02.28.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:24 am by Robin J. Elliott
We love to deny uncomfortable facts. Churchill confronted Chamberlain’s weakness and warned of coming problems. Clinton allowed Bin Laden to escape. He has never been held accountable for the consequences. Jim Rohn said, “Discipline weighs ounces, but regret weighs tons.” Churchill saw the future. He warned about communism, “The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time, but the soul of man thus held in trance, or frozen in a long night, can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where, and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.” He foresaw and forewarned.
But most people are not Churchill. They wait for the lawyer’s letter, the bills, the illness, the divorce order, before taking action. They stick their heads in the sand. They look the other way. And when it’s too late, they start blaming all and sundry for the predicament they themselves created through their neglect, lies, slothfulness, and bad choices. Their self pity when the chickens come home to roost is disgusting to behold. Churchill had the courage to deal with reality, the self-esteem to go to war, the vision to hold on until victory, and the intelligence to know that this was the only route to freedom.
Compromise, mediocrity, cowardice, and denial lead to the imprisonment of the mind and the quiet desperation and passive aggression so evident in today’s western society which each day edges closer to socialism and collectivism. The tolerance, acceptance, and even encouragement of drug addicts, criminals, and army deserters has a consequence, as can be seen in the resulting society. What we sow, we will surely reap. It’s just a matter of time. Countries can be overthrown by immigration when their leaders are rotten, gutless mercenaries; war is unnecessary. Every choice and action has a consequence. The fact that you don’t immediately see it does not mean it isn’t happening.
Look at your life. Are there a few Hitlers on the horizon? Do you have a few Bin Laden friends? Is your neighbor an army deserter? Do you have a Judas on your team? Are you so weak and politically correct that you have become a socialist without even knowing it? If you keep on the way you’re going right now, what does your future look like? You can break the mirror, shoot the messenger, delete this ezine, close my Blog, curse me for making you face the oncoming train, or resolve to make some adjustments, change course, and confront a few issues. What will your life look like in five years if you do? What will it look like if you don’t? Frankly, I don’t care what choices you make. You have been warned, so my job is done.
Here’s the good part: We vastly underestimate what we can accomplish when we face reality and make courageous choices. If people knew what a brilliant future they could create over time without massive changes, they would make better choices than a society addicted to comfort, instant gratification, laziness, compromise, and the mind numbing opiates of mysticism and political rhetoric. Your future does not have to be worse than your past. You can escape the downward spiral which you may realize you are on. You can be strong, free, successful, happy, healthier, and wealthy if you’re prepared to pay the price now.
But you won’t get the recipe for success from those who have a vested interest in your desperation, slavery, exhaustion, and dependency, like the banks, politicians, employers and witchdoctors; your recipe from freedom can only come from those who are genuinely free. Only a strong swimmer with a conscience can help a drowning person.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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02.27.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:15 pm by Robin J. Elliott
Atlas had waged and lost a ten-year war against the gods of Mount Olympus. As punishment, the gods condemned Atlas to support the earth and the heavens on his back for eternity. He had grown weary of the task and was only too glad when Hercules offered to take over his burden. In turn, Hercules said he needed help to complete his eleventh labor, fetching the Golden Apples, which were closely guarded by nymphs called the Hesperides. Prometheus had told Hercules that Atlas could easily complete this labor as he was the nymphs’ father and knew their secrets. When Atlas returned with the apples, Hercules tricked him into resuming the burden of bearing the earth and the heavens on his back for eternity. This statue depicts that never-ending punishment.
Ayn Rand wrote a wonderful book entitled “Atlas Shrugged”. You do not have to carry and support leeches, parasites, or scavengers. You should be rewarded for the value you create. Don’t work for nothing. You are entitled to choose whom you do business with and associate with. When people take advantage of you, misuse or abuse you, or steal from you, you have the OBLIGATION to shrug them off. Don’t be tricked, as Atlas was, into bearing an unfair burden. If you want to ride the horse, you have to feed it. People who reap have to sow - those who reap without sowing are thieves and they should be shrugged off your back.
When you’re not carrying unnecessary weight around, you can move fast. You’ll find yourself happier and healthier, richer and wealthier. And because you’re happier, you’ll attract more winners into your life and less whiners. Rid yourself of the fat. You will become a lean money machine, and you’ll have the time and clarity required to find creative solutions and the means to creating more wealth and value. A successful entrepreneur should continually and regularly evaluate his or her relationships and shrug the disloyal detractors and saboteurs off. People are genuinely either for you or against you - never doubt that.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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Posted in Uncategorized at 2:53 pm by Robin J. Elliott
A lot of information that people get keeps them poor, hungry and desperate - the only PhD they’ll ever get. This is the herd - the sheeple - doing what everyone does because they have the wrong information. Read this excerpt from Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead:
“Roark pointed to the picture of the Parthenon. ‘Shall I tell you what’s rotten about it? Look! The famous flutings in the famous columns. What are they there for? To hide the joints in wood, when columns were made of wood. Only they aren’t - they’re marble. The triglets - what are they? Wood. Wooden beams - the way they were laid when people began to build wooden shacks. Your Greeks took marble and they made copies of their wooden structures out of it, because others had done it that way. Then your maters of the Renaissance cam along and made copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Now here we are, making copies in steel and concrete of copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Why? I want to be an architect, not an archaeologist.’”
Many politicians, mystics, academics, bureaucrats, and employers have a vested interest in feeding the herd with incorrect information that is guaranteed to keep them poor, dependant, blindfolded, hobbled, and restricted. When sheeple have no time or money, they don’t have time to think, evaluate, or question. They’re working too hard to survive to even consider the fact that they could thrive. Lots of meetings, long commutes, high taxes, lots of red tape, and myths keep the herd from breaking free of their prisons of fear and scarcity. They are force fed repackaged lies through confidence tricksters in pulpits, on CNN, in the universities and colleges and in newspapers; people whom they respect and look up to. The socialists, collectivists, witchdoctors, multiculturalists, and environmentalists don’t want you to know what will set you free from their control.
When it comes to money and business, DollarMakers is all about showing people how to make dollars with no cost or risk, and regardless of whether or not they have a business, or their background, age or circumstances. That’s the information we share. How to retire in one year. How to avoid risk. How to get rich. How to be financially free and live a congruent life. How to escape the bondage of debt and a job. We share the same information that we used to achieve retirement twice. Our mission is to give people back their power of choice, their dignity and self-respect, their time, their families and their minds.
