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Feeling discouraged lately? Why your trials aren’t really trials…but rather triumphs of hope

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

Feeling discouraged? Mentally and physically exhausted? Like you just want to throw in the towel on your business (or on life) and give up?
 
Don’t. Don’t give up. Rather let me see if I can help you think of your challenges in terms of opportunities:
 
1.) Realize that you’ll be able to use your difficult experiences to help others. In fact, the only way we can fully understand the challenges others are facing and therefore also help them find their way through it all, is if we know those challenges first hand!
 
I love the way the Bible addresses this issue, “…so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.” (2. Cor. 1:4)
 
2.) When success comes (whatever “success” means to you), the only way you’ll be able to fully appreciate it, is if you also know what it’s like on the other side of the fence.
 
If all we know is abundance and happiness, then abundance and happiness becomes meaningless, right? You can’t know “good” without also knowing “bad”, or “happy” without knowing “sad”…
 
3.) Our characters are better molded when times are hard than they are in times of prosperity. If you’re anything like me, you want to develop character so that you can truly influence the people in your life in a positive way.
 
You’re not here just to “take up space”, you’re here to leave your mark on the world – right? Well, in that case, there’s no getting around the trials…
 
Finally – and at the risk of sounding a bit cynical – let me speak strictly from a business perspective:
 
4.) Even with your trials you’re creating your story. Marketing is all about story-telling, and your story is what is going to help your prospects relate to you. A story without “failure” prior to “success” is not a real story that others can relate to – it’s a feel-good fantasy.
 
If you look at it this way, “failure” is actually good for business! It makes you real, relatable and believable in the eyes of your business contacts and future customers.
 
And remember, everyone loves a ‘come-back’ or a ‘rag-to-riches’ story: The fact that you were down in the dumps only makes your rise to the top – or back to the top – all that more compelling.
 
Hope that helped put some back in your heart! Whatever you do, never, ever, ever give up…because you were created for greatness! :)
 
 
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Greetings from Costa Rica!

Saturday, April 14th, 2012

 
 
I am currently in Costa Rica attending a retreat / mastermind session with my primary company PRO U. We had LOADS of fun today! Take a look at these pictures!
 
 
 

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It’s not every day you have a chance to go zip lining in the jungle in Costa Rica – and it’s CERTAINLY not every day you get to go zip lining accompanied by a 9 times consecutive NYT best selling author and Oprah-endorsed finance expert! Here I am with David Bach, one of our PRO U professors and a key note speaker at this event in Guanacaste, CR.
 
 
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Zip lining through the Costa Rican jungle – and that on Friday the 13th! How’s that for an entrepreneurial spirit?!
 
 
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Lena & the boys (well, some of them.) With my good friends and “SEO gurus” Ray Fong & Ferny Ceballos and event organizer Rich Reed.
  
 
 

Are you ready to fly? (A poem…sort of)

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

If you’ve made up your mind that you can’t do it, I can’t help you.
 
If you don’t see the value in what I’ve got, I’m not going to try to convince you.
 
If you’ve determined to stay within your comfort zone where you’re safe and secure and where tomorrow is sure to be as predictable as today…far be it from me to insist that my way is better.
 
BUT –
 
If you’re fed up with “average” and “mediocre”.
 
If you know in your heart that you were meant for something more.
 
If you believe that every day counts and should be lived as if there was no tomorrow.
 
If you are willing to DO what it takes to become better…bigger…braver…
 
And all you need is that little ‘NUDGE’ from someone in order to get out of your nest, spread your wings and fly…
 
Then, I can help you. And I will show you. And I will nudge you.
 
But it will still be YOU that flies…
 

 
 
 
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Who else is struggling with information overload? Get on the “Her Success Blueprint” VIP list now to get help!

Saturday, November 19th, 2011

 It’s been a little while since I last posted on my blog… Basically my whole life has been on hold for a few weeks. The reason is I’ve been gone – to eBook Land.
 
“Her Success Blueprint: Your Crash Course to Success in Network Marketing” is a book I first started working on 12 months ago. Then, increased responsibilities due to my leadership role with my primary company caused me to have to take a break from writing.
 
But a few weeks ago I was finally was able to pick it back up again, and I have now been working on the book non-stop to get it finished.
 
When I put a bow on it at 5:30 this morning (after having worked through the entire night) and then sent it over to the designer, I couldn’t help but do a little victory dance before heading off to bed. Needless to say, I was a big moment!
 
