You might be asking, what does 45 mean? In almost any type of business (or life in general), we are told “no.” In fact, we are told “no” a lot. This can be very discouraging. No one likes to be told “no.”

How much easier would be if you knew how many “no’s” you had to endure to get to “yes.” Would it be easier to make that next call? Of course it would because you would understand that each “no” gets you closer to that “yes.”

There is a magic number-45. How does it work? If you make 45 calls a week (that’s only nine calls a day for a five day work week), it is almost guaranteed that you will get to the “yes” and you will grow your business.

Why so many? It takes 45 to main the momentum you need to make something happen. When you dial 45 times, you will get 15 completed calls. A completed call means that you actually talked to a person. (Remember, that means you will also get 30 no answers, answering machines, or some other outcome)

Out of those 15 completed calls you will get five people that are interested in taking a closer look. So now you have 30 calls where you didn’t have to do anything, and 10 “no’s” and 5 “yeses.”

Out of those five people that are interested, you will get one that actually joins your business. So, you essentially have to get 30 no responses and 14 “no’s” to get that one “yes!”

Of course, these numbers reflect the average. Plus, you could make 45 calls a day, by the math above you would get a downline of 5 new people per week (or seven if you work every day). In one month you could have a pretty impressive downline, particularly if you trained those new people the same Power of 45. Wow!

You might not get the “yes” right away (it takes an average of 21 to 30 days for a person to decide to join your business), but you will, over time, get to that “yes.”

Plus, if you are disciplined and actually make the 45 calls consistently, your skills will get better and you may be able to get more “yeses!” Remember for 30 of those calls you aren’t going to have to talk to anyone.

Also using a system where the people you are calling visit your business site first and then leave their name and number the law of averages goes up.

The important thing is to get going and to be consistent. Track your progress. You will be amazed as your business continues to grow, but nothing will happen unless you pick up the phone!

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. Jim Rohn

If you only do what you know you can do-you never do very much.Tom Krause

We’ve all been there. Some important landmark event (New Year’s Day, our 30th birthday, the birth of our first child) spurs us to vow to change…something. Maybe it’s our weight, maybe our job, maybe start a business, or maybe just our attitude. We plunge in…motivated, determined and maybe even successful…for a little while.

Pretty soon another year has gone by and we find that we are back exactly where we were the year before. What happened? Why couldn’t we sustain the changes we so desperately wanted to make?

There are a lot of reasons why things may not have worked out, but probably one of the most common is trying to change too much at once. In our never ending search for the quick fix, we undergo drastic changes in short periods of time and we get results.

The problem is that we forget we are creatures of habit. It is difficult to make changes that become new habits. If we move too quickly, we soon become discouraged, tired, and long for our “old life back.” The new is just too much work and we give up. How can you make lifelong changes?

With careful thorough, knowledge of yourself and your limitations, you can make changes. Changing your eating habits is something that many people struggle with (and feel guilty about), so we will use that as an example.

Many people when they start dieting do exactly that…start dieting. They make changes in their eating that, in their mind, are temporary. Once they lose the extra weight, they just go back to eating the way they always have. So, they make their weight loss goals, go off the “diet” and pretty soon the weight starts coming back on and the cycle starts all over again.

What if you took a different approach? What if you started small? Maybe you can identify one thing that you could change—learning to eat breakfast, a salad for lunch, it doesn’t really matter what the change is as long as it will result in a healthier choice and it is something you can life with—forever. What if you made that change not to lose weight, but just because it was healthier and made you feel better?

Starting a business by calling 4 people a day, but make it a habit. Once you get this completed as a habit then move to 5  or 8 or even 20 people a day but make it a habit.Taking the baby steps into larger thing along the way.

We are creatures of habit, but time goes quickly. Two weeks after you make that change, you probably won’t even think about the fact that you made the change—it is now part of your new routine. Oh and you probably lost a little weight in the process, or you at least feel better.

