Remember the master teacher once said 2000 years ago, “Unless you can become like little children, your chances are zero, you haven’t got a prayer.” A major consideration for adults. Be like children and remember there are four ways to be more like a child no matter how old you get - 1. Curiosity – Be curious. Childish curiosity. Learn to be curious like a child. What will kids do if they want to know something bad enough? You’re right. They will bug you. Kids can ask a million questions. You think they’re through. They’ ve got another million. They will keep plaguing you. They can drive you right to the brink. 2. Excitement – Learn to get excited like a child. There is nothing that has more magic than childish excitement. So excited you hate to go to bed at night. Can’t wait to get up in the morning. So excited that you’re about to explode. How can anyone resist that kind of childish magic? Now, once in awhile I meet someone who says, “Well, I’m a little too mature for all that childish excitement.” Isn’t that pitiful? You’ve got to weep for these kinds of people. All I’ve got to say is, “If you’re too old to get excited, you’re old.” Don’t get that old. 3. Faith – Faith like a child. Faith is childish. How else would you describe it? Some people say, “Let’s be adult about it.” Oh no. No. Adults too often have a tendency to be overly skeptical. Some adults even have a tendency to be cynical. Adults say, “Yeah. I’ve heard that old positive line before. It will be a long day in June before I fall for that positive line. You’ve got to prove to me it’s any good.” See, that’s adult, but kids aren’t that way. Kids think you can get anything. They are really funny. You tell kids, “We’re going to have three swimming pools.” And they say, “Yeah. Three. One each. Stay out of my swimming pool.” See, they start dividing them up right away, but adults are not like that. Adults say, “Three swimming pools? You’re out of your mind. Most people don’t even have one swimming pool. You’ll be lucky to get a tub in the back yard.” You notice the difference? No wonder the master teacher said, “Unless you can become like little children, your chances, they’re skinny.” 4. Trust – Trust is a childish virtue, but it has great merit. Have you heard the expression “sleep like a baby”? That’s it. Childish trust. After you’ve gotten an A+ for the day, leave it in somebody else’s hands. Curiosity, excitement, faith and trust. Wow, what a powerful combination to bring (back) into our lives. Thanks to Chris Widener (service@madeforsuccess.ccsend.com)for these fantastic thoughts. In memory of Jim Rohn.  Your philosophies will endure for generations and you will be missed.

 

 

Why Do You Recommend Network Marketing?

Robert Kiyosaki’s Answer:

When I first heard about network marketing, I was against it.  But after opening my mind, I began to see advantages that few other business opportunities offer. 

Long-term success in life is a reflection of your education, life experience and personal character.  Many network-marketing companies provide personal development training in those key areas.

Most schools train people for the E or S quadrants, and that is great if those are the quadrants in which you want to spend your life.  Most MBA programs are training students for high-paying jobs in the corporate world as an E, not a B.

What if you’re in the E or S quadrant and you want to change?  What if you want to be in the B quadrant?  Where do you find the education that trains you for that quadrant?  I recommend a network-marketing business.  I recommend the industry for people who want to change and get the necessary skills and attitude training to be successful in the B quadrant.

Being an entrepreneur and building a B quadrant business is one of the toughest challenges a person can take on.  The reason there are more people in the E and S quadrants is simply because those quadrants are less demanding than the B quadrant.  As they say, “If it was easy, everyone would do it.”

Personally, I had to learn how to overcome my self-doubt, shyness and fear of rejection.  And I had to learn how to pick myself up and keep going after I failed.  These are some of the personal traits a person must develop if they are to be successful in a B quadrant business, regardless of whether it is a network-marketing business, a franchise or an entrepreneurial startup.

An important personal skill required for any B quadrant business is leadership.  Are you able to overcome your own fears and have others overcome their fears in order to get the job done?  This is a skill the Marine Corps taught me.  As Marine Corps officers, it was imperative that we be able to lead others into battle, even though we were all terrified of dying.

I meet many people in the S quadrant, the specialist or small business owners, who would like to expand, but they simply lack leadership skills.  No one wants to follow them.  The employees do not trust their leader or the leader does not inspire the employees to better themselves. 

As mentioned earlier, Forbes defined a big-business owner, a B quadrant business owner, as a person who controls a business with more than 500 employees.  This definition is why leadership skills are vial for the B quadrant.

