I’m “too good” to do that.

Sometimes when people get into a business, their minds create these rules and labels where they start to think that they are too good to do certain things in that business just because at their last job or business they didn’t have to do those things.

This is a huge mistake.

To be successful you have to look at what is required in your business to achieve success and then find a way to get those things done.

If you can outsource those things that are not your strengths, then do that, but if you don’t have the funds or the means to outsource certain things then just roll up your sleeves and get things done!

Especially in a new business venture, you may need to suck it up and do certain things that you don’t really enjoy doing or would prefer not to do, for a period of time.

One of the reasons that I often see young people get into businesses online and achieve success very quickly is because they’re willing to do whatever it takes to succeed.

This is usually because their current job or the jobs they previously worked are entry level jobs where they had to do everything from dealing with angry customers to cleaning up puke in the bathrooms.

I’ve done my share of that kind of stuff when I used to work at McDonald’s way back in the 1990’s.

Compared to having to put up with doing that kind of work, it’s pretty easy and fun to do any kind of work when working on an online business.

For example, blogging on a regular basis is EASY compared to working at McDonald’s and cleaning up puke in the bathrooms, right?

Now, contrast that with some people who have been working in the corporate world for 20 or 30 years and who have worked their way up to a cushy job where they basically just go to work and put in their 8 hours – mostly surfing the Internet during that whole time – and when those types of people try to start their own business they start to think that they’re too good to do certain things.

Don’t get me wrong, having 20-30 years of real life work experience CAN be a HUGE asset for someone who is starting a brand new business, but only if they approach their entrepreneurial venture with an attitude of being willing to do what it takes to succeed.

Any sense of entitlement, or feeling like you’re “too good” to do certain things will destroy your entrepreneurial chances for success.

You’re not going to have to do things that you don’t enjoy doing forever, but you MAY need to be willing to do certain things for a period of time until you get to the next level in your business.

Be willing to do that.

Be willing to DO whatever it takes to make your business successful.

Don’t let your pride and this sense of “Oh I’m too good to be doing that kind of stuff again…” kill your chances at success.

Have you ever worked with an employee who felt this way about their job?  Like they’re too good to do certain things?

Have you ever tried to coach or mentor someone in business who had this type of “Oh I’m too good for this” attitude?

Have you ever found yourself thinking this way?

Leave a comment below and let me know.  I’d love to hear your comments on this.

How to Stay Motivated to Keep Blogging Long Term

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I started blogging in April of 2006.

If there is one question that I have been asked more times about blogging than any other question it would be this:

“Paul, how the heck do you stay motivated to keep blogging?”

I’ve seen SO many people get excited about blogging, launch their blogs, full of energy and hope and a desire to change the world, and then completely fizzle out after just a few weeks or at the most a few months.

I find it absolutely fascinating to talk to people and hear the excuses they come up with for not continuing to blog.

I use the word “excuses” because that’s all they are.

I’ve heard them all, and I’ve pretty much USED them all myself as well at some point in my blogging career!

But you know what?

In all of my years of blogging, there is only ONE DIFFERENCE that I have seen between bloggers who continue to blog on a regular basis long term and those who quit after a few weeks or months…

That’s it… just ONE DIFFERENCE!

Do you want to know what it is?

I’ll tell you, but chances are if you’re like most of the bloggers I have revealed this to, you won’t believe me.

If you’re like most bloggers, you’ll argue that you’re different, that this ONE THING doesn’t apply to you for some reason, and then a few weeks or months later you’ll end up quitting blogging.

This one thing is a mindset shift that I have seen ALL successful bloggers have, and I believe it is THE differentiating factor.

So what is it?

The one difference between successful bloggers who keep blogging and those who give up is that the successful bloggers are not ashamed, not afraid and do not feel guilty about MAKING MONEY with their blogs.

That’s it.

That’s the ONE difference.

I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been part of the “Lightworker” community for so long now or what but you won’t believe how many times I have heard the words “But Paul, I don’t want to make money with my blog.  I just want to help people.   I want to share the knowledge and wisdom I’ve learned about stuff and I want to share it with people.  I don’t care if my blog makes money.”

That’s a pile of bullshit.

I’m sorry, but it is.

You *DO* want your blog to make money, but you’re just afraid to admit it because somewhere along the way you were programmed to believe that you shouldn’t charge someone money for doing something you enjoy / love doing.

You’re afraid that if people come to your blog and read your content and they see that you’re making money from your blog that somehow that’s going to soil your “reputation”.