I’m convinced that right now, new (and not so new, too) marketers are in need of a book like “Her Success Blueprint” more than ever before. Here’s why:
 
I recently polled my subscriber list so as to get a better understanding of what their struggles were. It was a brief survey that consisted of ten simple questions.
 
One of my questions was: “What is your biggest frustration when it comes to making money online?”
 
The answer…? Take a look below:
 
 

 
 
Information overload! 63% answered that there is so much training they don’t even know where to start!
 
Also, from this same survey I learned that more than nine out of ten people are NOT working closely with a successful upline who is teaching them the dos and don’ts of marketing! (No surprise there, really.)
 
There’s a JUNGLE of information out there, and newbies get lost because they don’t have a sense of direction – neither do they have a guide!
 
 

 
 
“Her Success Blueprint” springs from the teachings I began sharing with my own team two years ago in the form of a private team site, and the content has only continued to build…
 
But the way that this book is different is that it doesn’t ADD to the information load, no, it helps CUT THROUGH IT: it is a blueprint – MY personal blueprint - for becoming a top 1% earner in the industry!
 
“Her Success Blueprint” is the guide I wish I had access to when I embarked on building my first network marketing opportunity: I wanted so desperately for someone, a successful person, to help me understand the big picture.
 
But I didn’t have a coach, and so I had to learn it the hard way. The great thing about it, though, is that now my experiences can help YOU cut YOUR learning curve!
 
A few “bullet points” from the book:
 

  • My own journey to top earner status laid out step-by-step… (for the first time ever, I reveal the EXACT process that took me to a multiple five-figure income and 6x award winning marketer).
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  • The most detrimental mistakes I made as a new marketer, which cost me eight months worth of wasted work and thousands of dollars in advertising costs (I’m sharing my mistakes with you so that you can avoid them!)
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  • How to STOP wasting time on social media like Facebook and Twitter, and instead use the social networks EFFECTIVELY to get scores and scores of leads and paying customers with just a few clicks of your mouse.
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  • How to make your blog look like it belongs to an extremely accomplished person, even if you’re brand new!
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  • Why selling products that you earn thousands of dollars on per sale isn’t any harder than selling “cheap” products. (It’s not that your customers can’t afford it…there’s something else going on, and you need to know what it is.)
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  • If you’re struggling to see yourself as a Leader, what to do specifically in order to get yourself to that mental place where you “own your greatness”.
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  • How to get even more leads – and also quickly turn these leads into loyal customers – with the help of broadcast messages, webinars, videos, surveys, even “signature links”!
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    “Her Success Blueprint” is content packed, yet it’s a very easy read with plenty of visuals, real life illustrations and specific calls to action.
     
    I really only have one simple goal with the book, and that is to help you get results in your home business! If I can provide you with just a little bit better sense of direction, then I’ve succeeded.
     
    So that’s what I’ve been up to… And now that the book is FINALLY in the hands of the designer, it’s only a matter of a few weeks before you’ll have the book in your hands.
     
    Hundreds of people have already added their names to my VIP list, but if you haven’t yet done so, I invite you scroll back up and submit your info in the little optin form top right.
     
    The first 100 who download “Her Success Blueprint” when I release it, will qualify for some very special FREE bonuses.
     
    (I can’t give away too much yet, but let me just say that if you are in need of coaching for your business, you will LOVE the bonuses!)
     
     
     
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    When your focus needs focus

    Friday, October 21st, 2011

     
    The other day I finally got around to watching “Karate Kid” with my husband…for the lack of something better to watch.
     
    Okay, so it isn’t on my list of all-time favorites, but the movie was sort of cute…and a comment made by The Martial Art Master did give me some food for thought…
     
    And that’s what I want to reflect on here in this post.
     
    “Your focus needs focus” the Master said.
     
    Wow. Humorous but profound. “Your focus needs focus.”
     
    I don’t know about you but I’m convinced that most of us who think we’re already focused, don’t even know what the word means.
     
    We need to learn how to give our focus focus.
     
    When I started out as a marketer, I made a conscious decision to remove myself from anything that might hold me back, slow me down or have any sort of negative influence on my business.
     
    I still find myself recommitting to this decision on a regular basis as I deal with a lot of different people and situations every day – many of which could have a very negative impact on me, if I let them.
     
    I’m sure you’ve experienced the same in your life: if you allow the wrong people, or circumstances, to influence you, they make you lose your focus completely and keep you from reaching your goals.
     
    Which is why you need to be ruthless.
     
    When one of your reps whines on the phone, and you feel how they’re starting to suck your energy, say goodbye and hang up.
     
    They’re not deserving of your time.
     
