06.30.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:35 am by Robin J. Elliott
“The thinnest human hair is half a million angstroms thick. Typing paper is a million angstroms. Yet the layer of quicksilver that turns plate glass into a mirror is only 700 angstroms thick. It would take 714 such layers to equal the thickness of a hair, yet it’s this impossibly thin layer that reflects a woman’s beauty. Beauty may only be skin deep, but the reflection of that beauty is one seven-hundredth of a hair.” - Roy H. Williams
Gnarled, nicotine-stained fingers type lies and false promises and onto a filthy keyboard somewhere, and you eagerly send your hard-earned money into the void. Not everything you read on the Internet is true. It’s an electric impulse from the electric impulse in someone’s twisted mind. As Christopher Hitchens would say, “…a plagiarism of a plagiarism off a hearsay of a hearsay, of an illusion of an illusion. extending all the way back to a fabrication of a few nonevents.”
My message is simple: when faced with exceedingly exciting offers and claims that urge you to feverishly grab your credit card and buy chocolate-covered dung before it sells out, whether at a seminar or as a result of reading tripe on the Internet, check out the facts in the real world. Do your due diligence. North America is the capital of BS - people have learned to lie in a very convincing fashion with no consequence. The worst conman leaps around on a stage and whips the sheeple up into a buying frenzy, and they thank him after being viciously fleeced. Be especially careful of “investments,” “consultants” or “coaches”, and “business opportunities”.
It’s worth kissing a few more frogs to find that prince. Don’t be so impatient that you marry a toad. Don’t bet your future on the message in a stale fortune cookie; there are some great, genuine opportunities out there.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Permalink
06.26.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:16 pm by Robin J. Elliott
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared; he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther.
Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.
The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time.
Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.
What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were nature’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If nature allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been.
And we could never fly…
Permalink
Posted in Uncategorized at 7:47 pm by Robin J. Elliott
I grew up poor. When I saw how rich people lived, I decided to get rich. I learned from rich people how to get rich - that kind of made sense to me. To master a skill, you have to learn about it. One of the most effective explanations of money that I have ever read is this excerpt from my favorite book by Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”.
In Wayne Dunn’s exceptional article, “An Open Letter to Businesspeople“, he clearly teaches us how to regard money and business in a sane, rational way that will pave the way to your success. The prevailing socialist view of business and money keeps people enslaved in jobs and debt, since they eagerly consume the garbage they’re fed by their collectivist masters. By understanding how money and value work, you can break free from group-think and scarcity conditioning.
When we change the way we think about money, we adjust our expectations, values, and choices accordingly. By rethinking our conditioning and questioning the tripe we have been sold by the mystics and politicians, we can discover a whole new world of abundance, opportunity, and prosperity. Jim Addison wisely warned us not to take advice from people who are more screwed up than we are. I would like to add that it is always prudent to question the motives of those who would teach you. Jim Stoval said we should be careful to learn only from those who already have what we want. I agree. Poor people cannot teach one how to attain wealth, and cretinous has-beens, of whom I have met far too many, should be avoided like the plague; the chips on their shoulders are lethal weapons.
Michael Roach, a monk who helped build a $100 million business, is the author of The Diamond Cutter, in which he shows how he studied the diamond business in order to successfully apply his philosophy to it. Without defending the seeming contradiction between perceived mysticism and capitalism here, my point is that he studied the business in order to excel in it, and his underlying philosophy is one of limitlessness.
When Michelangelo sculpted the David, it is said that he studied the marble block for months before he even touched it. He “saw” the David imprisoned within the marble and he chipped the marble away to liberate his masterpiece. I have spent a lot of time reading about escapes by prisoners of war. One of the most important aspects of the escape was studying the prison or concentration camp, the movements of the guards, and the way things worked. We need to study in order to escape mediocrity and financial limitations.
Finally, the philosophy of wealth can only be learned by those who would put aside their preconceived ides, prejudices, and assumptions. One’s conditioning takes some taming, but the rewards are endless.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Permalink
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:17 pm by Robin J. Elliott
Highly recommended read: Why Businessmen Love Atlas Shrugged by Alex Epstein
Permalink
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:13 pm by Robin J. Elliott
We’ve all found ourselves in difficult financial situations, and we all know how fiscal pressure can tempt one to lower one’s standards and compromise in certain areas out of simple desperation and the urgency of the moment. And we have all found out how that backfires. Like a wild animal, money runs away when you chase it; you have to lure it, entice it, attract it with value, and never compromise your standards.
When we’re feeling down and the wolf is scratching at the door, it’s natural to “sell down” - we approach other broke and frantic people instead of “Selling up” - seeking out people who are more successful than we are at the time. Note I said, “at the time.” Being broke is a temporary situation - remember that. Everyone has been there, and there’s no shame in facing the odd storm; it’s HOW you face the storm and the reactions you choose under fire that will determine how long the storm lasts. You get to know yourself and others under pressure; you find out how tough and motivated you really are.
The key to turning around a difficult cash flow predicament is to get a strong trunk out of the basement, find a solid lock to put on it, and stuff your bruised ego and emotionalism into that trunk until you recover. Being objective and clear-headed is essential and that’s where it’s valuable to have access to an objective, successful mentor or friend who can keep you from rushing out and making a fool of yourself. Desperate salespeople seldom make sales, but they do make a lot of enemies.
Be prepared to walk away from any deal, be low-key, remain relaxed, professional, urbane, and at ease. When I ran a hotel for a smart hotelier who was an even smarter entrepreneur, he told me, “Robin, no matter how urgent a matter is, even if the hotel is on fire or the chef is murdering yet another waiter, you must NEVER RUN. You will walk in a stately manner, like a gentleman taking his leisurely constitutional. Be professional and in control at all times, since you set the example and the standard for the entire staff and the guests.”
Most important, don’t hide from your creditors. Keep contact, offer payment schemes, communicate, and remain confident and self-assured at all times. Think big, be flexible, and take the advice of your mentors, but don’t do silly things that will haunt you for year. Create the value that will attract the money. Discipline yourself to be patient and consistent, an the money will come.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Permalink
06.21.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:35 pm by Robin J. Elliott
Join the cream of the DollarMakers crop! See More Here
Permalink
Posted in Uncategorized at 1:39 pm by Robin J. Elliott
Scouts say their motto is “Be Prepared“, and we know that success occurs when preparation meets opportunity. Yet too many Joint Venture Brokers wing it and fail - very predictably. General Orlando Ward said, “One of the biggest reasons for failure on the battlefield is not knowing what to do next. This is the result of not having been trained thoroughly in what to expect on the battlefield.”
Joint Venture Brokers look for clues and use their experience to detect warning signals and red flags in order to avoid sticky situations. After 21 years in this business, I have developed a sixth sense that usually works, however not in every case. Yet the better prepared I am, the less likely I am to get ripped off or taken advantage of. Soldiers who are rushed through their basic training and pushed onto the battlefield prematurely are naive and vulnerable to an established, hardened enemy.
While honing your skills and your understanding of JV’s is very important, let me save you a few years of frustration with some pointers right away.
