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