Thursday, December 23, 2010
The Prefontaine Family Christmas visit to Franciscan Children's Hospital
We did our 8th annual visit as a family to Franciscan Hospital for Children. Since Nick left there in 2003 (See Nick’s video at www.nickprefontaine.com) we’ve made it a tradition to forgo gifts for us and to give to the children there. The day before we were there Shaq O’Neal and several Bruins were there so I’m sure that was much more exciting for the kids, but having gone through the amazing experience of them literally giving Nick his life back, we love going yearly!
Monday, December 20, 2010
New territory PRE LAUNCH TAKE AWAYS
I spent a few minutes after traveling home for 24 hours to jot down some “take aways” for everyone on how to open any local or International market!
• No – your market is not unique. It’s amazing to Kim and I to hear in each market: “…but you guys need to understand our market- it’s different, more difficult here…”. We hear it everywhere and I have one huge take away for you – No, your market is not different. This leads me to another take-away…
• It’s the passion and excitement in YOU that builds a major business. The basics and lots of passion and excitement. The few that filled consistent meeting slots were those who were excited and had a huge WHY. It had nothing to do with their skill sets at that time as they weren’t even trained yet. Get super clear on your WHY and your goals and get after it and people will want to follow that – be a magnet.
• It takes three to five -three to five passionate, excited people as the core group to create an enormous group.
• Fundamentals - Blocking and tackling. Can you imagine a football player not doing their squats or bench presses during training?...Yet so many of us in Network Marketing sometimes forget that all it takes it the basic blocking and tackling. “It’s all about recruiting for the first 5 years…”. How many of you are willing to do whatever it takes and continually practice the fundamentals for 3-5 years so you can have what others won’t for the rest of your life?
• You prejudge and it’s death to your business.We meet with some of the best and brightest and in fact wealthiest and guess what – they act the fastest and start an elite culture. You can prejudge or you can start a massive business with the right culture – you absolutely cannot do both.
• No – your market is not unique. It’s amazing to Kim and I to hear in each market: “…but you guys need to understand our market- it’s different, more difficult here…”. We hear it everywhere and I have one huge take away for you – No, your market is not different. This leads me to another take-away…
• It’s the passion and excitement in YOU that builds a major business. The basics and lots of passion and excitement. The few that filled consistent meeting slots were those who were excited and had a huge WHY. It had nothing to do with their skill sets at that time as they weren’t even trained yet. Get super clear on your WHY and your goals and get after it and people will want to follow that – be a magnet.
• It takes three to five -three to five passionate, excited people as the core group to create an enormous group.
• Fundamentals - Blocking and tackling. Can you imagine a football player not doing their squats or bench presses during training?...Yet so many of us in Network Marketing sometimes forget that all it takes it the basic blocking and tackling. “It’s all about recruiting for the first 5 years…”. How many of you are willing to do whatever it takes and continually practice the fundamentals for 3-5 years so you can have what others won’t for the rest of your life?
• You prejudge and it’s death to your business.We meet with some of the best and brightest and in fact wealthiest and guess what – they act the fastest and start an elite culture. You can prejudge or you can start a massive business with the right culture – you absolutely cannot do both.
Friday, December 17, 2010
Excuses Excuses
Absolutely no one who is good at making excuses is also good at making money! The skills are mutually exclusive.
I hear on a weekly basis from some people in my organization about their terrible past, their failures, their challenges and constantly remind them (at the risk of being considered ridiculously blunt) that as soon as they stop whining about that and focus on their goals, they’ll succeeed…period.
When Sylvestor Stallone kept his belongings in a bus station locker, slept in alleys, and scrounged food from dumpsters early in his career he could have made many excuses. He didn’t…the rest is history.
Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen were rejected by numerous publishers, published many books, audio cassettes and entire courses without being noticed and could have made excuses about why they couldn’t go further. They persevered and succeeded with Chicken Soup for the Soul…the rest is history.
Start today creating paths to your goal versus making excuses.
I hear on a weekly basis from some people in my organization about their terrible past, their failures, their challenges and constantly remind them (at the risk of being considered ridiculously blunt) that as soon as they stop whining about that and focus on their goals, they’ll succeeed…period.
When Sylvestor Stallone kept his belongings in a bus station locker, slept in alleys, and scrounged food from dumpsters early in his career he could have made many excuses. He didn’t…the rest is history.
Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen were rejected by numerous publishers, published many books, audio cassettes and entire courses without being noticed and could have made excuses about why they couldn’t go further. They persevered and succeeded with Chicken Soup for the Soul…the rest is history.
Start today creating paths to your goal versus making excuses.
How much do you spend on YOU?
You can load yourself up with software programs, fancy devises, computers, etc but all that means absolutely nothing if you don’t have your “inner game” under control.
I encourage you to visit www.Tools2TheMax.net and load yourself up with “inner game” tools like those from Jim Rohn, my good friend Todd Smith (“Little Things Matter”), Robert Kiyosaki and many others.
You simply cannot afford not to.