Only the free can set others free, and we are free. We are not obligated to share this information - we do it for our own sakes. If you wish to be free, join us.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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02.26.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 1:01 pm by Robin J. Elliott
I wanted to share a portion of a private e mail sent but our DollarMakers Area Coordinator for British Columbia, Canada, with you, regarding the use of leverage in business. Here it is:
Hi Blair, just for some basic info visit www.halfapercentaday.com Register on the right hand side of the page. I will answer any questions after that.
Just to whet your appetite, though; this is short term on-line stock trading. We have put together a JV with the head trainer of a fairly well known trading/educational software company and packaged it like you’re watching over his shoulder and can trade like he does. His track record speaks for itself (you’ll hear more about that later) I became his client; helped him package this so it was unique and has way more value than anything out there that we know of. After trading his stock picks, first on paper then real money, I am seeing with my own eyes the amazing results from the strategy that he has packaged and offers to his subscribers.
He doesn’t sell software; there are no expensive seminars to attend; you just get the analyzed stock picks everyday there is trading for a monthly fee and you can cancel with 30 days notice if it is not a fit for your lifestyle.
I spend 15 to 30 minutes a day doing this and the results are fantastic. My money is usually back off the table within 30 minutes of the market opening. To give you an example of what the results are; if you had traded the picks as they were available in January (it was a terrible month in the markets as you probably know and we didn’t have many chances to trade) you would have made 3% on your portfolio while others were losing 3-7%. If you had been trading with a margin account like I do you could have made up to 10% in the month of January. (I made 7%)
Check it out and get back to me if your interest is sparked.
Patrick Giesbrecht
DollarMakers Area Coordinator for British Columbia, Canada
patrick@dollarmakers.com
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Posted in Uncategorized at 12:50 pm by Robin J. Elliott
We were walking down Oxford Street in London yesterday, looking at all the stores, and I thought, what DON’T they sell? Every wonderful product you can think of is available for sale. If I was a store, there would be some things I didn’t sell. I would say, “Sorry, we’re all out”. What wouldn’t I sell, and what shouldn’t you sell?
Sorry, sir, we’re all out of “I ‘ll try”.
Sorry, Ma’am, we’re all out of excuses.
Sorry, sir, we’re all out of “I’ll do my best”.
Sorry, Ma’am, we’re all out of “It wasn’t my fault”.
Sorry, sir, we’re all out of “I don’t have time”.
Sorry, Ma’am, we’re all out of “I can’t help it”.
Sorry, sir, we’re all out of “I don’t know what to do”.
Sorry, Ma’am, we’re all out of “It’s the economy / competition / my parents’ fault”.
Sorry, sir, we’re all out of “IF”.
Sorry, Ma’am, we’re all out of “I HOPE”.
Sorry, sir, we’re all out of “Maybe / Perhaps / I GUESS”.
Sorry, Ma’am, we’re all out of “I THINK / More or less”.
Sorry, sir, we’re all out of “The people in this town don’t get it”.
Sorry, Ma’am, we’re all out of blaming, complaining, whining, and weak excuses.
Sorry, sir, we’re all out of showing up late, and not returning calls and e mails punctually.
Sorry, Ma’am, we’re all out of scarcity thinking.
You see, sir/madam, we don’t stock junk and we only work with winners who think big, demand excellence, and take responsibility and make things happen. Our best sales clerk is Mr. Yoda, who taught me that “there is no TRY, only do or do not.”
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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02.21.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 1:25 pm by Robin J. Elliott
People who have a deadline to accomplish a certain goal, whether it be financial, structural, a position to be achieved, or a sales target, need to get into a “Push” mentality. You can choose to be a loser and back off, simmer down, cool off, give up, compromise, lower your standards, start making excuses in advance, complain, whine, or PUSH. Winners PUSH. They don’t know how to quit. And so they win. The discomfort of quitting far exceeds the discomfort of pushing.
What do I mean by PUSH? Here are a few questions that will put you into a push mode, and by taking responsibility, you will be amazed at how powerful you will become:
Have I asked EVERYONE I KNOW to buy / join / take action / attend? If not, why not? Do I fear their choices more than failure? If I have asked them, I will ask them again! Every “NO” gets me closer to a “YES!”
Who can reach a large group of people in my behalf, to sell / announce / promote my product / service / opportunity? Have I asked them what it will take / what they want in return for enthusiastically promoting me?
What group of people can I get to, how can I do it, and who can help me? Can I attend every business networking meeting and promote there? Have I emailed everyone I know and asked them to e mail their people?
If I was really desperate and my life was at stake, what would I do to achieve this goal? Is my Comfort Zone limiting my success? What haven’t I tried?
If I was giving advice to someone else how to accomplish this objective, what advice would I give THEM?
Who has already accomplished this goal, that can show me what to do and how to do it?
If I am using TIME as an excuse, what activities can I cancel / postpone in order to free up the time I need to make this happen? Being BUSY and being PRODUCTIVE are not necessarily the same thing.
MAKE it happen. Don’t accept the possibility of failure / defeat. INSIST on success, whatever it takes. Be a warrior, not a worrier. Check your attitude. Get positive, optimistic, and enthusiastic. As Dale Carnegie taught us, “ACT enthusiastic, and you’ll BE enthusiastic!” Focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want.
Align yourself with strong winners, top achievers, and motivated producers. Call the most successful person you know and ask for their advice, then TAKE their advice and ACT upon it. PUSH.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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02.20.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:48 pm by Robin J. Elliott
They run from opportunity to opportunity, meeting to meeting, book to book, seminar to seminar, scheme to scam and back again - always looking for a way to get rich with no work or commitment - instant money - quick fix - magic bullet. They spend a fortune on information they never apply, or apply for a week before they quit to run after the next best thing, the newest deal, the brighter package, the more colorful balloon, like kids in a candy factory, until they vomit and go home looking green, but no green miraculously appears in their bank accounts.
