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Power and Position

Blair Singer sent me an email today that I think is worthy of mention. Common sense but still NotJustOk

"Dear mola,                            

    In a recent Instructor Training Program with Robert Kiyosaki, there were two key points that emerged.  The first one is this..

    “Do you play to win or do you play not to lose?”  You have to be willing to go to the edge, to look into the abyss and risk.  You cannot win if you are operating from a place of not losing.

    Secondly, if you want to win you have to have “power.”  We defined power as the ability to:

• Take a position
• Hold your position and
• Change the position if need be

    Lots of people take positions or points of view, but can’t hold them.  They allow themselves to get knocked off their positions by others.  They compromise their dreams, their visions and even their talents. Why in the world would you allow others to dictate your direction and aspiration?  Sometimes it’s those closest to you that knock you off the easiest. Know what I mean?                      As an instructor or presenter in front of a room, I have to hold my position.  This is true as a business owner as well.  Yes, I may upset 5-10% who don’t like my message, my attitude or my approach but at least I am consistent and directed and I will find those who ultimately do.  It’s like Bill Cosby said, “I don’t know the key to success, but I DO know that the key to failure is trying to please everyone.” 

    Do not allow others to knock you off your position!!!  Be bold.  If given the choice between being remembered as bold or wimpy, which would you choose?

    There are some that can take a position and hold it, but who are so arrogant, they refuse to change it, even though there is overwhelming evidence that they are taking down the whole ship in the process.

    Either way, power is about being able to do all three.  It requires a Code of Honor and an inner strength.                                                                                                             

 

“We are a sales organization.  If you can’t sell, you can’t belong.” 
“We are entrepreneurs.  We create income without a paycheck.” 
“Ethics is something we practice everyday... not just talk about.”      Holding a position is when your spirit stands up and grounds you physically, mentally and emotionally and  says, “This is who I am... Don’t mess!”                             

        Be powerful and play to win!        

                                       
                Blair                

        SalesDogs"

Calling Long Distance (Overseas)

I called T-Mobile one day last year to get an upgrade on my plan. Out of curiosity, I asked the rep if there was a way I could make international calls from my phone. There was a way, she provided it and I gladly accepted.

I called Nigeria, that’s where I’m from, and spoke like I was using a phone card. As I spoke I anticipated the message “You have 2 more minutes for this call”, it never came. So I kept talking until I and the listener/talker in Nigeria finished catching up on old times. I would repeat the act 3 times during the course of that month.

Fast Forward 5 weeks later. A heavy envelope with a T-mobile label on it arrived in the mail. $234; I knew the amount on the bill before I opened it. Ridiculous, I swore that it would never happen again, but it was already a bad habit. Just like smoking, you know its bad for you, but you use it to relieve stress and for recreation, but that’s a whole other story on its own.

Well, 2 months passed and T-mobile was milking my account and making a killer profit from my business. Invariably, I quit the habit out of necessity. Money was getting lean and text threats were being sent from T-mobile reminding me of my due date. I paid the bills and changed back to using phone cards. I did some research on some phone cards and I found 2.

 I was on MSN messenger and my buddy was doing a free (probably not free) Evangelism for Peezy.com. You know how MSN users rename their screen names? He renamed his to peezy.com. So I went ahead and checked peezy out and it seemed like a reasonable new phone card system to use, but I never pursued it. Someone I know did and has had only good things to say about Peezy. The system is simple and the rates are one of the better rates out there.

Days after I heard about Peezy, my older sister assured me that there is a $10 phone that will allow you to talk for 8 hours when you call Nigeria. I laughed so hard inside, and uttered these words to myself “Why is she lying?” Well, it turns out that she was not lying, I used it and it lasted for 8 hours. I called people in Gidi and Jand more than I called people in Yankee that whole week. It was Awesome. You can get that card at www.caribone.com, its called Blue Nile.

 
Check www.jajah.com out too, they seem somewhat promising.

Being a Realist

The only thing you really have control over is yourself. It is important to know and remember that. With that in mind, it is also Key to identify and accept what you don’t have control over. Don’t worry there is hope.

Here is what I’m trying to reveal (I'll keep it short):
Quit the habit of hoping and wishing. Your mind should not be attached to the outcome of situations, but need to be committed to being successful at what you set out to do.  How do you do that? Well it depends...

It’s your aptitude, attitude, activity (work ethic) and common sense that you really have control over. You have to get all those things on point, to where they work for you.

So let’s say you want to start a new business or you want start investing in real estate, you can use the above to work for you:

Aptitude: What you absorb from reading, researching and doing your due diligence
Attitude: Have a pleasant, confident and positive vibe about you and within you
Activity: Doing what it takes to make it happen, reading, researching, doing the business model, implementing the business plan, making calls, setting appointments and keeping them.
Common Sense: Knowing that Life is hard and does not always seem to work out as we planned. Knowing that most people will not keep their appointments and reschedule (not because they are bastards, but because its life and things come up) and planning to make that accepted fact work for you. A good example can be setting 3-4 appointments on the same day, most likely 2 people will call to reschedule, this way you can be as productive as possible.

An obvious thought?

The Big Bang

Ive been meaning to blog something about Busta's new one. Its a modern day 5 mic album. Dude brought it lyrically. No animated crap, its 100% content. Busta can rhyme. This Joint is NotJustOk.

Buy the Album, I did (I usually dont buy albums)

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One Day One Sale!

Woot!

I was reading a book by Seth Godin, All Marketers are Liars, and he described Woot as a modern day internet success. I did not think much of it, but I was curious to see what Seth was hyping about. So one day, during a jobless hour, I proceeded to type in woot.com in my Firefox address bar. What I saw threw me off. It was not the norm.

First thing that came to mind was "hmmm simple site". Second was that I don’t have a Bluetooth compatible phone and I can’t get this, reason being there was an Image of 2 Bluetooth headsets at a ridiculously low price even for one headset.

What woot does is that they sell only one item a day. What this does to customers like me is that I keep going back to their site everyday to see if they are selling something I want.

Let me list a few things NotJustOk about Woot:

1. They sell one item a day.
2. The prices of items sold are usually the lowest price you will find them anywhere else
3. Their website is the easiest site to use and hardly spits out generic error messages
4. Their shipping cost is almost always only $5
5. They have a blog and a forum where you can get more info about the sale of the day

Their business Model is unique and it works. It serves as an inspiration and a challenge to aspiring Internet Entrepreneurs. 

Find out more about Woot here