    When someone writes you a nasty email, calling your opportunity a scam, you don’t react or reply – you delete the message and go back to your profit producing activities.
     
    You’re secure enough of yourself not to have to convince people.
     
    When a contact or a team member lets you down, insults you, or fails to show you appreciation, you shake the dust off your feet and move on.
     
    You’ve already made a decision that you won’t let your emotions – or anyone else’s – get in the way of your goals.
     
    That’s how focused you are. That’s how certain you are of where you are going.
     
    That’s how committed you are to your own results, that’s how seriously you take your business.
     
    Anything that looks like it may turn out to be a stumbling block is instantly demolished.
     
    Nothing negative is tolerated.
     
    Anything that isn’t productive is removed.
     
    If it doesn’t edify, benefit, build up, or produce, it doesn’t belong in your business. You let it go.
     
    This is how I choose to understand the Master’s words when applied to my business.
     
    This, in my mind, is what it means to give your focus focus.
     
    And, I believe, in an age of information overload, with constant distractions everywhere that you turn, and where – as always – critical people love to tell you “it’s too hard”, THIS is what it takes.
     
    This is what it takes to succeed as an Internet marketer or home business owner. NO LESS.
     
    If you’re ready to give it your all, you can have it all. (But only then.)
     
    Are YOU ready?
     
     
     
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    My biggest blunder ever (my first webinar…you won’t believe what I did)

    Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

     
    Tomorrow evening I’ll be conducting a webinar for a couple hundred aspiring home business owner who are looking to learn how to market their businesses online.
     
    As I’m sitting here preparing the content for the call, I can’t help but think back to the very first webinar that I did – probably about two years ago.
     
    I was a newbie at “GoToMeeting”, and this combined with the fact that I’m technically challenged by birth…well, it resulted in what you could call a slightly embarrassing experience.
     
    The meeting itself actually went pretty well – it was after the webinar was over that I made my big blunder. Or perhaps I should say, after the webinar was supposed to be over.
     
    You see, after I wrapped up the call, I forgot to log off…so the meeting was running, broadcasting every word that I uttered – first, in a private conversation on Skype with my assistant, and afterwards with my husband right there in our home office.
     
    It wasn’t until more than an hour later that I – much to my dismay – discovered that I was still “live”. And there was still a handful of attendees logged on.
     
    I noticed a couple of comments in the webinar chat log: “Enjoy your chicken!”, “Mmmmm, bon appetite!”
     
    Aaaaaargh - if I could have dug a big hole in the floor and dissappeared into it, I would have!
     
    My mind raced as I tried to recall the details of my conversations with my assistant and with my husband, wondering what, specifically, my prospects would have overheard.
     
    It was then that my dear Sam looked at me and said, “Lena, you have nothing to hide. You’re not leading a double life. You don’t go on these trainings and talk about how you’re going to help people, and then, once the call is over – or you think it is over – you reveal your real motives in private conversations with your accomplices.”
     
    He added, “We were discussing what to order for lunch…we were talking about how the webinar went… That’s all.”
     
    I thought about it for a second and realized he was right. Yes, it was embarrassing…in fact, it was a lot more than embarrassing.
     
    I certainly didn’t come across as that confident leader I wanted to be seen as as hubby and I discussed the good and the bad of the call while still, unknowingly, “on air”.
     
    But guess what – I survived. My business survived.
     
    Because here’s the thing: everyone messes up from time to time – including leaders. And that’s okay. Messing up is human…we all know that.
     
    What really matters, though, and which is non-negotiable, is the essence of who we are and what we stand for as leaders.
     
    Because this truly is what makes others want to learn from us and strive to be better leaders themselves…
     
    At least that’s the way I see it.
     
     
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    The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is a little ‘umph’… (How to rise above your circumstances and take back your life)

    Sunday, July 24th, 2011

     
    When I woke up and looked out the window this morning, I saw THIS!
     
    This beautiful flower had popped overnight…right outside our bedroom window!
     
    The other day we discovered that one of the trees in our back yard is in fact an orange tree…we didn’t even know until several days after moving in. (And we also have a lemon tree in front of the house.)
     
    I’m just taking it all in…discovering my new surroundings…much like a toddler picked up from his crib and placed on the floor of a large room filled with new toys.
     
    Waking up in the morning and heading down the hallway to my office is a tremendous feeling. A REAL office…a separate room.
     
    Having space and quiet, a place where I can concentrate fully, focus, create…it’s not something one should take for granted. I know that all to well.
     
    The first 13 1/2 years of our life together, my husband and I lived in a one-bedroom apartment in a noisy apartment building.
     