The fact is, a winning mind can take a mediocre, failing business in the wrong area with bad employees and overwhelming debt, and turn it into a million dollar dream, while a losing mindset will take a beautiful opportunity in a perfect market, and fail miserably. It has little to do with the opportunity, the market, the product, the support, the service or the time of year, and everything to do with your mind. When your thinking, mindset, attitude and perception is properly aligned, your mind becomes a money magician, a money machine, a money maker - a DollarMaker. When your wonderful Reticular Activating System is correctly used, and your subconscious mind properly conditioned, you simply can’t fail to get rich.
Now if that sounds too good to be true to the average cynic, if your skepticism simply won’t allow you to accept that statement, let’s consider this: If we put Alan Greenspan, Warren Buffet, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates in a new city, with no money, reputation, database, connections, credentials, reputation, or credibility, how long would it take each of them to get rich all over again? Not long, because their minds are so programed, honed, skilled, and trained, that they wouldn’t be able to help but get rich. It’s not where you are; it’s WHO you are. It’s not the circumstances you find yourself in - it’s how you interpret them and what you do with them.
Now I know you’ll say, “But, Robin, even if I had the right mindset, I would still have toi take action, right?” Yes. Here’s the truth: People who do not take action that will make them rich do not have a wealth mindset. People who really understand wealth BELIEVE they will get wealthy, so they take action. If you believed there was a million dollars waiting for you at the bottom of a barrel filled with rotten food, dead cats, and manure, you would dive in and get it. If you didn’t believe the million dollars was there, you would procrastinate, make excuses, and whine. The only reason people don’t show up and take massive action is that they don’t understand or believe. Their minds are not Money Machines - they are Manure Machines that produce mediocrity, failure, compromise, and defeat. They are not Mental Warriors - they’re Mental Worriers. They are not Prophets of Profit - they’re Prophets of Problems.
How do we achieve this miraculous Money Mindset? How do we turn our minds into dynamic DollarMakers? We always live up to the expectations we have of ourselves, so we need to change those expectations. We achieve what we believe, so we need to change our beliefs if we want to change our bank balances. We need to move from fear to faith, from a scarcity mentality to a prosperity awareness. How do we make these mental adjustments? I gave you a clue earlier in this article: If you thought the same way that Bill Gates thinks, would you make better choices and get better results? You better believe it. You would do what he does and get what he gets. If you interpreted things the way Warren Buffet does, would you make more money? Of course. Input equals output, so we need to think like successful people if we want the same results. We will follow in their footsteps to lives of fortune and fun.
Here’s how to program your mind for guaranteed success: Think like a rich person. Your mind will turn opposition into opportunities, detours into dollars, challenges in chattel, mediocrity into magic wealth. Every action begets results. If you want different results, you have to do different things. To do different things, you have to make different decisions, and to do that you need to see things and interpret things differently. That’s the key. To think differently. You are one quality decision away from anything you want, Jim Stovall tells us, and he’s right. How? Actually, it’s quite simple.
When I read a book written by a successful person, I am in fact thinking his thoughts! The more I think the thoughts of a winner, the more I BECOME a winner. You are what you think. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. The winner thinks a thought and writes it in his book. You read the book, so you read his words, which means you literally think his thoughts, if you’ll excuse the pun. While you read this, you’re thinking MY thoughts - scary, isn’t it? When I got into business, I listened to the words (thoughts) of Paul J. Meyer, over and over again, from audio cassettes, and I read his writing (thoughts) over and over again. In addition, I immersed myself in the thoughts of Earl Nightingale, Tom Hopkins, Napoleon Hill - every winner I could find - and I still do.
To turn your mind into an automated, programed DollarMaker, read my book, “How to Retire in One Year.” Listen to the audios on my website. Read my Blog. Watch the videos on DollarMakers.com - attend our conference calls and Bootcamps, and MIX WITH SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE ONLY. Do not read books by losers, spend time with losers, or talk with losers, or you will become a loser. I was talking with some friends recently. Not one of us had any friends who smoked. There’s a clue there. Mix with winners ONLY. Control your input, and you will control your output. When is it enough input? When you have achieved all your goals.
Here’s the good news. The more your mind becomes a Money Magician, the more difficult it will become for you to tolerate losers or read rubbish. Success becomes automatic. How soon do you want success? Massive sowing and input gets faster results - it depends how badly you want success. If you want to retire in a year or less, my book even contains a complete goal setting system, to guide you to your goal! It doesn’t get easier than that. It will reveal all the resources you need. It’s the Money Mind Manual, the Blue Chip Bible, the Wealth Workbook, the Swiss Army Knife to Success.
Welcome to your exciting future.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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02.19.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 5:12 pm by Robin J. Elliott
The past is not equal to the future. The only thing you can control in life is your reaction to your circumstances and opportunities, and when you control your reaction to and interpretation of your circumstances in a positive way, you can create any future you want. You can go through life looking through the rear-0view mirror at your past, or you can start creating a wonderful future - and the future starts RIGHT NOW. Isn’t that exciting?
You can let the sad past pull you down, disempower you, discourage you and distract you, or you can create an exciting goal for your future and allow that positive objective to pull you through any temporary detour along the way. Remember, no-one can do it for you, and no-one can do it to you. YOU are the creator of your life, and you are responsible for the life you have, as well as the life you’re going to have. You can live in regret about the past or enthusiasm about the future - you decide what you want to focus ion. The past is dead, and there’s nothing you can do about it, but the future is whatever you decide to make of it! The future is your BEST FRIEND.
So don’t allow past hurts and disappointments to pull you back and slow you down. Turn your back on the past, face the future boldly and optimistically, and determine that you won’t quit until you make all your dreams come true. It’s never too late to start over, and every new day is a new birth of your own, personal future. You’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish with persistence, enthusiasm, a positive outlook, hard work, and good friends. Most of all, you need a very clear picture of your goals. The clearer and more vividly you can visualize exactly what you want your life to look like, the sooner and the more likely it will become a reality. Paul J. Meyer said, “Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass.” Forget about the past - it’s dead. Create the future you want.
Robion J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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Posted in Uncategorized at 10:53 am by Robin J. Elliott
Hiking in pristine conditions on Mount Seymour, British Columbia, last weekend, I learned an important lesson. The sun was shining, deep, virgin snow glittering like a million diamonds, incredible views across the ocean. Jonathan Marks was walking with me, and we were discussing risk tolerance. He is an astute, seasoned businessman, and I always enjoy chatting with him. He has lived in South Africa, New Zealand, and now Canada, and has succeeded in numerous businesses. I asked him if I could use his concept and he kindly agreed.