One of the things to look out for is people pretending to be loyal, open, and committed to a clean, reciprocal JV, when their true motive is simply to push their own product or business into your organization and database. They’re simply leeches who have smelled some juicy blood, and they hug, promise, smile, and joke their way right into your sleeping camp where they reveal their real agenda of rape and pillage. The clue here is the fact that they do very little due diligence on your business, ask few questions, and talk a lot about themselves and their business. They’ll tell you anything you want to hear, because they never intend to reciprocate. We had one like this last year - he ended up spamming our database for ages, and never delivered on his promises. We warn others about you, Larry. Once bitten, twice shy.
Another situation that inexperienced or inadequately trained JV Brokers face is people who have no success record, no database, no ability to produce what they promise, and no integrity, yet they have have been recommended by someone you trust. Instead of doing your proper due diligence, you skim over it, touch on a few points, and overlook some important warning signs, to your regret. I did this with two people whom I shouldn’t have touched with a twenty foot pole. Now, no matter who recommends people to me, I still do my own full due diligence, and the character that recommended these two fools will never get close to my database again. Learn from my mistakes!
And we all know that people who consistently don’t produce what they promise on time and offer ever weaker excuses are headed for the proverbial scrap heap. Reduce the business you send them, and Replace them as soon as possible. They’re losers pretending to be winners.
Also, look out for contamination. A bad home life will affect people’s choices and actions in the workplace. Financial stress will skew their business decisions and can cause erratic and unreasonable responses. Certain religious affiliations will impact their values and can trigger situational ethics and justify unethical behavior. Their levels of desperation, confusion, and conflict will impact your JV’s in irrational and sometimes dangerous ways.
And the worst of all red flags, dear Reader, is the egotistic, pushy, conceited type - snappy dresser, runs his mouth, lots of flash and show, bad listener, usually single, interrupts you and talks over you, makes big promises, talks on his cell phone during meetings, and spends a lot of money on himself. They usually make little eye contact. Tom Cruise types. He will push you to make decisions, as well - always a bad sign. This is not the type of person you want to JV with. If you sit back and let him talk, he will talk about himself and his business for hours, at the end of which he will have forgotten your name. Usually, they’re all hat and no cattle, but conmen have never let that stop them. Voltaire said, “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
DollarMakers Members are encouraged to continue to learn, practice, hone their skills, and select only legitimate JV partners. William Shakespeare said, “All things are ready, if our minds be so.” When you’re well prepared, you’re far more likely to succeed. Abraham Lincoln said, “If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first hour sharpening the ax.”
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Permalink
06.18.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:58 pm by Robin J. Elliott
Some Sales Managers experience the following challenges:
- Unproductive salespeople who specialize in whining new tunes
- Salespeople complaining that the customers can’t afford their products and services
- Economic downturns
- Absenteeism and showing up late
- Salespeople that are not loyal and leave for the slightest pay increase or incentive
- Salespeople that make excuses and are lazy
- Strong competition
- Hard to find and keep good salespeople
- No new information or tools to motivate their salespeople - they’ve heard it all before.
We offer Sales Managers the following tools for their beloved sales teams:
- Create unlimited streams of eager, qualified, and primed prospects
- Differentiate yourself from the competition by creating massive added value at no cost
- Offer huge, compelling incentives, bonuses and premiums to prospects for making a buying decision, at no cost to you
- Learn how to get the prospect’s undivided attention and lifelong loyalty
- Stop selling, and start solving
- Increase sales closing/conversion ratios through the roof by using our proven systems
- Offer your salespeople exciting and valuable sales target bonuses at no cost to you
Our customized, in-house, 5-hour Joint Venture Bootcamps turn snailspeople into salespeople. We’re all about working smart and getting results.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Permalink
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:31 pm by Robin J. Elliott
I had a character waving a carrot in front of my lovely face again today, weaving shiny lies about how much money I could make by lowering my standards and joining his phalanx of pitch men and snake oil salesmen. You can’t use a juicy steak, albeit poisoned and rotten, to entice someone whose stomach is already full.
Attend most seminars, and you will find a slick salesman oiling his way around the stage, whipping the naive, desperate, unsuspecting and vulnerable masses into an emotional frenzy before they rush, bleating innocently and incoherently, to the back of the room to buy beautifully packaged, fake dreams that they can’t afford, with money they don’t have, and over which they will weep long tears of resentment and self-recrimination in the cold light of day. You traded your soul for a bowl of soup, and the soup’s cold, and tainted with your greed.
These odious, self-styled gurus are amongst the greatest conmen in the world. They brag about their sales and conquests like child molesters. They wax lyrical about their non-existent integrity as they leave piles of reeking financial destruction in their wake. Long term wealth is built on the solid foundation of integrity, congruency, and good relationships. The rocks of trust and professionalism outlast the cotton candy disguised as sound investments. Real wealth is as real as the people behind it. The womanizers, cheats and posers soon meet their match and go back to selling used cars and weed, or end up in prison, where they belong.
DollarMakers is built on strong relationships. We regularly and diligently weed the garden and discard the trash, the parasites, and the saboteurs, and replace them with honorable men and women. We build long-term strength and bonds that will keep under strong winds and the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. We find reliable, mature individuals whose word is their bond and who understand reciprocity and the law of compensation. We keep the “big picture” in mind. We sow good seed and reap abundantly after patiently nurturing the money plants.
If you want a tall building, take time on the foundation. Learn from the Three Little Pigs.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
“Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles?” - Ayn Rand (And he hugs people, too…)
Permalink
06.17.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 3:21 pm by Robin J. Elliott
We watched an old 1966 movie last night, called OSCAR, in which the Maitre D’, a failed film star, tells the famous film-star just how precarious the film star’s position really is. It’s human nature to avoid reality, wear blinkers, and stick our heads in the sand, but facts are facts. Your eager replacement is waiting in the wings. If you don’t perform, you will be replaced fast, and the scary part is that you won’t even know it until it’s too late.
We all buy life insurance, houses, websites, holidays, cars, furniture, and many other things, and we are free to decide whom to purchase from. I had someone call me and ask me, “Why didn’t you buy from me?” My response was very simple: “You didn’t earn the right. You need to earn my business. You didn’t.” Last week I had someone ask me to recommend a realtor. I know a few realtors, but there was not one that I would recommend - they didn’t earn the right. I am currently in the process or replacing one of my service providers, and he is blissfully unaware that his replacement is already waiting in the wings. Why? He has been unreliable, unprofessional, and unresponsive. So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodnight. When he wakes up and wipes his eyes he will realize he has lost a fortune in future business and referrals. Too late for tears.