Where could you find a business that will invest the time in your education, your personal development and building your own business?  The answer is: most network-marketing business.

Building a B quadrant business is not an easy task.  So you need to ask yourself, “Do I have what it takes?  Am I willing to go beyond my comfort zones?  Am I willing to be led and willing to learn to lead?  Is there a very rich person inside of me, ready to come out?” If the answer is “Yes,” start looking for a network-marketing business that has a great training program.  I would focus less on the products or the compensation plans and more on the education and personal development program the company offers. 

A network-marketing business is a B quadrant business because it meets several criteria I look for in a business or investment.  Those criteria are:

1. Leverage:   Can I train other people to work for me?
2. Control:  Do I have a protected system that belongs to me?
3. Creativity:  Will the business allow me to be creative and develop my own personal style and talents?
4. Expandability:  Can my business grow indefinitely?
5. Predictability:  Is my income predictable if I do what is expected of me?  If I am successful, and keep expanding my business, will my income increase with my success and hard work?

Isn’t Network Marketing A Pyramid Scheme?
I am often asked if network marketing is a pyramid scheme.  My reply is that corporations are really pyramid schemes.  A corporation has only one person at the top, generally the CEO, and everyone else below.  The following is an example of a typical corporate pyramid:

 Compare that to a network-marketing business system:                            

A true network-marketing business is the exact opposite of a traditional business model.  A network-marketing business is designed to bring you up to the top, not keep you down at the bottom.  A true network-marketing business does not succeed unless it brings people up to the top.
Additional Points Worth Mentioning
The following are some other points worth mentioning:

1. Tax breaks increase.  By starting a network-marketing business in your spare time and keeping your regular job, you begin to gain the tax advantages of the rich.  A person with a part-time business can take more tax deductions than employees can.  For example, you may be able to deduct car expenses, gasoline, some meals and entertainment.  Obviously, you need to check with a CPA for exact rulings on your situation.  And the cost of your CPA is tax-deductible.  In most cases, an employee cannot deduct CPA expenses.  In other words, the government will give you a tax break for advise on how to pay less in taxes. 
2. Meet like-minded people.  One of the advantages I had is that my friends also wanted to be in the B quadrant.  When I first started out, most of my E quadrant friends thought I was nuts.  They could not understand why I did not want a steady job or a steady paycheck.  So an important part of becoming a B is to surround yourself with other people who are Bs and want you to become a B.

1. Give yourself time.  It takes time to be successful in any of the quadrants.  Just as it takes time to climb to the top of the corporate ladder as an E, or become a successful doctor or lawyer In the S quadrant, it takes time and dedication to become successful in the B quadrant.  It took me years before I built a successful B quadrant business.
2. Network-marketing companies are patient.  One of the beauties of a network-marketing business is that it will invest in you, even if you are not successful.

In the corporate world, if you are not successful in six months to a year, you are often fired.  In the network-marketing world, as long as you are willing to put in the time, most companies will work with you in your development.  After all, they want you to get to the top.

1. Leverage the systems that are already in place.  These systems are already tried and proven, which allows you to hit the ground running instead of trying to build the internal system of a new company.

In conclusion
After opening my closed mind, I could finally see some of the unique benefits the network-marketing industry offers people who want more out of their lives.
Generally, it costs much less to get started in a network-marketing company than to build a business on your own.

-Robert Kiyosaki

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Donald Trump’s Response

Marketing is a powerful tool, and network marketing can increase that power, provided you are self-motivated.  In a simple visual, see a product and then remove the advertising agency from it.  It is up to you to do the marketing and advertising. 

That’s a big job, but it can be done if you are passionate enough to get it going on your own and to keep the momentum and motivation going at a high level.  It requires an entrepreneurial spirit, and that means focus and perseverance.  I do not recommend network marketing to people who are not highly self-motivated. 

Another important aspect of network marketing is that it is inherently social, so if you are not a social or outgoing person, I’d think twice about going into it.  Sociability is a requirement. 

Just like in advertising, there’s no point in having a fantastic advertising campaign if the product isn’t equally fantastic.  Also keep in mind that if you decide to become a distributor, you will be legally responsible for the claims you make about the product, the company and the available opportunities.  But above all, make sure the product is worth your energy and total devotion.  Otherwise, you could be energetically spinning your wheels. 