Here’s what Jonathan taught me. The context was buying residential properties and having tenants rent them to pay down the mortgage. This is a risky business, since tenants are protected by the socialist laws and often rip the owners off, don’t pay, damage the homes, etc. He said, let’s assume that statistically, 50% of tenants are very good - they pay, they stay, and they look after the property. the other 50% are the “Tenants from Hell” - they don’t pay , they don’t stay, and they damage the property. How can we use this scary, imaginary statistic to understand how we can reduce risk over time?
Suppose you get twenty tenants in twenty properties. Ten are good, ten at bad (50%). So you get rid of the ten bad ones and replace them with ten new ones. Now, according to our hypothetical statistic, 50% of these new tenants will be great, and the other five will be bad. So you get rid of five. You now have 15 great tenants! So you get five new ones. Half of them will be great, half will be bad. So you kick the bad ones out and replace them… As you can see, over time, you clean out the muck and keep the good tenants, until all your twenty tenants are great.
This objective understanding can be applied to any business situation, particularly when it comes to employees, team members, and Joint Venture partners. If you build a sales team and half of them are losers, keep on replacing the scavengers and parasites with new people until you have the dream team. Most people quit so easily, it’s scary. They try one or two Joint Ventures, they don’t work, so they run home crying to their mommies. They join a business and within two months they’re whining that it doesn’t work. Weak, stupid, lazy, and dishonest people never succeed. Someone once questioned why I “couldn’t keep” my sales team members. I don’t keep parasites on my team. I told them, “I will keep replacing losers until I end up with a team of winners.” It’s a selection process. Some will, some won’t - so what? NEXT!
In Network Marketing, the same applies. Most don’t, some won’t, other’s can’t, no problem. Keep on recruiting and focus on the five percent that will be champions and make you rich, no matter how long it takes - just keep on keeping on UNTIL. Not “IF”, but UNTIL. WHEN. Offer people a good chance, give them the benefit of the doubt, allow them to try to prove themselves, and don’t take it personally when they can’t cut the mustard - just remove and replace. It’s a simple sorting process.Persistence and consistence always wins the day - the tortoise and the hare.
Success is by design, not by chance, and the ability to persists over time is the key to real success.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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02.17.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 7:53 am by Robin J. Elliott
“Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand
This book certainly changed my life, and I adopted the philosophy of Objectivism while reading it. It paid off. I suggest everyone reads it. It will also explain why many people are no longer in my life; simply put, Atlas shrugged.
Alan Greenspan said of this book: “’Atlas Shrugged’ is a celebration of life and happiness. Justice is unrelenting. Creative individuals and undeviating purpose and rationality achieve joy and fulfillment. Parasites who persistently avoid either purpose or reason perish as they should.” One of the most influential business books ever written is a 1,200-page novel published 50 years ago, on Oct. 12, 1957. It is still drawing readers.
David Veksler writes:
“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
Thus, the hero of Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged chooses sides in an epic struggle for man’s soul – not in heaven, but on earth. The central plot of Atlas Shrugged is a mystery story: as Dagny Taggard, a successful railroad executive, watches the entrepreneurs and inventors of her society disappear one by one, she seeks to discover the source of the scourge that is destroying her world. She witnesses the consequences of the ethics of altruism and collectivism as her society descends into socialism, productive men are turned into slaves, and mooching beggars into her masters.
Throughout the novel, Ayn Rand presents clear examples of her philosophy in action through strong heroes and treacherous villains who demonstrate the importance of philosophy and the consequences of moral and immoral lives. Her characters ask and answer numerous important questions such as “Is reality independent of our minds or is it shaped by them? What is the result of basing our actions on emotions and what happens when we base them on reason? Why are so many successful individuals hated for their success? Should love be free or must it be earned? What is the proper role of government?” However, the most influential question Atlas Shrugged answered for me was “what kind of life must a man lead to achieve a state of guiltless happiness?”
The influence of Atlas Shrugged on my life has been so profound that I am still learning new applications of the philosophy Ayn Rand presented every day. This book is for everyone who has ever questioned the ethics of altruism and asked “what is the purpose of my life?”
If every teenager was to read this book, and then reread it in adulthood, the world would be a far better place to live in, and parasites, collectivists, and witchdoctors would not be in the powerful positions they currently hold. But for now, my message to true producers and creators is, “Don’t hesitate, when appropriate, to shrug.”
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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02.15.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:11 pm by Robin J. Elliott
There are people who believe so sincerely in their own failure, who wallow so successfully in guilt and self-pity, and who love so dearly the idea of being able to leech off successful people, that they purposefully and consciously refuse to prosper. They are determined to be liars and losers and to blame the world, their parents, and their neighbors for their misery. These people are to be avoided like the plague. They refuse to be helped and they will be a drain on your patience and eventually on your ammunition box when you put them out of their misery and save the world some valuable time and energy.
These are the pitiful types who refuse to take responsibility for thier own lives and therefore refuse any opportunity to better themselves. Whatever option you offer them to make money and succeed, they will attack, and the rest of their flock will support their self-defeating decision to the hilt. They are pefect examples of the Self-fulfilling prophecy. They are pessimists extraordinaire, but they do it with a smile (and a hug, if you let them). When you associate yourself with these parasites, you are setting yourself up for a financial haemorage. You will be thrown off course and find yourself majoring in minors, losing your belief and enthusiasm, and focusing on what you don’t want.
You will deny yourself prosperity and success when you partner with these sheeple. Do not accept them as clients, associates, downline, upline, or sideline. Don’t mix with them or their friends. Rather wander alone than with a loser. Protect your mind from the insidious poison of these dangerous deadbeats, these fungal freeloaders. Judge them by the company they keep, by all means. People who hang around with bloodsuckers are seldom billionaires. So next time you meet one of these poisonous pathogens, turn tail and run for the hills. Your bank account and sanity can’t afford them. You don’t deserve them, and they certainly don’t deserve you.
