Dream Night Reflections

 

Finally taking the time to sit down and reflect a bit on last week/weekend’s Dream Night.  We were very fortunate to have some pretty amazing speakers for Edmonton’s first Dream Night.  Leslie Wolgamont, Brad & Julie Duncan, and Samir & Theresa Attalah.  I’ll remind you despite some scepticism on a previous post the very first Edmonton Dream Night sold out in 60 minutes, not bad for a first time event. That’s because Edmonton is G R O W I N G.

Anyway the night was hosted at the Edmonton Westin and the food was pretty darn good, better than last year in Calgary that’s for sure.  The cheesecake, no word of a lie was the best darn cheesecake I’ve ever had and I don’t often like cheesecake.  After the main course some leaders were chosen to share who they were, what they did and what they are excited about for 2011.  We were fortunate to speak at the Calgary Dream Night and I was a bit nervous speaking in front of around 1100 or so people.  Edmonton didn’t quite have that many due to the size of the venue however a second Dream Night was opened up two days earlier to accommodate the extra people.

There were lifestyle video’s shown as they’ve done in pervious years with some updated videos however as cool as that is I was more impacted by the speakers and especially listening to Leslie’s heart.  That is one amazing woman I tell you and now that she has moved on from her past she is fired up and you can hear it in her voice.  That woman is also an amazing server as she ended up staying late until 1:30am to talk about whatever people had on their minds and any questions they had.  When it was all said and done the people that were left around her were our upline sponsors and most of their team, and that’s why this team is moving on.

Brad and Julie sharing as phenomenally as they always do is always a blessing to any organization that gets to hear them.  Samir and Theresa had some very heartfelt stories to share which had a lot of people in tears and you can hear the fight in his voice.  Its funny how you can tell where people are in life by how they speak and Samir is one fired up dude.  The unification I’ve seen since attending Moving Up is pretty powerful, if you have unity and everyone is all playing on the same team, amazing things can happen.

Lastly while reflecting in the last few days about where Lindsay and I are in this business and as we look forward to the rest of 2011 it’s amazing how sometimes the things you get in this business are not what you expect.  Sure there is a business opportunity attached to what we do where you can make some income, however the biggest things that have happened in our life to date are not because of Amway.  They are the intangible things that most people who read this blog will never understand or choose not to understand.  It’s things like how unified I am with my wife and how much better our marriage is and how much more I love my wife each and every day.  It’s not being full of status buying things we cannot afford to impress the people we don’t even like.  It’s getting smarter about finances and stop living a debt lifestyle like most Canadians do and getting real about it.  It’s about having a cash Christmas like we did this past Christmas and not having those bills most of you are worried about in the coming weeks.  Its about building strong friendships and relationships with people that are excited about life.

If we were to quit now and just walk away from what we are doing now, our lives have been impacted in such a positive way that we’d be forever indebted to our coaches and mentors.  That is something I cannot say about my job.

So for 2011, find a dream, set some goals and then put an action plan to achieve them because you can if you want to!

Dream Night Edmonton

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Well Dream Night Tickets went on sale Thursday and within 60 minutes the event which holds I believe EDIT: 850 people was sold out.  To my knowledge that has never happened within World Wide Dreambuilders.  Can you say there is some excitement and energy in the Edmonton / Calgary market of World WIde Dreambuilders / Amway ? I think so.

Because of the huge success and quick sell out, World Wide had to scramble to get another Dream Night setup so people could attend.  The Calgary location I believe is also looking at expanding or moving the venue because it’s quickly filling up. Again this has never happened to my knowledge.  Quite impressive.

If I’ve not made my point that things here in Edmonton and Calgary are booming and that things here are a bit different then what you’ve seen in the past then I don’t know what else I can say.  To be brutally honest I don’t care if I’ve made my point.  Things ARE different period.  The last thing and yet the most important thing about what has happened here is the fact we are impacting the rest of World Wide Dreambuilders.  That in its self is probably the biggest blessing hidden within this massive event.