As if making money with your blog was some kind of dirty deed or something!

Let me ask you something… if you had to have brain surgery tomorrow, and you found out that your brain surgeon gets paid for doing brain surgeries, would you think to yourself “oh, what a crappy brain surgeon…I bet he doesn’t even care about saving people’s lives… he must be in this just for the money because I found out he’s actually getting paid to do this”????

No, you probably wouldn’t, right?

If you needed help from a police officer would you say to them, “Wait, hold on… do you get paid to be a police officer?  Wait, what?!  You get paid!?  Oh, that means you don’t actually do this to help people, you’re just doing this for the money… you scum!”???

No, you probably wouldn’t, right?

Would you judge a teacher who gets paid to teach for a living as doing something wrong just because they get paid to teach?

No, you probably wouldn’t, right?

Would you judge a firefighter who gets paid to fight fires as doing something wrong just because they get paid to fight those fires?

No, you probably wouldn’t, right?

For some weird reason, that I still don’t understand though, when it comes to blogging I have seen so many people SCARED to admit that they want to make money from their blogs.

I don’t really get it.

Just get over yourself already.

It’s OKAY to make money as a blogger.

There’s nothing wrong with it, and a LOT of things RIGHT with it!

First of all, you have to realize that there is a COST to you and your family for you to blog.

You’re investing your time and energy and resources to create blog content on a regular basis.

You DESERVE to make money for those efforts.

See, here’s the thing…

People ask me how I stay motivated to blog…

The answer is simple… I stay motivated to blog because blogging puts MONEY in my family’s pocket!!!

See, sooner or later, if your blog is NOT making you any money, you’re going to run into a situation where you have to decide to invest an hour of your time writing your next blog post or watching the latest season of your favorite show on Netflix…

… and if your blog is not making you any money, your mind will just think “Meh, blog can wait, it’s Netflix time!”

Or sooner or later, if your blog is NOT making you any money, you’re going to run into a situation where you have to decide to invest an hour of your time writing your next blog post or spend an hour doing something else that DOES make you money…

… and once again you’ll probably pick the thing that makes you money, such as working overtime at your job or taking on some extra part-time work.

Now, let’s look at it from a different perspective.

Imagine that your blog IS making you money every single month and your blogging income is growing.

Do you think you would be maybe just a LITTLE bit more motivated to write a blog post instead of watching Netflix if your blog was making you $1,000 cash every month?

Do you think that your spouse would be a LITTLE bit more supportive of you taking some time to write your next blog post if your blog was paying for your next vacation?

Do you think that you might be a LITTLE bit more likely to push through any “writers block” excuses you might have if you knew that your blog was going to help you get a free car paid for by your blog?

So what motivates the top bloggers out there to keep blogging day in and day out, regardless of the obstacles that come up in their way?

The same thing that motivates YOU to wake up at 7am on weekdays and battle traffic to get your ass to your job…

… MONEY!

It’s as simple as that.

Unless you’re already completely financially independent… like it or not, MONEY is a HUGE motivating force in your life.

If your boss came to you tomorrow and told you that unfortunately starting tomorrow you aren’t going to get paid to do your job anymore, how much longer do you think you’d be “motivated” to go to work?

You’d quit in 2 seconds.

It’s the same with blogging… if you make money with your blog, you’ll stay motivated… if you LIE to yourself and try to pretend that you’re Mother Theresa and that you don’t care about money, you’ll end up giving up.

(Incidentally, even Mother Theresa understood the need for money and raised INCREDIBLE amounts of money for her charity.  So even she didn’t pretend like money wasn’t important.  She constantly focused on raising money for her charitable work.)

Now, I’m not saying that ALL you care about is money.

That’s not true.

Money is actually kind of a useless thing…just pieces of paper or numbers on some computer screen.

It’s not actually money that motivates us, but rather the things we can DO with the money we manifest!

When you make $50 with your Blog, you can use some of that money to fund micro-loans in 3rd world countries!

When you make $500 with your Blog, you can invest into better blogging equipment (camera, lighting, etc.) and produce even BETTER content for your audience.

When you make $1000 with your Blog, you can pay off a debt you owe and relieve some stress from you and your spouse.

When you start making $500/m with your Blog, you can hire a cleaner to help clean your home so that you can focus on more important things like creating MORE awesome content for the world.

When you make $5,000 with your Blog, you can take your family on a vacation!

The things you can do with the money you make blogging are infinite!

