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I am a visual learner. I need to see and read about how something works. I will take it apart so I can see how the inside looks and moves to perform it’s functions. I use these senses to look and study a product.

On the other hand, I am terrible at remembering names and dates. Gets me in a lot of trouble. I have to write it down and visually see it before it will stick in my head, and I won’t embarrass myself the next time I see you. If I don’t do that, I will forget the name the minute I walk away from you.

There are also people who learn simply from hearing. You tell them your name and they have it locked down. Give them a street number and they have it. There are people who only learn from touching an object. They are called  kinetic learners. There are people who learn from smell and others who learn from taste.

One thing in common is that all of us learn in different ways from the senses that we use. We all use our senses to learn, it’s just that we all use different ones.

When article writing I will use the sense that appeals to me, and all the rest of you will be left scratching your head and wondering what I’m talking about.

If you asked me to describe a flower, I would write about how the flower looked. I would tell about it’s color, the green leaves, and I would never tell you of the wonderful aroma it gave. I would appeal to the visual learners and not anyone else.

Product descriptions should appeal to all the senses, not just the ones that I use. Ask yourself these questions before you start.

  1. What does it look like?
  2. How does it smell?
  3. Is there any taste to it?
  4. How does it feel?
  5. Are there any sounds associated with it?

Make your words do the work

  • For sound use words like; drip, clunk, crackle, or buzz.
  • For smell; use words like; pungent, fresh, woodsy, or outdoors.
  • Taste words could be; sweet, creamy, fruity, or sour.
  • For feeling; touchy words like; smooth, sticky, prickly, or soft.
  • Use visual words like; light, sheen, sparkle or shine.

You Are Selling Gold and Silver Collectible Coins

What do you say?

Looking at the exquisite detail and artistic beauty of the MS70 Silver American Eagle is breath taking. Although it is encapsulated in it’s own protective casing, the light glimmering off the silver sheen, just shines to everyone who passes by.

Even though these beautiful collectible coins are minted directly from the US government mint, specifically for collectors, does not diminish the intrinsic value of owning and holding one of these historic works of art. With that also, the ability to be able to pass down to my children and grandchildren a piece of American history.

Although you can’t smell, touch or feel gold and silver numismatic collectible coins, I think you get the vivid picture that I am painting for you as I describe my product in detail, and I hope, touch the senses that everyone uses.

You are painting a visual picture with your words, in the mind of your reader. Try this and see how many more people will be drawn to your product descriptions. Remember to appeal to all the senses and you will attract all the people.

To create headlines that stop readers right in their tracks, generate attention to every word, and lead them right to the buy button of your page, you need to master the art of creative headlines.

Once you realize the power of headlines, and how you can draw your readers in and turn a casual browser, into an excited reader that is ready to click on that “buy button”.

Tell Your Readers They’re In The Right Place

We live in a busy world. You only have about seven seconds to catch the eye of your reader. People won’t read your article or sales page to find out if it is relevant to them. You have to tell them.

How do you do that? It’s simple; you make sure that your headline is clear, not cleaver. Tell your reader exactly what they are going to get if they read on.

Be specific. Use words that spell out, without any doubt, that what you have is very relevant to they’re specific need or problem. For example, read the title of this article your reading right now. “Stop Them In Their Tracks  Headlines -  That Convert Browsers Into Buyers”

When your writing your headline, think of the primary problem and the results that your readers are looking for. Make that your headline. If you do this right, your readers will know that they are  in the right place and you can get cleaver latter on in the copy.

Dangle The Carrot Under Their Nose – With A Powerful Result in The Headline

After you show that they’re in the right place and what you have is relevant to what they need, you need to dangle a mouth watering result that will come from addressing that need. A sentence or line that will be a connection and a link from relevance to result is extremely important.

Remember, most people are not looking for products or services as they are looking for results to issues or problems that they are having. The keywords that you use in your headlines, can be that connection from relevance to result. Put yourself into your readers shoes. Why would they want to take that relevant action? This should give you a couple of gold nuggets to put into your headline.

This article is a good example. Your still reading because you want to know how to write better headlines. Headlines that will turn those browsers into buyers. I put that into the headline.

Add Words That Stir The Emotions and Create Action in Your Headline

Once relevance and results are tied together, put some keywords into your headline that make those two jump out at you. Take a look at my headline for this post. I used the long-tailed keyword, “stop them in their tracks” to describe what kind of headline. I also used the the word, “converts” that describes what kind of action will result when these changes are made.

