This event was a huge elevated association event where we were able to grab multiple chances to get around our amazing upline from our coaches who we’ve kinda hosted in our shared two bedroom suite all the way to our upline Crown Brad Duncan.  I can tell you dream building with that man is amazing as we had the chance to yesterday for a good chunk of time.  Pretty amazing what goes on in that man’s head.  All of the Diamonds in Brad Duncan’s organization were there and we got to meet and talk with every single one.  I think the biggest impact for us was getting around our upline Emeralds and discussing some great vision with them and how our team plays in that and how we can continue to build an amazing people business.

The last thing that was pretty awesome compared to the last few years in this organization is how unified everyone is including all the diamonds.  Everyone is in the fight right now and there WILL be some huge growth coming with Diamonds breaking in Canada within the next year or two.  There may have been a lull for the last few years and yes we have not seen any diamonds break for awhile but just wait.  There is nothing wrong with the way things have gone and what is better now then in the past is how unified this organization is.  It’s never been this unified and unification is the key to anything in business, life and success.

So yeah this week has been great for that but also great to have a mini-vacation as well.  We’ve not had a vacation all year and hitting the beach during the days has been pretty sweet.  I got a pretty wicked sunburn on my legs as a always do when I hit the beaches.  I never remember to put suntan lotion on them.  Oh well.  We had the chance to do some shopping in these cute shops in this little beach town and also some time to just sleep in and have some mini-freedom during the week. 

Lastly, this week after some counsel and some time to think about our situation and how well our business is doing, we set Lindsay’s freedom date.  August 27th, 2010 will be the date that Lindsay has the choice of if she wants to work or not.  The choice where she decides if she wants to be controlled by another man or be her own boss and do what she wants when she wants.  The day where she can stop dressing up, putting making up on and looking good for someone else and she can do that for me.  Don’t miss understand me here when I say all of this, I am all for women working and having a career if they so choose, however Lindsay chooses not to.  Lindsay chooses a life where she can really understand herself and do what she wants with her free time.  The biggest thing though, she gets to take time off BEFORE she even gets pregnant so that NO work stress enters her life when we do decide to get pregnant.  That is pretty amazing I think.

Anyway the week has been a pretty unreal week and we are so looking forward to Family Reunion coming up here this weekend.  We are full in our hearts and we are ready to serve our team this weekend so that they can fill up their hearts as well.

So Monday we fly to Seaside Oregon to attend moving up, I’ve talked a bit about it before and really I have no idea what to expect.  I’ve heard some pretty amazing things come out of it from previous people that went and we are pumped to get the higher level of association and just get around people that are moving on in their business and see what it is they’ve done to create such success.  I’m really excited to explore the Oregon coast though, I’ve heard it’s pretty amazing and cannot wait to get up and go for a run along the beach.  Love it!

Friday we will head back inland to Portland where the Duncan Family Reunion will take place.  This is where Lindsay went to her first function and where I almost didn’t let her go because of my stubbornness and scepticism.  Now I’ll get to experience this function for the first time as official Eagles’ even though we are Double Eagles (we were not Double Eagle’s during qualification month for Family Reunion).  Either way it will be nice to sit at the front of the stage and just be able to soak in the function from the front.  I know we had a discussion earlier on this blog about it doesn’t matter where you sit its all the same information.  That is 100% true it is the same information, however it’s how it’s delivered and for me personally I’d much rather be at the front where I can see the speaker live instead of via the screen and I get to feel more impacted because its like the speaker is talking to you.  Same idea about concerts, why do people fight to get at the front of the row for a concert?  They feel the experience is better right at the front where the musician is literally sweating over them.  Same idea.

Its going to be a great weekend and week coming up and I could not be more excited to celebrate our growth but more importantly get as much information as we can coming out of Moving Up so we can share with our team and the leaders that are growing and riding our coat tails.  We have a responsibility to our team to help build them into leaders so they can lead their own organization into greatness. 

I love this market we are in and you betcha it’s different from anything you’ve seen.  While others out there may have quit, or said it just didn’t work for them or what not, I’m sorry for that.  However we’ve got something special out here which is why it’s catching the attention of World Wide Dreambuilders and even Amway Global Canada is saying “what are you guys doing out in Alberta??”.  The answer really is being CORE and doing what other WWDB Leaders have done before us.  Its working so why change it?