And it is those THINGS…. funding that micro-loan, or getting that better equipment for your blog, or paying off that debt, or hiring that cleaner or taking your family on a vacation that will MOTIVATE you to keep blogging!

Get it?

You BLOG to share your wisdom and to help the world… I get it.

But you also have to accept the fact that if you want to REALLY help the world as a Blogger you need to start making MONEY from Blogging so that you can do all those things I mentioned above and MORE and so that 5 years from now you’re still blogging!

You need to get your blog to the point where it’s making you so much money that you can quit your job and Blog full time.

You need to get your blog to the point where it’s making you so much money that you can pay off ALL your debts, including your mortgage so that you can experience the feeling of what it feels like to be debt-free and so that you can blog from a place of having that raised energetic vibration.

You need to get your blog to the point where it’s making you so much money that you can invest in the things you believe in… projects, charities, organizations, causes, people…whatever you believe in!

But it all starts with first learning how to MONETIZE your blog properly and what it really takes to make money as a Blogger.

And that is why I highly recommend utilizing the Kalatu blogging platform and training system which has a proven track record of helping bloggers to monetize their blogs.

Nobody can guarantee that you’ll make money as a blogger, but having a platform like Kalatu and access to the Kalatu community and training is the first step to becoming a successful blogger.

If you’re ready to stat making money with your Blog, I recommend you click here to learn more about Kalatu now.

Why Your MLM Business Needs a Blog in 2015 and Beyond

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I joined my very first MLM company way back in mid 1990’s.

I followed the typical “plan” of putting together a 25 – 100 name list, and contacting everyone I knew to try to either sit down with them and my sponsor in person, or inviting them to a meeting.

I was excited, and determined to make it work, so I did everything my sponsors told me and starting pitching every family member, friend and relative I could get a hold of – some of whom I hadn’t even seen or spoken to for years prior to contacting them.

At first I saw some short-term success, being able to sponsor a few of my friends and sell some product purely based on my enthusiasm and relentless follow-up.

But there was one major FLAW with what I was doing.

The flaw was that I DID NOT enjoy trying to hard-sell my friends and relatives on products and a business opportunity they didn’t really have any interest in.

Those that did come to meetings and who bought products mostly did so out of a sense of obligation and a sense of doing me a favor.

I did NOT like how that felt at all, but I still did it because that is what my sponsors told me “the plan” was.

I learned all I could about the products I was promoting, I attended virtually every meeting, and I even quit my job to pursue my MLM business full time.

The challenge was that even when I DID see some short-term success by singing up people, there was NO DUPLICATION in my business because nobody wanted to do what I was doing.

The last thing anyone wants to do is to pick up the phone and try to call their friends and relatives to try to pitch them on a business opportunity.

So after two years of struggle, and on the verge of bankruptcy I quit my MLM business and went back to working a regular job.

I don’t regret those two years though as I learned so much about business and personal development and I later used that education to make a six-figure income running my own business.

Because of this I have a very deep “love / hate” relationship with the MLM industry.

I love the culture, I love the people, I love the meetings, I love the personal development training and so many other things.

The only thing that I don’t like about the traditional MLM industry is the outdated marketing system that relies solely on “attacking” your 25 name list or 100 name list, or in today’s updated version your Facebook friend list and spamming everyone you know with yet another “business opportunity”.

If you’ve ever been in an MLM or are currently in an MLM, you know as well as I do that THAT marketing plan doesn’t work.

Why?

Well, for a few reasons:

  1. Chances are, your friends and family are probably not interested in the products you’re selling.
  2. Chances are, your friends and family are probably not interested in the business opportunity you’re promoting.
  3. Even if your friends and family MIGHT be interested in either the products or business opportunity you’re promoting, chances are the TIMING might not be right.  Meaning they might eventually be interested, but maybe not for another 6 months or a year or 2 years etc.  For example, if your MLM promotes weight loss products and I’m currently not interested in losing weight than the timing is not right for me.

Now, before you start thinking that I’m just being negative or pessimistic, I’m not saying that it’s IMPOSSIBLE to grow your business in your warm market.

I’m just saying it’s NOT EASY and there is a MUCH better and easier way to promote your MLM business.

How?

Well, think about this…

What if instead of trying to pitch your friends and relatives – who are most likely not interested – what if you could find a way to connect to the THOUSANDS of people who are currently looking for the products your MLM is selling or who are looking for an MLM opportunity right now?

Let me give you a real life example from someone who just recently asked me the question of what would be the benefit of starting a Blog for someone building an MLM company.