Robert mentions the importance of going beyond your comfort zone when it comes to network marketing.  He also mentions giving yourself enough time.  These are good points to consider.  I would also agree that having leadership qualities is critical for success.  You definitely have to have a take-charge, can-do attitude. 

As with any other undertaking, know everything you can about what you’re doing before you begin.  Network marketing has proven itself to be a viable and rewarding source of income, and the challenges could be just right for you.  There have been some remarkable examples of success, and those successes have been earned through diligence, enthusiasm and the right product combined with timing.  As with so many issues we have discussed before, there are tangibles and intangibles involved, but success is not a total mystery, and that applies to network marketing as well. 

Most people have heard of focus  groups, a research tool that advertising agencies use when they are testing a new product.  They will go out to different locations and simply ask everyday people what they like and don’t like about a new product.  Its best if you can keep the focus group idea close at hand when you are deciding about a product.  Just because you like it doesn’t mean everyone else will.  Finding a common denominator in product appeal will matter.

My nutshell advice about network marketing is to do your research and then put everything you’ve got into your product.  Genuine enthusiasm is hard to beat, and the odds will be with you.
                                                                                                               
-Donald Trump

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You Can’t Achieve Success Living in the Past

Boy, if only I had/hadn’t …… Life would be so different now.

If I were ranking emotions and mental activities in terms of usefulness, regret would be right near the bottom of the list. We all recognize that things would be different, i.e. better, had we done or not done certain things in the past, and some of those things can have pretty strong emotions attached to them. But there’s a big difference between that and the almost chronic hang-dog state of “if-only”. In fact, living in the past with “if only’s” is a primary reason people do not achieve success.

Regret is an interesting emotion: the person apparently feels bad about something they did or didn’t do. Some individuals feeling regret manage to make you feel bad in the process. So bad, in fact, that you go out of your way to make them feel better. You can definitely help some individuals, but you also come across individuals who never feel better no matter what you do.

To achieve success you have to look forward. Learn your lessons from past mistakes, and then let them go. And while you’re at it, let go of the mistakes others have made, too.

Learning how to let the past stay in the past is a vital entrepreneurial skill.

How very very true. We must realise that the future is all that we must focus on as the past is gone and can’t be changed. Learn from it and power forward and live a great life from here.

Thankyou Shane Krider and Polaris Media Group….I am forever grateful…Chrissy.

Teaching Entrepreneurial Skills at Home

I recently read an article that argued against stay-at-home moms, with some very convincing reasons. I nearly bought it, until I remembered something a friend said to me many years ago.

One of the best arguments raised in the article is that kids who spend all their time with mom have a social circle of one – mom. In a daycare, their social circle is 20, maybe more.

Good point; how do kids learn to get along with others when they’re home with mom?

Then I remembered my friend. He and his family, wife and two kids, lived in a rural environment. Mom home-schooled the kids and, because their home was so isolated, they rarely got to interact with other kids.

When I remarked about how time consuming it must be to get their kids together with other kids, my friend’s reply made me laugh. “Have you ever seen kids interact?!”
He reminded me of schoolyard bullies, nasty mindgames causing lack of social skills in later life, bad unnecessary language, peer pressure related problems, the complete wrong type of education for real life situations, just to name a few…..

He said he would much rather his kids emulate the manners, interaction and habits practiced at home. Then they could go out in the world more prepared.

One of the great things about using entrepreneurial skills to work from home is you get to spend more time with your kids, and in turn, more time to provide education in life skills such as how to get along with others. A solid education in this entrepreneurial skill will give any child the greatest chance of achieving success.

Thankyou again to Shane Krider and Polaris Media Group for inspirational positive educational verses…. we will change the world for the better….its just a matter of time.

Home Business the New Growth Sector – Why Now? Especially Now.

The world’s leaders have decided that our future is uncertain. Global recession…Global warming… Global Panic.
Well this little black duck will not take this lying down. A recession proof industry like Personal Development makes so much sense as to secure Your families, and their families families, future.
To be self reliant and accountable for your future; as it is always better off in Your hands. Today’s world is full of possibilities that could only be dreamed of by our parent’s generation. In a few short years communication technology has turned the average home into a well equipped global office. With video cameras, conference calling technology and full internet solutions the possibilities are endless to creating a successful business. Social networking sites such as facebook and twitter have given the Internet mass appeal across many generations. Communication is just so easy, accessible and Now.