    We ate, slept and worked in the same place. Hubby couldn’t toast bread while I was conducting conference calls, or my mike would pick up the noise – that’s how small the place was. Seriously.
     
    We always dreaded summer, because then all the kids in the building would be in the pool – a pool that was situated right outside our living room/office window.
     
    The screaming from the kids was unbearable. It would go on and on for hours. Even through closed windows we could hear them.
     
    Countless were the times when I had to pick up my laptop and go into the bedroom… (which also functioned as a storage room with clothes and boxes piled high).
     
    Sitting down on the bed with my computer in my lap would be the only way I could get any work done. (Although I could still hear the noise through the wall.)
     
    From that tiny apartment, over the time span of a couple of years, with my husband’s help and support, I built a multiple six-figure business.
     
    Which led us to the point where, just last week, we were able to purchase our dream home.
     
    A spacious, sun filled 4 bedroom/3 bathroom Mediterranean style home, completely remodeled, with ceramic tile floors throughout, granite counter tops, a Jacuzzi tub in the master bathroom, French doors, fruit trees, a beautiful patio and a gigantic outdoors pool.
     
    It was “love” at first sight. The moment we stepped inside the door for the very first time, my husband and I looked at each other, both thinking the same thing: “We’ve found it!”
     
    And here’s the reason I’m blogging about this: If you are someone making excuses about why you aren’t getting results in your business, you need to STOP right now.
     
    If I could build my business under those conditions I just described to you, then YOU can, too – whatever your predicament happens to be.
     
    Distractions, noise, kids, relatives, negative friends, writers block, lack of advertising funds, lack of leads, getting shut down by YouTube… We all constantly face challenges in our businesses – as in every other area of life.
     
    The difference between those who make it through the challenges and those who don’t, is that those who come out victorious approach things differently.
     
    The victors don’t allow challenges to become excuses as to why something can’t get done.
     
    They refuse to blame their circumstances. (Or their upbringing, parents, ex-girlfriend, high school teacher, sponsor in the business etc…)
     
    They choose not to spend mental energy on those things because it just isn’t helpful. In fact, it only makes it worse.
     
    Instead, they let their minds dwell on POSITIVE things.
     
    They think uplifting thoughts. Which is why, even when faced with a setback, they always ask themselves, “What’s GOOD about this?”
     
    And because they’re optimists at heart, they manage to find something good in every situation. To them, every challenge is a lesson that allows them to grow as a person or a leader. That’s how they rise above their circumstances.
     
    That’s the difference between those who DO and those who DON’T.
     
    Facebook got started in a dorm room. Google started in a garage.
     
    If you are poor, ignored, rejected, broke and out of luck, you are in the perfect place to turn things around and do something extraordinary with your life.
     
    At least that’s the way I see it.
     
     
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    Caught on Camera: entering what is now OUR new home…we just got the key…we are moving in! (Dreams do come true!)

    Saturday, July 16th, 2011

     
     
     
     

     
     
    And now all the work starts! Planting trees and flowers, cleaning the pool, painting, shopping furniture, decorating…and unloading dozens of boxes. But it’s all fun…
     
    What a blessing it is to now be able to move into this home which Sam and I BOTH fell in love with the minute we stepped inside the door! We just love the open floor plan, the pool area, the French Doors, the gorgeous fire place (not in this video), it’s perfect for entertaining, all remodeled, lots of light, great neighborhood, 2 mins from our church…
     
    To you who may be in a “valley” in your life or your business right now, I want to say this:
     
    Never, ever give up on your dreams! Stay focused, continuously add value to yourself by working on your mindset and your skill sets, take massive action with what you learn, be willing to step outside your comfort zone, focus on helping others, and always stay positive.
     
    Then, before you know it, you will have achieved that which at first seemed unattainable… It really does happen like that!
     
    “Home, Sweet Home.”

     
     
     
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    “What IF…” (Why you just can’t quit.)

    Saturday, July 9th, 2011

     

     
     
    If you’ve been feeling discouraged lately – if you’ve been feeling like calling it quits – then this video is for you.
     
     
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    PROs in the Canyon (watch out! ;-)

    Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

     
     
     
     
     
     

     
     
     
    Jacob on the team filmed and produced this hilarious video during our recent team trip to the Grand Canyon. What a day we had: I charted 2 vans and we headed for the rim…where, believe it or not, we celebrated the birthdays of two team members with birthday cake! (Talk about party with a view!)
     
    It was a day none of us will soon forget.
     
    Enjoy the video!
     
     
     
     
     

     
     
     

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