Archive for August, 2009

Think…. No one success starts out that way.

In the beginning it’s a thought, then it’s brainstorming
better known as Master Minding and at that point it’s
usually not conjuring up plans of greatness. It’s just
swapping ideas. Usually over diet cokes, coffee
and could be while the kids are playing on the play ground!

You get the point right?

You go out and want to start a Home Based Business
You sign up with any one of the reputable companies
Ones I may add started with just a thought..
and you find yourself floundering around barley making
a dime.. What’s the problem?

You don’t think & take in consideration that there
was ground work these successful companies
had to lay before they became BIG.

Which blinds you to NOT think
that you too must lay some
fundamental ground work yourself!

You can’t start off BIG it doesn’t work that way!

What’s your ground work?

It’s training in GENERIC Marketing
not so much the companies training
they have their own agenda and rightfully so.
You want to learn how to market anything!

Training your mind to think.. Better known
as Mind-Set.. This is where
alot of folks give up.
Thinking is the hardest thing we do.
Most are on automatic pilot
and don’t even realize it.

When you take the time and learn how
to think and then study how
the successful think you are better
equipped to take yourself BIG..

Change Your Mind,
Change Your Income,
Change Your Lifestyle..

This fundamental ground work takes time
and most want to Get-Rich-Quick, and when
they don’t they give up.

It’s those who put the time in
that go on and become BIG
in this industry.

How much time depends on you the individual
How strong is your passion to do what you
want to do. Do you have fire belly and a belief
that you could become BIG.
Do YOU matter enough to YOU?

Becoming BIG is NOT really hard once
you decide to make it happen and once
you get out of your own way! (mind-set)

Keeping It Real,
JoAnn
joann@iamjoann.com

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence

by every experience in which you really stop

to look fear in the face… do the thing you cannot do.”

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

As I read more about this lady

who Harry Truman considered to be the

First Lady Of The World

I can’t help but think of

everyone who is out here

making a difference

in our world today.. They all encourage

me to keep on keeping on.. How about you?

OR

Are you the kind who stands back

and just snickers and says things like….

“Sure, it’s easy for them,” “They are just lucky.”

“I just don’t have that kind of time.”

“They have money so they can,”

And all the other garbage that can be dumped from our mouths?

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If you take the time to study those who have risen above all of

their circumstances you will soon see a common thread that binds..

Guts, determination, time spent studying and a willingness to not give up!

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Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884,

in New York City, the first child of Anna Hall and Elliott Roosevelt.

Her father, a businessman, came from a distinguished,

wealthy, and politically active New York family

with roots in the city’s earliest colonial settlements.

Her mother was a descendant of the Livingstons,

a family that was equally rooted in the political history

of colonial New York and Revolutionary America.

Eleanor’s mother, Anna, was one of the most

beautiful women in New York high society,

and this made young Eleanor feel insecure about her plainer appearance.

Anna died of diphtheria when Eleanor was eight years old.

Eleanor’s father, a handsome man-about-town,

died of alcoholism less than two years later.

The orphaned Eleanor, insecure and self-conscious,

was subsequently placed in the care

of her maternal grandmother, Mary Hall.

When Eleanor was 15 years old her grandmother sent

her to the Allenswood Academy in London, England.

For three years, under the tutelage of Marie Souvestre,

Eleanor developed lifelong interests in politics,

social causes, history, and literature.

Eleanor later asserted that Souvestre was one

of the most important influences in her life.

A confident, well educated, and socially conscious Eleanor

returned to the United States in 1902

to make her debut in New York society.

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Do you notice the different description of the

Eleanor after her years of study..after her years of

pushing forward to overcome?

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It’s the same for you..You have a desire, you have a dream

you know you can make a difference so what’s stopping you?

Fear, confusion, and plain old know how..

You can do those which you fear, you can do those that

you don’t understand, and those which you have not the skill (yet).

Gather up your gumption, your sheer determination and find a place

where you can learn to study that which you only dream about..

If I can help point you in a direction I am happy to do so

If I can help you to help yourself…. I will gladly….sMILES…

There is no one more dependable in your success then YOU!

Here’s to Keeping It Real,
JoAnn

joann@iamjoann.com

609-517-5306

This comes for all.. It’s not so much about WHO is your God or WHO is mine..
The fact that we connect with OUR God is the point!
“enthusiasm” comes from the two little Greek words en (within) and theos (God), right?
When you’re enthusiastic (absolutely exhilaratingly beaming with life!), God’s flowing thru you. Fun.