Pride comes before the fall. Take people for granted, let your service slip, and before you know it, you’ve been replaced by a hungry competitor. In order to avoid this unhappy and costly predicament, here are a few pointers to allow you not only to keep the business you already have, but to add to it significantly:
1. Respond promptly to e mails, calls, and letters. That means FAST.
2. Pay on time. If I have to remind you, I might suspect you never intended paying.
3. Go the extra mile - add unexpected value.
4. Communicate effectively, respectfully, and regularly.
5. Reciprocate with referrals, invitations, and recognition.
6. Constantly improve your service and products.
7. THANK people for the business they send you with money or other real value.
Your replacement is eagerly waiting in the wings. He wants to take your business, and he’s ready to earn it. DollarMakers specializes in showing people how to add massive value and differentiate themselves from the competition with no additional cost, through the use of Joint Ventures.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Permalink
Posted in Uncategorized at 2:56 pm by Robin J. Elliott
- Does the economic downturn cause you to worry about your future and your retirement?
- Have the increased gas prices caused you to cut back on other things in your family budget?
- If there was a way to protect yourself from Identity Theft and have your ID restored if it was stolen, would you be interested in finding out more about it?
- Do you find you have too much month left at the end of your money?
- Do you have time, but not enough money? Or money, but not enough time?
- Have you considered a home based business to generate an alternative, additional source of income?
- If I could show you a way to prosper in today’s economy, would you be interested in more information?
- Would you like to create financial security and prosperity with no cost or risk?
This is what DollarMakers offers. For more information, simply send an e mail to robin@dollarmakers.com with your name and telephone number, and put “My Opportunities” in the Subject Box.
Permalink
Posted in Uncategorized at 5:47 am by Robin J. Elliott
I dreamed I was back in South Africa, and a woman was shouting at me, “The Nationalists killed us with our own passion – we have nothing left in this country. We believed, and now we have nothing left; what can I teach now?” In my dream, she had been a fervent Nationalist and their own policies had been their undoing in a savage world where an outdated and purist ideology no longer worked. My answer to her was, “You will discover a new passion, a new purpose, which you will preach. Times have changed, but your mission will not.” This is the subject of this article, which buzzed around my head until I was compelled to rise, and here I sit at 4.21am, with a steaming cup of Tetleys, to release this incessant chattering in my sleep-deprived head.
I had been reading Christopher Hitchens and admiring his empathy with his reader, as he tells of his own pain as he realized that his philosophy had become outdated, and how he sometimes longs for a reality that which is no longer viable. He writes, “For a good part of my life, I had a share in this idea that I have not quite abandoned. But there came a time when I could not protect myself, and indeed did not wish to protect myself, from the onslaught of reality. Marxism, I conceded, had its intellectual and philosophical and ethical glories, but they were in the past.” Later he writes, “There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better, too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of the doctrinaire and allow your chainless mind to do its own thinking.” Hitchens once described himself as a pygmy in relation to a great writer whom he admires. Then I am a mole on a pygmy’s right shoulder compared to Hitchens. But back to my subject.
There are those of us who cannot help but teach and preach what we passionately believe. It is our mission and our responsibility. In my home, we have a marble floor in the entrance hall, and in the middle of the floor is a square of marble which cries out for a golden symbol. It lies directly beneath a spotlight, and its blank face is to me forever a mute “primal scream”. I said to Rika, “Imagine if, throughout my life, I had the opportunity at every stage to place a new symbol in that space, one which represented and depicted my major philosophical or religious bent at the time.” I think I would be either the favorite toy or the ultimate nightmare of a developmental psychologist, the way my philosophies and leanings have altered through my life. One can’t grow and progress without change. “I would have had to replace that symbol so many times,” I continued as she tried to escape my soliloquy on her way to swimming, “and there would have been so many symbols, so many diverse characters, flags, and icons through the years.” The passion never dissipates, but the subject, of necessity, must.
Last night I had to put Mr. Hitchens and Mr. Churchill (Rika gave me “The Grand Alliance” for Fathers Day, and I am engrossed in the section, “Japan – the War Comes to America”) aside to read a book which was given to me at the Joint Venture Bootcamp I conducted in Vancouver on Saturday. The author, a new Member of DollarMakers, is Paul Gleeson, a man who cycled across Australia and then rowed across the Atlantic. I admit that I commenced reading his book simply to better understand the man, and I became absolutely spellbound as I read his account of his adventure on the ocean with his girlfriend, Tori. Here is passion undiluted, the essence of whom you are on the knife-edge of reality, nowhere to hide, the acid test. The passion which fueled his trip across Australia was the same which drove him across the sea. The fuel needed to be used, or dear Mr. Gleeson would, I believe, simply have exploded. I wonder what his next adventure might be? I have some ideas…
Back to my dream. It’s now 5.01am and I must conclude this little rant, ever thankful that I have this outlet available (sometimes at the expense of my readers’ peace and patience, I know.) The prophet must prophesy, and the teacher must teach, as the painter must paint. When your passion is aligned with your purpose, a relative, applicable, up-to-date, and appropriate purpose, no matter how uncomfortable that purpose may be, you become unstoppable.
Let’s end with a portion of Sir Winston’s Churchill’s speech to Parliament December 8, 1941, after the Americans entered the Second World War, to finally illustrate the point of this short article: “The ordeal to which the English-speaking world and our heroic Russian allies are being exposed will certainly be hard, especially at the outset, and will probably be long, yet, when we look around us over the somber panorama of the world, we have no reason to doubt the justice of our cause or that our strength and will-power will be sufficient to sustain it. We have at least four-fifths of the population of the globe upon our side. We are responsible for their safety and their future. In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.”
Let your light so shine, you passionate prophets. Embrace change, and lead on. This untouched cup of Tetleys is ice cold, but the kettle will boil again.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Permalink
06.16.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:00 pm by Robin J. Elliott
Actually, Right! Yes, I am very proud to announce the successful launch of a new, online affiliate business that costs you nothing to join. No money, no risk, very little time, no selling. Simply copy and paste simple links onto your Blogs, Websites, Ezines, and e mails!
And you get to leverage other people’s resources into the bargain! That’s right - two levels, promoting exceptional products and services and earning commissions all the way to the bank. You can get your own affiliates! FREE! Real passive income.
Most important of all, there are very professional and honest people behind this business, whom I know personally and who I am privileged to call my Joint Venture Partners. They are DollarMakers Members, too.
Jump on board fast - you have nothing to lose and everything to gain. If you love lots of juicy, passive income, sign up right here, right now: www.ConversionCity.net
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Permalink
06.13.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:59 am by Robin J. Elliott
People who want to climb the Joint Venture Broker ladder to success understand that DollarMakers provides a proven, simple, rung by rung route map. They know they can’t skip rungs any more than they can skip a digit in a telephone number and hope to reach their destination. Yard by yard it’s hard, but inch by inch it’s a cinch. You can eat an entire elephant one bite at a time.
Recently a fellow sent me a long e mail, telling me how motivated he was, and promising to do whatever I suggested. I gave him six things to do that would provide him with a firm foundation, access to the best possible support in the areas of legal, financial, and joint venture information, all the access and training he needed, plus ready-made Joint Ventures. Two weeks later, I heard from him again. He was demanding MORE things to do! I was impressed - until I found out that, in his infinite wisdom, he hadn’t done one of the things that I had suggested. He is simply an information gatherer. He probably sends the same e mail to very seminar leader and author he can, and he never does a damn thing.
