Archive for June, 2006
What is Your Motto?
What is your motto for your life? The Elliott Family Crest contains the Motto, “Fortiter Et Rechte” – Bravely and Truly. My person Motto is “Freedom at Any Cost”. Your Motto tells you a lot about yourself, your values, purpose and beliefs, your goals and your philosophy. And using your Motto correctly can empower and revitalize your life. When I come home the first thing I see on the wall is the Elliott Crest and my Father’s ceremonial Air Force dagger. It reminds me of my Warrior mindset, the love and support of my family and my Motto. There are some really motivating and inspiring Mottos out there, especially military Mottos. Look at these:
The Pain is Temporary; The Pride is Forever (Israeli Military)
Who Dares Wins (English SAS)
Through Adversity to the Stars (Canadian Air force)
Fortune Favors the Brave (American 3rd Marine Regiment)
A Motto that is displayed, remembered and honored will help to focus and ground you. How would you feel if you were entering a difficult situation and you repeated your Motto, “Any Time, Anywhere, Any Weather” (USS Salamonie) – would you be more resolute? Would you be more determined? How about, “Do Right, Fear No one” (Norwegian Artillery)? If you were to repeat your Motto on a regular basis, it would undergird and encourage you. What about creating a wall plaque, a desk sign, a banner, a screensaver, an e-mail signature with a strong Motto that really worked for you? It would tell the world a lot about you as well, of course. (When I see some loser wearing a marijuana leaf pendant, I know exactly what his Motto is.) Here are some you might want to consider for yourself:
Can and Will
Deeds not Words
Rise Above the Rest
Yield to None
The Higher I Climb, the More Gallant I Am
Bound to Win
Hard as a Rock
If you’re religious, here’s an opportunity to use your favorite verse, like “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” One of my mentors, whenever you asked him how he was, would reply, “I’m Happy, Healthy and Successful.” Isn’t that great? What you say and believe becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The DollarMakers Joint Venture Forum Motto is “Together, we do amazing things.” What do you call yourself? I’m the Prophet of Profit.
Let’s use this powerful motivational tool – it’s free!
Robin J. Elliott http://www.dollrmakers.com/
If You Want Peace, Prepare for War
What separates the truly great from the mediocre, the winners from the losers, the pretenders from the contenders? What is it that spurs certain people on to magnificent achievements while others choke bitterly in their dust? There’s an old and true, military motto, “Si vis pacem, para bellum” from Flavius Vegetius Renatus circa 375 AD: “If you want peace, prepare for war.” When you want something badly enough, you will fight for it. It’s the old, “Live free or die” kind of approach. Watch what people do and you will see their true level of commitment.
Ayn Rand spoke about this kind of bulletproof resolution. “There are two sides to every issue” she said, “one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth…” Fence sitters and cowards exist in a moral fog where they never really commit to anything but their hatred of success. Achievers are prepared to fight to the death. Sidney Sheldon put it best: “The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle’s wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.”
Roosevelt said, “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” Winners don’t cut and run. They are in the fight until the end. They stay the course. They know that anything worthwhile will take a bit longer and take some doing. They understand that they will face a few detours, disappointments, and distractions.
They expect the unexpected. They are warriors who realize that war is war. They don’t make excuses or expect the state or mommy to help them. They don’t find the strongest people to blame for their inadequacies, spinelessness and weakness. They bounce back courageously and fight on. They are the “Steel fist in the silken glove” – when you push them, you find out whom you’re really dealing with.
During my years working with entrepreneurs, I’ve learnt an important lesson: You can put a loser into the best business with excellent products and a great market and he will fail miserably. But you can put a winner in a failing business with no hope and he will turn it into a wonderful success story. It has very little to do with your circumstances – winners can turn lemons into lemonade, every time. It’s who they are.
This is the Entrepreneur’s Credo:
I do not choose to be a common man -
It is my right to be uncommon … if I can.
I seek opportunity … not security.
I do not wish to be a kept citizen,
Humbled and dulled by having the State look after me.
I want to take the calculated risk,
To dream and to build. To fail and to succeed.
I refuse to barter incentive for a dole;
I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence;
The thrill of fulfillmentTo the stale calm of Utopia.
I will not trade freedom for beneficence
Nor my dignity for a handout
I will never cower before any master
Nor bend to any threat.
It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid;
To think and act for myself,
To enjoy the benefit of my creations
And to face the world boldly and say:
This, with God’s help, I have done.
All this is what it means to be an Entrepreneur.
(Excerpt from Common Sense, written in 1776 by Thomas Paine)
If you want peace, prepare for war; prepare to fight for it. And peace will be yours.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Unlimited Potential
Wrap your mind around this one: If every car that crossed the Port Mann Bridge each gave you just one dollar per MONTH, you would earn $300,000 per month. Every driver could afford one dollar per month, and all you would have to do is give him a reason to pay you. When we look at the amount of potential surrounding us, we realize why some people become fantastically rich, while others battle to merely survive financially. The “Toll Booth” analogy works well when you think of the richest man on earth, Bill Gates – he gets paid on each transaction. Like royalties to recording artists or authors. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you do – all you need to do to partake in profuse and proliferate prosperity is to set your tollbooth up. Once you understand the mindset, it’s easier than you might imagine.
First, you need to find traffic – like the cars going over a bridge, a stream of people buying at a certain place, a flow of distribution, (like a river, where you simply divert the flow through your bank account and back into the river again) or a movement or process of business. Then, think of a logical addition of value to that group, product, or process. For example, a thousand cars park all day, every day in the sun while the drivers leap onto a train to go to work in the city. That’s the flow. What do they need / want? How can you add value to them? Perhaps they need those windshield sun protectors so they don’t get into steaming cars and their car interiors are protected. That’s the value.