Choose relevant keywords that make the desired results more accessible. You could also add words like “easy” or “simple” to your headline to describe a desired timeframe.

A powerful tool that I use to generate relevant keywords and phrases with astonishing results is Market Samurai. This tool takes all the work out of finding relevant keywords for your articles or sales pages. Unless you’re an expert at SEO, Market Samurai is a must for every serious entrepreneur.

As with anything, practice will make you better and better at writing articles and sales pages that are ranked at the top of all the search engines. Before you know it, you will be writing, “Stop Them In Their Tracks Headlines – That Converts Browsers Into Buyers”

If you’re in the network marketing industry, the bottom line is making money online. Turning traffic into online sales. It’s what every network marketer wants and builds the business for. How do you get more Internet sales from the traffic your currently getting to your website? Sales strategy.

This is the sticky part, because there are a lot of little things that can throw you off the right track. There are little things that are right under your nose and you might not see it, but it can sure keep you from getting those conversions.

Lets take a look at ten steps you can take today that could turn your ship in a completely different direction.

  1. Does your service or product answer a problem or a need that people have? If your product has no appeal to a prospect, your done before to start. Make sure your in a business that has something people want.
  2. DON”T PITCH YOUR BUSINESS! Don’t sound like every other fish in the ocean. Be friendly, personable, human, and informal. Don’t go and get your tux out of the cleaners. You’ll chase people away from you.
  3. Identify with your prospect. Make them feel that you are just like them or were in the same place they were. Use a story to show how you solved this dilemma.
  4. Give them some information that will build their trust in you. That can be achieved by sending them through a funnel of messages on an auto responder instead of a sales page.
  5. Make sure you have “a call to action”. You have to clearly direct people into what to do next.
  6. Make sure you spell everything out. Don’t assume anything. Describe your product or service in detail. Show pictures, video, whatever you need to do to make sure your prospect understands clearly.
  7. Put a photo or a video on the sales page. People connect and buy from people, not a company. If they can see you they are more likely to trust you.
  8. Have you moved the features of your product into a benefit for your customer? Remember, features are what your product or service does. Benefits are what your prospect gets out of it.
  9. Are you targeting the right prospects or niche for your product? The people who not only want what you have, but are both able and willing to buy.
  10. Make sure you have a compelling headline. Does it stop you and make you want to find out more? If read all by themselves, your headline and sub-headlines, should tell a story.

Remember, these are only ten steps you can take to turn traffic into online sales. There is a lot more that can be learned and added to attract the right prospects to your products. I will be adding more in future articles, but I would like to offer a free 7 video training on the art of attraction marketing.

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In my everyday conversations with people, I get a lot of people who ask me what I do. When I say that I am in network marketing, most of them will sneer and look at me with that same look, ” that’s one of those pyramid schemes”. Network marketing carries the wrong illusion of a pyramid scheme. When I ask them back, ” what is a pyramid scheme?” They cannot answer. I am going to tell you the truth about network marketing – what it is and what it isn’t.

What It Is

Network marketing is not a pyramid scheme. Network marketing is a business that leverages the efforts of many distributors or representatives of a company to produce sales of a product or service that this company represents. These efforts produce a residual income for both the company and the distributors of that company. It’s that simple.

I worked for Ford Motor Company for thirty five years. Through the combined effort of thousands of employees, all around the world, sales and the distribution of  Ford Motor Company vehicles, produced a residual income for both Ford Motor Company and its employees. You could say that Ford Motor Company is a form of network marketing. This can be said of thousand of other companies all around the globe. You probably are or have been employed by one of them.

What most people don’t realize is that network marketing is the key that drives the entire worlds economy. In fact 95% of the worlds population work in some type of network marking and don’t even know it. If it is run as I described in the paragraph above, it is probably some sort of network marketing business.

What It Isn’t

I am approached, by network marketing representatives, every day about their particular company and the product or service that it represents. There are about 4800 network marketing companies out there, so there are a lot of fish in the ocean to choose from. When someone comes to me about a business opportunity that only has to do with the passing and exchanging of money from one person hands to the next persons hands, a big red flag goes up. When there is no mention of a product or service, and they can get cleaver in hiding this, be very careful.

