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		<title>Shake It Off and Take a Step UP – An Inspirational Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilka Flood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first started out in my blogging venture I often shared inspirational stories. I know, I haven&#8217;t told one in quite some time. But, there will be one coming today which was inspired by a comment that was left on my last post by one of my regular readers, Tim Singleton. (Thanks Tim for [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/donkey.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3488" title="donkey" src="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/donkey.jpg" alt="Shake it off! The Donkey in the Well" width="200" height="133" /></a>When I first started out in my blogging venture I often shared <a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/uncategorized/the-mayonnaise-jar-and-coffee/" target="_blank">inspirational stories</a>. I know, I haven&#8217;t told one in quite some time. But, there will be one coming today which was inspired by a comment that was left on my last post by one of my regular readers, <a href="http://earthtigernetworking.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tim Singleton</a>. <em>(Thanks Tim for the inspiration for this blog post!)</em></p>
<p>Tim shared his disappointment about a prospect he spent money and a lot of time on, educating him about his product and then in the end, lost to his sponsor. The prospect&#8217;s reasoning, Tim&#8217;s sponsor was a “bigger deal.” Huh? Are you for real?<span id="more-3487"></span></p>
<p>Sound familiar?</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve been in the <a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/internet-network-marketing-business/acting-secret-agent-network-marketing-business/" target="_blank">network marketing industry</a> long enough, I bet it has happened to you too at least once. I know it happened to me before.</p>
<p>Yes it stings. Your ego gets rattled a bit, but you can&#8217;t let that get to you. And for God&#8217;s sake, don&#8217;t let self-doubt creep in. It has nothing to do with you.</p>
<p>When someone passes you by and joins with your sponsor instead, because &#8220;he&#8217;s a bigger deal&#8221; there&#8217;s nothing you could have done. Don&#8217;t worry, karma will take care of it. What goes around comes around.</p>
<p>Besides, <strong><em>every big shot started out as a little shot that kept on shooting.</em></strong></p>
<p>But on to the story I was going to tell you&#8230;.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><em>The Donkey in The Well</em></h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>One day a farmer&#8217;s donkey fell into a well. The poor thing cried piteously for hours as th farmer tried to figure out what to do.</em></p>
<p><em>Finally he decided since the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway, it just wasn&#8217;t worth it to retrieve the donkey. So, the farmer invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed shovels, and began to shovel dirt into the well.</em></p>
<p><em>All the other farm animals were very upset about this, because the donkey was their friend. But they discovered there was nothing they could do to help him. At first, when the donkey realized what was happening, he cried horribly. Then, to everyone&#8217;s amazement, he quieted down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well, and was astonished at what he saw.</em></p>
<p><em>With every shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off, and take a step up on the dirt as it piled up. As the farmer&#8217;s neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well, and trotted off!</em></p>
<p><strong>Takeaway from this story:</strong> Life is going to shovel dirt on you. All kinds of dirt. But each obstacle, road block, and yes, lost prospect can be a stepping stone. What happens to you isn&#8217;t nearly as important as how you react to it. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not giving up!</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Shake it off, and take a step up!</h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>There will be many more detours on our way to <a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/personal-development/top-10-favorite-quotes-success/" target="_blank">success</a>. Taking the “scenic route” can be a great learning experience. I am a strong believer that everything in life happens for a reason.  Sometimes we find out what the reasoning was for certain things that happened in our life, and sometimes we don’t.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>So, never let self-doubt creep in. Keep believing in yourself…<br />
and keep on shooting!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">To Your Massive Success!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.enlightenednetworker.com/about/" rel="author" target="_blank">Ilka Flood</a><br />
The Enlightened Networker</p>
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		<title>Happy New Year and Great Wisdom from Will Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilka Flood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to 2012!  A very Happy New Year to you !I&#8217;m so glad you are here with me. As you might know I took the entire month  of December off and I had an absolutely marvelous time. I even was able to scratch some things off of my bucket list. (Yep, at my age you [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/happy2012.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3332" title="happy2012" src="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/happy2012.jpg" alt="Happy New Year 2012" width="200" height="133" /></a>Welcome to 2012!  A very Happy New Year to you !I&#8217;m so glad you are here with me.</p>
<p>As you might know I took the entire month  of December off and I had an absolutely marvelous time. I even was able to scratch some things off of my bucket list. (Yep, at my age you need to start living a little, haha.) I also created some new holiday memories by going to see my favorite musical, West Side Story, performed live on stage. What an experience!<span id="more-3327"></span></p>
<p>And&#8230;I finally got to see the beautiful Christmas lights downtown Denver a treat almost 20 years in the making. The last time I was downtown around Christmas a couple of years ago I visited the Denver Christkindl Market, but missed the lights.</p>
