My good friend Mike Michelozzi of Reliv is a witty and kind hearted cuss. Personally I think he's a genius with a knack for getting right to the heart of things. With an emphasis on "heart". Mike and I have often bantered ideas and philosophies back and forth. His take on the worth of every person is pure gold. Read on and you'll see..... "Love everyone and accept people for their contributions and who they are - everyone is important." That's been the real glue and genus of our business. But there's another side to success and without it all the love and acceptance in the world won't create a business climate that people can thrive in. Knowing that is the other half of success. Personal trainer Steve Siebold puts what I'm getting at in this way: "Champions are famous for concentrating their energy and efforts on what they want and blocking out anything or anyone who threatens that focus. While average people haphazardly pursue loosely defined goals, champions concentrate on the attainment of a singular purpose with an intensity that borders on obsession. World-class performers invest an inordinate amount of time and energy in selecting their major goals. While the masses consider making changes every New Year?s Eve, the goal setting and planning process is an everyday habit of champions. When the goals are set, champions put mental blinders on and move forward with dogged persistence and ferocious tenacity. World-class performers create such an intense level of concentration to overcome challenges and achieve goals that it is the last thing they think about before they fall asleep, and the first thing that hits them when they wake up. The great ones dream about their goals so frequently that they often keep pen and paper on the nightstand so they can quickly record any ideas or solutions that come to them in the middle of the night. While average people see world-class performers? successes as a matter of intelligence or luck, champions know sustained concentration of thought and action is usually the true key to their success." The rub or delusion comes when thought is a substitute for concentrated action - the action of thought isn't sufficient to accomplish goals in the material world - material actions has to follow material thought. People think the thought thinking they're walking the walk but they never out of bed - their life is a sleep walk. Lack of discipline is a big a killer of success. Success is a choice and a discipline and a concentrated action with a goal in mind that very few achieve but everyone rationalizes. In network marketing it always begins with a pushing off of energy and effort to creatre and duplicate momentum through levels of distribution and sponsorship. Unless momentum is created their will never be more than small and diminishing retail sales in MLM. If that's what one wants then "Love everyone and accept people for their contributions and who they are - everyone is important." But if that's not one's ultimate goal - and you have to have a working relationship and straight talk to know - correct, coach, and communicate what has to happen to be successful. Push, push now everyone work now!