There was a company that was out, and may still be out, that cost one hundred dollars to get in. With this they put your name on a grid. As you got people to join, your name moved up the grid. When you got to the top of the grid, you received a check for a certain amount of money, and your name went to the next grid. When you got to the top of that grid you received another check. With each grid, the check amount increased. The only way you moved up the grid was by how many people you brought in. This is a pyramid scheme. No product involved, and the only way you moved up was getting more people in, not selling anything.

Some people were making money, but it is illegal. This is against the law, and you want to be very careful. They can be very cleaver on how they present their opportunity. If you are seriously looking for a network marketing business, talk to someone that you know and understands the business. If you don’t know anybody, you can take a look at my website. I have plenty of information on the network marketing industry, or attend one of my training’s. I would be happy to assist you in what exactly network marketing is all about.

The network marketing industry has been around for over a hundred years. It produces 120 billion dollars a year of revenue. The oldest network marketing company is Avon, not Amway. Most people don’t know that. It has providing more millionaires than any other industry. For a small investment you can start your very own business. Work from home and build a nice residual income for you and your family. Work par-time or full-time. Work your business around your schedule. It is a strong and viable industry to get into. Do your homework.

Brian Gosur

Is Facebook ready to be number one? Facebook has reached 500 million members. Every eight seconds a new account is formed on Face Book.

Facebook has become a haven for network marketers. A sea of prospects. 500 million to be exact. Now how and what is the best way to market on Face Book?

The newest one is Facebook pay per click. This is rivaling  Google’s PPC marketing, and Google is getting a little worried.

There are a number of ways to market on Facebook and really you should be using a couple of different ones. I am going to show you just one. This is the one that I have been using and a lot of people have been using for awhile.

First you must have a Facebook account. That is very easy to do, but DO NOT mention anything about your business on your Facebook profile.  You want to connect with people. All people. If they see you and your business, they will assume you are just like thousands of other marketers on Face Book who just want to pitch their business at them.

Once you start making connections and friends, people will naturally want to know more about you. This is where your profile is important.  They are going to visit your profile and find out more about who you are. Just make conversation and only talk about your business to them when they ask, and they will eventually ask. Just be patient.

I usually have several generic scripts written  that I keep in my “office one note pad.” One for asking to be a friend and the other for thanking someone for their offer of friendship.

For example; “Hi Jim.  Really liked your page. Please add me to your friends list. I’m also online often so feel free to send me an IM.  Look forward to hearing from you. Have a great day. Brian” It’s friendly and to the point, and I usually always get a response. Always respond to every request you get. That personal note is very impressive. Don’t just click the confirm button.

Once that is done, start to connect with other people. If you are a network marketer, sign up with some of the groups that are associated with a company and or network marketing groups. Also think of the groups that have been hit hard right now with our struggling economy. Real Estate, mortgage, and financial investment companies. These people are hurting for some extra cash each and you have the tool that they could use. Get into their groups.

Once you are in, start posting some articles that are full of value pertinent to the needs of the group that you are in. Do videos and start connecting with people. It won’t take long for people to start looking at you as someone who knows what they are doing. People are not looking for products, they are looking for leaders to follow.

Every day you should be adding twenty to thirty people as friends. Be careful and do not add links to your website or blog in your response. If you do, Facebook will send out a warning after you send about ten or so, that you are doing things that could get your account closed. If you just send out a friendly note, like the one I suggested, you will have no limit.

To get a free training on the blue print that I use for marketing Facebook, click on the Facebook button, and get ready for the leads.

Reciprocation

Studies have shown that when a discounted item is compared with the offer of a free product, we are always more likely to take the free product than the discounted item. There is something about that word, free, that we just can’t resist. The higher we perceive the value of the free gift, the greater we feel obliged to the person that is offering it to us.  Anytime you can give visitors something of value, the more likely you are of converting them into customers.  The principle of reciprocation is very powerful and well documented.

In one study there was the sale of raffle tickets. People were offered a can of Coke without any obligation to buy a ticket. The people who took the can of Coke, bought twice as many raffle tickets than those who did not. When people accept something of value, they feel an obligation to you. Remember, a discounted item is not a free gift.

Commitment

Once a person has started down a path, they are far more likely to continue down that path and believe in a positive outcome, than they ever did before they started. If you have a form that is long and difficult to get through, even if it is only one page, you will be less likely to complete it, over a form that is simple and easy to follow. If your website or blog is easy to maneuver around and the sign up simple to follow, your conversion rate will go up. Make sure what you are offering is out in front where it can be spotted with no trouble.

