In life and in business we make mistakes or we make bad choices. What we do with the mistakes and bad choices will determine our future.

The choices you have made in your life has directed you to this time in your life. If you do not like where you are at, make different choices.

Do not dwell on past mistakes or bad choices. Learn from them and move on. This is the university of life. If you learn from your challenges and move on not to make the mistake again, you have passed your test.

Do not hold on to past baggage. It is just that, past baggage. The choices and decisions you make from this day forth will determine your future.

A quote from one of my mentors says it well. “Everything in your life has value – your failures and successes. Your story can touch lives”. ~Robert Allen

Learn from life, share your story and change a life.

To your success.

Craig

Are you looking for the secret or magical success formula?
Do you think it’s a well-guarded, password-protected valuable locked away in some private vault? Good news!

In this article I open wide the door to the success formula vault.

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Would you like to start being more productive right now?  Want to stop wasting precious time and move your projects to completion?  This post will focus on how to be more productive from this point forward. One of the main factors that will determine your success and productivity is self motivation. You have to have it.

The key to becoming more productive with your time is to concentrate your (more…)

Stories develop themes. The themes chosen to illustrate the possibility of stories are:

Relationships, Choice, Creativity, Making a Difference, Celebration.

Speakers are ordinarily people, from teachers to grandparents, from mountain climbers to cancer survivors. The platform provides them with a privilege and awesome responsibility to share their stories in a way that helps the audience to “wake up.” (more…)

It does not matter if you personally sponsor hundreds of people into your business as much as what you do with the ones you do sponsor.

Many so called gurus in the industry, especially with internet marketing, brag about enrolling hundreds of people into their business. I was on a conference call a few weeks back and this guy stated he had personally enrolled around 350 people in the last 3-4 months. A week later I received an email stating that this guru had enrolled another (more…)

Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller, workable units. ~Nido Qubein

There are many people in the world that resist setting goals, When we look back in history we see that setting goals is vital to achieving success in any area of your life or business. Having a huge vision is great, but it will need to have specific, measurable goals to help you obtain your vision.

One of my mentors, Robert G. Allen is a master at helping people see their grand vision. When we talk of or see our goals, dreams or visions, do not use general talk or thoughts. This will lead to failure in obtaining your wishes.
Robert would teach us (more…)

The ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency is a key element of leadership.

An all to common trait is to avoid any issue or problem that arises, hoping it will just go way.

There are many reasons why some in leadership roles do not recognize and deal with problem early on. Some of them include (more…)

Many people feel good about the business they represent or they would not be in it. Some say it is the best product and makes me feel better. Some say it’s the company while others say its the compensation plan. What is it?
What is it that makes the business you have decided to devote your time and energy to build so special?

Look at how your association with the company will improve or enhance your life. How will it effect the lives of others?
Will the company be around for the long run or is it one of the get rich quick before it shuts down type of thing? (more…)

Perhaps noted as one of the greatest United States presidents of all time, Abraham Lincoln’s early life may not have reflected his potential greatness. He failed in business. He lost election to the state legislature, Speaker of the House, nomination for Congress, appointment of land officer, U.S. Senate twice and nomination for Vice President. After those eight major failures, Lincoln was elected President of the United States. How many of us would have kept going like Lincoln did? (more…)