Some changes are bigger and require longer to get used to (getting all the white sugar out of your diet for exampleor making 25 calls a day for your business) and maybe you can’t do it all at once. Maybe you recognize that you can never totally make a change (like getting all white sugar out of your diet forever). But you recognize that you can cut out desserts most of the time and switch to a lower calories sweetener.

Again, a few weeks go by and now you don’t even think about dessert most of the time. And now you have lost more weight and are feeling even better. If you do your best to make a change, even if it is a little at a time, you will get the big results.

One year later, instead of making no progress at all, maybe you are 20, 30, or even 40 pounds lighter. You may have 30,50, or 100 people in your downline. You may not have added 1500 to your downline, but even 24 is a great job, or maybe you are not the 100 pounds lighter that you were shooting for, but you are certainly going on the right direction. And, because you have not made changes you can’t live with, you are much more likely to ultimately make your goal and, more importantly, stay there.

You don’t have to make huge changes all at once and you can find something you can live with. Just keep trying until you find something that works. It doesn’t matter how fast you finish the race as long as you get the finish line.

When you are through changing, you are through. Bruce Barton

If you are thinking about joining a multilevel marketing company, even a simple internet search under the key words “multilevel marketing companies” will give you thousands of entries and hundreds of companies. Never mind all the stuff you get in your email box about opportunities.

So how can you zero in on a company that you want to work with? More importantly, how do you make sure you don’t get stuck in a company that at the very least has bad business practices or, even worse, is actually doing something illegal?

One of the most obvious things to check out is how long has the company been around and pick one any that has been around for awhile. They don’t necessarily have to have a 30 year track record, but if the company has only been around six months, you can bet that particular company is pretty high risk.

More than 50% of all the companies that start fail within the first year and 8 out 10 will fail within the first five years*. Multilevel marketing companies are not immune to those statistics.

The second is to make sure they have an actual physical address and phone number. In this day and age of virtual everything, it is pretty easy to make a virtual company. Even if they list a physical address, make sure it exists. If they list a phone number, call.

Third, talk to someone who is in the business. It is easy to put up testimonials on the web, but you really have no way of knowing if they are real or not. Ask for names of people you can call. Make sure to get more than one.

While you are talking to the people in the business make sure you ask some revealing questions like how long they have been in the business, if they have received adequate help, how they like the products, and if they are making money. Granted, the company is probably not going to give you names of disgruntled distributors, but you can still get a general idea of the culture of the company. You can also search on the web for names and call them.

Fourth, be sure you know all the costs involved in being in the company. While purchasing products is obvious, there may be other fees that are not so clear. Do you have to pay a fee to have you website? Is there a fee associated with certain reporting abilities (i.e. detailed reports on your downline)? How much do you have to pay for promotional materials or sales aid (i.e. samples, brochures, etc.)?

There are a lot of great opportunities out there, just be sure you get involved with one of the good ones!

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.Benjamin Franklin

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. Joseph Addison

We all get a little bored with things now and then. If you are bored with your business life, there is an opportunity for you to take the ride of your life with a multilevel marketing business.

You may be wondering if you can be successful in a multilevel marketing, home-based business. The answer is absolutely! Multilevel marketing is not a free-ride. Just keep in mind that anything worth having is worth working for. If you are willing to work, you can be successful in the multilevel marketing business. But you may wonder how to start?

Step 1. Find a business. This part is easy, yet can easily be overwhelming. There are lots of companies to choose from. How to decide? Look for a company with products you have an interest in and would actually use.

Second, if you are new to the business, look at the stability in the company. If you are new to the multilevel marketing business you will much more likely to be successful with a company that has an established track record and training program.

Step 2. Start using the products. The best way to learn about the products is to use them yourself. Find out how they work and the benefits of products. You may not be able to learn everything at once, but it will be much easier for you to talk about products that you like and are using yourself.

Step 3. Understand the business opportunity. As soon as you can, you would like to have people join you in your business. Building a downline and customer base is the way to sustain any business and multilevel marketing is no exception. Be sure you understand the basics of how the business works. If you have questions, be sure you ask!