It starts with just that, a decision.  If you do not make that decision in your mind and prepare yourself for the battle then you won’t do it.  That’s how we’ve built our business with every milestone that we’ve achieved.  You need to make a conscious decision on what it is you want to achieve but more importantly WHY.  Why are you striving for the goal your after?  For us this time around it means that Lindsay is pretty darn close to solidifying that retirement day.

So I mentioned we had some up’s and downs along the road to Double Eagle and we did.  We had someone on our team decide to quit and while there are no hard feelings it was a great lesson for us.  It definitely helped us build character and allowed us to get it out of the way.  I would be lying if I were to say that nobody would ever quit. I’d also be pretty insane if I thought that too.  So it happened and we moved on.  We still love those people and will continue our friendship with them, that will never change because we are about building relationships.

We’ve had a few no-show’s where people say they are going to meet us for a coffee and they just don’t show up.  There are a lot of unaccountable people in the world and that’s fine.  A lot of times we are not even meeting people to ”get into” our business, we just want to build relationships and get to know more people.  Somtimes the conversations end up going down the path where people want to know what we are doing and so we tell them.  We’ve also had some people move through the interview and qualification process and they either drop interest or drop off the face of the earth.  That’s cool, we don’t have time to invest our time into people who don’t want it or are just unaccountable.  However through all this we’ve found some pretty amazing winners who are keen about changing their life for the better, want more out of life then the average and are huge huge dreamers.  I love meeting these people because they inspire me in so many ways. 

Lastly we were temped by what we thought was an amazing opportunity to launch a new business builder that was keen on getting setup, was ready to attend the Family Reunion major function and it just seemed that it was gold.  However we later realized this person ended up leaving another line of sponsorship for some personal reasons and never reconciled with those people.  This person was looking for a quick way to get back into World Wide without properly fixing previous problems and relationships.  We counseled on it over and over to make sure we were doing the right thing and we in the long run decided not to sponsor this person.  We would only be hurting this person by giving them the easy road and not letting them reconcile whatever issues they had before.  That was a huge leadership move for us because we could have sponsored this person, solidified our last parameter for Double Eagle and be done with it. 

I believe because of that choice we were blessed with an amazing opportunity to sponsor someone else who was ready to go pretty much within ten days.  That’s probably the quickest we’ve ever launched someone but they were ready.  When they were researching about what we did and saw our website they found out it looked someone similar to their cousin’s website.  So they called the cousin and he said they’ve been involved with World Wide Dreambuilders for 15 years however are not actively building at this time.  He spoke very highly of the Alberta team (he’s not in our market but hears a lot of what’s going on here) and said that whatever you do, make sure your upline is plugged into World Wide and that they are strong active uplines.  He also mentioned that he should not sponsor our prospect because the person that finds you is the right person for you.  How awesome is that?  This person could have easily said, you should sign up under me, we are family but instead he doesn’t and does what’s best for our prospect.  The awesome thing is World Wide is World Wide no matter what part of the country.  That’s the kind of integrity that we have within our organization.  Yes some might not build it the same way but that’s how WE build it and that’s why we will be successful in what we are doing.

So the road to Double Eagle has been a tough one but has been very rewarding.  We will also be attending Moving Up which is a huge leadership event that will help us elevate our own leadership so that we can become the best coaches for our team. 

Look out Seaside Oregon here we come!

So we are back home and continuing our charge for Double Eagle.  I’ll be honest it’s been the hardest thing that I’ve ever done.  Anyone that tells you what we do is easy that are LYING.  If you want to really succeed in what we do you need to put energy and time into this.  Sure everyone’s business grows at different paces and we do not push people into something they are not ready for.  We also do not set anyone’s pace.  We are going hard because we want to achieve some higher goals with World Wide Dreambuilders / Amway Global faster then what most do.  That just seems to be the way team Alberta does it.  However we do it with integrity, with quality hard working people, and with proper profitable parameters. 

We will be attending Moving Up right before Family Reunion which we are pumped for.  Moving Up is a leadership incentive for achieving Double Eagle or 7500 PV.  From what I understand it’s a great raw leadership event that we will be able to get great teaching directly from Diamonds and above in a very close an intimate setting.  Really looking forward to getting away and relaxing as we get to spend some time in Seaside, Oregon for this event. 

Anyway that’s kinda what’s new.  I’ve been a bit quite from our front because we are busy and have been away.  Once we move into our new place in July I’ll be sure to have regular updates and will keep you posted on the Double Eagle run!

Enjoy the rest of your June!!