Acceptance

Before we join any group, we want to make sure that the people in that group have similar needs. Nobody wants to feel like the last person picked for the team. We want to join a group that we feel we can fit in with. We want to be with a successful group where we can also learn to be successful. We want to be with leaders that can lead. When talking with your prospects show opportunities of success with other clients that are just as they are.

Explanation

Two groups of people were studied. They were to go into long lines of people and ask to cut in line. One group just simply asked courteously, if they could cut in, and were allowed to do so 60% of the time. The other group also asked courteously if they could cut in line, but they added, “because I’m in a rush.” This group was allowed 94% of the time. Whenever we ask for information online, weather a commitment to buy, or personal information, adding a “because” statement to it will increase your chances of a good result.

Credibility

The “professional” look of your website, will convince 47% of the people that visit it, if it’s credible or not. Spelling errors, poor navigation and an amateurish look, will drive traffic away and make it harder for you to convince people that you are reliable. Your home page’s appearance is key to the success that you will have. Make sure that it represents your best side.

Buying is a very emotional decision for most people. Buyers like to think of themselves as logical and practical. The truth of the matter is that we will shop until we reach our comfort level, and than we will buy. The design of your website will help people reach that comfort level, because you will be perceived as someone that they want to do business with.

By understanding and putting into action, these five tips to success in your network marketing business, and you will see an increase in your conversions.

Network marketing goes round and round because of auto-ship. The sale of products to network marketing distributors is called auto-ship. It’s what makes network marketing successful. A constant flow of sales each month to it’s distributors is what makes any business successful. Anybody who is in sales wants to sell their products right? That’s why they are in business.

If I were selling laundry detergent, vitamins, or juice, I would have to be on an auto-ship. This auto-ship would send me these products every month to my house, weather I liked it or not.

How would it look, if I am trying to sell my products to a customer and he asks me if I use these products also. I say no, and the sale is dead. If I say yes, that doesn’t guarantee the sale, but it sure looks a lot better.

I have so many people ask me if there is an auto-ship with Numis Network and do I have to be on it.

Yes there is a Numis Network auto-ship, and no, you don’t have to be on it. Quite frankly, and with all do respect, you would have to be a complete moron not to be on the Numis Network auto-ship.

The product is an ounce of SILVER! Numis Network auto-ship is MONEY! Do you not like money? There are not to many people that I know that don’t like money. You see, Numis Network auto-ship is not only going to make your Numis business successful, it is what makes the whole world go round. Money drives economies and governments and provides for all those necessities, like food, housing, and clothing.

I have never heard anyone complain that they have to much money. To many silver assets laying around their house. They are going to have to clear up some more room in the den for all those nasty silver assets that the mailman keeps bringing them every month. Neither do I hear them complain about the weekly checks that they receive from their Numis Network business. Nor the increase in auto-ship that their customers keep requesting. It’s a tough world.

Seriously folks. If I drove up to your house with a trunk full of juice, vitamins, or laundry detergent, and I said, “take all that you want”. How much would you take? Sure, you would take a couple of cases of juice. Maybe some boxes of vitamins and laundry detergent. That would be products put to good use.

But what if I drove up with a trunk full of silver assets. One ounce silver numismatic collectible coins. All sealed in their protective cases with the grading, MS 70, on the front. The highest grade that any numismatic coin can receive. This is literally a perfect coin right from the government mint. Never been touched by human hands…  I said, “Take as much as you want”… How much would you take? There would be something wrong with you if you didn’t take them all.

Were talking gold coins, silver coins. Gold and silver assets. Money! Not a juice, vitamin, or soap. Real money! Numis Network auto-ship is real money.

If you’re interested in getting an ounce of silver, every month, shipped right to your mailbox, on auto-ship…..click on the coin below. I will show you how to collect and market gold and silver assets, collect a paycheck every week, and get your auto-ship for free.

MS70 Silver American Eagle

I am going to ask you to do something very weird right now. First of all, I want you to listen to your thoughts. Now tell me, what thoughts fill your head? Would you label them as positive, or negative?

Now let’s say you are walking down the street with these thoughts. Do you think anyone who would meet you would be able to tell you what’s on your mind?

The answer to number one is up to you. But, the answer to number two can be pretty generic. Although people will not be able to tell you exactly what you think, they will more or less have an idea of how you are feeling.

Here’s another question. When you enter a party filled with friends, do they all fall silent as if something terrible had happened? Or does everybody there perk up as if waiting for something exciting to happen?