The doctor tells you to stop smoking, take three red pills every morning at 8am, drink more water, and walk for thirty minutes a day. Two weeks later you call him and complain that you feel worse than ever, but you haven’t done anything he told you to do. Try building a bridge across a raging river and cutting corners, using inferior material, and ignoring safety precautions, and the bridge will simply collapse. 99.9% of the time, people fail in business because of their ATTITUDE. Follow the recipe, and you’ll get the cake.
I regularly receive e mails from people have no money, claim they can’t afford the $247 per year to join DollarMakers, and earn $2,000 per month, who want to make $10,000 from Joint Ventures in the next six weeks. While it’s easy for many people to earn that and a lot more, it takes growth, understanding, and WORK in order to be successful in Joint Ventures. People spend a lot of their parent’s money or get huge, crippling student loans, and study for years to get a college degree to land a mediocre job, but they want Joint Ventures to turn their financial situation around in two weeks because they read a free e book. To get to the top of the ladder, you have to CLIMB it rung by rung - nobody is going to carry you up!
In my book, “How to Retire in One Year”, the time period is one YEAR, and you have to follow instructions and work hard to make that happen. It’s well worth it, but in the process you have to adjust your thinking and do whatever it takes. DollarMakers is your bridge to prosperity, freedom, and joy, but you have to cross this bridge one step at a time.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Permalink
06.12.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:50 pm by Robin J. Elliott
The more exciting your goals and objectives, the more specific, the easier it is to handle the price you pay along the way. Losers look at what they’re going THROUGH, while Champions look at what they’re going TO. Part of the reason why people quit so easily is that they don’t believe in their own goals. Here’s how to get very excited about your goals - it will fuel your enthusiasm and determination and make your journey infinitely easier by getting you to WANT to do what you have to do to get where you want to be.
Think of a goal. For example, let’s say your goal is to participate in the exciting DollarMakers Fourth International Convention in Cancun in November. Now it can be something that you rationally and intellectually commit to, and you might make a few random, lukewarm efforts to reach that goal. Alternatively, you can make an emotional commitment, and that’s where you get the rocket fuel. “If your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme, for when you wish upon a star, it makes no difference who you are!” (Disney)
What would happen if you put up posters of Cancun around your home, visit websites about Cancun, ask Lynnette Peter, our DollarMakers Director for Travel and Conventions, about all the fun activities that will be available, discuss it with your family and friends, invite them to join you, visualize yourself riding a white horse on the beach, snorkeling among the multicolored fish, meeting the DollarMakers cream of the crop from all over the world, and having fun in the sun? Would you work harder to make it happen? Would you go out on a limb to spend time in paradise with the best of the best? What would the return on your investment be? You don’t notice the shadows when you’re looking at the sun. Focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want.
Fill your mind with motivation and inspiration, associate with people who believe in you and in your dreams, and work on your own personal development more than anything else. Get excited about the details of your goals - the more specific, the more terrific. Smell them, taste them, visualize them, listen to them. If your goal is a new red Cadillac STS, go and test drive one every single weekend. or at least sit in one. Smell it. Feel it. Imagine yourself driving it. Touch it. Put up pictures of it. “Whatever the mind of man can believe and conceive, it can achieve” - Napoleon Hill.
The rocky road will turn into silk and feathers when your objective is sufficiently brilliant and believable. Make it so.
Robin J. Elliott www.DolarMakers.com
Permalink
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:54 am by Robin J. Elliott
In a previous article, I asked the question, “Are you on the job or on a mission?” Now I want to ask you a few simple questions that will help you qualify and clarify your level of commitment and passion regarding your business. As I said before, you’re either working feverishly on your Magnificent Obsession, or your business is simply a part-time irritation that you feel obliged to feed, like an ugly plant that you reluctantly water only because it’s there, a stepchild.
If playing, visiting friends, attending the ball game and having dinner take precedence over your work, it’s work, not a passion. If you have to fit your work into you busy social schedule, your work is not a mission; it’s a necessity, like washing the dishes. If it’s the other way around, in other words your business is your mission and passion and everything else comes second, you will get rich. You can’t serve two masters - “you will love the one and despise the other.” Remember that.
How do you know you’re on a mission? You obsessively and excitedly start working before you have breakfast or get dressed. You wake up at night thinking about your business. If you perceive it as a job, you will find every excuse under the sun to procrastinate and put it it off; everything else will be done first, and finally you may get around to your work, if you indeed “find the time” to do so. And in that case, your contribution will be mediocre at best. Your work is either an interruption or a burning desire. You will be very good at anything you’re passionate about, and vice versa.
Find your mission, your purpose, your raison d’etre - that is where your joy, fulfillment, and prosperity is. Everything else is a stopgap, a waste of time, and an imposition, and it will not make you happy. Love it, or leave it.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Permalink
06.11.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:23 pm by Robin J. Elliott
I grew up poor – by the age of seventeen I had lived in eighteen different places, and was drafted into the army. I thought I had a great life, and I did. When I was fourteen, my family lived in two rooms in a residential hotel or boarding house. I had lots of friends and we had great fun. We were poor, but we didn’t really notice it. Across the road from the “hotel” was a broken down, empty old house, with a circular dam with five foot high, concrete walls, in ramshackle, deserted grounds. The good news was that the water supply had never been turned off!
I got all my friends together and we decided that we would have a swimming pool. We cleaned and scrubbed that slimy, green dam for five days, drained it, and filled it with sparkling, cool water. It was a dream come true that hot summer. We were so excited, we could hardly contain ourselves. We cleaned up the “garden” surrounding it, and everyone showed up with swimwear , towels, and suntan lotion. It was a wonderful summer. We swam and played and enjoyed ourselves. We could have whined that the rich kids had sparkling, blue, real pools, with pool boys and gazebos, but I think we had more fun. And we really appreciated what we had, because we had created it ourselves.
Statistically, people who win money or inherit it usually lose it (and many sink into deep depression.) Easy come, easy go. We don’t appreciate what we don’t create and earn. Instead of whining about what we don’t have, we can turn life’s lemons into lemonade, and create the lives we want. I know rich kids whose parents worked hard to buy big houses with huge pools, and the kids complained and hardly used the pools. We’re surrounded by unlimited opportunities, and as far as business goes, the fastest and easiest way to take full advantage of the wonderful gifts lying all around us is through the use of Joint Ventures.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Permalink
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:16 am by Robin J. Elliott
Walk into a government office and watch how the bureaucrat walks – does he strut around as though he feels great, is he motivated, moving fast, and enthralled about his work? Usually, not – they move slowly, breathe shallowly, and have passive facial expressions. They look down a lot. They’re bored, frustrated employees, and they don’t want to be there. Their purpose is to get out of that hated office and go home to play. That same employee changes like Jekyll and Hyde when he’s at the hockey game tonight – you wouldn’t recognize him! He’s laughing, shouting, jumping up and down, smiling, talking – he’s dressed differently, moves differently, and he’s fun to be around.