E – Commerce is now huge business and the internet has created a level playing field that gives every business, large or small, the same opportunity for success. Consumers around the world are spending over $9,000,000,000 a year in commerce transactions over the Internet.
We are still in the early stages of this growth cycle and the demand is expected to grow even faster in the near future.
Home businesses are starting up every day in just about every country around the world and have become a viable way to create a successful business providing an income and security for Your family which is totally up to You, rather than the boss. It costs tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars to set up and run a conventional business.

Running a home based business on the other hand does cut costs quite dramatically. The Internet has the potential to reach customers from all around the world for a fraction of what a traditional business would spend. The Internet has come of age and just about everyone on the planet uses the internet for purchases, research, and employment amongst many other things. The slogan now is, if you want information, just ‘Google it’.

There is no such thing as ‘job security’ anymore. Your only job security is YOU. Smart people are looking for other options, options that suit the lifestyle they demand and they are creating it through legitimate and ethical home based businesses.
One needs to be self motivated and disciplined to have success at working at home as there is no ‘boss’ to check up on you to see if you’re doing what needs to be done. You are accountable for your own level of income.
It’s important to look and utilize mentors throughout your journey – Work with someone who’s already doing the business and having success, learn from them and duplicate exactly what they are doing, always though, put your own flair to what you’re doing and look to always improve; it’s natures way.
The Personal Development industry has been around for many years. Personal Development has been featured on the Ellen De Generes show, Larry King Live and has featured on Oprah many times. As people continue to strive for better results in life they lean more and more to work with coaches, mentors and trainers that can take their business to the next level. The industry has become so popular that over 19 billion US dollars worth of products were sold worldwide last year alone, so people are really looking for self improvement.

Do you dream of achieving your financial and emotional goals while working efficiently and ethically at home, working hours tailored around the lifestyle you dream of? We all do. Do You wish to achieve the work life balance tipped toward Life rather than work. We only have One Life. We must all strive to make it the best one we possibly can.
Personal Development is improving You to be the Best You there is.
Too many people settle for mediocrity when success and abundance is just around the corner.
Home Business is not the scary monster is use to be, as more and more professionals are heading this way, to give them back their lives, and not miss the one time to be there, when their children grow up. …or any other major family event.
That one event, that will never be repeated…don’t miss it.
Just remember; Ford, Microsoft and Coca Cola all started as home businesses.

About the Author:
Christine Greig has a true passion for assisting others to achieve their full potential in life through empowerment on all levels.
Chrissy runs a very successful international home based business in the booming personal development industry.
She shares a love of animals, people, traveling the world, attending Personal Development Seminars to name a few.
Chrissy and her lovely family currently reside on a property in beautiful Sunny Tamworth Australia when she is not traveling, and is Loving Life.

“Seeing people who I have mentored become wildly successful in all areas of their lives, is absolutely the best feeling…
there is no greater joy…I thank you all”

For more information and guidance on how You can become independently successful free call 1800 735559 or visit www.BestEverHomeBusiness.com

A Key Entrepreneurial Skill – Anticipating Decline

“Do not look where you fell but where you slipped.” That’s an old African proverb – no one really knows who said it, but it’s a good one. In fact, looking at where you slipped is a key entrepreneurial skill. But what does it mean, and how do you apply it?

Basically, it’s pretty simple. By the time you’ve actually landed (the fall), it’s really too late to do anything about it – staring at the ground where you landed won’t teach you a thing.

However, if you can locate the point at which you started to slip, you can actually prevent future falls.

Let’s look at statistics, for example. The numbers could be going up consistently for weeks or months on end. You look at them every week, and note their climb. Maybe you get the occasional down week but it’s nothing major, easily understandable (a hurricane hit and there was no electrical power, a snow storm kept everyone trapped in their home, and so on), and things go back up the next week.

Then you hit a week that goes down, and you don’t have a clue what’s behind it. That’s the beginning of the slip. Then the numbers go down further the next week and you still don’t have an explanation.

You are headed for a fall.

What is the entrepreneurial skill to be learned here? First, if the numbers start slipping, find out why; now. Second, if you are trying to recover from a fall that happened quite a while ago, look for the point at which things started slipping. There will be your answer.

Achieving success depends on anticipating the future – which you do with entrepreneurial management skills like finding out why things slipped instead of waiting for the fall.

