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On Vacation – Moving Up – Family Reunion

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On-Vacation Today starts our little vacation I’ll call it.  We were able to attend Mike and Brandie Wagner’s Open last night at the Holiday Inn and it was ON FIRE.  WOW.  There is a reason why this market is on fire, because we invest time into people and build amazing relationships in and out of the business and we in succession are doing what the leaders before us have done.  Every single person before us has built a successful business and we are literally riding the coat tails and soaking it all up.  Just amazing.  Last month another amazing couple entered their Emerald Qualification and it’s just leader after leader after leader.  People wonder why there have not been many diamonds breaking in the last little while and that’s because people are just not wanting to step up.  Well this market is, and you’ll see two new diamonds come from this market probably at FED 2011 and many more Emeralds including ourselves!

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?

Going Double Eagle is Tough Work

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As of June 29th we have qualified as Double Eagles which is aWorld Wide Dreambuilders parameter for building a strong foundation for your business.  I’m not going to really go into the details of what a Double Eagle is but more talk about the mentality, the ups and downs and temptations we came across as we made the decision to go Double Eagle.

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!