You know what? The answer to all these depends on your frame of mind.

Thoughts are very powerful. They affect your general attitude. The attitude you carry reflects on your appearance, too – unless, of course, you are a great actor.

And it doesn’t end there. Your attitude can also affect people around you.

The type of attitude you carry depends on you. It can be either positive or negative.

Positive thoughts have a filling effect. They are admittedly invigorating. Plus, the people around the person carrying positive thoughts are usually energized by this type of attitude. A positive attitude is very catchy.

Negative thoughts on the other hand have a sapping effect on other people. Aside from making you look gloomy and sad, negative thoughts can turn a festive gathering into a funeral wake. Think about this. Of all the characters in the “Winnie the Pooh” movies, who would you rather want to be around. Eeyore, the negative donkey or Tigger, the positive Tiger?

"Tigger"“Tigger”

A positive attitude attracts people, while a negative attitude repels them. People tend to shy away from those who carry a negative attitude.

We can also define attitude as the way of looking at the world. If you choose to focus on the negative things in the world, more or less you have a negative attitude brewing up. However, if you choose to focus on the positive things, you are more likely to carry a positive attitude.

You have much to gain from a very positive attitude. For one, studies have shown that a positive attitude promotes better health. Those with this kind of attitude also have more friends. projecting a positive attitude also helps one to handle stress and problems better than those who have a negative attitude.

A positive attitude begins with a healthy self-image. If you will love the way you are and are satisfied, confident, and self-assured, you also make others around you feel the same way. This is good as gold.

A negative attitude, on the other hand, has, of course, an opposite effect. So, carrying a negative attitude has a twofold drawback. You feel bad about yourself, and you make others feel the same way.

If you want to have a positive attitude, you have to feature healthy thoughts. This is probably very hard to do nowadays since, all around us, the media feeds us nothing but negative thoughts. A study shows that for every 14 things a parent says to his or her child, only one is positive. This is truly a saddening thought.

If you want a healthier outlook in life, you need to think happy thoughts, and you have to have positive thinking as well. So, what can you do? Well, for starters, you could see a funny movie, you could play with children, spend some time telling jokes with friends. All these activities fill you with positive stimuli, which in turn promotes positive attitude.

Although it is impossible to keep ourselves from the negative things around us, you can still carry a positive attitude by focusing on the good things, the positive things in life.

And this positive attitude you now carry can be of benefit to other people. Sometimes when other people feel down, the thing people mostly do is try to give them advice. But sometimes, all they need is somebody to sit by them, and listen to them. If you have a positive attitude you may be able to cheer them up without even having to say anything.

If positive attitude is really great, why do people choose to adopt a negative attitude instead? One who carries a negative attitude may be actually sending a signal for attention. Before you get me wrong, feeling sad, angry, or gloomy is not wrong itself. But dwelling on these thoughts for far too long is not healthy either. There is a time to mourn.

As always, if you are beset by troubles, even in your darkest hour, focus on the good things in life, you will always have hope. Problems become something you can overcome. My mom always said, if you feel bad about your situation, you can always find somebody worse off then you are.

You don’t have much to lose by adopting a healthy, positive attitude. Studies show that such an attitude actually retards aging, makes you healthier, helps you develop a better stress coping mechanism, and has a very positive effect on all the people you meet every day. So, what’s not to like about a positive attitude? Adopt one today.

It’s not easy to be positive in this economy we have right now, but as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. (Proverbs.23:7) Try it.

(Philippians 4:8) “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”


I’m a network marketer. Whenever I tell folks that, they back up a little and think that I’m going to attempt to tell them about some juice or vitamin. Perhaps the new oil I am able to put in my auto or a new water to drink that may change my molecular structure and be in robust health for the remainder of my life, or perhaps some new and better washing detergent. In fact, there are roughly 4800 network marketing corporations out there. There’s a lot to select from.

I was chatting to a woman recently and she was telling me about the billion dollar company that she has her network marketing business through, but she wouldn’t let me know the name. It took me 10 minutes to get her to finally let me know that she’s in Mona-Vie. It was like she was ashamed to give that information. Why?

Mona-vie is a billion dollar company. Mona-vie is a good company with a good product. Mona-vie juice contains the acai berry. This tiny small berry has been judged to have some awesome nutritional importance to it. It holds plenty of good anti oxidizing compounds that our body needs to keep us healthy. There’s one thing. There are over 200 network marketing companies that market juice. All of them make really similar claims. This lady was nearly scared to tell me the name of her internet marketing business, because network marketing has always been looked on in such a negative way. They will run from you when you say that you are connected to the network marketing industry.

