Make Life Meaningful
Today was one of those days when MLM – Make Life Meaningful – took on a clear perspective. Wan Yee, a friend I met at AsiaWorks, and I had lunch in James’ home. I had spoken with her earlier last week and found out from that if she were to do MLM, her primary motivating…
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Making Choices, Paying Prices
In the last weekend of March 2016, the team made a trip to KL for our company’s Success Seminar where we would learn from the best in this business. We had made all the necessary preparations – plane tickets, hotels, even planned for transport when we touched down in KL. And our meals! The night…
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Team work, Team Players Committed to a common vision
A group of us have been meeting together weekly for years. We call this small group a Success Group. The concept is like a church cell group – a bunch of people commit to coming together weekly to encourage, exhort and, in our case, to practise the values critical to success in the MLM business….
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What’s Love Got to Do With Business?
Last month, I made my biennial trip to Salt Lake City to attend the company’s global convention. There were the usual sessions where the top achievers in the company shared their awe-inspiring success stories. However, the sharing that made the most impact on me happened outside of the main convention agenda. And it had to do with…
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A High-touch Business
I initially thought the difference between buying things from an MLM distributor and from a departmental store or pharmacy is that the customer can go back to the same distributor each time, which is great. Then I discovered another reason: people don’t come just to transact, they come to connect. They want the human…
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For Love or For Money?
I’d been watching a series of videos by Robin Sharma, an author and motivational coach. He posed a question: “When you look at the masters, do they do their work for the love of it, or for the money?” He postulates that no Picasso or Da Vinci or Mozart, Federer or Lady Gaga, Steve…
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Warming Hearts, Lifting Spirits
Our team just had our monthly gathering last night. This monthly gathering has been going on for more than 15 years. The idea is simple. As network marketers, we are a motley bunch of people working at different locations, with different groups of people, at different times. Sometimes, it is hard to feel there…
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What really matters
I was zipping through the supermarket on a wet Wednesday morning, picking up some groceries for the week. I saw an elderly man with a toddler in tow. It was a grandpa and grandson morning outing to the neighbourhood supermarket. As grandpa and toddler were going up the escalator, grandma and Kor Kor were coming…
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