Step 4. Talk it up! Tell everyone that you are in a new business. Talk about the products you are trying and what they are doing for you. Tell people about the business opportunity. Remember, the more people you talk to, the more likely you are to get a yes!

Step 5. Training. Make sure you take all the training available and make sure the people that join you in the business (your downline) do too. Multilevel marketing only works if everyone works together. The more you work together, the more success you will all enjoy.

Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer. Dale Carnegie

We all have them several times a day; the chance encounter with someone. It may be someone that we know, but haven’t seen for quite some time, it may be someone we have never met at all.

No matter whom it is or their history with us, an encounter is an opportunity. But too many times we don’t take advantage of these encounters or understand the power they may have particularly if you are in business for yourself.

When you start a business, particularly one that relies on your ability to network with others, you have automatically given up your ability to skip you hair and make-up and go to the store in your grubby clothes. Why? You never know who you will meet and appearances mean a lot.

If you look successful, happy, put together, it is far more likely the people will be interested in talking to you. This is particularly true if you run into someone you haven’t seen for a while. If you look great, they are going to want to know what you are doing to look that great. And maybe they want to look that great too!

Sometimes chance encounters are with people who are strangers. Maybe you are just standing in line at the grocery store and you strike up a conversation. If you believe in fate, then you know there are no chance encounters. You meet the people that you are supposed to meet; one way or the other.

You should be certain that the encounter does not end without the person at least knowing what you are doing for a living (or as a side business). That doesn’t mean you have to whip out your elevator speech and your business card, it just means that, at a minimum, they should know that you are working for yourself in some capacity.

If you plant the seed, you never know when or where it will grow. It maybe two week from now, it may be two months from now, but that person you talked to about your business will remember what you talked about. That same person may need something you sell, may want to join your business, or may just want some advice about something in their business.

Use the casual encounter to increase your network. You never know where it may lead.

There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance. Amelia E. Barr

Let’s face it; there is no substitute for action. While we can spend a certain amount of time thinking about our business, our goals, and various other aspects of our lives, nothing will happen without action!

Falling into the thinking trap can be very easy, particularly if you are new to a business. You start to plan.

You plan where you are going to put your office. You work on your goals. You plan how much money you would like to make (and how you would like to spend that money!). You plan who would like to join you in your business. You plan future meetings.

Basically, you have your entire future planned out in your head! In the meantime, the hours pass, the days pass, and you have accomplished absolutely nothing!

If you are not experiencing the success you want, maybe you need a reality check. Are you actually doing something or are you just thinking about it?

Do you wake up in the morning thinking about everything you want to get done? Do you actually do it or do you just make up the list? Do you sit at the computer thinking of all the things you need to do today, but never actually get around to doing anything? Or do you just get a small percentage of the tasks done?

Over-thinking and under-action can kill your business anywhere along the way. This is just as true for big businesses as it is for small businesses.

If you have ever worked for a large company you may have been part of a strategic planning process. This process can take days, weeks, or months. It can involve countless hours.

In the end you have some sort of document (the strategic plan) that is supposed to become the blueprint for the business for the next five years. A lot of thinking went into the document, but without action, nothing will happen in the business. All the time spent planning for success will lead to failure.

Don’t fall into the planning trap. Planning and goal setting have their place, but you can’t think your way to success. Even if you don’t know completely what you are doing, if you do nothing it is guaranteed that you won’t get any results.

“There are those who work all day, those who dream all day, and those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there’s virtually no competition.” – Steven J. Ross

We are all certainly deficient in some way, but there are some deficiencies that can be hazardous to your health and your mental well-being. Vitamin D is one of them.

Most of us don’t think much about vitamin D. We figure that if we drink enough milk and get outside once in a while, that our vitamin D should be fine. Unfortunately, particularly as we get older, that may not be enough.