<p>Now we are in a new year. 2012, what will it bring?</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know about you but I have given up on New Year&#8217;s resolutions. My reason? I haven&#8217;t kept them yet and I hate the feeling of having broken a promise, especially a promise I made to myself.</p>
<p>I believe it&#8217;s much better to set short-term goals on our way to our final goal. What do you think?</p>
<p>I came across this incrdible video full of wisdom by Will Smith and one part especially struck me&#8230;</p>
<p><strong><em>&#8220;You don&#8217;t set out to build a wall. You don&#8217;t say I&#8217;m gonna build the biggest, baddest wall that&#8217;s ever been build. You gonna say, I&#8217;m gonna lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid and you do that every single day. And soon you have a wall.&#8221;</em></strong></p>
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<p>That&#8217;s exactly the same thing you do with your short-term goal, your daily tasks that bring you to your desired destination.</p>
<p>You do them every day. You do them as perfectly as you possibly can. You don&#8217;t miss even one single day and soon you will have reached your final and ultimate goal.</p>
<p>May this year be perfect for you, full of blessings and may you accomplish what you set out to do, and may it be your best year ever.</p>
<p>To Your Massive Success!</p>
<p><a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/about/" target="_blank">Ilka Flood</a><br />
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		<title>My Top 10 Favorite Quotes About Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilka Flood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does success mean to you? If you don&#8217;t know and don’t have a clear vision of what success means to you it will be almost impossible to achieve it. Since we are all different, success will mean different things to you and me. To some people success is just getting up in the morning. [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/success_200.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3155" title="success_200" src="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/success_200.jpg" alt="Success Quotes" width="200" height="133" /></a>What does success mean to you? If you don&#8217;t know and don’t have a clear vision of what <a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/internet-network-marketing-business/daily-habits-determine-success-network-marketing/" target="_blank">success</a> means to you it will be almost impossible to achieve it.</p>
<p>Since we are all different, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">success will mean different things to you and me.</span> To some people success is just getting up in the morning. To others it means reaching the lifestyle of their dreams.</p>
<p><strong>Success isn&#8217;t a destination.</strong> It&#8217;s a journey. It has peaks and valleys, twists and turns and yes, also the occasional road block.</p>
<p><strong>Success needs planning.</strong> But before you can plan you need to know exactly what you want. That&#8217;s where the clear vision comes into play.<span id="more-3153"></span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">For the occasional speed bumps and roadblocks<br />
I like to have my favorite success quotes handy.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Today I would like to share them with you starting with number 10 and counting down to my very favorite&#8230;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>10.</strong><em> &#8220;Most people give up just when they&#8217;re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.&#8221;</em> _Ross Perot</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>9.</strong><em> &#8220;Success is tons of discipline.&#8221;</em> ~Al Tomsik</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>8.</strong> <em>&#8220;I&#8217;ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.&#8221;</em> _Michael Jordan</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>7.</strong> <em>“Every single successful entrepreneur I know has studied and accumulated information on their industry that is the equivalent of a Master`s or PHD”</em>. ~Mike Dillard</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>6.</strong><em> &#8220;Success Starts With A Dream&#8230;Followed By Action.&#8221;</em> ~Unknown</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>5.</strong>  <em>&#8220;Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you&#8217;ll land among the stars.&#8221;</em> &#8211; Les Brown</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>4.</strong> <em>&#8220;In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.&#8221;</em> _Bill Cosby</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>3.</strong> <em>&#8220;Success is steady progress toward one&#8217;s personal goals.&#8221;</em> ~Jim Rohn</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>2.</strong><em> “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” Vince Lombardi</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>and my #1 favorite&#8230;.</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/key_2_success_copy.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3183" title="key_2_success_copy" src="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/key_2_success_copy.jpg" alt="Key to Success" width="425" height="298" /></a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>So there you have them, my top 10 favorite quotes about success.</strong></p>
<p>One that reminds me almost daily to adjust my attitude is one I came up with myself.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Success starts and ends in the mind. Period.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">It’s really true! Whatever mood you start your day with sets the tone for the whole entire day.</span></p>
<p>For example this morning my mood was pretty good when I got up. But then life set in at the Flood house. My youngest wanted to check his email and started to complain about the slow internet. The oldest got mad at the stuck door handle when he tried to leave for work. One thing led to another and within minutes I was in a bad mood.</p>
<p>Thinking that today was the day I needed to write a blog post I found myself in a real pickle. <em>“How will I ever get something positive and inspiring down in that kind of mood”,</em> I thought.</p>
<p>And then, wham, my quote popped in my mind ….<em>”Success starts and ends in the mind. Period.”</em></p>