The MLM company that they are building sells water filtration products which also ionize and alkalize tap water to make it healthier for you.

Now, someone in such an MLM *could* make a 25 name list of their friends and relatives and then try to hard-sell them on these water filters.

But chances are, you’ll just end up annoying your friends that way.

And even if you DO find one or two or three friends who may be interested in such a product, you can’t build a business on just a couple of customers.

So what’s a better alternative?

Why not connect with people who are already interested in your product instead!???!

Here, check out this quick report I did with Google.

It shows that every single month there are approximately 320 people searching for “alkaline water filters” and 6,600 people searching for “alkaline water machine” and 1,600 searching for “where to buy alkaline water”.

So let me ask you this…

Who do you think would be MORE interested in potentially buying your alkaline water filter product… someone who is currently RIGHT NOW searching for “alkaline water machine” inside Google, or your 70 year old aunt Judie who doesn’t even know what alkaline water is?

See, this is the main flaw with traditional MLM marketing that relies solely on warm market tactics and referrals.

It’s just too darn difficult to find the RIGHT people using those old antiquated methods.

And why would you want to anyways, when the Internet has now made it possible to connect with people who are looking for YOUR product right now!

Why not just sell to those people who are already looking to buy what you’re selling?

Now you might be asking “Okay, but how do you do that?  How do you find these people and get in front of them?”

The answer is that you need to start a Blog.

You start a blog and you start blogging about your niche market.  If your niche is alkaline water filters, then you start a blog which talks about alkaline water filters or the benefits of a pH balanced water or alkaline water or whatever else your product does.

You start to use technologies like Blogging and social media to grow a following of users who are interested in learning more about alkaline water and healthy water and SOME of those people who might be interested in buying a water filtration system might end up buying from you.

It doesn’t happen over night though.  You don’t just throw up a crappy Blog in 5 minutes and expect to make millions.

You have to have a long term vision for your Blog and a passion for whatever products you’re selling / promoting.

You start blogging about your passion and you build up a following of regular readers who will be interested in the products you’re selling.

Also, at the same time you’ll also be building up your own name, your own brand, which will also help you to attract the right people who might be interested in joining your business opportunity.

Now, there are two more very common questions that people usually have about this method of building an MLM.

#1 – “But Paul, my MLM company already gave me a replicated website…can’t I just use that?”

The answer is NO.

You see, the website that your company gave you is a replicated website that THOUSANDS of other reps in your company are all using.

Yes these websites are customized with your name, phone number and usually a picture and other contact info, but outside of those few pieces of information these websites all contain the same generic information that the company produced.

To a search engine like Google, these replicated websites are all seen as duplicate content.

What that basically means is that Google sees your replicated website as yet another copy of the company’s website and as a result they will NOT send any traffic to your site.

Why?  Because Google is interested in providing their searching audience a variety of information when searching for a specific keyword.  Google does NOT want someone to search for a keyword and then find that Google is showing 10,000 websites with all the same information.

This is why replicated websites from MLM companies will never work in that way.

They’re great for spamming  your friends and relatives on Facebook with the typical “Hey, I just started a new business, check out my website.” type message that most people send to their friends, but that marketing method just doesn’t work anymore in 2015.

People are tired of constantly being bombarded on Facebook with spam messages like that when they have no interest in a product.

Outside of that though, these replicated websites that an MLM company gives you will never produce any traffic or leads for you from Google search traffic because Google will NOT index and display these websites in their search listings.

So what WILL Google display?

What is the ONE type of website that Google has been PROVEN to LOVE and rank very highly in their search listings?

BLOGS!!!

Google loves Blogs and that is why if you want to capture some of that free traffic from people who are actually looking for your product you’re going to need to start a blog.

The second question that people ask is…

#2 – “But Paul, I don’t know anything about Blogging, or starting a Blog, or getting traffic to my Blog.  How would I even learn how to do this?”

This is a very good question.

If you’re going to start a Blog and do it properly so that your Blog actually works properly and actually gets you traffic, you’re going to need to invest in a blogging platform that actually produces results.

The platform I recommend is Kalatu.

Kalatu is built on the world standard WordPress platform but it eliminates all the technical challenges that non-techie people get stuck on when trying to setup WordPress.

Not only that but Kalatu also includes a proven training system which not only gives you the blogging tool (Kalatu) but also trains you on HOW to actually Blog and how to build an audience and how to get traffic to your Blog so that you can actually connect with those future clients of yours.