Here are some surprising facts about vitamin D:

• Most vitamin D that we need is made in the body
• Vitamin D occurs naturally in very few foods
• According to the National Center for Health Statistics, as many as 36% of Americans are vitamin D deficient
• Vitamin D is critical to calcium absorption
• Vitamin D deficiency in adults can lead to osteoporosis, osteomalacia (softening of the bones), certain cancers, autoimmune diseases and cardiovascular problems
• Men between 40 and 70 with low levels of vitamin D have higher risk of heart attack (Archives of Internal Medicine)
• 30%-40% of patients that come to the hospital with a hip fracture are vitamin D deficient

Who is at risk?

• Older adults, whose skin cannot synthesize vitamin D are efficiently and whose kidneys are less able to convert vitamin D are at risk
• If you are a strict vegetarian, you may be at risk since you don’t consume the recommended levels of the vitamin over time because most of the natural sources are animal-based (fish, fish oils, egg yolks, cheese, and beef liver)
• Obese adults. Since vitamin D is extracted from the blood by fat cells, people with a body mass index of 30 or greater often have low blood levels of vitamin D
• If you have issues with your digestive tract, you may not be able to adequately absorb vitamin D. Medical conditions such as Crohn’s disease, cystic fibrosis, and celiac disease can affect your intestine’s ability to absorb vitamin D from the food you eat.
• Sunscreens with an SPF of 30 or above prevents you skin from producing vitamin D

What can you do?  If you are worried about your vitamin D level, a simple blood test can determine whether or not there is a problem. If you are over 50, you should have the blood test. If there is, getting out in the sun and drinking fortified milk may not be enough.

• For most people over 50, 400 to 600 IU a day is recommended (the average multivitamin contains 400 IU)
• As you get older you need even more (up to 800 IU for someone over 70)
• You can’t really take too much (you would have to take 2,000 IU a day for six months to become intoxicated with vitamin D)

A blood test is the only way to test your vitamin D levels and supplements are almost the only way to make sure that you are getting enough vitamin D. Don’t underestimate the importance of this simple vitamin to your health.

“In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.” Henri Frederic Amiel

Personal Note:

The D3 change my Vitamins D levels from 5 to 52 in 32 days (blood test proof available) and now 90 plus days it is at 79. I will never be without the D3, Greens and Reds ever again.

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Whenever we experience failure in our lives, our first inclination is to blame something or someone else. We do a lot of finger pointing. The system doesn’t work. My upline doesn’t help me. The company isn’t helping me. The excuses are unlimited. However, while we are doing all the finger pointing we forget that the rest of our fingers are pointing right at the main source of our problem, us.

The main problem with trying to blame someone or something else is that it is unlikely that you are going to be able to change someone or something else that you are trying to blame. The only things you can control are things that involve you directly. If things aren’t working the way you want, why aren’t they working the way you want? Maybe there is a problem with the system or the company, but once you’ve eliminate those potential issues, what is left? The way you are communicating!

Are you really communicating effectively? If you are talking to prospects and no one is signing up what are you saying to them? How are you saying it? Sometimes communication problems are not so easy to solve or even figure out. You have done all the training, you have worked out what you are going to say to a prospect, you practice what you want to say, but it still is not working. How can you make changes in your communications? What changes should you even make?

By now, you are probably ready to scream “help!” You are frustrated and angry, but there are ways to work on your communication skills besides losing your potential downline while you practice. The first and easiest way is to have someone else listen to you. This can be a friend, someone else in the business with you—pretty much anyone. Sometimes it is good to get someone who isn’t in the business so you can tell if you are really saying things in a way that is understood. (People in the business will tend to “fill in the blanks” for you.) More importantly, are you saying things in a ways that makes them want to join your business?

There is nothing more important than communication, particularly in a network marketing business. Without effective communication, you will continue to struggle and so will your business. Take the time to train, to practice and to consistently and constantly work on your communication skills and watch your business grow.

“The meaning of a communication is the response that you get.” Kathy Rushlo (my wife, not originally quoted by her,but often quoted by her)