<p>I changed my attitude and look what happened.</p>
<p>To Your Massive Success!</p>
<p><a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/about/" rel="author" target="_blank">Ilka Flood</a><br />
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		<title>My Daily Routine Includes Motivational Quotes &#8211; Does Yours?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 19:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilka Flood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have known me for a while, you know that I love quotes. Not a single day goes by where I don’t use them or add a couple of new ones to my collection. Motivational quotes have become a part of my daily routine. Why are quotes so popular? &#160; Well, for starters they [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/sailboat_200.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2318" title="sailboat_200" src="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/sailboat_200.jpg" alt="Motivational Quotes" width="200" height="150" /></a> If you have known me for a while, you know that I love quotes. Not a single day goes by where I don’t use them or add a couple of new ones to my collection. <strong>Motivational quotes</strong> have become a part of my daily routine.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Why are quotes so popular?</h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Well, for starters they inspire, motivate, encourage and empower us. They give us hope, they teach and at times they <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thelaughtermovie.com/" target="_blank">even make us laugh</a>.</p>
<p><em><strong>“Bessie Braddock (to Winston Churchill): Winston, you&#8217;re drunk. Churchill: Bessie, you&#8217;re ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.”<span id="more-2297"></span></strong></em></p>
<p>Sometimes they are the golden words of <a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/personal-development/great-quotes-from-great-leaders/" target="_blank">great leaders</a> leaving behind their wisdom in just a few simple words. Other times they are the empowering and encouraging words of successful people we are looking up to.</p>
<p>Walk into any doctor or dentist&#8217;s office and most likely you will find some pictures with quotes hanging on the walls. My husband, who recently was called for jury duty even found quotes hanging on the walls of the court house.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>Because people want to be surrounded by positive thoughts. With all the negativity around us we are clinging to those things that are positive, that give us hope, encourage us.</p>
<p>If you have a <a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/homebased-business/mlm-home-based-business-scare-socks/" target="_blank">MLM home based business</a> like I do, then you know, that there will be times when things don’t go smoothly. The road to success is paved with many obstacles and challenges. It takes courage, persistence and perseverance to <a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/personal-development/which-way-is-success/" target="_blank">stay the course</a>.</p>
<p>Quotes are the perfect “motivational candy” I need to keep me going, keep me motivated and inspired when I hit a rough patch either in my personal life or in my business.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">I would like to share 25 of my favorite motivational quotes with you.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Here they are in no particular order. It will be really hard to pick just 25…</p>
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<li>&#8220;Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending&#8221;.  _Author Unknown</li>
<li>&#8220;You are today where your thoughts brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.&#8221; _James L. Allen</li>
<li>&#8220;GREAT stands for: Get Ready for Everything And Try.&#8221; _Author Unknown</li>
<li>&#8220;It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.” _W. Somerset Maugham</li>
<li>“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” _Isaac Newton</li>
<li>&#8220;You don&#8217;t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.&#8221; _ Les Brown</li>
<li>&#8220;An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.&#8221; _Friedrich Engels</li>
<li>&#8220;It&#8217;s not whether you get knocked down, it&#8217;s whether you get up.&#8221; _Vince Lombardi</li>
<li>&#8220;The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.” _Vincent T. Lombardi</li>
<li>&#8220;Do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.&#8221; _Thomas Huxley</li>
<li>&#8220;Minds are like parachutes, they work best when open.&#8221; _Author Unknown</li>
<li>“I Could Have Quit $10,000,000.00 ago.” _Dayle Maloney</li>
<li>&#8220;Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.&#8221; _Albert Einstein</li>
<li>“Courage doesn&#8217;t always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying&#8230; &#8220;I will try again tomorrow.&#8221; _ Mary Anne Rademacher</li>
<li>&#8220;Sometimes in the winds of change we find our true direction.&#8221; _Author Unknown</li>
<li>“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.” _Brian Tracy</li>
<li>&#8220;Faith is taking the first step even when you don&#8217;t see the whole staircase.&#8221; _Martin Luther King</li>
<li>“Success is something you attract by the person you become.” _Jim Rohn</li>
<li>&#8220;You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.&#8221; _Zig Ziglar</li>
<li>&#8220;It&#8217;s not where you start &#8211; it&#8217;s where you finish that counts.&#8221; _ Zig Ziglar</li>
<li>&#8220;The only thing that stands between a person and what they want from life is often the will to try it and the faith to believe it&#8217;s possible.&#8221; _Rich DeVos</li>
<li>&#8220;To begin is the most important part of any quest, and by far, the most courageous.&#8221; _ Plato</li>
<li>&#8220;The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. “ _Napoleon Hill</li>
<li>&#8220;If you can DREAM it, you can DO it.&#8221; _Walt Disney</li>
<li> &#8220;That&#8217;s why when people say, &#8216;Zig, motivation doesn&#8217;t last&#8217; I say&#8230; &#8216;Bathing doesn&#8217;t either, that&#8217;s why I recommend it daily!&#8221; _Zig Ziglar</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Like I said <span style="text-decoration: underline;">motivational quotes</span> have become part of my daily routine.</h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I just simply love them and I love to share them with others.</p>