Shane Krider, John Lavenia, Shannon Lavenia and Gene Braxton all must be highly commended on their efforts to bring more positivity into this world. What a great community to be fully involved in. Cannot wipe the smile from my face….Chrissy.

Give Bad Habits the Boot!
Chris Widener

Everybody has bad habits. Everybody. Now granted, some people have less than others and some people’s bad habits are more grating than those of others, but we all have them. What is great is that we don’t have to! Imagine a life where you couldn’t change? What kind of life would that be? But we can, so let’s!

There are two kinds of bad habits: Those you know you have that others may or may not know about, and those you don’t know you have but everybody else knows you have!

For the sake of everybody involved we ought to get rid of them all, right?

Well Chris, how can I get rid of a bad habit if I don’t know I have it? Simple, but hard. Ask somebody to be brutally honest with you! You might think, “Yeah, but I’ll be embarrassed.” Would you rather everyone talk behind your back? Get up the courage and ask. Ask somebody who loves you and has your best interest in mind. Be gracious and don’t defend your self. Just accept it and work on it.

What about the ones we know about – which are all of them once your good friend tells you the ones you were missing? Those are the tough ones. How do I know they are tough? They must be tough if you know about them and yet you still have them! If they weren’t tough, they would be FORMER bad habits! Got me? Good!

So how do you break a bad habit? How do you give it the boot out of your life? Here are a few things that must be a part of the plan in order to see that stuff gone forever!

1. You must want them to go.
   That’s right, some people want them to stick around. I have seen dads choose alcohol over their grandchildren. I have seen smokers continue smoking while watching their parents die of emphysema. They don’t want them to go. The first thing is to go deep into the recesses of your heart and ask, “Do I really want to give this up?”
2. You do?
   Good. Step two: Make up a list of all of the reasons you want to quit your bad habits. Make them positive. Make the list long! Start with the really powerful and dramatic if you need to. Now memorize them. Put them in your mind. You are making connections between stopping the bad behavior with what good things you will get from doing so. If you want to lose weight, then picture yourself slim and looking good in those skinny people clothes! If you want to stop smoking, picture your wife actually kissing you rather than sending you to the bathroom to brush your teeth!
3. Choose.
   That is right. Once you have the information, this comes down to one thing: It is an act of the will. Choose to do it. Say to yourself throughout the day, “I am choosing to…” Eisenhower rightly said, “The history of free men is written not by chance but by choice, their choice.” It is your choice. You can write your history.
4. Take action!
   Point four is tricky because there are two philosophies about this. One theory is that you must take massive action. You must go all or nothing. Using the weight loss example, this person would go spend $500 to join a gym, rework their schedule and hit the treadmill everyday for a year. They will get rid of all fat in the house. They go all out! That works for some. Others would burn out on that, feel like failures and be worse off than before. They should start out slow, taking baby steps, but working diligently toward a planned goal. This person would decide to start walking three days a week. They would decide to limit dessert to two nights a week, down from seven. See how this works? Either way is okay as long as you get to the goal eventually. Which one am I?
5. Tell somebody.
   This is your accountability partner. Tell them your goal and tell them your plan. Write it down for them and have them ask you on regular intervals about your progress. This will prove invaluable!
6. Recover from failure.
   Inevitably most people will have setbacks. The key is to have them be setbacks and not turnbacks! Pick yourself up and get going again. Some people may want to lose 30 pounds and after losing fifteen they eat a gallon of ice cream. Then they feel bad and give up. Don’t! Reset your goal for another two weeks and get going again. Chalk it off to experience! Say to yourself, “Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.”
7. Reward yourself.
   That’s right. You should regularly congratulate yourself by rewarding yourself with some gift to yourself. Start small with small victories and plan a big one when you are finally and for sure over the habit.

Is it that simple? Most of the time, no. Habits are hard to break. There are so many intangibles that it would be hard to cover them all. But this is a simple and workable plan that will help you make great strides if you apply the principles.

Get going! Give those bad habits a boot! Good luck!

A big thankyou ot Chris Widener. Your words of wisdom are always inspirational.

G = Get to It!

People often ask me what the most important quality for success is. Throughout my career I have worked with hundreds of supremely successful people and they all had one easily identifiable trait in common: They all knew how to set goals for themselves and work hard to achieve those goals.

The ability to set goals and make plans for their accomplishment is the “master skill” of success. It is the single most important skill you can learn and perfect. Goal-setting will do more to help you achieve the things you want in life than will anything else you’ve been exposed to.