Rather have five good, productive, creative, inspiring, honest, responsible friends that a host of incompetents and wanna-be’s. Talk to three good people and be inspired, rather than be exasperated by a lot of nonstarters. Don’t deny yourself the good life by deliberately poisoning the well. Find the 3% and reject the 97%.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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Posted in Uncategorized at 3:35 pm by Robin J. Elliott
“The Ancestor’s Tale” by Richard Dawkins
In business, we see that the law of sowing and reaping is always at work. For an intellectual recharge, as well as the peace of mind that comes from seeing that your capitalist philosophy is based on real science, the analogy being evolution, I highly recommend this wonderful book by one of the greatest minds of our time.
From From Amazon.co.uk:
Just as we trace our personal family trees from parents to grandparents and so on back in time, so in The Ancestor’s Tale Richard Dawkins traces the ancestry of life. As he is at pains to point out, this is very much our human tale, our ancestry. Surprisingly, it is one that many otherwise literate people are largely unaware of. Hopefully Dawkins’s name and well deserved reputation as a best selling writer will introduce them to this wonderful saga. The Ancestor’s Tale takes us from our immediate human ancestors back through what he calls ‘concestors,’ those shared with the apes, monkeys and other mammals and other vertebrates and beyond to the dim and distant microbial beginnings of life some 4 billion years ago. It is a remarkable story which is still very much in the process of being uncovered. And, of course from a scientist of Dawkins stature and reputation we get an insider’s knowledge of the most up-to-date science and many of those involved in the research. And, as we have come to expect of Dawkins, it is told with a passionate commitment to scientific veracity and a nose for a good story. Dawkins’s knowledge of the vast and wonderful sweep of life’s diversity is admirable. Not only does it encompass the most interesting living representatives of so many groups of organisms but also the important and informative fossil ones, many of which have only been found in recent years. Dawkins sees his journey with its reverse chronology as ‘cast in the form of an epic pilgrimage from the present to the past [and] all roads lead to the origin of life.’ It is, to my mind, a sensible and perfectly acceptable approach although some might complain about going against the grain of evolution. The great benefit for the general reader is that it begins with the more familiar present and the animals nearest and dearest to us—our immediate human ancestors. And then it delves back into the more remote and less familiar past with its droves of lesser known and extinct fossil forms. The whole pilgrimage is divided into 40 tales, each based around a group of organisms and discusses their role in the overall story. Genetic, morphological and fossil evidence is all taken into account and illustrated with a wealth of photos and drawings of living and fossils forms, evolutionary and distributional charts and maps through time, providing a visual compliment and complement to the text. The design also allows Dawkins to make numerous running comments and characteristic asides. There are also numerous references and a good index.– Douglas Palmer
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Posted in Uncategorized at 10:04 am by Robin J. Elliott
Dear Robin,
I wanted to thank you for your efforts on behalf of all Dollarmaker members. I would like to tell you of one circumstance whereby the information you provided saved my family up front costs of $125,000, provided us with an income of $50,000/year, and passive income from the business of $30,000/year. More importantly, the income from this medical facility has allowed me to stop being on-call on nights and weekends, and to spend more time with my family, other businesses, and our passion for helping parents help their own children. The patients, my partners, and my family are all delighted.
I am a Respiratory Specialist Physician and based on patient need was going to set up a medical laboratory in my field. My family was going to put out the upfront capital and was going to pay for a location, advertising, and operational costs for this business along with dealing with the uncertainty as to whether our facility was going to be a preferred provider compared to other services available. My wife attended one of your Bootcamps 101 alone as I was at work and she purchased your workbook. I read the material that very night and decided to make some big changes to my proposal.
In exchange for profit which I was going to have to share anyway, I negotiated that since I had intellectual capital, qualification, and a track record of being able to set up this facility, that the other partners should put up the money and that I should be paid a consultation fee. In return, the patients of the partners would have first access (a tremendous advantage in the setting of limited resources) and the partners would have equity share. They agreed and this led to the current agreement and the results listed above.
The power of a different way of thinking, information, and action are incredible. Thank you very much.
Sincerely yours,
Kumar Ramlall, BSc,MD,FRCPC,FAAP,FCCP,(Ped. Resp) Feb 13, 2008
Another Testimonial:
“Robin Elliott’s teaching has changed the way I do business. I used to think building a business was risky and expensive. Robin showed me how to build my business using no money and no risk; just some time . Not only did I get to meet some winners by going to the boot camp, Robin has continued to take an interest in my success often taking time to respond to my queries. By adding just 1 of his strategies to my experience, IN MY EXISTING BUSINESS, I make an additional $5000 per month. It’s not completely work free; I still put in about 8 hours per month maintaining it. Not everything I have tried has worked, and a couple have outright failed; but in spite of that within 7 months of attending his boot camp I was financially free. The point is that besides the initial cost of the boot camp there was no risk whatsoever. I highly recommend anyone looking to take the risk out of business and increase your profits attend this next boot camp. I’ll be there!” ~ Patrick Giesbrecht, Abbotsford, BC October, 2007
More info: www.DollarMakers.com
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02.13.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:11 pm by Robin J. Elliott
What is the secret to business success? If it was attending seminars, reading books, or going to meetings, everyone would be successful, yet only 5% of people (I think it’s more like 3%) are truly successful. And they are successful by choice. It has nothing to do with their age, education, or background. It is simply a choice. A loser can become a winner by simply making this one choice. You can turn losing into winning with this simple decision.
The decision we have to make is to persist until we succeed. Unfaltering, uncompromising, consistent PERSISTENCE. Whatever it takes. “I would cut off my hands and feet with a dull blade before I quit” - that kind of permanent commitment to succeed. THAT is what winners all have in common. They NEVER quit. Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times yet also hit 714 home runs. He said, “How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball…The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.”
The fact is, the more disciplined you are, the more persistent and consistent you are, the higher your self-esteem, and the higher yourself-esteem, the more you succeed! Henry Ford said, “There isn’t a person anywhere who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can.” It’s a simple choice, not to accept anything less than success. “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
Michael Jordan, winner of six NBA Championships, said, “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty six times I have been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over again in my life-and that is why I succeed.” Winners see failure as a temporary detour. They welcome failure as a step closer to success. Anaïs Nin wrote, “We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.” She also taught us, “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
The missing link between you and success in business is simply the decision that you will insist on success and you will persevere until you succeed. That’s all. Total commitment. This is the ingredient, the catalyst, that makes all the difference. It separates the complacent and mediocre from the wealthy and successful. It removes apathy and compromise. When you commit yourself, you realize that you have unlimited potential. According to legend, when a young boy asked the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo why he was working so hard hitting the block of marble that would eventually become his greatest sculpture, David, the artist replied, “Young man, there is an angel inside this rock, and I am setting him free.” The rock prison around you is smashed when you make a determined decision that you will NEVER quit.