<p><strong>Here are a couple of ways I do that…</strong></p>
<p>I tweet them out to my followers on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.twitter.com/ilkaflood" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.</p>
<p>I share them with my friends on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/ilkaflood" target="_blank">Facebook</a>.</p>
<p>I add them to blog comments.</p>
<p>I send them out in <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sendthemasmile.com/" target="_blank">greeting cards</a>.</p>
<p>If you can come up with other ideas on how to <em>share motivational quotes</em> or if you would like to add your own favorites, I’d love to hear them. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below.</p>
<p>To Your Success…</p>
<p><strong>Ilka Flood</strong><br />
The Enlightened Networker</p>
<p><strong>P.S.</strong> If you liked this post, please don’t forget to share it with your followers on Twitter and Facebook.</p>
<p><strong>P.P.S.</strong> For more motivational quotes please visit my friend <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.attractionmarketingonline.com/motivational-quotes/" target="_blank">Mavis Nong</a>.</p>
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		<title>There Are No Problems Only ”Unseen” Solutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilka Flood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched Michael McMillan’s “Pink Bat” movie the other day. It’s about turning problems into solutions. As I was watching this little movie I was thinking … Are we looking at problems the wrong way? I know, as you know as well, there are always two sides to each coin. A pessimist sees a glass [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_1712" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 210px"><a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/there_are_no_problems.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1712" title="there_are_no_problems" src="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/there_are_no_problems.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="133" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">There Are No Problems</p></div>
<p>I watched Michael McMillan’s “Pink Bat” movie the other day. It’s about turning problems into solutions.</p>
<p>As I was watching this little movie I was thinking … <em>Are we looking at problems the wrong way?</em></p>
<p>I know, as you know as well, there are always two sides to each coin.<span id="more-1708"></span></p>
<p>A pessimist sees a glass half empty. An optimist sees it half full.</p>
<p>A pessimist sees a problem. An optimist sees and opportunity.</p>
<p>What if the problems we see aren&#8217;t really problems at all, but just <em>unseen solutions</em> instead?</p>
<p>How would it change our life if we would see problems in a positive light rather than in a negative one?</p>
<p>What would happen if we welcomed problems as new opportunities, which most of them really are?</p>
<p>I wanted to share this little movie with you today. And once you watch it, you may see things a little bit differently.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.pinkbatmovie.com" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1709" title="pink_bat_movie" src="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/pink_bat_movie.jpg" alt="Pink Bat Movie" width="409" height="295" /></a></p>
<p>Just think about some of the problems you are facing right now and see if they are not just <em>unseen solutions</em>.</p>
<p>To your success!</p>
<p><strong>Ilka Flood</strong><br />
The Enlightened Networker</p>
<p>P.S. What do you think about the &#8220;Pink Bat&#8221; movie? Leave your feedback below.</p>
<p>P.P.S. If you found this post of value to you, be kind and share it. Thank You!</p>
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		<title>How to Take Immediate Action With the Tools You Already Have</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilka Flood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s an amazing story to illustrate my point for today on how to stop getting ready to get ready and instead take immediate action with the tools already available to you. You know without action your network marketing business is not going to grow.  Au contraire. There has to be constant and consistent action to [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_1430" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/lion_puppy_story_150.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1430" title="lion_puppy_story" src="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/lion_puppy_story_150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Take Immediate Action Using the Tools Already Available to You</p></div>
<p>Here’s an amazing story to illustrate my point for today on<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> how to stop getting ready to get ready and instead take immediate action with the tools already available to you.</span> You know without action your network marketing business is not going to grow.  Au contraire. There has to be constant and consistent action to keep it alive. Massive action taken will even put it on turbo charge.</p>
<p>But anyway, let&#8217;s move on.</p>
<p>I heard this story told by Roberto Monaco who is a great story teller and public speaker. Oh and by the way, he was the top producer in the Anthony Robbins Company for 5 years straight.</p>
<p>Without further ado, here is the story. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have.<span id="more-1429"></span></p>
<p><strong><em><span style="font-size: large;">The Little Dog and the Lion </span><a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/white_puppy_1501.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1437" title="white_puppy_150" src="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/white_puppy_1501.jpg" alt="Little Puppy and the Lion" width="150" height="179" /></a><br />
</em></strong></p>
<p><em>There was this family on vacation in Africa and they had a little dog with them. </em></p>
<p><em>Somehow the dog got loose and disappeared. The family was devestated because they thought their little dog was lost forever. They searched and searched but they couldn&#8217;t find him.</em></p>
<p><em>Meanwhile that little dog had run into the bush. He was really scared because there were a lot of skeletons and dead animals along the way.</em></p>
