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Entering The Autumn Of My Life

I knew it was coming a few years ago. I gave up fighting the waist line and playing basketball and sports in general. It wasn’t so much the physical stress that affected me as much as the mental stress. I was not ready for the mental slow down.

I turned 65 without much fan fare but a nice birthday party and good fellowship with friends and my wife of 40 years. My, how the time has flown by. Seems like only yesterday I was at the top of my game. I showed others how to succeed and taught others how to live life to the fullest. Now, I am being shown, very graciously by others, how to sit back and let someone else take control of the situation and life’s challenges.

I sit in amazement at the computers and applications that I see interact effortlessly with the younger generation while I struggle with email and face-book and all of the smart phones. I recall, much to the younger generation’s chagrin, how I made it through life without any of these fancy gadgets, but deep inside, wish I could handle the information age with as much ease as they do.

I am forced, by my physical limitations and also my mental limitations, to stand down while my mind still tries to handle situations like I did 40 years ago.  Am I ready to give up? No way!

I am ready to enter a new phase in my life. It requires walking away from all of the electronic gadgets and life style that I have grown dependent on. It requires walking toward my children, grandchildren, and wife to re-discover the fun filled weekends, the evening games, the holding of hands, and the enjoyment I get when I just stay close to her. After all, she is the one who gave me meaning and direction when I met her. We have raised her 3 children, adopted 4 more, and fostered several more. What a fulfillment I have received from marrying her.

All of my life was planned to work toward retirement. Now, slowing down has to be planned as well. I have a fear of becoming not needed. Not a big fear but somewhat a fear of being left out. I watched as my parents aged and then passed on. I watched as Robert and Mary, who were so vibrant and independent, slowly wind their life down in a nursing home. How many times I prayed they would pass on without the indignity of nursing home care that is inevitable.

So, the problem is learning to stay busy and focused with purpose. I must adapt and change over to a different mindset and mental strategy. I must find purpose when it is not obvious, keep applying myself to things I can do and be good at.

I am good at building relationships because I have spent the last 40 years building relationships with friends and families. I am good at being a grandparent because I love kids and enjoy being around them. I am good at being a parent because no matter how old I get, they are still my children. I am good at loving life and enjoying the day. I am good at flying, since I haven’t crashed, fishing, picnics, and just having a good time. I am good at living.

When I think my retirement through, I am happy I have made it this far. I am looking forward to entering the autumn of my life. Winter is still some time away and I plan on enjoying this autumn to the fullest. I may be older and slower but I am more matured and have had more experience in having fun and enjoying life than my younger friends.

I think I will go and find the love of my life and see what mischief I can get into. Yes sir, I think this is one autumn I am looking forward to.

 
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Your Mindset: The Main Key To Your Success

Probably one of the hardest and most elusive concepts or methods to achieve success is having the correct mindset. Attraction marketing requires your mental state to be one of a leader who can help others achieve their goals.

In order to obtain the correct mindset you must change what your mind has been set on for all the past things that have brought about your failure in network marketing.

Here is a list of necessary changes to go from network failure to network success:

1. Change your mental image from need to abundance. If you are constantly wondering how you are going to generate leads and sign up new prospects, that is a need mentality. This mental state will not attract what you are looking for, mainly MLM entrepreneurs who are trying to succeed but have not been able to.
2. In order to change your mental image you need to have someway to change your mindset. This is most difficult if you have been going around searching for a get rich quick program or joining some health juice company and calling people and trying to sell them a product. Success is not a juice any more than a home based business will make you a millionaire. Millionaires are made when they bring a million dollars worth of value to the meeting they are attending. We think that by buying leads, calling prospects, and getting them to join our MLM business that we are going to build success and make a lot of money. If you want a true judge of how much value you are bringing to the event just quit and see if the organization ceases to exist.
3. The best way to change your mind is to change what your eyes are seeing. In other words, quit watching the electronic income reducer, and set your course to that of increasing your value to others. I know, it is easier said than done.
4. Read self help books. Help others under you succeed. People have needs and pain that they want removed from their life but don’t know how to start. You help them by example, not by lecturing. Quit taking up space and quit looking for some kind of program that is going to put you over the top. The only thing that is going to put you over the top is to quit complaining and start walking over that mountain in your life.
5. Get mad. Yes, get mad. Get mad that you have let yourself down. Get mad that you have settled for 2nd best or for last place. Get mad that you have let your weight, finances, and mental state go wild. Get mad, get real mad, mad enough that right now, no matter where you are that you are going to change your mindset, your attitude, and start living a victorious lifestyle that others, who see you, will want to emulate.

So what is it going to be? Continue down your present path and mindset or make a right turn and change your mindset to one of helping others, bringing value to the event, and helping others break free of the restraints that hold us back in this world.

You are being paid what you are worth right now. If you need a pay raise, then raise your value and the pay raise in life and money will follow.

P.S> One of the best ways to get started on your road to success is by signing up for the Magnetic Sponsoring course. Again, If you don’t change what you are doing now, how are you going to change your results tomorrow?

 
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