What kind of results do you get, how persuasive are you, and what do you achieve when you are excited, energized, and passionate? How would you walk and move? What kind of facial expressions would I see if you felt unstoppable? What effect would you have on other people? When you’re on a mission, when you love what you do, you will breathe deeply, move fast, leap out of bed, and become very much more attractive to others. You will even talk in an animated, bubbly way. Your passion will show, and the results will flow.
Look at yourself. If you battle to get out of bed in the morning, you don’t believe in what you’re doing. “On the Job” means you’re doing what you have to do. “On a Mission” means doing what you WANT to do. You’re either a mercenary or a missionary. You’re a Victor or a victim, an Eagle or a turkey. When you’re on the beach in Waikiki, having a great time with your loved ones, and you’re on the phone to your friend at home, chances are the language you use, and the speed, volume, and pitch of your voice will be entirely different to when you’re doing your tax returns, right?
Here’s how you know whether you’re on a mission or not. You hate being interrupted, you love what you’re doing, you see massive purpose in your actions and choices, you can work for hours on end in a focused manner without getting tired, and you experience higher highs and lower lows. You probably don’t believe it’s very important whether or not a wall gets painted or a carpet gets cleaned or a form gets completed, unless it’s a part of your exciting mission.
The good news is that you can create a profound life of purpose and significance. You can live with passion and enthusiasm or your life can be dreary, dull, and depressing. YOU create your life – it can be whatever you want it to be. You can make a living or make a statement. You can create a new world or be a janitor in someone else’s world. It’s never too late to change. You’re never too old. When you’re on a mission, there is no limit to what you can achieve. If you don’t like it, believe in it, respect it, and live it, you shouldn’t do it. Give yourself a check-up from the neck up.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Permalink
06.09.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:18 am by Robin J. Elliott
Most Network Marketers rely on trying to recruit unsuspecting waiters in restaurants, fleeing family, captive audiences in gas stations and supermarket lineups, and those attending business networking meetings, to build their business. After recruiting three of four people, who in turn use the same, silly recruiting techniques, they quit, disappointed and frustrated, and lose an excellent opportunity to use leverage and duplication to build real wealth. Warren Buffet bought a Network Marketing company, after all. The key to success in this business is recruiting more than four people.
“But it’s so hard! Nobody listens to me! They’ve heard it all before! Who can I talk to? They don’t understand! I worked so hard and I didn’t get anywhere! I was right - this doesn’t work.” Precisely - the system that you use doesn’t work, but that doesn’t mean there are no alternatives. I can only tell you what works for me, which doesn’t mean that others systems don’t work. Let me share with you what WILL work for you, given that you don’t get negative and quit like most well-meaning people.
One qualifier here: I’m not talking about MLM’ers who sell lotions, potions, swills, or pills; I’m talking about legitimate, professional, necessary services that no reasonable person will stop paying for.
1. Understand the “compound interest” concept that we learned about in Jeff Olson’s amazing book, “The Slight Edge” - you need to set a three year goal and be aware of the process of time and return on investment. That keeps you motivated, consistent, and persistent. It’s worth conceptualizing the timeline and realizing that this is not a quick fix, but a real wealth building process that makes some people a million dollars a year. That doesn’t mean you can’t make real money fast, but it keeps things in perspective and show us why things DON’T work.
2. Understand your product or service. I focus only on services marketed via MLM, since that is, in my opinion, the most viable, lucrative and long-term option. Know what you’re talking about and be very well prepared and equipped. If you’re new in the business, make sure you have a reliable, professional upline support system in place.
3. Create a “FEEDER SYSTEM” like we have done with DollarMakers - get the people coming to YOU, instead of hunting them down, cold calling, and generally irritating strangers. This can be done through Centers of Influence, group meetings, and the Host Beneficiary process. Sign up strong, influential people that actually understand business and leverage. This is the part where most people fall through the cracks; they know their service, they’re in it for the long run, they show up at meetings, they’re committed, but they have nobody to recruit. Two words will change your life: “FEEDER SYSTEM” - something that is created to feed you with qualified prospects on an on-going basis.
Two Final Points:
1. I talked with a woman who was bewailing the fact that she had nobody to talk with about her MLM business, and I gave her three specific things she could do to create a Feeder System. She never did anything about it. If you’re not prepared to work hard and do what it takes, it’s either because you don’t believe in the system or in yourself, or because you are simply bone lazy. There is no excuse.
2. If you’re communicating with losers, the above will not work. Find people with successful track records, achievers, and leaders to work with. These are the ideal people to incorporate in your Feeder System. And the Feeder System can be set up in such a way that you never mention your MLM business - that’s the Joint Venture approach in action.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Permalink
06.07.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:52 pm by Robin J. Elliott
Now I have the attention of tens of thousands of people who have their equity and savings tied up in real estate, and they’re worried if their cash flow is flowing too slowly. If you’re not liquid, your options are limited, unless you make use of the one thing that will save you from selling your real estate at bargain basement, or even fire sale prices, and losing a heck of a lot on the bargain – IF you can sell them, that is… The best thing to do, as you very well know, is to hold on to those properties. But the seminars and workshops and clubs you joined to tell you how to buy real estate never taught you how to do Joint Ventures.
Now before you indignantly leap off the couch and yell, “But we real estate investor geniuses do JV’s all the time!” let me qualify what I mean. I’m not talking about getting dumb people to put up their money and take all the risk while you blithely choose properties and play with their hard-earned cash, calling it a “Joint Venture”. I’m talking about “No money, no risk, little time” JV’s that don’t involve the extreme risk of real estate, tenants, landlords, and things beyond even your control. And I’m not talking about real estate – I’m talking about leverage, and access in any industry, anywhere in the world, around the clock, to develop multiple income sources that produce 100% profit.
The first step is to admit you have a problem before your bank manager calls you and says ominously, “We have to talk”. The next step is to forget about real estate and take off the blinders. There are multiple alternative options. And, thirdly, you have to learn what a JV is and how to do them. That’s where yours truly comes in. At Dollarmakers, we teach you how to leverage resources, access resources, create on-going value, and get paid for it, with NO risk or cost. In addition, we provide you with access to people who actually understand the process and are willing to pay, as well as the support you need. Don’t get me wrong, now. I love real estate. It has made me a lot of money. I own real estate. I’m not stupid. But I learned a long time ago not to put all my eggs in one basket or give away financial control to market and political forces and acts of god. Remember, I come from Africa, a very volatile continent, where we’re used to sudden change, crises, upheaval, and surprises.
