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4 Sep 2010

If you’ve never failed, you’ve never lived

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Came across this video the other day figured it might be a great one to share.  No matter what your doing be it Amway, your 9-5 Job, your upstart company, some hobby or sport, keep plugging away because as the tag line says “if you’ve never failed, you’ve never lived”.    “If you’ve never failed, [...]

27 Aug 2010

Lindsay Now Free

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Today we freed Lindsay from her J.O.B where she no longer has to go back to work for another man.  She now has the freedom of choice to do what she wants. Since we made the decision 6 weeks ago it’s been a long 6 weeks but a great 6 weeks of excitement.  While some [...]

26 Aug 2010

Random Thoughts

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The 2010 Summer Blogging Challenge is slowly coming to a close, not actually sure the date we end this.  I think September 3rd?  I wasn’t 100% sure I was going to be able to complete it and have something I think is interesting each day.  I tried to keep it different each time and I [...]

19 Aug 2010

Corporate Learning System

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I was thinking today, amongst the smoke, how the recent training system that our corporate head honcho’s brought in.  Not only did they bring it in, but they’ve told us how many courses we have to take and said it was mandatory.  Now the training system is a pretty prestigious one, Harvard Manage Mentor.  Now [...]

17 Aug 2010

Success Rate of Other Business’s

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Today we had dinner with an amazing couple that Lindsay sorta works with in her current job.  They are actually a pretty decent couple, and I say actually because they are in the financial advisor type of position in a place where Lindsay works that are not actually broke and stand on principal and really [...]

14 Aug 2010

Two Weeks Notice

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Today my beautiful wife gave her two weeks notice at the financial planning company she works for.  She told all three of her boss’s that she was leaving and told them her reasons why.  She mentioned the dreams and goals that we have set for our family and our life and that we have a [...]

8 Aug 2010

Dream Stealers

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Over the last few weeks I’ve seen an increase in the amount of people that are trying to steal our dream or goals.  Not sure why the increase but honestly it doesn’t matter.  When you are focused on your goals and dreams, no matter what they are, you will achieve them.  The biggest piece of [...]

30 Jul 2010

Direct Selling is Thriving

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Here is a great article I came across today on Fortune 500 Magazine’s website in regards to how Amway has continued to grow over time despite the economic downturn.  Currently the direct selling model is just booming in China right now as it has in other places like Korea.  They are looking at taking this [...]

23 Jul 2010

Secret of Success

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I found this great video over at The World According to Bridgett and I had to re-post it here.  The video comes from a TED talk (which by the way if you’ve never checked them out do it.  They have great discussions on MANY various topics) and basically talks about success in “8 words, 3 minutes”.  This video [...]

18 Jul 2010

Duncan Family Reunion Reflections

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Duncan Family Reunion 2010, where to start.  First of all I have to say this was my first Duncan Family Reunion and have now attended all four major functions that World Wide Dreambuilders puts on.  Having been to every one I think this is one is the most raw, heartfelt function out of al of [...]