Failure is not permanent. You can change your life dramatically, TODAY, if you will make this decision and stick by it, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, week by week, year by year. It’s amazing what happens when people make this rock-solid. 24-carat gold decision that they will never quit. Everything changes, and you start attracting amazing people and circumstances into your life. Your self-image soars, you feel great and strong, and life gets infinitely easier. Regardless of your past of your present circumstances, no matter who you are, make this decision every single day for the rest of your life and you will join the top 5% of winners.
Don’t Quit!
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
when the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest, if you must, but do not quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow—
You may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man.
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor’s cup,
And he learned too late when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out—
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are.
It may be near when it seems so far,
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit—
It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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Posted in Uncategorized at 10:12 am by Robin J. Elliott
You’ve heard the story about the tortoise and the hare. In today’s busy world where everyone wants instant gratification, we need to remember that the secret to success is, as Jim Collins put it, “an overall accumulation of effort, applied in a consistent direction.”
The idea is to persistently make minute improvements on a consistent basis that tend to compound over time like interest. A ¼% improvement in any skill each day is a 1-¾% improvement each week! A 7% improvement each month! An 84% improvement in just 1 year! It’s actually higher than that because all of your advances are compounding at an exponential rate!
Would you rather have $10,000 right now, or a penny doubled every day for a month?
Day Amount $
1 .01
2 .02
3 .04
4 .08
5 .16
6 .32
7 .64
8 1.28
9 2.56
10 5.12
11 10.24
12 20.48
13 40.96
14 81.92
15 $163.84
Halfway there. Do you think it was a good choice to take the penny doubled every day? Sure doesn’t look like it’s adding up very fast. Let’s get back to work!
Day Amount $
16 327.68
17 655.36
18 1,310.72
19 2,621.44
20 5,242.88
21 10,485.76
22 20,971.52
23 41,943.04
24 83,886.08
25 167,772.16
26 335,544.32
27 671,088.64
28 1,342,177.28
29 2,684,354.56
30 $5,368,709.12
Patience and Persistence DO pay off. That was worth the wait!!!
That’s the power of persistence and consistency. Now turn that into customer/distributors in your downline. You and each of them get ONE NEW CUSTOMER A MONTH — and at the end of 30 months you will have a LOT of customers in your downline.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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02.12.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:33 am by Robin J. Elliott
Chris Widener interviews top achievers around the world and he wanted to know what makes the difference between the small percentage of top achievers in Network Marketing and those who don’t get rich. He interviewed seven people earning between $80,000 - $400,000 PER MONTH - ordinary people who have succeeded. They represented different ages, from different areas, and from different companies. The average time that they were in Network Marketing was eleven years. As Chris says, “It’s not get rich quick - it’s get rich STEADY”.
He asked one of his friends who makes $400,000 a year after eleven years in the business, “How many people do you think would do what you did if you absolutely GUARANTEED that they would be making $400,000 per year in eleven years?” His answer was, “Very few. Most people will not persist and put in the time and the work.” The fact is, they will probably put that time and work into a job, and eleven years later they will have nothing to show for it, whereas they could have $400,000 per year or more. The NUMBER ONE thing that Chris got from every single one of the people he interviewed to find out what separates the winners from the losers, was: “Follow the proven system.” They don’t second guess, give up, reinvent the wheel, or lose interest. They commit, follow the proven system, and succeed. And yes, they WORK.
Their number two answer was: “Don’t quit.” One of the people Chris interviewed makes $80,000 per month, and after three years he had never signed anyone up. But he stayed there and persisted, and in his seventh year he was earning $80,000 per month. We overestimate what we can do in one year, but we vastly underestimate what we can do in five years. Winners NEVER quit.
A good illustration of how patience, tenacity, consistency and persistency pays off in Network Marketing is Jeff Olson’s illustration of the water hyacinth in his wonderful book, “The Slight Edge”. This beautiful and delicate plant floats on water. It is one of the most productive plants on planet earth. The method it prefers for colonizing an area is to grow by doubling itself by sending out short runner stems that become “daughter plants”. If a pond surface is fairly still and undisturbed, the water hyacinth may cover the entire pond within 30 days.
On the first day, you won’t even notice it. In fact, for the first two weeks, you’d have to search very hard to find it! On day fifteen, it will cover about a single square foot of the pond’s surface. On the 20th day (2/3rds of the way to the end of the month), it will be about the size of a small mattress. It would look like a boy’s inflatable life raft. On day 29, one half of the pond’s surface would still be open water. On the 30th day, the entire pond would be covered by a blanket of water hyacinth. You would not see any water at all. This is the amazing leverage and power available to those who work hard and stick to the system in the right Network Marketing company.
Note: Like everything else, you get good Network Marketing companies and bad / mediocre ones. Over 21 years, I have been exposed to and involved with many of them. The best by far, in my opinion, and the one that I focus on, is Pre-Paid Legal. Join my team here: www.DollarMakersBusiness.com
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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02.11.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:13 pm by Robin J. Elliott
I had coffee with someone in my Network Marketing downline last week. She was whining about the company’s imperfections, while the real reason for her misplaced and ludicrous passive aggression was that she hadn’t recruited anybody recently. Does that sound familiar? We like to blame others when we’re not performing, don’t we? When I started taking her temperature, her aggression soared and she actually stopped smiling through her teeth. (A sure sign of passive aggression.)
Now, I didn’t whip out the trusty old thermometer and thrust it into the corner of her scowling mouth. When I say “I started taking her temperature”, I mean I started to calibrate her level of motivation and passion. Let me ask you this: If you needed to sign a lotto ticket in order to claim your ten million dollar win within five minutes or lose the money, and you didn’t have a pen, would you hesitate to ask everyone in sight, even BEG everyone in sight to lend you a pen? I think not. Your motivation level would have you flagging down cars, shouting at passers-by, shoplifting, wrestling obese women to the ground and rummaging through their purses for a pen… you get my drift.
