lemon Business Personal Development   What To Do When Things Turn Sour!I’m sure you’ve heard it before…. “when you get lemons, make lemonade”  which is exactly what I’ve been doing for the last few days. In this business personal development post I’d like to tell you how  I did this since there’s every chance you’ll need to do so sometime soon.

Towards the end of last week I had two bigger than usual challenges come my way. First my primary company disappeared overnight and a day later my computer’s hard drive decided to say goodbye too!

In reflecting about these two fairly major events I found myself thinking, “Great. They say things come in -” and right there in mid thought I stopped myself very swiftly. I’m sure you know where the rest of this was headed.

“What a load of crap. How the heck did you slip in here thought? Get out of here right now. Go on, get out.”

And it did.

So it seems “complacency”, that feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger,  had definitely been trying to make itself at home in my life. It’s a devious character and often leads to things turning very sour in our lives.

We must be on the look out for it all the time. However, because  it likes the dark corridors of our unconscious, we are not always able to do this. We must be prepared for it so that it cannot become responsible for derailing our goals without us realizing. The way to do this? When lemons show up, make lemonade at every turn. You do this by having the mindset to do so, taking control and taking action.

My primary company looked to be in very good health so I thought I had found an income stream for life. Wrong!  Just like everybody else I was taken completely by surprise. Here’s the thing though, I did not panic since my business was not dependent on this company only. Why would I hand over total of control of my future to one company?

My business includes a number of income streams and is centered around me so when iLearning Global was no longer an option, the rest of my business continued to tick along very nicely and hey presto I had lemonade.  This is what I teach others to do with their businesses too.  In short always take control and always have a plan B .

When my computer hard drive died it was a very unexpected shock. I market primarily online so the impact was somewhat severe.  We tend to become complacent about technology but it can fail at any time and we need to be prepared for this should it happen. How did I turn this lemon into lemonade?

By having the mindset to stay calm and of course by having ensured that I had backed up my data regularly and by knowing who to call to assist me with the technical issues. It has been very inconvenient and has set me back by two days but the fact that my computer died did not mean that this was the end of my business.  I was able to retrieve my data and do what I needed to do to get back up and running as quickly as possible. Meanwhile my business has continued to tick along very nicely even though my system was down. This is what I teach others to do – take control and always have a plan B.

So back to my almost played out thought about things happening in threes! Being completely in the moment I was able to catch myself and get rid of  the nonsense that this thought is. Being prepared allowed me to take control and stop  an untrue thought from being put into motion.

Challenging events, thoughts and actions will come our way at every opportunity. We either empower ourselves to make lemonade when this happens or we find ourselves sucking for far too long on the lemons. I know what I choose to do, how about you?

My goal?  Helping you achieve yours!

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coffin  R.I.P iLearning Global Network Marketing   Whats The Lesson?Promising  personal development company,  iLearning Global has announced that they are closing their network marketing operation in favor of moving to a retail model, effective pretty much immediately.

With one email thousands of independent associates had the rug pulled out from under their feet.

The reason why iLearning Global made this decision is glaringly obvious – it makes financial sense for them or else they wouldn’t have done it!  All day long I’ve been listening to and reading comments from those who have been affected – in between frenzied sales pitches of course. Yes I was one of the thousands  of people affected too. Funny how  it does not take long before the vultures swoop.

Of course it’s a shock when you believe your company is stable and doing amazingly well to find out that this is not the case. However as with anything in life,  how you deal with news of this nature is what really sets you apart from the pack. It has been very interesting to observe people’s reactions and responses today.

Ironically what comes to mind is a teaching by one of  iLearning Global’s own faculty members, Marsha Petrie Sue. In her ” TLC of Choices” presentation, Marsha Petrie Sue states that no matter what happens to us, we always only ever have three choices – you can (T) take it as it is, (L) leave it and walk away or (C)change it. How refreshingly true and also how simple.  If  only we would just apply this to everything.

None of us can change the situation which means either you accept it  the way it is, or you walk away, even if you don’t like it. The real damage to our energy occurs when we insist on complaining, moaning, blaming  and wanting the outcome to be different. What a total waste of time.

Instead of wallowing in “Why me?”, a never ending self pity loop, rather ask, “What can I take from this experience to help me going forward and what do I have to do next that will be best for me and the people this decision affects?”

Is the end of this network marketing company a first? Of course not. Will it happen again with some other company? You can bet on it. Will it happen to you? Possibly. What can you do to prevent it? Absolutely nothing,  BUT…. you can take care to look after what’s important – YOUR BUSINESS!

This is why building your business around any single company is about as short sighted as you can get. Do so and in effect you are dis-empowering yourself and your business. Why do you want to be at the mercy of any one single income stream when it can quite literally disappear overnight?  Is there any difference between this and being employed when it comes to control?

No matter what company you choose to partner with, your business MUST be about YOU Inc. first and foremost! Your network marketing company should be an important, maybe even the most important income stream in your portfolio but NOT your exclusive income stream.  Should the company disappear as they do, your business won’t disappear with them.

This is a big part of what attraction marketing is all about. Develop your business around YOU and your own brand, become the hunted rather then the hunter and most importantly earn income from various sources including a primary income opportunity. Surely this just makes sense? Why then do thousands of people insist on becoming industry casualties?

I’d love to hear your thoughts about this so please leave me a comment.

Remember my goal is helping you achieve yours!

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I just read a great post today as titled above on the KennyGregg.comPersonal Blog in which Kenny Gregg poses the question of whether a self help product as promoted by  iLearningGlobal is going to stack up against traditional type MLM products like vitamins, cosmetic and weight loss products. It’s a very different product to the norm and as he points out, for the fist time in the industry, by joining this company a person can actually create a business while learning how to be in business. It sounds ideal but it even goes further than this.

Just today a marketing friend of mine who is not involved with iLearningGlobal  said to me that she is is seriously considering signing up for the product to help her with her with her own business. The mind boggles when one thinks about how many struggling network marketers iLearning Global could help with their personal development and business education so that they can become successful at whatever it is they are promoting.

With more and more people wanting to find genuine business education so that they can become successful it would seem that iLearningGlobal has indeed chosen their ticket very well.

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