With your real estate business experience, you are well positioned to start brokering Joint Ventures immediately, thereby creating the cash flow to sustain and maintain your real estate holdings and wait out the storm. After all, those are the ones that get truly rich. Parading around telling people that you’re a real estate millionaire is fine, given that you can actually sell your properties for what you believe they’re worth and that you can carry yourself during uncertain times and the inevitable cycles in the market. Pride comes before the fall. Prevent the fall by diversifying quickly into a few solid yet lucrative, no cost, no risk JV’s, and before you know it the cycle will have turned, and you will be stronger than ever. More information at www.DollarMakers.com
Robin J. Elliott www.BusinessMentorTraining.com
Permalink
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:31 pm by Robin J. Elliott
You have probably read about the current carnage in South Africa as the immigrants from devastate Zimbabwe are being brutally murdered by South Africans. I won’t go into detail and spoil your politically-correct illusions, however I received an interesting e mail from my mom today on this subject. Here are her very words: “My driver, Mtabong, is very up to date with the news, and spoke about the refugees from Zimbabwe. When he had aired his views he said they have been warned not to eat chicken sold by foreigners, because when you’ve eaten them and you try to talk, the chicken in your stomach talks for you!”
There’s a wonderful analogy here. When I read and consume books, they’re like that chicken: they speak for me. I become what I read and believe. I can ask you what books you read in order to understand your philosophy and therefore your future choices, or I can simply hear the chicken speak. We talk and live our philosophy. Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to it’s original size.” That’s good when the ideas are good.
Imagine two people. One consumes Mein Kampf and and books by Tutu, Michael Moore, and Al Franken, while other reads Christopher Hitchens, Mark Steyn, and Leonard Peikoff. I imagine those chickens will speak different languages. We are what we eat. “Whatever the mind of man believes and conceives, it will achieve”, so carefully control your mental literary diet and choose your chicken
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Permalink
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:50 am by Robin J. Elliott
In today’s world, it is more important than ever to determine who is behind the book you’re reading, the course you’re attending, the event you sign up for. When people can steal any information off the Internet, copy anyone else, plagiarize the writing of others, and buy impressive websites and claim titles, you’ll often find yourself dealing with someone who is not capable of supporting you or steering you in the right direction.
Who stands behind the screen? I have just spent some time on a website all about Joint Ventures, offering memberships and chat rooms and you name it, but one thing has been carefully and strategically omitted from the site – the name and description and contact information of the PERSON behind the site. There is no information on the JV’s that person has created – only rave reports about the book he completed with plagiarized writings, and I suspect he wrote most of the testimonials himself, using the names of non-existent people.
I don’t buy information – I buy the BASE and the philosophy behind that information, which comes in the form of a real person, not a twenty-something who lives in his mom’s basement and plays computer games all day. I like to learn from people who have actually done the things they teach and have proof of it. Conmen and tricksters abound in this world, and there are a lot of seminars and courses being sold to vulnerable, desperate people who don’t take the time to do their due diligence of the leaders of those programs.
When you’re hiding, you usually have something to hide. When you’re not available, your name isn’t even a real name, and you don’t supply physical addresses or telephone numbers, I know there is something wrong, and I don’t accept what you have to teach. I live in the real world and I make real money, doing Joint Ventures with real people, and after 21 years of doing this, my “BS Detector” is finely tuned. I always look at the man behind the screen before buying his snake oil or urgent, time-sensitive, one-of-a-kind, discounted, priced to sell, buy-one-get-one-free, “available today only” deals.
Get to know the man behind the BS screen before you open your wallet, click the BUY NOW button, or run to the back of the seminar room to buy his trash or join her club. Who is John Galt?
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Permalink
06.06.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 5:05 pm by Robin J. Elliott
Click Here Now
Permalink
06.05.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:38 am by Robin J. Elliott
When you’re in a deep, dark hole with slimy, steep, slippery sides, and the water is pouring in, you usually only admit that you have a problem when the water touches your nostrils. Until then, you live in denial, hope for the best, write pathetic “business plans”, hide, and make weak excuses that nobody believes. Many flock to “business networking meetings” where they desperately try to sell stuff to other broke people, or dig their hole even deeper with ineffective advertising. Worse still, they hire unemployed business failures who label themselves “Business Consultants” or “Coaches” and charge an arm and a leg to steal the last money you can borrow. (They’re also in a debt hole!)
Some people have lots of money, but they have no time and their debt is time. Either way, when your money, credit, or time is flowing out faster than it is flowing in, the murky, smelly water rises until it’s high enough to get our attention. At that point, we try to make a logical business decision while in a state of panic. That’s when we start to understand the old saying, “desperate people do desperate things”. Situational Ethics kicks in faster than a speeding bullet. And I am now addressing the people who are in this very situation, or who have the courage to see that it is approaching like the proverbial oncoming train.
When you see you’re finally about to drown in the hole you so carefully dug, who do you call? A three-year-old with a pink, plush toy? Do you call over to the “life coach” in the hole next door? Do you invite an advertising salesman over to pour a few extra barrels of water into your hole? Or sign up to sell real estate or life insurance? I know this sounds familiar to some of us, since I have been there myself. How did I very narrowly avoid certain bankruptcy on one scary occasion? Not by doing what I had always done, I assure you. Not by second-guessing people who were capable of saving me, and not by resorting to the arrogance born of fiery fear.
Here’s what I did, and what you might want to consider if a few lungfuls of water is not your cup of tea: Find the most successful, competent, insightful, straight-talking people you can, and give them a vested interest in helping you out of your hole. Follow their instructions to the letter, or they’ll throw you back like the minnow you are, faster than you might imagine. I was in bad trouble. I was about to lose everything, and those I had expected to help me (family) were not coming to my rescue, in spite of the fact that I had never approached them before (and never will gain.) The bank was about to pull all of my credit, and things looked darkish. My panicked decision was to sell my house and rent in order to get out of debt, so I called in on my smart, successful friend and asked for his advice.
Gerald Voutsas took an objective, relaxed look at my ridiculous plan, showed me that it definitely would put me deeper in the hole, and offered an alternative solution as quickly and easily as passing me another ginger biscuit. I did exactly what he told me to do, and he saved my asset. It took a few months, and lots of hard work, but I learned my lesson and I never put myself into that situation again. I avoid those dark hole like the plague, an the way I teach Joint Venture Broking is based in part on avoiding that kind of deep, dark hole.
OK, I know you’re going to ask me, “But where do I find these experts?” That’s why we created DollarMakers. I wanted a decent financial planner, so I went to a very good friend who is also my Joint Venture Partner, very wealthy, and a successful lawyer, and asked him whom HE uses for his financial planning (insurance). Now we use the same insurance guy. Birds of the feather. Successful people know other successful people. And only someone who is happily not in a hole can help you out of the hole. “The blind leading the blind” is an everyday occurrence in business, masterminding with the mindless…
Elicit, then follow the expert advice of real experts to the letter. And don’t you dare second-guess, question, or slack off. I listened to Gerald, and I didn’t drown.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Permalink
06.04.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:35 pm by Robin J. Elliott
Don’t be discouraged when you are ridiculed (or even attacked) for trying to rescue the befuddle brains of the hoodwinked horde that we generously refer to as “the public”. I believe the vast majority of our simpering society doesn’t want to be rescued from their pitifully propagandized state of confused consciousness. Think about it: The average IQ is 100. Only 3% of the mislead masses actually reads books, and of the tiny proportion of people that buy self-improvement audio CD’s, only 10% actually listen to them.
