| So says top blogger and Microsoft people's | | | | product and I could NEVER have done any of |
| hero, Robert Scoble recently. "One of my most | | | | those things if I didn't, as Kim says, "love |
| memorable conversations...was with Buzz | | | | it MADLY"! Then she added, "I did really |
| Bruggeman, CEO of ActiveWords and a good | | | | crazy things because I LOVED it and I was so |
| friend. He told me to hang around people who | | | | excited..." For love or money?, What's YOUR |
| are happy. And I realized I had been | | | | reason? This question is reminiscent of Doug |
| listening to too many people who were deeply | | | | Rushkoff's thesis Get Back in the Box, that |
| unhappy and not bringing any value into my | | | | people who run companies do better if they |
| life." Ask yourself: Is that happening to | | | | love madly the core thing they're |
| you? Do you remember a time when you were | | | | manufacturing or marketing, because they'll |
| feeling fine, and then you talked to someone, | | | | do a better job of both...instead of just |
| and you ended up less happy? Life is short, | | | | trying to be #1, wipe out the competition, |
| too short to hang out with people who are | | | | and cut costs and increase profits - the |
| unhappy and make you unhappy, too. Let them | | | | money motivated goals. The most successful |
| find others who are unhappy and they can all | | | | business people today say it all starts with |
| hang out together in unhappyville. The Buddha | | | | something you love madly and that matters to |
| recognized clearly "right association" 2500 | | | | you from your bones. Money is always |
| years ago. Religious scholar Huston Smith | | | | secondary., One gal who today is one of our |
| wrote: "No one has recognized more clearly | | | | industry's millionaires told me years ago |
| than the Buddha the extent to which we are | | | | that when she was first repping her |
| social animals, influenced at every turn by | | | | then-company's weight loss product, she was |
| the 'companioned example' of our associates, | | | | SO EXCITED about it, and about getting to the |
| whose attitudes and values affect us | | | | events each year, that "Kim I'd have gone |
| profoundly." -Buddhism, a Concise | | | | door-to-door in my underwear to go. We all |
| Introduction Look around you, upline, | | | | would have." Do you love your product, or the |
| sideline, friends, family or colleagues. Who | | | | marketing of it, THAT much? You'll need that |
| is happy and adds to your life? Who brings | | | | kind of deep love/obsession/crazines for it |
| out the best in you? Associate with such a | | | | to survive the process of building your |
| person, and limit access to the rest. "I'd | | | | business. There are many less stressful and |
| have gone door to door in my underwear." | | | | "Jennie-on-the-spot" ways to make income than |
| Today we interviewed Mary Jane Medlock, who | | | | your own business. So do you love it MADLY? |
| talked about the crazy things she did when | | | | If not, find something you do. It's the best |
| she first started marketing her weight loss | | | | way I know to survive the process of building |
| product. Like walking up to obese strangers | | | | up a little business for yourself, because it |
| at aiports and handing them her brochure with | | | | may be a lot harder and longer road than you |
| her before and after picture and her story, | | | | first may have thought. |
| saying "THAT was ME! Maybe I can help you!" | | | | |
| and then running away. She told everyone on | | | | Kim Klaver is Harvard & Stanford educated. |
| the call, "I LOVE my company and I LOVE my | | | | |