When you get access to Kalatu, you’re also joining a community of like-minded Bloggers who are each creating their own Blogs where they blog about their own passions, the products or services that they are selling or promoting and we all support each other.

If you’d like to learn more about starting a Blog to promote your MLM or simply to learn how to make money as  Blogger, click here to learn more.

6 Beliefs Only Top MLM Income Earners Believe

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There are 6 key beliefs that separate top income earners in network marketing / MLM from those who struggle in this business.

Here they are:

#1 – Belief in the MLM / Network Marketing Industry

The first belief that you must have to be successful in this industry is a high belief in the industry itself being a solid, realistic and effective way for ordinary people to make money and for companies to distribute their products.

If you have hangups, doubts and fears about the MLM industry itself, it will be difficult to promote your product and/or opportunity to others.

To be successful as an MLM / Network Marketer you have to always be building your belief in this industry.

Constantly be on the lookout for resources such as books, videos, reports, etc. which speak positively and highly of this industry and stay away from the naysayers and skeptics who are too ignorant to even understand the difference between a legitimate network marketing opportunity and a pyramid scheme.

#2 – Belief in the Company You’re In

If you’re going to succeed you need to have a high level of belief in the company that you’re a part of and what it stands for.

If you can’t get excited about the company you’re promoting it will be hard for you to succeed.

You must have a high belief in the mission and the culture of the company you’re promoting.

To build this belief attend live events, listen to update calls and watch training materials which share information about the company and it’s accomplishments.

#3 – Belief in the Leadership of the Company

The next thing you must have a high belief in is the leadership behind the company you’re a part of.

Try to get to know who the leadership in the company is, and get to know them a bit and WHY they are passionate about the company they are leading / running.

Again, you can learn a lot about your leadership by attending live events, online hangouts, update calls and by watching company produced training videos and materials.

#4 – Belief in the Product

You must also believe in the products or services you are selling.

I’ve been approached by many people with MLM opportunities that were pretty exciting, but I didn’t believe in their products and so I didn’t join.

Why?  Well, because if you can’t believe in the products you’re selling inside an MLM company, it will be virtually impossible to be ultra successful in the company.

And really the ONLY way to build your belief in the products is to firstly OWN the products you’re selling and to actually USE them in your life, and secondly to be constantly attending events and trainings where you are “sold” on the products that your company is promoting.

You MUST understand the benefits of your products, you must understand how your products are different and better than other similar products and what makes them unique.

Make it a point to always be getting better at understanding the products you’re promoting.

Also, studying testimonials from other people who have used the company’s products and have achieved success with them will help to build your belief.

#5 – Belief in the Compensation Plan

The next thing you have to believe in is your company’s compensation plan.

Most new MLM / Network Marketers make the mistake of not taking the time to understand their company’s compensation plan.

Their attitude is usually one of “Oh well, I don’t really care…I’ll figure it out once I’m making a lot of money…” and that is a mistake.

You MUST at least understand the basics of the compensation plan of your company and set aside time in your schedule to go through the company’s training resources which teach you how the compensation plan works.

Don’t assume you understand it just because you’ve seen something similar before.

Really take the time to understand it and understand the benefits of it.

Each compensation plan has it’s advantages and disadvantages, and if you understand how your company’s compensation pan works you can build and structure your business in such a way so as to maximize your profits and the growth of your business.

And finally, to be successful in the MLM industry you must also have a…

#6 – Belief in Yourself

Belief in yourself and your ability to succeed is probably THE most important of the 6 core beliefs you must have in this industry.

To build your belief in yourself get on a personal development program, reading the RIGHT books and listening to the RIGHT audios on a daily basis.

The world out there is NOT friendly to the entrepreneurial spirit.  People around you will most likely try to tear you down, scare you and instill fear into your plans.

They THINK that they are doing you a favor by protecting you from making some sort of mistake, but all that their negativity will do is lower you belief in yourself.

To counteract this negativity and fear you MUST plug into reading the right books and listening to the right audios.

If you don’t know which books to read, I would start with this list of books here.

If you want to know which audios to listen to I would highly recommend the Inner Circle audios which you can find here.

 

How to Blog About Something You’re Not An Expert In

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In today’s episode of “Driving With Paul” I explain how to go about starting a Blog on a topic that you have a passion for but for which you may not be an expert.

A lot of people get stuck trying to pick a Blog topic to Blog about because they have a limiting belief that they have to be an expert on something in order to Blog about it.

In today’s video I explain why that is simply not true.

Check it out here: