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SELF DEVELOPMENT A MUST IN NETWORK MARKETING PROFESSION

  • Posted on May 6, 2013 at 5:42 pm

 

 

 

 

“Karmanye Vaadhika Raste Ma Phaleshu Kadaachana
Ma Karma Phala Hetur Bhuuhu
Ma Te Sangostva KarmaNi”

Last week Eric Worre’s book, “Go Pro – 7 steps to becoming a Network Marketing Professional”  became the best seller.

Today I wanted to post on one of the nuggets I found in his book.

HOW TO LEARN

He says in his book, “There are no bad experiences and no good experiences – only learning experiences. Experience is the best teacher. “Let go of the outcome and focus on what you can learn from every experience. That will take off the pressure. Be an “active student.”"

In this world you are either growing or you are dying so get in motion and grow.” In order to get in motion, learn and grow you need both health and wealth. So here’s to your health and wealth in a cup.

As I said in my previous article we all need attention to feel loved. It is very important that we are mindful of where and how we focus our consciousness. I love Network Marketing because it forces me to mingle with other people. in sharing the good things of life. Life is where Consciousness is.

When reading Eric Worre’s book I came across a paragraph about “How To Learn” and it reminded me of the verse 47 in chapter 2 of the Bhagavad Gita, which states that we do not have a right on the fruits of our actions but only the responsibility to take action. Just because we do not have the right on our fruits does not mean we should not act but that we should focus on the action rather than the fruit.

In Network Marketing one has to constantly work on Self Development. This true for everybody in any profession, but no where is it mentioned so emphatically as in Network Marketing Profession.

 

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INDIFFERENCE AND NEGLIGENCE DOES THE GREATEST HARM

  • Posted on April 25, 2013 at 3:02 pm

I have been thinking of the above experiment very deeply ever since I saw it a few weeks ago.

The dictionary defines the word indifference as

lack of interest or concern as in ‘We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.’

2. unimportance; little or no concern as in ‘Whether or not to attend the party is a matter of indifference to him.’

Negligence is defined as – Law. the failure to exercise that degree of care that, in the circumstances, the law requires for the protection of other persons or those interests of other persons that may be injuriously affected by the want of such care.

Lack of attention and concern does the greatest harm especially in case of children and we should pay attention to them and converse with them.
I remember when my daughter was first born, her grand parents lived with us to help out. When her grand father would enter her room, he would first greet her, even though she was only a new born of 3 months old.Her face would immediately light up. Her grandmother commented that even though she was a tiny baby she would feel neglected if she was not greeted when they came into her presence. I can never forget that comment for some reason. It didn’t matter how small or big she was, children need attention.

Attention is something we continue to desire even as adults. It is something that validates our existence, I guess. Many a relationships have been under stress or broken due to the lack of attention or concern by one party or the other in the relationship.

Everything is Consciousness

From the illustration shown in the video when no attention was paid to the container of grains it decayed, so do we crave for attention, otherwise we feel neglected and unloved.Paying attention is the flow of consciousness or a better word would be the focus of Consciousness. Consciousness brings awareness and life to the object of focus.

My point here is that we all crave attention. So what is it about attention? It is the focus of consciousness on a particular thing or person that gives them nourishment and life. That attention however should be positive and not negative. Positive assists growth and negative hinders growth. However, we can achieve a higher plane of existence when we are non judgmental and do not label anything as positive or negative. In that state we play the role of a witness. This is not easily understood for it is an experiential mystical state beyond ordinary experience and understanding. It has to be experienced to be appreciated and is best achieved in the process of meditation.

When we become non judgmental, and we operate from our natural state of existence, we project love and radiance that is nourishing to others and gives us joy and happiness as well.

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Both Poverty and Riches are the Offspring of Thought.

  • Posted on September 16, 2012 at 4:28 pm
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Break Away From Limiting Thoughts

There are no limitations
To the Mind Except Those
We Acknowledge

Well, you must have also heard the expression ‘sky is the limit’ meaning just as the sky is infinite and has no limits our mind has no limits because it is akin to the sky and infinite. The limiting thoughts we entertain in our minds are the boundaries we set on ourselves. Once we acknowledge those limits then our subconscious mind operates within those limits because those are the limits set by the conscious mind. In fact our thoughts are like things in space. Just as clouds and rainfall,  come and go but the sky remains, our thoughts in our mind come and go, but the mind space (‘dahar Akasha’ inner space) itself remains.The beliefs we hold are like the compass for our actions. After all thoughts lead to actions. A belief is a bunch of thoughts reasoned out by the mind on the background of experience and accepted as such to be true. But when we become the conscious observer, we find that our beliefs change with our knowledge base of experience. So beliefs are also not permanent and eternal. What is eternal is only our consciousness which is independent of every thing else and is self evident existence. Mind you, it requires a lot of courage to stand on Self Reliance devoid of all beliefs. It is like the pilot who is flying a plane who has no compass to guage his location and steer the plane in the right direction because he has nothing to relate to. He is able to gage and steer the plane with the help of the compass. Similarly, we need beliefs to steer our life in the righteous direction with the flexibility to change our beliefs with circumstances and necessities in life all the way knowing that we can also make our beliefs manifest in reality, and always wish for one’s own welfare and humanity at large. We utter positive words such as ‘lokah samasta sukhino bhavantu, shanti, shanti, shantihi’ in Sanskrit, which means ‘may everyone in the world be happy and may there be universal peace!’.

Both Poverty and Riches are the
Offspring of Thought.

Knowing that our beliefs play out in our lives accordingly, the above statement is also very powerful. If we think we are poor, we cannot afford,we cannot make things happen, then those thoughts are limiting and depriving of our true potential. Those are ‘poor’ words and constricting us to those limitations.

Success

Attract Success

Those thoughts that are offspring of riches are enriching words such as I am rich, I am affluent, I have abundance, I have potential to do great things, etc. You fill in the blanks. This also follows the law of attraction that everyone talks about. These thoughts are seeds to great things in life to which every one of us is an heir. Truly as James Allen said “As a man’s thoughts, so is he!

An excerpt from the book, “The aphorism, “As a man thinketh in his heart so is he,” not only embraces the whole of a man’s being, but is so comprehensive as to reach out to every condition and circumstance of his life. A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them. This applies equally to those acts called “spontaneousAs A Man ” and “unpremeditated” as to those which are deliberately executed.

Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.”

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It Is Not About The Money!

  • Posted on September 5, 2012 at 4:09 pm

“Great Minds discuss Ideas

Average Minds discuss Events

Small Minds discuss People”

              —–Eleanore Roosevelt

Network Marketing is not all about money. Success is not all about money! However, money is essential to achieve success in all areas of our lives.

I had many false notions about money and network marketing as a result. When you go to a network marketing opportuntiy meeting, invariably they talk about how much money you can make with their vehicle, the product and give you the dream of living a great life style of your dreams, and also achieve it with as little as 5 to 10hrs per week of work. I have seen many network marketers work way long hours than that and work harder than any other profession. So what is the truth?

When I first got into network marketing people asked me to create a list of my “why’s”. Making money from the comfort of my home was one of my why’s. But I was never clear on how much money was enough for me. I always gave more importance to ‘unconditional love’ in my life. And even to this day that is my priority but I do realize the importance and value of money because it gives you the required ‘energy’ and power to do things in life and earn your own comfortable living without asking someone else to provide it for you.

As I mentioned in my earlier post about the four goals of life, it is important to achieve your wealth thru the right means and fulfill your desires. As children our parents send us to school with the idea of equipping ourselves with the right skills to earn enough money to have a comfortable living. So it has always been our goal from childhood to learn those skills that will enable us to earn money to fulfill our wants.

I realized thru my endeavors in Network Marketing that I had a lot of wrong notions about money which diluted all my efforts to make money. I thought money was bad because too much of it made people arrogant and condescending of those less fortunate; it made them lose their sensitivity to those people who are disadvantaged. I used to say ‘money is not everything’. “There is more to life than just running after money”; and I always put love ahead of money. But the truth of the matter is both love and money are a form of powerful energy and can expand one’s consciousness to attract more of the same and benefit more people than just one self. It is just how you look at money. I now just look at money as a means to fulfill my desires and achieve my goals in my life.  Money itself is not bad. It is what you do with it. Use it for bad deeds then it is bad and use it for good, then it is good.

In Indian philosophy, money, wealth and abundance is symbolized by the idol of Lakshmi. When we worship Lakshmi, we are praying for money, wealth and abundance in every area of our lives – physical, emotional and spiritual. The Goddess or Devi is described as having the power of iccha sakti, jnana shakti and kriya shakti. The power of desire, knowledge and the power of knowing how to do actions. Desire is the propelling force of action. You cannot do an action without a desire and the knowledge of how to do the action. She gives you all that.

Jim Rohn said, make money the first half of your life and spend the rest of your life giving it away because you cannot take it with you when you die. It was Jim Rohn who said that if your glass if half full, empty it and make room to fill more. What does that mean? It requires creativity and hard work to make the money but once you have, it is not easy to give it away unless we have the right philosophy of life and feel empathetic toward those who are not so fortunate and develop a generosity of the heart.

Recently I came across an opportunity called Day1 where the founder of the company, Mark Seyforth talked about the mission of his company. The mission of the company, DAY 1, is to serve charities and give financial rewards to their preferred customers thru an easy business model. He also talked about his wife’s story of what she heard as a child from her school teacher. He said the teacher was always asked,”Why do children go hungry, why do so many peoople suffer or die, how come so many people are sick, sad or lonely? The answer the teacher gave was the simple truth and she said, ‘God or whatever power you believe,is inside us and works thru us. His hands are our hands! And it is thru us that the world receives food,comfort, shelter and love.” It is because of these words that she heard as a child that his wife now has a foundation in Columbia that feeds children in Africa that are actually starving. Now that touched my heart! We do have the power within us to help others.

It is hard for many average people to come up with so much selflessness and great ideas. But Day1 program has made it that much easier for the average person to make their significant contribution to the cause or charity of their choice.

When we give away we always receive 10 fold of what we give away and it happens over and over again but we don’t always give away even though we know it. We need to have the right philosophy and vision and cultivate that trait of giving by developing the mindset of abundance and think like the successful and rich people who do not entertain any lack in their mind. Click here to read more about Day1 and their mission and business model and share. It is good ideas that bring good things to life. Share your good ideas.

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THE FOUR GOALS OF LIFE

  • Posted on August 4, 2012 at 1:46 am

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I recently joined a Mindset training call that I discovered because I was invited to it by my upline in One24. I told him I was thankful to him just for introducing me to this call which is even better than being invited to One24.

The thing that I liked about this call is that Paul Hutchins, the moderator of the call, starts off by reading out a chapter from the book we are discussing and then everybody is given a chance to share their reflections. We just started reading the book “The Science of Getting Rich” by Wallace Wattle, and just finished reading chapter 6 on “How Riches Come To You”. By the time everybody contributes their reflections, it truly feels like a Master Mind call.

Before you can have a thing you need to first desire it in your mind. And once that seed is sown in the mind, it will result in its manifestation as sure as a seed will give rise to a plant in due course of time. Even as a seedling is protected and tended to with proper care, so it may sprout, a desire should be tended to with faith and persistence in acting in a certain way, so it may manifest in due course.

Following this principle, I am quoting an excerpt from the chapter to illustrate this point:

You can certainly have a sewing machine in your house; and it is just as certain that you can have any other thing or things which you want, and which you will use for the advancement of your own life and the lives of others.

Original Substance wants to live all that is possible in you, and wants you to have all that you can or will use for the living of the most abundant life.

If you fix upon your consciousness the fact that the desire you feel for the possession of riches is one with the desire of Omnipotence for more complete expression, your faith becomes invincible.”

In the Eastern Philosophy it is often quoted, that unless you ask God what you want you cannot get it; Even a Mother will not feed her child unless she or he asks for food when hungry.  “Your part is to vocalize and express the desire to God. So you need not hesitate to ask largely; 

“it is your Father’s pleasure to give you the kingdom,” said Jesus.

The second principle that was brought to light during the discussion was, “As you give so shall you receive”; that when one gives one receives back ten fold.

Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction.

Purusharthas

According to the Indian philosophy there are four primary goals that one should strive for and they are dharma, artha, kama and moksha – righteousness, wealth, desire and liberation.

Wealth attained by the right means should be used to fulfill one’s desires and also help others. You need to first take care of yourself and then only can you help others.

One24 just launched a sister company called Day1 whose goal is to help individuals help themselves and help others through their business model which is really very simple.  Become a consumer for charity and visit Day1 to see their compensation plan and choose your favorite charity and decide to give 1% up to 10% of your Day1 earnings. Day1 matches your donation every month. It is an all round win-win situation for everybody involved.

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Relieve Your Stress Every Day!

  • Posted on June 14, 2012 at 5:05 am

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To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done—this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.
                                                                                                -Thomas Dekker

Here’s another beautiful quote from Tools to Life that captured my appreciation. I was chuckled by the last sentence in the quote, “this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.” Waste my days? Personally speaking, I think we are born only to fulfill our desires. Once our desires are fulfilled it turns into knowledge in our memory. That is the reason why I think, our life has only as much meaning as we give it. So why not adopt the attitude quoted above?

Yesterday I attended an online meditation session with Steve Gagaghen of Contact List Builders that I am a member of and enjoyed it.
Meditation as defined by Patanjali’s Yoga sutras is to empty the mind of all thoughts and that is what we tried to do in this session, albeit for only 15 minutes. The point that was discussed is that a thought has power only when you attach emotion to it and give your focus to it. When we sit in observation of our thoughts like a witness in a non judgmental manner then they lose their hold on us, and that lightens our mind. Longer periods of meditation give us more control in the kind of thoughts and number of thoughts we entertain. This also helps us relieve our tensions from unnecessary worrying and releasing the thought for the divine to fulfill our wishes.
Our life is one long dream wherein we strive to fulfill our desires. Lately, I have been so caught up in that striving that sometimes life seems such a challenge and so stressful. Being an entrepreneur and always being on line, like so many others, I sometimes forget to take some time off from the computer to relax and enjoy the simple things of life. So taking 15 minutes of my time for this online meditation session was refreshing, rejuvenating and relaxing. The music and the guided meditation were soothing and stress relieving. I would highly recommend to everyone the weekly Morning Motivator sessions on line Monday thru Friday at 10 am EST. Come on over and check it out and share your light.

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HABITS

  • Posted on May 21, 2012 at 6:01 pm

 

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

-William Makepeace Ackeray

 The last thoughts I wrote in my last article was about ‘samskaras,’ but I was really not totally satisfied with what I tried to express there. There is so much more to that subject and I barely scratched the surface.

Today in my l6th lesson in Tools to Life, Coach Steele talked about lying. What does lying have to do with samskaras? Well, he took the example of smoking or drinking, and talked about how we know that smoking or drinking is bad for our health and we still continue to smoke or drink, lying to ourselves that it will be the last and when the next time comes around, we convince ourselves that the next drink will be the last and we continue to do what we always did and that becomes our habit. Once it becomes a habit we do not analyze our decision and act in a way that comes naturally to us out of habit and that is what we mean when we say it has become our ‘samskara.’

 

Our Samskaras or Tendencies Result from Our Habits:

 

 

Behind most of the things you want to change in your life, there is a lie you told yourself first.
-Coach Steele

Our habits can only be changed thru close observation of our thoughts and the choices we make. We tend to fulfill our deep seated desires even if we know that they are not good for us by lying to ourselves. So today’s lesson was making a promise to ourselves to not lie to ourselves. This makes us listen to our inner conscience that is our best friend. So to change our samskaras, we need to change our bad habits into good habits. And meditation is one tool that helps us do so. In the process of meditation we delve deep into our thoughts, cleansing and purifying the mind layer by layer like peeling an onion and getting into the core of our inner being which is ‘pure consciousness.’ Once we reach this state, we also realize that our true nature is stainless and changeless but our personality is what keeps changing. The way we talk and the actions we take are what make our personality. And self development is nothing but the refinement of the ‘personality of the soul,’ and the blossoming of the personality into a beautiful fragrant flower that gives beauty and joy to others.

 

One should elevate the self by means of his mind but never bring about destruction of the self. For, the mind that is submissive to the self is a kin, and one that is not is an enemy.

                                                                …..Bh. Gita. Ch. 6. Shloka 5

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There is No Shortcut

  • Posted on May 14, 2012 at 10:55 am

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Yesterday was Mother’s day and I took my mother out to eat to celebrate it. Actually I also invited my best friend of 42 years and her mother. And we had a nice time. While on the way to the restaurant we were talking about how some people as they become old cannot control their anger. We were actually talking in reference to our friend who gets angry easily and simply cannot help himself. At that point it dawned on me that it had to do with one’s samskaras. For once, I understood what the word samskara meant.

 

What are samskaras?

Well what are samaskaras or tendencies? When we act in a certain  way out  of compulsion, then we call that as our tendency to act in that way in spite of not wanting to.

As children we are born with certain tendencies that compel us to behave in a certain way. As we grow up and gain more experience, it gives us a chance to change those habits or tendencies thru self development we learn from school and associating with other people.. But developing new habits takes a lot of work and discipline.