<p><em>Suddenly he heard a loud roar and as he turned around he saw this huge lion charging at him. &#8220;Oh my gosh! What am I going to do? This lion is going to eat me alive if I am not resourceful and do something quick.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>He looked around for something and saw this dead animal. &#8220;I have an idea,&#8221; he said to himself. With the lion still charging at him,  the dog turned his back, pretended to eat the dead animal and started talking to himself in a loud voice so the  lion could hear him &#8230;&#8221;Hmm yum, yum. This is so good. I love this lion that I just killed and am eating for breakfast.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>The lion stopped dead in his tracks. &#8220;Wow,&#8221; he thought, &#8220;this little dog killed that big lion? I better not get anywhere near him or he is going to kill me too.&#8221; And he escaped.</em></p>
<p><em>A monkey up in the tree saw and heard the whole thing. He swung from the tree and followed the retreating lion. </em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Hey lion&#8217;&#8221; he said, &#8220;I saw the whole thing. That little dog is a liar. He didn&#8217;t kill that lion. It was already dead. He was playing a trick on you only pretending to eat it so you wouldn&#8217;t attack him.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>Now the lion was really angry. How dare this little dog to make such a fool of him. &#8220;I&#8217;ll kill him and eat him,&#8221; he said, and with the monkey on his back went back to where the little dog was.</em></p>
<p><em>The little dog saw the lion charging at him again. This time faster and much more angry. &#8220;Oh boy, I&#8217;m in trouble now. That monkey must have squealed on me and made the lion really mad. I don&#8217;t stand a chance of survival if I&#8217;m not resourceful with the tools I already have and do something quick.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>As the lion gets really close and ready to jump on him, the little dog turned his back to the lion and the monkey and said real loud&#8230; &#8220;Man, I hate that monkey. I told him half an hour ago to go and grab another lion for me to eat and he&#8217;s taking too long.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>The lion heard that, looked at the monkey and killed him.</em></p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Take away&#8230;</strong></span></p>
<p>The morale of the story is&#8230;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">You have to be resourceful with the tools you already have and use them to your advantage.</span></p>
<p>Oftentimes people are waiting for new tools to come out. New websites, new presentations, new marketing systems or whatever, instead of using the tools they already have and taking immediate and massive action.</p>
<p>Getting ready to get ready is getting you nowhere. While you are sitting there waiting for the latest and greatest with all its bells and whistles the competition is going to pass you by.</p>
<p>Take immediate and massive action with whatever tools you have available to you &#8230;right now.</p>
<p>To Your Success…</p>
<p><strong>Ilka Flood</strong><br />
The Enlightened Networker</p>
<p>P.S. As always, if you liked this story and found some value in it, please be sweet and retweet and also share it with your friends on Facebook. <a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/1362/tag-people-share-content-facebook/" target="_blank">Don’t forget to tag me</a> so I can properly thank you. Thanks!</p>
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		<title>Whatever the Mind Can Conceive and Believe &#124; An Inspiring Story of Determination and Realizing Your Dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilka Flood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Napoleon Hill said, &#8230;&#8220;Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. Regardless how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.&#8221; When you read the story below, than you will see that this is absolutely true. So get away from the naysayers [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_1422" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 210px"><a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/brooklyn_bridge_200.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1422" title="brooklyn_bridge_200" src="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/brooklyn_bridge_200.jpg" alt="The Brooklyn Bridge Story" width="200" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Brooklyn Bridge Story</p></div>
<p>Napoleon Hill said, <em>&#8230;<strong>&#8220;Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. Regardless how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.&#8221;</strong></em></p>
<p>When you read the story below, than you will see that this is absolutely true.</p>
<p>So get away from the naysayers and dream stealers and go realize your dreams. If you have a vision and you believe deep down in your heart that you can absolutely accomplish it &#8230; then  go for it!<span id="more-1421"></span></p>
<p>Just like Washington Roeling did.</p>
<p><strong>Here&#8217;s his inspiring story&#8230;.</strong></p>
<p><em>Back in 1883 a visionary and engineer by the name of John Roeling had a big vision. He wanted to build something really big. Something spectacular that had never been done before. He wanted to build a bridge between New York and Long Island.</em></p>
<p><em>Everyone told him that was foolish. Something like that had never been done before and he should give up on his crazy idea as it was impossible to do something like that.</em></p>
<p><em>Roeling couldn&#8217;t. He was bound and determined to realize his vision. So he set out to look for some influential people to buy into his dream. Finally he recruited his son Washington who was an up and coming engineer.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>&#8220;We can do it! Let&#8217;s build that bridge.&#8221;</em></strong></p>
<p><em>They found the capital needed and started building the bridge. But only a few months into it there was a terrible accident on the bridge which cost Roeling his life and left his son Washington with brain damage in a hospital bed.</em></p>
<p><em>He couldn&#8217;t talk. He couldn&#8217;t move. He couldn&#8217;t do anything more than move his fingers on his left hand.</em></p>
<p><em>Now all the media, all the employers and all the naysayers said, &#8220;See, we told you it couldn&#8217;t be done.</em></p>