But what if you were in an organization that had no competition? No-one else was doing what you were doing. And what if that business was promoting a product that everyone needed? Well I’m involved with an organization that does precisely that. Numis Network. Silver and gold Numismatic Collectible Coins. Numis Network is the sole company that’s promoting these pretty gold and silver collectible assets through the use of the network marketing industry. Talk about an open market. There isn’t anyone else doing this.

These coins are assets you can put in the asset column of any form or document that you are filling out. The rich buy assets while the remainders of us are purchasing debt. With what’s occurring to our economy, it just could be a great idea to have gold and silver assets to add to your list of assets.

Think about that for a minute. What if I was to drive up to your place and I had a trunk full of juice and vitamins. I told you clearly that you can have as much as you wanted. Would you take any? Sure you could take two cases of juice and some bottles of vitamins. What if I came over to your home with a trunk full of silver and gold assets? I claimed that you can have all that you would like. Would you take any? Totally, you would take each single one that I had.

That is the great thing about Numis Network. No one is ever going to assert that they have too many silver and gold assets. Nobody is ever going to call you and tell you to stop sending them those darn silver and gold assets that continue coming each month. “My closets are packed with them. What am I going to do? “ You don’t ever have to stress about hearing that, regardless of whether or not you ever grow a business or organization in Numis Network.

You’ve got to agree that it is better to get an ounce of silver sent to your home each month. These are assets that have real value.

I can recollect when I had cash taken out of my paycheck each week for savings bonds. I remember getting savings bonds as a present from my grandparents. Now I just give out silver assets. Graduations and birthdays, and then watch the expressions on their faces when they see an ounce of silver in an absolutely beautiful numismatic collectible coin.

Are you working in a job which has no limitations and no restrictions to how much you can make? Are you working in an enterprise that you can pass down to your youngsters or grandchildren? I am. I’m also clearing some new space in my closet. I got a feeling I am going to need  it. That darn mailman…..he keeps bringing me more of those silver assets.

To be “just” average means you are “just” middle of the road.  You are considered normal. The majority of the population is considered average. If you are average, than you have a lot of company. You are considered common, mainstream, everyday, familiar, regular, and humdrum. Those are a few synonyms that describe the average Joe. I think you get the picture.

Do you consider yourself average? Are you just average? I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to be just average. I want to be in the above average group.

Everybody is good at something. There is something that you do very well. As a matter of fact, you may be considered above average for the one specific thing you do so well.

My wife is an artist when it comes to doing cakes and cupcakes. She can do the most beautiful cakes, and they taste good too. She just has that very special talent, that is far above the average person, when it comes to decorating cakes. Her phone never stops ringing.he’s above average when it comes to cakes.

What puts someone into the above average category? What are some of the requirements that will take you there?

First, there has to be the want too. Why do you want to be a successful network marketer? Is it the money? The ability to meet new people? Do you like traveling around the country? This is going to be a very important factor in deciding if you are average or above average.

The next is your drive. How bad do you want it? How bad did Michael Jordan want to play basketball for his high school team after he didn’t make the cut? He said he was devastated. He started working and working very hard. His heart was to play basketball. The next step was to work harder than anybody else did. We all know what all that hard work did for Michael Jordan.

When I played sports, I wanted to be the best I could be. I didn’t want to let my teammates down. I would be in the gym working out on the bench press. I was struggling to get the last push I had in me. I was ready to give up, when a friend of mine came up to spot me. He yelled, “Gosur you aren’t ready to quit. You’ve got two more in you. Let’s Go!” He would encourage me and before I was done, I would do three, four, or five more.

You see, I had a mental block in me that said I could only do so much. When I reached that line, I was done. When my friend came to help me out, he pushed me beyond that line that I thought I couldn’t go. That’s the line that separates success from failure. Will you fail? Yes you will.  Will you quit? NEVER!

It takes work, perseverance, and the will that says, “I will never quit until I reach my goal”. ” I will never quit until I cross over that line to my success.”

Line up with mentors, and people that work hard, that can encourage and challenge you across that finish line.  You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. So select your friends well.

Want to be above average?

  1. Find out your why.
  2. Than find out how bad do you want it.
  3. Than line up with good mentors and leaders
  4. Last, roll up your sleeves and get to work.

Success or average? It’s up to you.