Let me give you an example of what I mean. As a child I might be short tempered or get angry very easily. But thru associating with others I am made aware of this weakness of mine and on suggestions of others I try to control my anger. As years go by I seem to have gained some control over my anger during my youth and things look good. But as I grow old and successful, I become egotistical and arrogant and soon I lose perspective of my values and revert back to getting angry easily at the slightest provocation. All that work I put into my self development has gone waste. I have reverted to my original self who gets angry easily. Why does this happen? We take so many births and develop so many habits that they are so ingrained in us that it is hard to change them. The new habits we developed are not strong enough to overcome our previous samskaras.

Unfortunately, even after working the better half of our youth trying to cultivate those good habits, it seems as though our tendencies take control of us during old age and we seem to have lost what we tried to develop thru our youth. So how do we change our samskaras? It is only thru meditation that we can change our tendencies. To this question and answer the following email I received in my inbox today is an appropriate answer and so I decided to post it here on my blog.

 

There is no shortcut.

One thing has to be remembered about meditation; it is a long journey and there is no shortcut. Anyone who says there is a shortcut is befooling you.

It is a long journey because the change is very deep and is achieved after many lives – many lives of routine habits, thinking, desiring, and the mind structure you have to drop through meditation. In fact it is almost impossible – but it happens.

A man becoming a meditator is the greatest responsibility in the world. It is not easy. It cannot be instant. So from the beginning never start expecting too much and then you will never be frustrated. You will always be happy because things will grow very slowly.

Meditation is not a seasonal flower which within six weeks is there. It is a very very big tree. It needs time to spread its roots.
‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑OSHO


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Music To Our Ears!

  • Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:23 am

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Importance of Music In our Lives

 

 

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would have thus been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional art of our nature.
-Charles Darwin

I came across this quote in tools to life program. I agree with it absolutely. There was a time when I was care free and would listen to a lot of music and that would make me happy. I have the habit of singing when I am working my house hold chores.

Lately, though, I have been so pre-occupied with my online businesses and trying to be creative with my blog writing, that I don’t make the time to relax and listen to some nice music. O, I watch some television to take a break but the stories in those dramas are so melodramatic and far from reality full of cunning schemes being played by one character or another!

I think the best approach is to learn to play an instrument or sing for yourself. Both my husband and my daughter do that no matter how busy they are. I have to make time to do that also and I am trying to listen to some music to find some relief from my stress.

 

Here are some additional beautiful quotations on music

 

 

Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to heaven.
-Walter Savage Landor

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the Infinite.
-Thomas Carlyle

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Start Your Journey of Life Right!

  • Posted on April 26, 2012 at 6:55 am

When I set up my newsletter subscription on this blog, my mentor, Janet Legere, wondered why I chose to give away an ebook when I am talking about health. And I started thinking about it.

A healthy life involves being healthy at the level of the body, mind and spirit. Really speaking the physical body is a dead matter and it is only the consciousness permeating thru the body that gives life to the body. A positive mind definitely has a healthy effect on the body; you can tell that just by looking at a persons face. It will look radiant and happy. But a negative mind makes a person look old, wrinkled from worrying and depressed. Have you ever observed your own face when you are happy and when you are sad? So a positive and healthy mind is the first thing to work on as the mind also has an effect on the health of the body.

As A Man Thinketh is a wonderful book that impresses the mind on having positive thinking that will ensure good health and life experiences.

It is the mind that instructs the body to do what it needs to do for a healthy life. The body is just an instrument of expression and a means to experience life, like the car is a vehicle for transportation from one place to another. The true driver of that vehicle is consciousness. So we begin our journey into self development with the right mind set or attitude.

In tools to life I am following a checklist which includes exercise to start my day and make it a great one. The other day I went to a national park right here in Hyderabad which is in the heart of the city. Once you enter the part, it is serene and out of this world. I am posting some of the pictures I took in the park.

As we walked into the park, we saw many post signs with beautiful quotations. The quote on the above post says, ‘A real Giani is one who does not harm any creature’ ….Lord Mahaveer. A giani means a wise man.

 

We saw a peacock walking right on the pathway as soon as we entered. The picture I posted does not do full justice to the picture I took with my iPhone and that has a much better resolution than what is seen here in the blog post.  I wish we could have seen its beautiful feathers spread. What I found interesting about this park is that there are animals like the peacock, snakes and mongoose – all enemies, living together in this park.

Right below here is a picture of a snake pit and there are signs everywhere that there are poisonous snakes and to beware.

 

We saw a couple of peacocks roaming on and around this snake pit. We could not take pictures of the peacocks because they ran away as soon as they saw us trying to take pictures.

 

I think this is a long enough post for now. I will continue sharing some more pictures that I took in the park in my next post.

 

 

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