<p><em>There&#8217;s no way. Why are you doing this? People lost their jobs, they lost their money. Now there is no bridge.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>Laying there in his hospital bed Washington wasn&#8217;t about to give up. As a sudden flash of light came through the window he took it as a sign and all his determination came back. He said, &#8220;I have hope. I have vision. I can do this!&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>While his body wasn&#8217;t working, his mind still was and was sharp as ever.</em></p>
<p><em>His beautiful wife was by his side and supported him through all these moments of terrible hardship.</em></p>
<p><em>Washington said, &#8220;I am actually going through with this. I will finish this bridge.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>So since he could only move the fingers of his left hand he developed a communication code to express every single idea in his mind to his wife so she could understand.</em></p>
<p><em>He called back all the engineers and for 13 years communicated every single idea in his head by tapping his wife&#8217;s arm with his left hand.</em></p>
<p><em>He finished the bridge &#8230; which today is known as the Brooklyn Bridge.</em></p>
<p>And that&#8217;s the Brooklyn Bridge Story &#8211; A Story of Determination and Realizing Your Dream.</p>
<p>Again … <strong><em>Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”</em></strong></p>
<p>See, whatever you set your mind to, you can do. If you only believe it. So don’t let anyone steal your dreams.  Go for it! … Realize them! You can do it!</p>
<p>To Your Success…</p>
<p><a href="http://www.enlightenednetworker.com/about" target="_blank">Ilka Flood</a><br />
The Enlightened Networker</p>
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		<title>How Can You Apply the 100/0 Principle to Your Network Marketing Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilka Flood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of emphasis is put on relationship building and using the law of attraction in our industry. It is said that people who know, like and trust you are more likely to buy from you or join your business. But just how do you go about building a relationship of trust with your prospects [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_1402" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/100_0_Principle.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-1402" title="100_0_Principle" src="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/100_0_Principle.png" alt="Apply the 100/0 Principle" width="150" height="149" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Apply the 100/0 Principle</p></div>
<p>A lot of emphasis is put on relationship building and using the law of attraction in our industry. It is said that people who know, like and trust you are more likely to buy from you or join your business.</p>
<p>But just how do you go about building a relationship of trust with your prospects or customers?</p>
<p>Well, here’s a good start….<span id="more-1401"></span></p>
<p><em><strong>Excerpt from The 100/0 Principle</strong><br />
</em> <em> by Al Ritter</em></p>
<p><em>What is the most effective way to create and sustain great relationships with others? It&#8217;s The 100/0 Principle: You take full responsibility (the 100) for the relationship, expecting nothing (the 0) in return.</em></p>
<p><em>Implementing The 100/0 Principle is not natural for most of us. It takes real commitment to the relationship and a good dose of self-discipline to think, act and give 100 percent.</em></p>
<p><em>The 100/0 Principle applies to those people in your life where the relationships are too important to react automatically or judgmentally. Each of us must determine the relationships to which this principle should apply. For most of us, it applies to work associates, customers, suppliers, family and friends.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>STEP 1</strong> &#8211; Determine what you can do to make the relationship work&#8230;then do it. Demonstrate respect and kindness to the other person, whether he/she deserves it or not.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>STEP 2</strong> &#8211; Do not expect anything in return. Zero, zip, nada.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>STEP 3</strong> &#8211; Do not allow anything the other person says or does (no matter how annoying!) to affect you. In other words, don&#8217;t take the bait.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>STEP 4</strong> &#8211; Be persistent with your graciousness and kindness. Often we give up too soon, especially when others don&#8217;t respond in kind. Remember to expect nothing in return.</em></p>
<p><em>At times (usually few), the relationship can remain challenging, even toxic, despite your 100 percent commitment and self-discipline. When this occurs, you need to avoid being the &#8220;Knower&#8221; and shift to being the &#8220;Learner.&#8221; Avoid Knower statements/ thoughts like &#8220;that won&#8217;t work,&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m right, you are wrong,&#8221; &#8220;I know it and you don&#8217;t,&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;ll teach you,&#8221; &#8220;that&#8217;s just the way it is,&#8221; &#8220;I need to tell you what I know,&#8221; etc.</em></p>
<p><em>Instead use Learner statements/thoughts like &#8220;Let me find out what is going on and try to understand the situation,&#8221; &#8220;I could be wrong,&#8221; &#8220;I wonder if there is anything of value here,&#8221; &#8220;I wonder if&#8230;&#8221; etc. In other words, as a Learner, be curious!</em></p>
<p><em><strong>Principle Paradox</strong></em></p>
<p><em>This may strike you as strange, but here&#8217;s the paradox: When you take authentic responsibility for a relationship, more often than not the other person quickly chooses to take responsibility as well. Consequently, the 100/0 relationship quickly transforms into something approaching 100/100. When that occurs, true breakthroughs happen for the individuals involved, their teams, their organizations and their families.</em></p>
<p><strong>So, how can you apply the 100/0 Principle to your network marketing business?</strong></p>
<p>It works the same way…</p>
<p><strong>Give value -</strong> Always give more in value than you receive in payment.</p>
<p><strong>Share other people’s content.</strong> &#8211; Freely <a href="http://bit.ly/gZi150" target="_blank">share content</a> of other people. Not because you are expected to, but because you truly and sincerely WANT to. And never expect anything in return.</p>