I simply asked her, “Have you asked EVERYONE you know to join your team? How many times have you asked them? Have you asked them to bring their friends, family, and alcoholic nephews to the meeting? If not, why not? How excited and serious are you about your business? Do you BELIEVE you will make $20,000 per month in residual income from this business? Do you attend every single meeting? How many hours a day are you working?” And that innocuous question seemed to irritate her. I knew she was irritated when she turned a beetroot red and started stammering. Which is hard on a shy fellow like myself.
People will work nine hours a day and commute two hours a day (total 11 hours a day), with people they hate, for a boss they despise, serving customers they regard as the scum of the earth, to earn and a pathetic income, but when they resign to start their own business and the Sword of Damocles is removed from above their heads, they expect to earn ten times the money by working three hours a day. Such is their level of self-discipline, belief, and motivation. Hence the need for taking their temperatures. If you find someone’s level of motivation, on a scale of one to ten, is anywhere below twelve, kick them to the curb. Work with your motivated people.
This is important: The cream will rise to the top. When you find that someone is skimmed, sour milk, move on. Give everyone the best opportunity and information you can, but do not kick dead horses. (”You gotta know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, know when to walk away, know when to run…”) Work with people who actually WORK. Don’t beg them to succeed. Take their motivational temperatures and focus your energy and support on the highly motivated. And remember, actions speak louder than words. Do NOT believe excuses and don’t listen to complaints. Talk is cheap, and money buys the Lagavulin.
Now let me ask you this: “What is YOUR temperature?” You will know by looking at what you DO.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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Posted in Uncategorized at 10:13 pm by Robin J. Elliott
Today I made a stupid mistake - I answered the phone, thinking it was my printer. Instead, it was a very typical phone call. “I have this amazing health product and how can the DollarMakers Joint Venture Brokers Club help me sell more of my products? What can you offer me? I have read your website.” Yeah right! And you have a very low IQ, too. DollarMakers is about Joint Ventures, not the type of joint you just finished smoking. Here’s a special message to the next broke, self-employed salesman that calls me with this kind of ridiculous question: We’re in business to make a profit, not to sell your placebo effect snake oils. We’re not your personal salespeople or hired hands. We teach people how to broker business deals, not how to stay broke by flogging overpriced lotions and potions.
Now let me tell you how I REALLY feel… A real businessman or entrepreneur is in business to make the maximum amount of net, after-tax profit, with the least amount of time, risk, and cost. We do that by leveraging resources. Our egos are not involved. We focus on the bottom line. We invite people to join our Club in order to learn more about Joint Ventures and to get access to like-minded people who understand the process. You make more money by triangulating deals and selling other peoples’ products and services than your own products, services, or time. If you want to make money, broker JV’s. If you want to feel important, loved, and clever, go buy a teddy bear. If you want hugs, find a new age support group or become a chubby chaser. If you want PROFIT, come to DollarMakers.
There are a lot of illiterate, blind people out there who claim to have read my website. But then, to be fair, reading it doesn’t mean they understand it, even after watching hours of videos and reading an entire 146 page book. After all, the average IQ on a bell curve is only 100. So let me try to explain one more time how to make money, using examples that the average entrepreneur can identify with. If I sell my time as a ditch digger (I rarely do) I can make a limited amount of money. If I subcontract the job and become an agent for ditch diggers, I can make more money, because I am leveraging other peoples’ time. 100% of my own limited time versus 20% of the time of twenty other people = four times more money using leverage.
I had a “personal success coach” email me and tell me he understands exactly what a Joint Venture is and how they work. He can’t afford to attend the next Bootcamp, however. In fact, he does not understand Joint Ventures, because if he did, he would not sell his own time. That’s why he has no money. He is unconsciously incompetent; he doesn’t know that he doesn’t understand. Only 1% of the owners of small and medium sized business, and about .1% of self-employed salespeople, understand and use Joint Ventures.
At our training sessions, I encourage “business owners” to try and forget that they have a business, to forget that they have products and services to sell, and to focus instead on value, money, and distribution. In other words, on business. Pretend, for a heart-wrenching minute, that you have closed your business down. Forget about how smart and experienced you think you are. Nobody believes you, nobody cares, and it doesn’t matter. Focus instead on getting other people what they want and make sure you get paid for every transaction you facilitate. Then, instead of being a Dollar Faker, or a Dollar Taker, you will become a dyed in the wool, genuine, 24-carat DollarMaker.
Robin J. Elliott (Gentle, humble, scared, and politically correct, as always. www.DollarMakers.com
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02.09.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:03 pm by Robin J. Elliott
A South African furniture store had a great advertising campaign that claimed, “You have an uncle in the furniture business“. This was based on the presumption that if you did, indeed, have an uncle in the furniture business, you would get some sweet deals, discounts, and possibly even freebies. That, of course, assumes your uncle is successful, that he is more than a mere salesman, and more importantly, that he likes you enough to offer you these benefits! (There is also a moving company in South Africa called Elliott International. Their slogan is “Elliott is Amazing“ but that’s a foregone conclusion…)
Back to the “uncle” concept. If I had my youth over again, I would become a lawyer before getting into business. I think it would have been a very smart move. Twelve years ago, I paid my lawyer $500 to save me $30,000. Very important and smart to use good lawyers. But you don’t get a good lawyer for under $300 per hour anymore, and many cost $1,000 per hour. In today’s world, therefore, if I had to choose a friendly, wealthy, and successful Uncle in any industry, it would be in a top legal firm. Imagine an Uncle who gave you free access to his lawyers and legal services and advice 24/7, who would always be there for you to examine contracts before you signed them, and answer any questions you might have, like those lawyers that are retained by the super rich. They say, “prevention is better than cure”. What peace of mind! “I have an Uncle who owns a law firm and he likes me. Watch out!”
But that’s a pipe dream, isn’t it? NOT ANY MORE. I do, in fact, have incredible legal access and protection, as well as excellent services from top law firms across North America, and it costs me just $35 per month. You can have it, too. Really. In addition, it earns me thousands of dollars a month! Don’t believe me? Click here to see how.
