I’m sorry I haven’t written for a week or so.

My wife and I got back from our Christmas vacation and found one of our cats was having congestive heart failure.  We’ll we don’t have children.  Our cats our like our kids.  So it was a big blow and was so sudden that it was shocking.  Thankfully we have some great doctors and he was able to go to the hospital for a couple of days and is back home with us now.  He’s doing pretty well.  He’s still sick but at least we get to spend more time with him.

So with that came the new year.

It’s a great time to take a step back and evaluate our business.  No matter what business you are in… if it is mlm or internet marketing or whatever take a step back.  Sit down with a notebook for an hour and imagine your business.  If you tracked your records or results from the previous year look them over.  See how you did.

Then take some time out to just sit and ponder 2008.  Where do you want to be at the end of 2008?  What type of people do you want to attract into your business?  How much do you want your business to grow?  How many people do you want on your team to attend the convention with you?  What do you want your team party to look like?  How many of your team do you want to see on the stage?

That’s your goal.

The HOW comes later.  Right now you need to set goals.  You should focus on they what and the why.  What your team will look like and why you will want it to look that way.   Write down notes in your notebook.  Create some goals and write them down.

Then and only then do we begin to evaluate the HOW… You have to know where you are going before you figure out how to get there.  When you look at a map you can’t determine the route you are going to take unless you know where you are going.  So you can’t figure out how to get to Dallas until you determine you are going to go to Dallas.

Start with a mastermind session. Get your team leaders together on a conference call and brainstorm.  You may have people with various levels of experience and expertise and some might have some new and unique ideas.  Find out what has been working best for yourself and your leaders and see if you can put a plan in place to teach that to the rest of your team.

Now is the perfect time to start over…. if you don’t have a team yet then it’s easy.  What has worked for you so far?  What has worked for your upline?  Focus on what works.  Don’t try to re-invent the wheel.  Just find out what works and make it work.  I know it’s not glamorous but in network marketing we just have to find what works and do it over and over and over again.

What has worked for you so far?

- Ben Fitts

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