The negative and fearful reaction of the mislead masses to your sincere attempt to unshackle and liberate them from their befuddlement is nothing less than the indignant manner in which they would respond to an evil dwarf who tries to steal the crutches from an ageing cripple on a cold and rainy night. When you viciously rip the security blanket from a small and lonely child, you are on a par with someone who tries to emancipate the mind of a brainwashed and bemused adult. After all, he didn’t attend your seminar to change! On the contrary, he showed up at your seminar merely to seek evidence to support his dominant beliefs. He reads your articles and books to prove that his chaotic conditioning is all 100% true.
I know. You feel that you have an obligation to rescue and release the duped dopes from their mental mystification. You want to help them, uplift them, and empower them, whereas they only want the senseless security of serving their slobbering slavemasters. You want to unfetter their emotions from the unimaginable and unsustainable lies and control of their political bosses, but what they want is to volunteer their services, time, and meager money at the next political rally. You want to wash the unwashed masses, while they want to wallow wantonly in their imprisonment and celebrate their cerebral rot. But you feel obligated.
They break the mirror, shoot the messenger, and rip up the X-Rays. They rend their rescuers, burn the very book that will break their bonds, and rush desperately back into the arms of their prison guards. They love their jail. They lust after their lashes and they embrace their embarrassing ignorance. And here you come, dressed to the nines, skipping gaily along with a lovely tray of savoury solutions and branding a bubbling bottle of freedom, while they grunt contentedly at the trough of bondage. You magnanimously scatter your pearls before these swine. You honesty and idealistically believe that you can make silk purse from a sow’s ear, and you set yourself up for disappointment. After all, you feel obligated. “To whom much is given, much will be expected…” Yes, to himself - responsible for the knowledge you have.
Climb off the altar of collectivism, my starry-eyed friend. You will be eaten alive by the very beasts you have come to feed. You are not obligated. After much wringing of hands and enough soul searching, frustration, and experience, I finally learned this: Help only those who prove to you that they will help themselves, and make them reciprocate. You are not obligated to help anyone but yourself. Those who would be free will find you and you will know when they are serious, because you will test them before wasting your hard-earned resources and irreplaceable time. Regard the average plebes with the disdain they deserve and a good dose of skepticism, and you won’t be setting yourself up to be ripped off. Be responsible instead of altruistic. Read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” - it will strengthen you.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Permalink
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:47 pm by Robin J. Elliott
“Buy me candy! I want a toy! Gimme food! Me, me, me! Look at me! See how high I can jump!”No, that’s not a four-year-old, spoilt brat - it’s a typical, brain dead, self-employed, broke salesman, pretending to be an entrepreneur. I get these e mails all the time, asking me to expose my list and database to unknown felons posing as salespeople. “Buy my products because I need money! I paid $247 to join your club so now you have to help me sell my services!” SHOOT ME NOW. I even get emails from “JD” asking me to spam my Members with his snake-oil “health” juice adverts, and he’s not even a Member of DollarMakers.
OK I’m calm now. My gun is loaded, but I’m calm. Basically, when you’re trying to sell your services, tap into other peoples’ databases, and sell, sell, sell, you’re simply wasting other peoples’ time. Joint Ventures is about getting the attention and the reciprocity of other people by NOT selling, but by solving THEIR problems. You’re in selling mode, that’s why you’re not getting ahead. This isn’t a networking club. Here’s how you get someone’s attention and create enough value for them to ask, “And tell, me Petunia, how can I help YOU?” That’s what I teach. The “Me, me me!” approach doesn’t work anymore - people will simply delete your e mails. You need to find out what other people want, help them get it, and get paid for it. It has nothing to do with what you’re selling, but everything to do with THEY want.
People only buy from you (they have millions of other options, believe me, Mr. Manson, or may I call you Charles?) when they like you and trust you, and they will only take time to even LOOK at what you’re offering when you give them a damn good reason to do so. I get to know you by spending time with you , even if it’s on the Internet, not by reading your adverts.
The Members of DollarMakers who make the most money are on our Members Only conference calls, at the local Members meetings, especially at the Convention, and at the Bootcamps, building relationships. Are you involved in these ways? You have to sow before you reap and earn the right. I promote people who have proven themselves to be trustworthy, reliable, honest, professional, and generous. I cannot know that when there is no relationship.
My suggestion to you is to identify people with whom you want to work, and then to go all out to create value for them (and get paid for it, of course, Petunia,) and build relationships with them. The return on that investment is substantial. Give me a reason to like you and trust you and help you. Put wood on the fire before you expect heat. Desperate salespeople are a dime a dozen, and nobody likes them or respects them. They hang out at business networking clubs, reeking of aftershave, pushing business cards, flashing their whitened teeth and trying to sell their stuff to other broke people. Joint Venture brokers are entrepreneurs who work strategically and use leverage, relationship, and reciprocity to create long-term wealth. Then you can go buy you own candy and even have your teeth whitened, if you’re that needy.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Permalink
06.03.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:13 pm by Robin J. Elliott
I found a great product called “Oillift” - spray it onto your car engine or BBQ grill and it lifts the grime and oil and fat right off. (I sprayed it on my stomach, but that didn’t work. My wife said she’s found a way to remove ten pounds of ugly fat fast - she’ll send me to Iran for a quick beheading…) As usual, I digress. This oil-removing formula made my car’s engine and driveway gleam like new. Lovely stuff. They say it’s environmentally friendly - whoopeedoo! I don’t care about that - I just want a clean car engine and driveway. And it cleans well.
Here’s the thing - we all know about clogged veins and clogged intestines, but how about clogged BRAINS? All that accumulation of junk and fear and past conditioning and negativity, cynicism and bias, clogs up the way we perceive things, prevents us from seeing some neat opportunities, and slows us down considerably. It creates perceptual ED, is what it does. What is the equivalent mental cleaner? What will relieve our cognitive constipation? How can we scour our neural connections, associations, and skepticism? How can we remove the veil of grime that we generously label “experience”? What can we do to clean those glasses that are so filthy we can hardly distinguish out a good single malt from the rotgut? It’s like trying to smell a fragrant rose with a clip on your nose, or being blindfolded so you don’t see the bulging billfold on the boardwalk.
What do I use for my mental colon cleanse, my cerebral purge, my intellectual decontamination? YouTube and books. I have found the most stimulating interviews on YouTube - 2am finds me glued to my computer monitor, oblivious to anything beyond my headphones. While we still have the freedom to read books and we don’t yet have the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission controlling what we read (not that their masters wouldn’t enjoy that), we can find the most glorious information on any subject that will blow our limiting, preconceived hallucinations to pieces, unclogging the old brain and freeing us up to see life as it really is. Let the thoughts freely flow. Open your mind and let the sun shine in. Stop playing kissy face with your preconceived notions and confront your conditioning in the quiet of your private cubicle at the local Vancouver “Safe Injection” Site; after all, I’m paying for it with my taxes…
Play hardball with your sensitivities and insecurities - nobody is going to know. Until, that is, they see you rise like a phoenix from your glum mediocrity and shatter that so-called “glass ceiling” that only existed in your bedhead. Perhaps you’ll find you’re surrounded by incredibly exciting opportunities of growth and freedom, and that your excuses and fantasies are no more real than the tooth fairy. Clean out the muck, face reality, and your future will gleam. I should try that stuff on my yellowing teeth…
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Riddle: If you were dropped out of an airplane into a strange country, how would you know where you were?