Next, you need access to those people. For this, we use Joint Ventures. I might want to skip off to the nearest dollar store and buy a few hundred sun protectors and then sell them to the drivers as they head for the train, but I might need permission to talk with them. I could arrange a profit sharing deal with the person who can give me this access / introduce me to the drivers. Then, I need to remove risk, cost and time from the Joint Venture opportunity. I don’t want to be stranded with five hundred sun protectors that I can’t sell! Could I take orders for the sun protectors or get them paid for in advance or get them on consignment? That way, I don’t sell any, I don’t lose anything. I could Joint Venture with the person who owns the dollar store, right? And to remove time, could I have someone else do the actual selling and share the profits with them? This is a simple example, but the principle works with million dollar deals as well as with small businesses.
Finally, how can I add to a successful Joint Venture? I now have a captive audience / database. What else do they want and need? There are millions of dollars and opportunities and underutilized resources just waiting for you to take advantage of them. Once you realize that you can create bridges and set up tollbooths at will, in any area, industry, or situation, with no cost or risk and very little time, you can remove all financial barriers from your life. You can create multiple streams of passive income by understanding the power of Joint Ventures. To find out more, please visit www.dollarmakers.com/ now.
Robin J. Elliott
Do Less! Think More!
Two farmers enjoyed the same size of land, the same weather, the same marketplace and opportunities, pricing and labor availability. One was the father of my friend, Louis. One day the neighboring farmer visited Louis’ dad and said to him, “You know, Mr. Boschoff, I don’t understand why I work hard from dawn till dusk, while you spend a lot of time talking with your friends and sitting on the porch smoking your pipe, yet your farm makes you rich and I am close to bankruptcy. Why is that?” According to Louis, his dad replied, “That is because you work too hard. You should be thinking more and working less. I plan and discuss and cooperate with my friends while you are laboring.”
When I applied to immigrate to Canada, I used my training, certification, and credentials in Work Study (Organization and Methods) to qualify for acceptance.
Dictionary: “Work Study noun 1. An investigation of the most efficient way of doing a job, especially with regard to time and effort.”
When people say, “work smarter, not harder”, they remind us that we are no longer laboring in the Industrial Age. In this Information Age, there are literally no limitations on people who use their heads instead of their hands to create value. Laborers and other people who sell their time may as well be slaves. They’re really no better off than prisoners! When you sell your time, you sell pieces of your life that you will never be able to recover. You should only spend time on things you absolutely love doing. If you make money into the bargain, that’s great. But few people get rich by selling time.
By using Joint Ventures to borrow and leverage other peoples’ underutilized time, resources, credit, reputation, services, equipment and products, you don’t recreate the wheel and you Fast Forward your success in a win/win way. Together, we can do amazing things. Successful people and businesses piggyback on distribution, advertising and access, so they alter the time and effort equation. As a Work Study Officer, I found ways to remove entire sections from work processes and still get the same results. When I was asked to do Work Study in a government department, I showed them how to fire 40 people and still get the same results. Unfortunately, government is more interested in politics than profit, so they turned down my proposal. I fired my boss and started my own business. Louis Boschoff gave me a Tony Robbins book as an “Independence Day Gift” and I took my skills into the wonderful world of capitalism instead of bureaucratic collectivism.
When you think more about leverage (the more you learn, the more you earn), you can work less and have more time to play and have fun. Louis Boschoff bought a real estate office (with no money or risk) and became a millionaire in two years. He applied what his farmer father had taught him. This article is dedicated to the memory of that smart man who taught me much. Thanks, Louis. Rest In Peace, my friend.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Inside the Head of a Joint Venture Broker
When I read a book, I read the words of the author. That means I think the thoughts of the author. If I think those same thoughts enough, I will acquire the same perceptions, beliefs, and expectation as those of the author. Then I will start to evaluate things as the author does, make the same choices and get the same results, right? Repetition is the mother of invention. We learn through spaced repetition. That’s why I feed my brain with input from people whom I admire and emulate. If you want to be a successful Joint Venture Broker, here are some questions that you should automatically apply to all your circumstances and opportunities.
But first, you should realize that you are surrounded by untold wealth, opportunity, and abundance. There is no shortage or scarcity. Every resource you need and want is readily available to you at no cost or risk. Also, when you ask the right questions, your magnificent subconscious mind will help you find the answers. One of the most powerful tools you have at your disposal is your Reticular Activating System (RAS). A simple example of how it works automatically to provide you with all the answers you need is when you buy a new car. Suddenly, your RAS will make you aware of all the other cars that are the same as the one you bought. Try it now. Look around the room you’re in. OK? Now, look for the color red. Do you see how all the red jumps out to you attention?
You program your RAS to find answers by asking the right questions. Here are the thoughts / questions that will make you a successful Joint Venture Broker:
How can I create massive value for this person and get paid for it?
What does this person really, really want?
How can this person help me get what I want? What resources does he or she have access to?
How can I get this with no money or risk? Where can I obtain this resource at no cost or risk? Who has it?
How can I remove the cost and risk and leverage this situation / opportunity / resource?
What is the ideal situation here? If there were no barriers, what would I love to happen here? How can I make this happen? Who can make this happen for me? What’s in it for them?
How can I double my income in two months? What would have to happen / change for that to occur? What potential lies in this situation?
What do I really, really want, more than anything else, and WHY do I want it?
Why am I not making at least twice what I make now?
Who do I have to link up with to change my life?
Where will I find the resources I seek?
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Robin J. Elliott www.dollarmakers.com/