Robin J. Elliott
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02.08.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 1:28 pm by Robin J. Elliott
I am constantly amazed at the way people get involved with scammers and con artists, when there are some perfectly good, proven, and lucrative Joint Ventures available. If I was a detective looking for a confidence trickster or a thief, my chief suspects would be trainers, seminar leaders, coaches, ministers of religion, politicians, and consultants. A large percentage of them are broke, unemployed salesmen with delusions of adequacy - legends in their own lunchtimes.
Do your due diligence before writing a check - please! Before you invest with one of these “self-made men” who worships his creator, do a little background checking. Don’t be impressed when he hands you his self-published book, unless you need to make a fire. Don’t believe their stories unless you can authenticate them. When they have people running to the back of the seminar room to buy their overpriced junk, remember that scarcity, fear, and greed, and not rational evaluation, is driving those poor losers to buy stuff they don’t need and can’t afford with money they don’t have. Men, take your wife with you to the next sell fest that is disguised as a seminar - women are more intuitive and generally more intelligent when it comes to these things.
Don’t spend money if you’re under pressure to do so. There’s really no rush. I heard of a fellow who paid a private detective $300 do a background check on a public speaker who was selling a $30,000 “Business Opportunity” - he was shocked at what he discovered,m and needless to say he didn’t invest. When you hear them screaming, “Today only! Special deal! Never to be offered again! Limited inventory!” you know that some people are going to wake up the next morning with horrible regret and a seriously depleted bank balance. Their greed and fear cost them their hard-earned money.
There are some excellent and lucrative opportunities available, but they are few and far between, and it will serve you well to be cautious and objective when making your choice.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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02.07.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:38 pm by Robin J. Elliott
According to Gail Vaz-Oxlade, Statistics Canada reports that about 47% (nearly half) of Canadian households spend more than their pre-tax income. Between 1999 and 2005, line of credit use has increased by 133%, credit card debt is up 62%, and vehicle loans are up 42%. People are falling further and further behind. They use new credit cards to pay the minimum balances on their other credit cards, and when you factor in the fees, many American credit cards cost 38%. When fees are taken into account, payday loans cost up to 1,000%! Credit crises extraordinaire. Are you tired of lying awake worrying, robbing Peter to pay Paul, and knowing that the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train?
If you really can’t tighten your belt anymore, your costs are cut to the bone, and your kids are eating old newspapers, the only way out of debt is to make more money. You can walk to save bus money, or earn enough to buy a brand new car. Instead of finding out how to save more and cut up your credit cards, why not earn significantly more? Oh, you don’t have time for a third job? A job (Just Over Broke) is not the answer. There is an easier way, and it’s risk free.
Yes, there is a way to make a lot more money with no cost, no job, no selling, no risk, and very little time, regardless of your circumstances. And before you start the old “But…” or “Too good to be…” or “Sounds like a scam…”, the reality is that the answer, not only to freedom from debt, but RETIREMMENT is available to you for a mere $20. The secret, the key to the safe, the solution, the bridge to financial freedom, for $20. To know more, click here: www.DollarMakers.com/book
Robin J. Elliott
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02.06.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:12 pm by Robin J. Elliott
During the English civil war, many aristocratic women had to defend their castles while their husbands were away fighting. In 1643, Lady Mary Bankes held Corfe Castle against the parliamentary forces for six weeks, personally defending the upper ward with her daughters, waiting women and five men, by hurling down boiling water, stones, and red-hot embers so effectively that the besiegers reportedly “ran away crying”. The castle was eventually taken not by force of arms, but by treachery: one of her men led a group of the enemy into the castle.
There are three kinds of enemies in the world of business: First, the obvious enemies, like unscrupulous competitors, bureaucrats, and crooked customers. Second, yourself: you are your own worst enemy when you’re negative, lazy, dishonest, unfocused, fearful, or compromising. But the third kind of enemy is the most dangerous and insidious, and that is the trusted team member who is actually a duplicitous, double-dealing traitor, and who will lead your enemies into your castle. They will conspire to undermine and sabotage your progress and make trouble in the ranks. They are the deserters who will befriend your enemies.
Good leaders, as we learn from Sun Tzu’s Art of War, are always on the lookout for internal enemies like this. They should be mercilessly removed and dealt with before they can do too much damage. Do not ignore the signs of a provocateur, which are contact with your enemies, avoiding communication (hiding), complaining, low production, and discontent. You will see them preparing alternative incomes and their words will reveal their true feelings if you listen well. Guard your business castle from the internal as well as the external enemies.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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02.05.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:34 pm by Robin J. Elliott
More than 14,000 people have read my book, Joint Adventures, now available in 5 languages. It has changed the lives of many people and some have retired as a result of reading it. So I decided to improve on it, based on the feedback I received from many of my dear readers. They wanted a more specific road map, so I created it.
I like the idea of keeping your entire success program in one place, and this book is a kind of toolbox, based on the system that changed our own lives in 1987. The book is a Roadmap to Retirement, including a goal-setting system, lots of place for notes, and lists of all the resources you need and where to find them. You can put it in your pocket and refer back to it at any time, check your progress and monitor your results. In our busy lives, this is a kind of Swiss Army knife - all you need to succeed - a Recipe for Retirement in One Year.
Naturally, many people will buy the book and never finish reading it, or not implement the ideas, or change the recipe. But if you’re serious about success and you’re prepared to follow the instructions, you might find, like Patrick Giesbrecht, that you can retire in even less than a year - he did in just seven months. It is meant for people who are hungry and motivated. John Addison said, “Never take advice from someone who is more screwed up than you are”, and Jim Stovall said, “Don’t take advice from anyone who doesn’t already have what you want”. I concur. This book is based on real life and proven systems that I personally use. No fluff- just real stuff. No padding and mental meandering. All good meat.
How badly do you want to retire in one year? Regardless of your age, education, or circumstances, and whether you have a business or not, this is your Handbook to Happiness, your Money Manual, your Gilt-Edged Guidebook from the poor town of Striving all the way to the City of Thriving. This Cash Compendium was created to cripple your debt and set you financially free. No selling, licenses, hidden costs, or risk involved. Just “follow the Yellow Brick Road”, and remember, by the yard it’s hard, but by the inch, it’s cinch. I look forward to hearing your success story. Preview the book here: www.DollarMakers.com/book
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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