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Spring Leadership 2012 Recap

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It’s been a long time coming but Spring Leadership has finally come and gone at the BMO Centre in Calgary, Alberta.  It started with a room of about five couples roughly six years ago who had a dream to have a major function within Alberta and spoke it repeatedly over and over.  Here we are with Alberta’s first World Wide Dreambuilders Spring Leadership.  Around 2,500 people were in attendance which blew away World Wide Group which while prepared, was probably not expecting such an amazing appearance.

With the growth in Alberta soaring, as confirmed by Amway Canada’s Jeff Johnson, there is no doubt that we will double the numbers next year if not more and be in the Coral Centre.  While this is the first Major Function, outside of Dream Night, that we’ve been able to attract, we will attract our very own Free Enterprise Day event in 2013.  Some people who read this blog may rebuke the growth but it’s very apparent that World Wide Dreambuilders is growing, Direct Selling in Canada is growing, and Amway it’s self is growing month over month and year over year.

We’ve got a new spark and are looking at continuing our own growth and contributing towards what is an amazing Canadian movement.

Go and Grow!

 

Live from Calgary Spring Leadership 2012

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The BMO Centre in Calgary is buzzing with excitement for Calgary’s very first World Wide Dreambuilders Spring Leadership. The amount of growth and work this team has put in to get their own major function is astonishing. While this won’t be as large as Spokane where we’ve typically gone, we did get the full World Wide stage! Typically an outreach location doesn’t get the full stage from what I’ve heard. That’s awesome!

Anyway Im looking forward to hearing what everyone has to say including our own leadership who are on the verge of going Diamond. A lot of explosive growth going on in Western Canada and Canada as a whole. Weather you care or not, things are moving in a great way!

If you are here, enjoy the weekend!

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Greg Duncan with the traditional Calgary White Cowboy hat.

Spring Leadership 2012

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It’s that time of year again, Spring Leadership is upon us however this time its a bit different for us in Canada.  Because of the continued growth in this area we’ve secured our very own Spring Leadership in Calgary, Alberta.  That’s pretty phenomenal as travel costs will be drastically reduced and travel to the US for this function at least, won’t be necessary. 

Spring Leadership is just that, a conference/seminar on Leadership.  And If your going to talk about Leadership then why not invite the world’s foremost speaker and writer on the subject, John Maxwell.  I have to say that’s the best part of the whole weekend, two keynote talks by John and for those who want to attend, a non-denominational service on Sunday led by him.  I don’t think a guy like John Maxwell would want to hurt his reputation by endorsing an organization that wasn’t full of integrity. 

I always find the biggest growth in our business happens coming out of Spring Leadership, it helps to draw a line in the sand and move forward from whatever was going on before.  While I will miss the road trips down to Spokane, I’m excited to continue to build up this Canadian market so that we can earn having our own Free Enterprise Day’s, which typically happens around October.  I have no doubt with hearing some of the growth numbers from Amway’s latest visit out this way, and that’s pretty exciting to hear.

The only way to really understand what Spring Leadership is like is to actually go to one.  Reading it from me or anywhere else on the internet just won’t do it justice, make up your own mind and come to your own conclusions.

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Unreal Complaining

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I’ve been awhile for a few weeks, primarily focusing on packing our place up and building our business but felt the need to write an entry about what I read from a fellow friends tweet today.  It prompted me to dig a little deeper at lunch into what this was all about.

I’m talking about people complaining about a video game’s ending.  Yeah.  It went so far that someone with the alias “El_Spiko” complained to the Federal Trade Commission claiming fraud.  I’m sure the folks at the FTC had a laugh when they saw a complaint come in with that name.  I hope for his sake and dignity he used his real name when making that complaint.  Filing a complaint with any company using an alias won’t get you anywhere……

It’s quite sad to see just how much time and energy people put into things that have no real tangible effects on your life.  Is complaining about Mass Effect 3’s ending going to make any real change in your life? Probably not.  Could putting that energy into something like reading a success principal book and applying those principals to your life have a positive effect? There is a better chance of yes than no. If people could just harness half of the energy they put into things that don’t matter, it would be a heck of a different world out there.

Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with entertainment, games, and other things of that nature.  However they are significantly lower on the priority pole than things like spending time with my family or perhaps my health and being active.

I digress, now back to packing…