The WINNERS CIRCLE national dealer coaching program rolls on and we've just implemented a couple of seemingly ordinary ideas with a couple of our members that are delivering BIG PROFITS in a big way. That's the great thing about any collection of individuals and ideas. That's the power of the MasterMind! The most expensive thing in this marketplace is IGNORANCE, and the most profitable is the IMPLEMENTATION of New Ideas! The Think and Grow Rich Challenge is actually something anyone could (and should) do, especially someone in business.

Read the book, a little at a time, a chapter at a time, a PRINCIPLE at a time and see what happens.
If you'd like an EASY WAY to get a little of Hill's wisdom every week, get his book called
A YEAR OF GROWING RICH: 52 Steps to Achieving Life's Rewards. Very cool indeed...

Once in awhile I just get in the mood for a real RANT on all the WHINING I hear as I go out into the marketplace daily...Ever pay attention to people around you, especially BUSINESS people, salespeople, even someone in an ownership or leadership position and their LIST OF EXCUSES for why things aren't going well, or going better or getting more PROFITABLE?

It's like someone's assigned them as homework "The List of Excuses." And the top 2 or 3 may vary from time to time but there are the long-time-favorites on the list as well. Number 1 with a bullet right now of course is gas prices. Followed by the stock market, the government, the president, the congress, the governor (numerous LOCAL blame lists), taxes too high, believe it or not I just heard someone say the reason they weren't doing much business that day is because of "tax free day."

Then of course schools in/schools out, election year, vacation, too hot/too cold, too rainy/drought...the list is LONG. The real problem with most people's BLAME LIST is that they're not on it! The challenge for you and me is to get better. As one of my long-time teacher's Mr. Rohn says, "Don't wish it were EASIER, wish you were better." Or I might add, stop wishing PERIOD and decide that you will get better, get smarter, get ideas, become remarkable in the way you sell it, serve it, deliver it, package it, buy it, or give it away (yep, you should give something away...it's called a FREE SAMPLE). Pullleeeze...

The next time you find yourself at a Broadway show, Las Vegas, Disneyworld, in line for your made-just-for-you-cuppa-Joe at Starbucks, passing a Harley dealership, on eBay, dining at your favorite PACKED restaurant, or just enjoying one of the many freedoms, liberties, or pleasures that are all-too-available in your town and mine...STOP!

And give thanks for the amazing opportunity that you and I have in America TODAY.

If we can't STOP all the blaming and whining, at least we can stop listening to it...To Be Continued.