<p><strong>Show your support</strong> &#8211; If you know someone is struggling (in your downline, sideline or even a different company) and you know of a solution share it without an agenda. Give advice freely and again … without expecting anything in return.</p>
<p><strong>Show your appreciation</strong> &#8211; If someone did something nice for you, always show your appreciation.</p>
<p><strong>Be a true leader</strong> &#8211; Always lift others up.  Support and encourage, and recognize and celebrate achievement. What you send out into the universe, you get back manifold.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.100-0principle.com/?cm_mmc=CheetahMail-_-MO-_-9.20.10-_-HUZOMovie" target="_blank">Watch this short 100/0 Principle movie</a>. It will inspire you!</p>
<p>To Your Succes…</p>
<p><a href="http://www.enlightenednetworker.com" target="_blank">Ilka Flood</a><br />
The EnlightenedNetworker</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilka Flood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Achieving your goals is a lot easier if you practice self-discipline on a daily basis. Let me explain what I mean by that. I got up this morning and looked at my &#8220;To Do List&#8221; for today. It&#8217;s not very long, but there are some items on it which I really dislike doing. However, they [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_1295" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/brownies_self-discipline.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1295" title="brownies_self-discipline" src="http://enlightenednetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/brownies_self-discipline.jpg" alt="Self-discipline Key to Achieving Your Goals" width="150" height="161" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Self-discipline Key to Achieving Your Goals</p></div>
<p>Achieving your goals is a lot easier if you practice self-discipline on a daily basis.</p>
<p>Let me explain what I mean by that.</p>
<p>I got up this morning and looked at my &#8220;To Do List&#8221; for today. It&#8217;s not very long, but there are some items on it which I really dislike doing. However, they are important tasks that I need to do in order to move my business forward.</p>
<p>Now, would it really make such a big difference if I just skipped today and had some fun instead? At first thought, no, probably not.<span id="more-1294"></span></p>
<p>BUT &#8230; who is to say that I wouldn’t feel like skipping them again tomorrow? What if tomorrow, I feel the same way as today and I just don&#8217;t feel like doing them &#8230; again?</p>
<p>That would set me back <span style="text-decoration: underline;">two days in achieving my goals</span>.</p>
<p>Well, okay, two days. Big deal! What&#8217;s all the fuzz about?</p>
<p>I will tell you what the fuzz is about. If I skipped today, and tomorrow, then skipping another couple of days down the road won&#8217;t be such a &#8216;big deal&#8217; either. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Do you see a pattern here?</span> It&#8217;s the pattern of mediocrity.</p>
<p><strong>Temptation, the mother of breaking the rules &#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Just think about it this way. You are on a diet and your kids want you to bake some brownies. You stir up the ingredients, pour the mix in the pan and stick it into the oven. Nothing to it, right?</p>
<p>However, after just a short while the aroma of the baking brownies fills the air and you can hardly wait until they are done.</p>
<p>You think to yourself, <em>&#8220;I’m only going to have one. One little brownie isn’t going to make much of a difference.&#8221; </em></p>
<p>You take your first bite and that brownie just melts in your mouth.<em> &#8220;Hmmm, delicious!&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Okay</em>&#8220;, you say, &#8220;<em>let me have just one more. One more little brownie isn’t going to do any damage</em>.&#8221;</p>
<p>And there, in an instant, you blew your diet.</p>
<p>The next day you get on the scale and find out you just had undone what you had been working on so hard all week. Was it worth it? I doubt it.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">If you give in once to your temptations, it’s easier to do it a second, a third and a fourth time and so on</span>.</p>
<p>That’s where self-discipline comes in.</p>
<p><strong>You can’t give in!</strong></p>
<p>You’ve got to stick to the plan you’ve laid out to achieving your goals.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">You do have a plan, right?</span> I’m sure you’ve heard the saying,  &#8230;</p>
<p><strong><em>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t know where you&#8217;re going, any road will take you there</em></strong><strong>.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Or, … <strong><em>&#8220;If you aim at nothing, you&#8217;re sure going to hit it.&#8221;</em></strong></p>
<p>Did you know that only 3% of adults have written goals and plans how to get there? And, they earn more than the other 97% put together.</p>
<p>That is why achieving your goals first requires writing them down on paper and then the self-discipline to work on them on a daily basis. Without skipping even a single day. Of course setting realistic goals makes them a lot easier to achieve.</p>
<p>This post was inspired by a link that dropped into my inbox this morning. An exert of Brian Tracy’s book:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.simpletruths.com/flash_files/ibTPOD/ibTPOD.html" target="_blank">“The Power of Discipline – 7 Ways It Can Change Your Life”</a></p>
<p>Enjoy reading it. I am sure it will help you in achieving your goals. It sure saved my day.</p>
<p>To Your Success!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.EnlightenedNetworker.com/about" target="_blank">Ilka Flood</a><br />
The Enlightened Networker</p>
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		<title>Drop That Grimy Tennis Ball and Get Rid of Your Limiting Beliefs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilka Flood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My last blog post was about the fact that dogs really don’t love bones. (Who would have thought?) They just settle for them. The moral of the story … why would anyone (dogs or humans) settle for less. Well, there are actually reasons why we are settling for less than we could have and I [...]