The growth in Canada is unreal and this is just the start!

Gotta Avoid Negativity

Doing what we do we are constantly bombarded by negativity because of the mistakes, misguided and mistrusted people before us.  People are constantly stuck in the past unwilling to move forward and it’s those people that continually look backwards that will never move forward with their lives.  It’s these people that constantly drag up old stuff on the internet, old people’s experiences, and old ways things were done and like I said these people will just continue to be stuck in the past.

I really think people don’t fully understand what we do here in Alberta.  I don’t mean to put anyone else down by any means but I think what we do in Alberta is quite different then what others have done in the past and what people even do today.  You have to keep in mind that Amway Global and World Wide Group are neutral companies, it’s the PEOPLE that end up giving them a bad name.  Yes there were a lot of douchebags in the past that ended up keeping people’s bonus’s and really doing bad things, but I can tell you that’s not the way Amway Global is these days or how World Wide Dreambuilders operate.  We build business with trust, friendship, honesty but most of all integrity.  We build business a bit slower then most of North America but it’s because we invest a lot of time into people to make sure there is a right fit and that they get all the information and are ready to accept the offer to go into business.  That process could take 4-5 weeks depending on the person.  So you cannot tell me we just “sign people up” because that’s a lie.  We want high quality people who want more out of life then what the average is currently giving them. These are those 2%’ers I talk about.  This is just part of how we build business here in Alberta.

You can read a ton of negative things on what we do, but I’ll tell you what, you’ll find negative stuff about just about anything. Mother Teresa, The Pope, Obama, Canadian Tire, Any Successful Company, etc… You’ll find negative for just about anything if your looking for it.  Google is the bathroom wall of the world.  If you look you’ll also find positive,  which is one of the reasons why I decided to write this blog.

This blog is about my personal experiences with World Wide Dreambuilders and Amway Global, two companies that we choose to contract with.  Amway Global doesn’t give us the training and mentorship at all, they give us a membership and say thanks, see ya later.  World Wide Dreambuilders is a company we choose to use for training and mentorship through a business model.  The key word is we choose to.  Are we held at gun point and told to buy this tool or that tool or do this or do that? No.  LOL.  We are free people who choose to do what we think is best for our organization.  We’ve seen the people before us, the people that directly coach and mentor us and what they’ve achieved.  We’ve also see the kinds of marriages, the kinds of relationships and the kind of personal growth they’ve had and we choose to associate with that because WE LIKE WHAT WE SEE.  I love treating my wife like she is a queen, I love serving my wife and reading a book that helps me understand her love language so that I can serve her better.  Was our relationship bad before?  No, it was/is a good relationship, however I don’t want average, I don’t want just good, I want GREAT, I want an amazing relationship and I see that with every person that is coaching and mentoring us in this business.  This is just one prime example of what World Wide Dreambuilders has given us.  I would be willing to pay a hell of a lot more for what we get out of this.  An amazing marriage for one thing is priceless. 

Trust me, there is negative everywhere in life, you will always be surounded by it and you need to make a choice of what you do to deal with it.  I try to be a positive influence on the people who read this blog and the people I come in contact with. It’s something that I have to continually work at because I was one of those negative, skeptical, ignorant people out there that used to write bad things about companies and alike.  I’ve since learnt that got me nowhere and I was never moving ahead.  Now I can happily say I am moving forward in so many different ways that negativity just doesn’t phase me.  Say what you will :)

Calgary Regional – just got here

So we just got here about 25 minutes ago and there is already about 100-150 people here lined up waiting to get in at 2pm.  People drove from Vancouver all night and were lined up at 4:30am ! WOW.  That’s insane but at the same time that goes to show you the level of respect people have for the speakers and how they have that “Front Row” mentality. 

The atmosphere is already buzzing with positivity and excitement for when we can listen to Mike and Brandie Wagner speak.  I’m pumped!

Check out the photo of people already lined up:

People in line to see some awesome people