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Your Association

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Don’t take my word for it, check out John Maxwell’s teaching on your association.  If you want to succeed in specific areas of your life, make sure you surround yourself with people that have those things, surround yourself with greatness.  Great teaching here from John Maxwell, just one great resource that we in World Wide Dreambuilders get to tap into during Spring Leadership coming up in April.  Cannot wait to hear what he has to say there. 

On another note, I highly doubt someone like John Maxwell would put his integrity and reputation at risk by associating with World Wide Dreambuilders, you know considering he’s the worlds greatest teacher on Leadership.  But what does John know eh?

 

“Birds of a feather flock together”

Must Apologize

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Sorry I must quickly apologize for my mental lapse today.  I stooped to a lower level and engaged negative people going nowhere and wasting energy on something that doesn’t really concern them.  I said I wouldn’t do that but again I’m only human and do make mistakes. 

I think to move past this I’ll just head out tonight with some good friends, some good positive association and forget it ever happened. 

Again sorry for my blunder…

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Thoughts on Association

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So today in line I was thinking about how awesome the association is. Everyone here is jacked on life, excited for where they are goof and how they are going to get there. 7am was not difficult knowing who we’d be able to chat with and hang out with before heading in.

Sure we have some crossline people we get along with but I’m always excited to get around our team and running mates. Talking about successes achieved from the last time we spoke, new goals or dreams. Whats even better is we know how to help them achieve some of those goals since we’ve done some of them, Specifically how to free your partner. Good times ahead for our team and the people we are bringing on. Very excited.

Just outside again waiting for the evening portion to start where we will hear some pretty awesome stories from Lynn about his Ex-Ranger days. They have a great story, one worth listening to.

Just a positive day today for sure.

Food For Thought on Divorces

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While checking my news feeds today I came across this little gem on CTV News:

You Can Catch a Divorce From Your Friends

There is a reason why we talk a lot about association and who you choose to hang around.  This article just helps quantify why we hold so much value on our association.  I’ve said before and many people before me that you are the product of the books you read and the people you associate with.  The article basically goes into how friends and even siblings have an affect on your own marriage and the possibility of you having a divorce if they do.

Some interesting stats at the end of the article are:

“According to Statistics Canada, about 38 per cent of Canadian marriages end by their 30th anniversary.

In the United States, about 44 per cent of marriages end with divorce.

In both the U.S. and Canada, divorce rates peaked in the 1980s and have fallen since.”

Give it a read if you have some time.

Leaders Incentive

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Yesterday we qualified for a leaders incentive at our upline Emeralds parents farm.  The qualification was the Eagle parameter or higher.  We’ve held the Eagle qualification since we first went Eagle in February and re-qualified this month for this incentive which was a huge goal for us because we wanted to experience this incentive and be around some highly elevated people.

We were split into teams and we were matched up with our crossline Eagles so that was awesome.  We really enjoy getting to know them on a more personal level and at these events we don’t really have to worry about “crosslining” to much because it’s a day full of fun times.  The day started out with us in our teams doing a few quick team games to get the excitement going for the day.  After that the next event was our own version of “The Amazing Race” where we raced from the farm 30KM’s into Athabasca and where challenges and roadblocks were set out all over the town.  It was done very first class where we actually felt like we were in The Amazing Race.  Sadly we didn’t do so well however we enjoyed the time with our fellow Eagles :)

We went into a dreambuilding excerisze were everyone shared why they are building this business and what this business means to them.  Every single person in that room spoke on relationships with their significant others, marriages with their partners, and family.  That is why we build this business is for all of that.  We build it because we want strong marriages which is exactly what this room was full of.  We build this to set examples of what a great marriage should be.  Not saying there are are not good marriages out there however we want a GREAT marriage.  Getting around others that want the same thing, are doing the same thing helps us grow so that we can achieve that as well.  It was so humbling to see why others are building this business and how its impacted them.

Next was dinner with a HUGE feast fit for kings!  So much food.  I really used this time well to get around the male leaders in our organization and soak it in.  I had a few questions that were on my mind that I had asked, however it was more about getting around the leaders outside of functions and boardplans.  It was awesome to get real with the men in this organization as if we were friends for a long time.  Its just been an amazing blessing to get around these people in a casual setting like this.

Lastly was where everyone in the room got to share for some time on what was on their heart, what they are going through or pretty much anything.  I was on the verge of tears pretty much the whole time when others were speaking because that was how motivational, how inspiring others were.  When it was our time to speak I just unloaded and cried because of what was on my heart.  My wife’s one year was on my heart and how I almost stole her dream and vision for our future.  Because of my arrogant, statusy, negative, skeptical attitude towards what she was doing at the start, I almost tore that away from her.  5 months I did this, until I saw exactly what this business and association was.  I spoke what was on my heart and I thanked my wife for having the courage to stand up to me and take charge, take charge where I wasn’t and set the path for our future.  For that I cannot thank her enough.  It was pretty damn emotional to share that in front of 75 or so people in that room.  Everyone else shared various things and every single thing people said in that room was different, but impactful just the same. 

I cannot begin to explain or express within this blog just how impactful Saturday was.  It’s something that needs to be experienced and is something that you will not find in any other business out there.  No traditional business can compete with what we have and that is why I build this business WITH my wife.  We will continue to move our life forward and continue to be united to the ‘n’th degree.