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<p>My last blog post was about the fact that <a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/1247/settling-mlm-network-marketing-business/" target="_blank">dogs really don’t love bones</a>. (Who would have thought?) <span style="text-decoration: underline;">They just settle for them</span>. The moral of the story … why would anyone (dogs or humans) settle for less.</p>
<p>Well, there are actually reasons why we are settling for less than we could have and I will illustrate that in another story from the great <a href="http://enlightenednetworker.com/1247/settling-mlm-network-marketing-business/" target="_blank">personal development seminar</a> I attended last weekend.</p>
<p><strong>So here&#8217;s the &#8220;rest of the story&#8221;&#8230;The story of Gus, the lab, and the tennis balls</strong></p>
<p>Gus, like all dogs, loves to play with tennis balls. (Our dog Georgi goes nuts over them as well.) So his owner, would bounce a brand new tennis ball a couple of times just to tease Gus and then he would throw it and Gus would go to retrieve it. But he wouldn&#8217;t drop it once he brought it back. Instead it would take some prying that ball out of his mouth.<span id="more-1267"></span></p>
<p>Of course that ball then would be soaked with drool. Yuck!</p>
<p>Anyway, Gus&#8217; owner would throw it again. This time purposely right into the dirt. Gus again would go get it and bring it back. But then, instead of prying that grimy ball out of Gus&#8217; mouth his owner would bounce a brand new tennis ball in the hopes that Gus would drop the one he has in his mouth. Of course he doesn&#8217;t. He&#8217;s hanging on to that yucky, dirty, slimy ol&#8217; ball.</p>
<p>As a matter of fact, it will take several more throws of that brand new tennis ball before Gus finally will let go of his grimy treasure.</p>
<p><strong>What&#8217;s the take away of this story?</strong></p>
<p>That grimy tennis ball symbolizes the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">limiting beliefs</span> we are sometimes holding on to and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">which keep us from achieving the success we desire and deserve</span>.  It is just easier to hang on to them and use them as <span style="text-decoration: underline;">an excuse</span> instead of getting rid of them and to take action to change our life.</p>
<p><strong>Such limiting beliefs as&#8230;</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>I am too old to do this business.</li>
<li>I don&#8217;t have enough experience.</li>
<li>Rejections from our prospects.</li>
<li>I&#8217;m not good enough.</li>
<li>I tried this before without success why would it work now?</li>
<li>I&#8217;m not smart enough.</li>
<li>I cannot do this because&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Well, you get the point.</strong></p>
<p>Just think about it. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">These limiting beliefs are actually what is holding us back from accomplishing our goals and live our dreams</span>. We do deserve better!</p>
<p>We can start overcoming limiting beliefs by silencing that critical little voice inside of our head and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">start turning negative self-talk into positive self-talk.</span></p>
<p>The only way we can make room for positive thoughts though is<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> if we drop our negative thoughts (that grimy tennis ball) first</span>.</p>
<p><strong>Go drop your limiting beliefs and fetch some <em>&#8220;I Cans&#8221;</em></strong></p>
<p>To your success,</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.enlightenednetworker.com/about" target="_blank"> Ilka Flood</a></strong><br />
The Enlightened Networker</p>
<p>P.S. I tried that game on Georgi this afternoon by the way. And either Georgi is smarter than Gus, or he just doesn&#8217;t care about dirty tennis balls. Anyway, he went after the new one every time. Another reason could be of course that Georgi just doesn&#8217;t have any limiting beliefs and is just going for the prize every single time. Smart Dog!</p>
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