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Not Much to Say

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I guess for the first time in this Summer Blogging Challenge I really don’t have anything profound to say,  anything really interesting to say.  We are heading out tonight to have dinner with Vlad and Kim, cannot remember the last time we did that, it’s been awhile for sure.  I’m excited to understand what exactly these phone calls are about, RCMP conversations and vacation stuff they’ve done.lossofwords

We are pretty busy right now with all things.  I’m busy at work trying to solidify some budget work and this week is my “on-call” week or “period” as Lindsay likes to call it.  I cannot wait to NOT be a slave to my Blackberry that’s for sure.  More than likely only one more year with how things are going in our business.  We are also preparing for Lindsay’s freedom day, just trying to get some details sorted out for that for when we free her from her job.  Won’t say much more about it cause she reads this blog ;)

Lastly we are busy investing time into people and building up existing relationships and new ones.  I think this is a great “being busy” because I love working with people and what’s even better I like helping them become successful which is what we’ve done with all our team members.  They are all kicking butt and have amazing qualities about them that make them all unique.  Probably the best part I love about what we do. 

Sweet so I actually made it well over the 150 word mark and actually had just a little bit to say.  Enjoy the evening!

 

Hey and if you’ve not checked out these other bloggers, make sure you do! 

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I Like fun, fun is my favourite! Cliff – Peer Pressure Works, Chad – The Grind, Kelly – ‘Round the Bend, Kim – In Desperate Need of Entertainment, Kyle – Teacher, Tinkerer, Farmer, Geek, Liam – In the Now, Brad – Kick Me Out Soon, Tammy – Tam I am, Erron – From The Inside Looking In, James – Feelings of White, Vlad – Analog Coast, Janine - Because

Gotta Avoid Negativity

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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 :)

Off to Kamloops

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Tomorrow we leave to Kamloops for 5 days to visit my parents and just get out of the city.  At the same time we are looking forward to meeting some new people in the Kamloops region and who knows maybe someone who is looking for an opportunity.  I’d love to get business in Kamloops and bring the awesome association we have to the Kamloops area.  World Wide Dreambuilders teaches that we just get to know new people with no motive behind it.  The Guthrie’s are about impacting people in a positive way. 

We already have a meeting setup with a lady my mom ran into at the local Shoppers Drug Mart that she’s looking to replace some handles on some cookware that her parents bought a long time ago from Amway Global.  She said her parents LOVE the products but the handles have worn out and needs new ones.  To my surprise we have spare handles on our store! LOL so we are able to serve this lady and get her new handles.  So who knows, maybe something good will come of that, if not at least we were able to serve her. 

However the biggest reason we are going out there is to see my parents and to get away and relax.  Have some “margin” days as we call it.  We will still be core, but our main focus will be visiting and spending some quality time with my parents who I don’t get to see very often since they moved out there.  Looking forward to some hiking, some sleeping in, good coffee conversation and possibly letting my parents know more about what we do.  They kind of have an idea but they don’t really know and they are interested to hear what the 95% of what we do is.  They just see the 5% of what we do as our clients and are really good at that :) Thanks MOM!  But they don’t fully understand the 95% of what we do and I’m excited to let them know.

Anyway I’ll maybe do a blog post on Sunday after we’ve been there a few days.  Have a great Easter Weekend wherever you are or whatever you are doing!

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Serving Your Partner

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Today I decided to take the day off and was able to sleep in and just recover from last week.  When planning my day out I thought to myself you know we’ve been pretty busy the last month and the condo needs a good cleaning.  So I took it upon myself to really clean the condo from top to bottom, almost a spring cleaning.  This isn’t something we do every week, we usually do a good clean on the weekend.  However like I said we’ve been busy and sometimes we’ve been a bit snippy and grouchy towards each other because of it. 

Because I know one of my wife’s love language is “acts of service” I decided to make part of my day cleaning up the condo.  Not because I need brownie points, but because I know my wife loves when I do this and it makes her happy.  Its one way that I can really give back and serve my partner and really show that I know her and what she likes. 

So while there are many things that I do for my wife, I know this is one of the big ones that really does make her feel good.  I would never have known that until she read this book.  I would have kept doing other things to make her happy but never know exactly what did.  I think she was also quite surprised when she read this book.

This is just one of the many ways of how we continually work on our relationship and one of the key things that World Wide Dreambuilders teaches.  We are in an amazing business and for a business such as this that cares so much about family life is really really awesome.  Try finding that in your 9-5 job! :)

 Find out your love lanugages here! http://www.5lovelanguages.com/assessments/

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