Having said that, here is my first official blog post of 2009.  First off…I had a really great training a couple weeks ago with Dan McCormick who has been a good friend of mine and major producer in the network marketing profession for over 20 years.

I suggest listening to the archived audio and passing it along to some of your network marketing friends.  He did a mini version of his Millionaire Training…and it was AWESOME!  You can listen to it at MLMPowerHour.com

People often ask me who are those I learned from as I progressed along in my network marketing career.  Dan is certainly one of them.  He is a champion of the profession and someone who we can all aspire to be like.

I credit Dan for introducing me to Og Mandino who authored one of the greatest reads in my Library:  The Greatest Salesman in the World.  In fact…after having Dan on my call, I pulled the book off of my bookshelf and began reading it again.  Funny…I can see the exact date I began reading the Scrolls in the book:  10/31/94.

That was over 14 years ago!  I can tell you this.  My net worth and my network have grown a thousand fold since that date.

Well worth the read.  See you later this week.

Just prior to our interview, he was finalizing taping for the Big Idea with Donny Deutsch.  He’s also been on CBS, ABS, CNN, the Larry King Live Show, and Oprah.

 I just finished reading his new book, appropriately titled “The Answer” which he co-wrote with his business partner Murray Smith.  If you want some details on it, you can check it out at Get the Answer

I had an absolutely huge crowd on my call for the interview.  For those of you who couldn’t get in, my sincere apologies.  WE maxed out our conference bridge and simply couldn’f fit more than 1000 people on the live call. 

 You can however listen to it in my Podcast section at http://www.MLMPowerHour.com

I am always personally in search of information and ideas to better my life.  As most of my readers know, I am a Christian.  I don’t sacrifice dogs, cats, chickens or any other animal for that matter.  I belive in God.  My Savior is Jesus Christ. 

 Why am I telling you this?  Well, first of all to THANK YOU for your incredible support and response to a recent newsletter I published regarding ‘heat’ I had gotten from someone who gave me crap over having anyone involved in “The Secret” on my call.  That particular individual chose to no longer receive my newsletter because I invited John on my call.

 What an overwhelmingly powerful and positive response that I received from literally hundreds of my readers and listeners!  Just because someone has viewed “The Secret” and believes in its basic premise does not mean that they are “hocus pocus, witchcraft, crystal chanting, chicken killers.” 

They very basics of the movie is about the Law of Attraction.  Seek and ye shall Find. 

In John’s new book, “The Answer”, he discusses some really incredible things about how the mind works and how we can train ourselves to change our belief patterns to create better results.  You’ll learn about The Law of Gestation and The Law of Action, as well as EXACTLY how to program your mind to produce even more results than you are currently. 

If you get even one great nugget out of this book, you will be a happy camper.  If you read it and apply it, you’ll probably be a very rich and happy camper. 

May God Bless you Every Day of your Life !

So…as most of you are aware, I had a bit of an accident a week or so ago and ruptured my Achilles tendon. It took me down for the count, but not out. All is good and I’m in the healing mode. So, you’ll be reading a lot more as the year progresses.

I had a really good friend of mine Dan McCormick, author of the book “Lessons from Great Lives” introduce me recently to John Assaraf, who I will personally be interviewing on Monday June 2nd for my MLM Power Hour.

Note to Self: Mark it in your calender now. Monday June 2, 2008 at 5pm Pacific Time. Dial 641-594-7500, code 248873#. Be early. It will be packed.

John is a New York Times Best-Selling author. He is one of the experts featured in the hit film and book The Secret, and helped launch it into a worldwide phenomenon (for which Simon & Shuster ordered the largest second printing in its history – 2 million copies) through his appearances on Larry King Live, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Anderson Cooper 360° and other major media outlets. John is also one of the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management’s Distinguished Thought Leaders.

In the last 20 years, John has built four multi-million dollar companies, including:

• RE/MAX of Indiana, which now has more than 1,500 sales associates, who collectively generate more than $5 billion a year in sales and are paid more than $120 million in commissions annually
• Bamboo.com, a start-up that attracted over 100,000 clients in less than a year and generated more than $30 million in revenues within 10 months. Bamboo then merged with Ipix and went on to become the world’s leading provider of online virtual tours including the imaging infrastructure for Internet companies like eBay.
• John is now applying his entrepreneurial drive as founder of OneCoach, a company that is helping thousands of entrepreneurs and small-business professionals grow their revenues so they can achieve financial freedom and live extraordinary lives.

AND GET THIS ! John’s new book, which is very appropriately titled “The Answer” is going to be a must read for ANY entrepreneur. He was kind enough to send me a chapter in the book, which is barely even out yet and I got a chance to read it today. WOW!

I will be devouring entire the book as soon as it hits my mailbox in a few days!

Any book with this title deserves a place on your bookshelf:

“The Answer: Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom and Live an Extraordinary Life”

If you want to know more about John, you can visit: http://www.JohnAssaraf.com

Mark your calendars for June 2nd.

One of the great joys of success in network marketing is being able to take time off when you want to and not have to worry about the repercussions.

I am back, refreshed and rejuvenated! While on my time off, I read several books, including one by a very dear friend of mine, Susan Sly. The title says it all, “The Have it All Woman.” I would have read it earlier, but my wife stole it from me and wouldn’t let me have it back until she finished it.

I was watching Susan on stage at an event we were speaking at several months ago, and she posed a very intriguing series of questions to the audience, which she also addresses in her book.

Why Not? … Why Not YOU? … Why Not Now?

Hmmm…

Those are very simple questions, but deeply profound and deeply moving when you really think about them.

I highly recommend Susan’s book for any woman (really anyone) who desires more out of life. She addresses in really what is more like a powerful working guide rather than simply a “book” many things, a number of secrets, or more accurately, simple instructions for “having it all” and living a fulfilled life.

This book is definitely focused towards women, but I believe anyone could stand to benefit from reading it.

She talks about how to have it all, in ALL areas of your life: relationships, business, money, health, etc?

Susan is a millionaire dollar a year earner in her business and now takes time to share her success strategies with others, as I have.

You can get her book at:

http://www.StepIntoYourPower.com

The article below had a funny quote from Keith that I thought you would enjoy.

CNNMoney:

The crowd of Harvard Business School alums who gathered at their reunion to hear networking expert Keith Ferrazzi speak earlier this summer might have expected to pick up strategies on how to work a room, remember people’s names, or identify mentors. But tactical skills, it turns out, aren’t what turned Ferrazzi into a bestselling author or sought-after speaker.

Instead Ferrazzi let his fellow alums in on a little secret. The key to connecting, he told the group, is “not being an a**hole.” And the most effective path he’s found? Meditation. Exercise and prayer work too, he said, but meditation has been so effective that he now spends ten days every year at a silent meditation retreat. In other words, the man whose latest book is “Never Eat Alone” credits much of his success to alone time.