Answer: In LA, people’s teeth are whiter than cosmetic white. In England, they’re yellow. In France, they’re brown.
Permalink
06.02.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:24 am by Robin J. Elliott
The following questions, when seriously considered and answered on an individual basis, will reveal some of your deep motivations and beliefs, interpretations and needs, objectives, fears, and dreams, as well as some of the perceived barriers and pain in your life. I challenge you to take some quiet, uninterrupted time to sincerely and honestly ask yourself these questions and answer them.
1. If I won five million dollars tomorrow and I had to allocate it within five days, what, specifically would I do with it, and why?
2. If I was given five million dollars and I had to distribute that between five people, not including myself or my spouse, who would those people be, and why?
3. If I had to spend three weeks on a desert island with ten people, dead of a live, who would they be, and why?
4. What would be a good reason for me to commit suicide?
5. Why would I not commit suicide?
6. Why do I hold my present religious beliefs? Do they help me or hurt me?
7. If I had to double my income in three months or be shot to death in public, what would I do differently in those three months?
8. If I had only six months to live, what would I do in those six months?
9. If I had ten million dollars in the bank, how would my life change specifically? What would I start doing, what would I stop doing, and whom would I spend time with?
10. If the world was going to be destroyed and I had to pick fifteen people to escape with me in a rocket ship, who would they be, and why?
11. Repeat the same question for FIVE people plus yourself.
12. Repeat the same question for TWO people plus yourself.
13. If I moved, alone, to a new city, far away, where nobody knew me, and I didn’t have to work (enough money to live comfortably) and I had to live there for a year, what would change in my life and my activities? What new things would I do, and what would I stop doing?
14. If there were no consequences or punishment, and nobody would find out, what would I do?
15. What two things do I fear most, and why? What can I do about it?
16. If I could change two things in my life, what would they be?
17. Which five people do I love the most, and why?
18. Which three people do I hate the most, and why? How would I benefit from forgiving and forgetting them?
19. What stops me from succeeding to a greater degree? What excuses am I making for not reaching my full potential?
20. If I could change the way I think about my life and the things I tell myself about my life and my options, I could break free and be happier. How badly do I want my dreams to come true, on a scale of one to ten?
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com My new book, “Break Free!” will be out soon.
Permalink
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:07 am by Robin J. Elliott
Rika loves garage sales. It’s a beautiful spring day, and we go for a walk. Along the way, we see… A GARAGE SALE! Suddenly, as we meander along past the tables laden with other people’s trash, we both notice something on one of the tables that once changed our lives. Many years ago in South Africa, we imported the Anthony Robbins Personal Power Program from America. Because of the exchange rate and import duties, it was expensive, and it took a long time to receive it. We were very excited and listened to it over and over again. It changed our lives dramatically and resulted in personal understanding and choices and a video program that made us tens of thousands of dollars. We still live by the principles we learned from that wonderful program.
And there it was, in all its glory! The Anthony Robbins program, in pristine condition, with the little workbook and everything, at a garage sale! That’s like putting your most precious, inherited, priceless, irreplaceable family jewels on a garage sale. I was stunned. Rika and I both reached forward simultaneously to grab the program. I looked at the character behind the table, early fifties, torn T shirt, and asked him. “Why are you selling this fantastic program?” His reply should have been expected, but I was still shocked. “I didn’t even finish listening to it - I don’t believe that stuff - that a 20-something could make all that money - it’s rubbish.” When I recovered I asked, “So how much do you want for it?” “I paid $139″, he scowled,”But you can have it for eight - say five dollars.” On the way out of the garage sale, clutching my treasure, I noticed that the event was held at a Co-op housing place.
Naturally, I am re-listening to the entire program and loving every minute of it, and on the first tape Tony Robbins mentions that only 10% of the people who invest in the program will finish listening to it. There’s a reason why that loser lives in government subsidized co-op housing. He was handed the keys to a magnificent mansion in the form of the Tony Robbins program, and he discarded it, probably in favor of a joint and a hockey game on TV. It was “too good to be true”. Guess when he started scowling? When he saw my DollarMakers ball cap. Bitter and twisted, trapped in his cynicism, and poor.
Although I was disgusted at this specimen that devalued something as life-changing as that Tony Robbins program, I really do pity him, and deep down inside I know that it’s not too late for him to break free of his present situation, if, indeed, he wants to break free. Many people have missed the boat, and yet they could still escape their compromised lives if they had the tools, given that they want their freedom from serfdom, mediocrity, and lives of quiet desperation. As I type this, I have just finished writing my latest book, “Break Free!” and it will soon be available. Perhaps it should be very expensive, instead of the usual $20, since $139 didn’t get the attention of a young man who held his future in his hands all those years ago.
The truth will set you free, and the source is unimportant. When the student is ready, the teacher will appear - even in the form of an old audio tape program at a garage sale. It’s never too late to start living and to break free.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Permalink
06.01.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 3:27 pm by Robin J. Elliott
When the WHY is sufficient, the HOW is automatic. Slow? Sometimes agonizingly so. Frustrating? Frequently. Arduous? Assuredly. Tiring? Indubitably. But inevitable. Success is a forgone conclusion, a matter of time, when the WHY is in place; the travail is temporary,the discomfort fleeting, and easy to accommodate while bathed in the light of your magnificent obsession, your WHY.
Your WHY in life is your Hot Button, your main objective, your raison d’etre, your glorious goal, your absolute ambition. It is what will get you to a meeting an hour early, dressed to the nines, wearing an infectious grin you find it hard to wipe off your scrubbed face. It is what will obliterate every obstacle, remove every roadblock, and eradicate anything between you an your goal. Nobody and nothing can stop someone whose WHY is large enough. To a man with a grand WHY, reversals are transient, mere bumps along the yellow brick road.
Most people have succumbed to the prevailing mediocrity that dulls our senses, robs us of ambition, and waters down our expectations with the pervasive and crippling cynicism that the rulers encourage to blind us from the alternatives to mere survival as we plod through the smelly swamp of somnambulism, compromise and dead dreams.
Deep down inside you, your WHY is waiting, glittering, and pulsing. When you pick it up with hands shaking with excited anticipation, wipe off the pessimism and disappointment, and polish it with optimism, hope, and belief, you will discover the genie that grants any and every wish. That Genie loves you more than anyone else has ever loved you, understands you better than anyone, cares deeply about your success, an believes in you. YOU are the Genie you seek. Your fuel is your WHY. Find your WHY, and you have broken free.
It’s not the techniques or the teaching - it’s the WHY. It’s not your tools or your skills, but your attitude that determines what you will accomplish in life. If you want something badly enough, NOTHING will prevent your victory. These are the people I seek - people with a WHY that will not be denied.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
Permalink