And yet according to the best research, under 3 percent of Americans have written goals, and under 1 percent review and rewrite their goals daily. Most people don’t understand the importance of setting goals, or they don’t know how to do it. Or maybe they’re simply afraid of failure.

Today I would like to share with you five key concepts that will help you to reach your goals more effectively. Each of these keys starts with one of the letters in the word “GOALS.” Whenever you find yourself getting off the track, simply repeat the word “goals,” and think about how each letter stands for a key that just might apply to your current situation.

Sometimes, the only difference between a successful person and a failure is that the successful person has the courage to get started, to do something, to begin moving toward the accomplishment of a specific goal.

You may have a long-range goal. In order to achieve it, you need to sit down and make a list of all the steps that you will have to take to get from where you are to where you want to be. Then begin with the first and most obvious thing that you can do on that list. Complete it, and then start on number two.

Don’t worry about the long term. Just concentrate on the obvious first step that you can take. Surprisingly enough, everything else will take care of itself.

The Confucian saying, “A journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step,” is so popular in so many languages because it is so true.

O = Opportunity

Successful people do not wait for opportunities to turn their goals into reality. Instead, they make their own opportunities, because they are perfectly clear about the kind of life they wish to create.

Once you have taken the time to decide exactly what you want, you will experience an endless flow of opportunities that will help move you in that direction.

A = Ability

Many people hesitate to set high, challenging goals because they lack the ability necessary to turn those goals into reality. But remember that we all lacked knowledge and experience when we started out in our careers or fields of expertise.

Since you gain the ability necessary for high achievement through knowledge and experience, if you increase the speed at which you acquire both of those, you increase the speed at which you move ahead.

L = Leadership

Leadership is simply the ability to get results. And you begin to get results when you accept full responsibility for yourself, for your job and for the outputs required in your position.

You demonstrate leadership when you refuse to make excuses or blame anyone or anything for the problems you are having. The acceptance of the responsibility of leadership enables you to move ahead and take action.

When you are not satisfied with your job or income, and you sit down and make a written plan to change it, and then take action on that plan, without waiting for anyone’s approval or permission, you are behaving like a leader.

S = Stay With It!

Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles. The bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles. Your decision to be, have, and do something out of the ordinary entails facing difficulties and challenges that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

When you look around you, you will see that all achievement is the triumph of persistence. You will see men and women everywhere who are struggling with and overcoming adversities in order to accomplish something that is important to them.

… And so can you.

Goals enable you to do the work you want to do, to live where you want to live, to be with the people you enjoy, and to become the kind of person you want to become. If you set your goals and create a plan that will help you achieve those goals, nothing can stop you from finally winning through.

To learn more about how you can radically improve your life through goal-setting, please accept my free report, Goals!, as a special gift to you.

The report breaks down my proven goal-setting process into easy steps that will help you achieve the life you want faster and more easily than you ever thought!

To download the report, please click here now.

Thanks to success coach Brian Tracy for an inspiring guest article!

Entrepreneurial Skills – One BIG Reason to Put Them on Your Must-Do List

Whether you’re currently working for yourself or as an employee, entrepreneurial skills are a vital part of business. But, as importantly, they’re also a vital part of life.

Let’s look at just one skill every successful entrepreneur has – the ability to negotiate. Now let’s look at how you use it in life.

A good example is my friend’s approach to getting his daughter willing to stop playing and come to dinner. It was quite a dilemma; every time he called her to dinner he had to argue with her. Then she’d come to dinner upset, and dinner would not be the happy occasion either of them wanted.

So, he devised a plan – he’d put her in the driver’s seat. One day he asked her, “What one thing do you have to do before you can eat dinner?” And it worked! She responded with “put away my dolls,” “feed my kitty,” or “dress my Barbie in her new pink outfit.’ He was delighted. She would do that one thing and happily come to dinner.

But it didn’t take long before she caught on. One day he asked her the magic question and she replied, “Play for another hour.”

My friend knew she had his number. And she was only six years old! See … everyone negotiates. It is key to achieving success in many, many areas of life.

By the way, that little 6-year-old was born with serious entrepreneurial skills. She’s older now, and one of the most innovative minds on the planet.

Don’t think entrepreneurial skills are just about business – they’re for life. Use them, and life will be better.

Another Huge thankyou to Shane Krider, CEO of Polaris Media Group