What would you like to accomplish in 2011? You can raise the bar by raising your inner game. You raise your inner game by spending time on you and money on you. You are your most important asset – treat it with care!
I encourage you to visit www.Tools2TheMax.net and load yourself up with “inner game” tools like those from Jim Rohn, my good friend Todd Smith (“Little Things Matter”), Robert Kiyosaki and many others.
You simply cannot afford not to.
What would you like to accomplish in 2011? You can raise the bar by raising your inner game. You raise your inner game by spending time on you and money on you. You are your most important asset – treat it with care!
Friendly Friday Insight:
Friendly Friday Insight: “Our duty as men is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist.” Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, French Clergyman
“What plans would you have on your drawing board if you knew you could not fail?” Reverend Robert Schuller
“What plans would you have on your drawing board if you knew you could not fail?” Reverend Robert Schuller
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
HI from Tel Aviv, Israel:
HI from Tel Aviv, Israel:
You know I always promote working 15 minutes on yourself before you start your business. We’re in the business lounge today working on slides for this evening and spent 15 minutes watching www.NetworkmarketingPro.com and I thought you’d like this one in particular. Great for new people – great for everyone.
http://networkmarketingpro.com/2010/12/15/will-trumps-skill-with-randy-gage-nmpro-451/
You know I always promote working 15 minutes on yourself before you start your business. We’re in the business lounge today working on slides for this evening and spent 15 minutes watching www.NetworkmarketingPro.com and I thought you’d like this one in particular. Great for new people – great for everyone.
http://networkmarketingpro.com/2010/12/15/will-trumps-skill-with-randy-gage-nmpro-451/
Quick Update from Israel!
Hi Guys- we have a chance this morning to breath before the large meeting tonight.
Quick update:
We have seen well over 50 new people in private conference room setting meetings every two hours since Monday 10am.
We have met with all existing distributors that were kind of sitting after all the delays and they are more than excited.
Tonight the larger meeting will have over 50 and I’m optimistically planning on more and will let you know. Our goal was 100 new this week and we will surpass that.
We squeezed in another large ad yesterday and received over 25 calls that are converting for tonight and we squeezed in another 5 min radio spot that also generated leads throughout the day yesterday. We will run a small line ad when we leave that will run continuously until spring launch.
We were going to sleep Thursday then fly out and maybe catch a view of Jerusalem on our only day of chill but there is huge demand for a meeting there so we’re heading there for lunch, doing a 6pm Biz Overview and then flying out at midnight. A couple of our key platinums are there and run a hotel that we’ll use.
We are getting the overview filmed this evening and will use that for the in home DVD and Ron is filming the compensation and the scripts training and that will be available for his troops by next week.
Ron’s wife is recently engaged in the biz (never was) having met and strategized with Kim Pre and is working the phone amazingly from Boston and has very influential guests coming tonight – real good.
To da
Shalom
Chris Pre
Quick update:
We have seen well over 50 new people in private conference room setting meetings every two hours since Monday 10am.
We have met with all existing distributors that were kind of sitting after all the delays and they are more than excited.
Tonight the larger meeting will have over 50 and I’m optimistically planning on more and will let you know. Our goal was 100 new this week and we will surpass that.
We squeezed in another large ad yesterday and received over 25 calls that are converting for tonight and we squeezed in another 5 min radio spot that also generated leads throughout the day yesterday. We will run a small line ad when we leave that will run continuously until spring launch.
We were going to sleep Thursday then fly out and maybe catch a view of Jerusalem on our only day of chill but there is huge demand for a meeting there so we’re heading there for lunch, doing a 6pm Biz Overview and then flying out at midnight. A couple of our key platinums are there and run a hotel that we’ll use.
We are getting the overview filmed this evening and will use that for the in home DVD and Ron is filming the compensation and the scripts training and that will be available for his troops by next week.
Ron’s wife is recently engaged in the biz (never was) having met and strategized with Kim Pre and is working the phone amazingly from Boston and has very influential guests coming tonight – real good.
To da
Shalom
Chris Pre
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
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“Lie Down with Dogs; Wake up with Fleas” , Marilyn Monroe
Yes, who you hang out with matters immensely…who you hire matters…who you do business with matters…who you have on your team matters.
I remember one of Jim Rohn’s sayings: Who are you hanging out with? Who are you listening to? What do they have you doing? What do they have you saying? What do they have you reading? Because of that, who are you becoming? Then the magic question – are you OK with that?
Hanging around poor people is no way to grow rich. Hanging around people who place very little value on time will diminish your productivity. Any professional athlete knows that if you really want to improve your game, practice and play with people a notch or two better at it than you are.
I remember one of Jim Rohn’s sayings: Who are you hanging out with? Who are you listening to? What do they have you doing? What do they have you saying? What do they have you reading? Because of that, who are you becoming? Then the magic question – are you OK with that?
Hanging around poor people is no way to grow rich. Hanging around people who place very little value on time will diminish your productivity. Any professional athlete knows that if you really want to improve your game, practice and play with people a notch or two better at it than you are.
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