Recession Survival Tips

Recession-proof your mindset by Matt Morris, Success University Founder and CEO

http://www.rhart3.successuniversity.com

I know this may sound like a strange title for this month’s Founders Letter, but in today’s economic crisis, I believe this message is so important that I’ve had our team dedicate this ENTIRE issue to mindset. I’ve also broken my message into two parts that I believe are instrumental in allowing you to experience the success you deserve. We’ll be back with a special recognition issue next month… For now, ensure that you and your team completely devour this issue – it’s that important!

 

 

That leads me to the second fact which should give you more excitement about Success University and Network Marketing than you’ve ever had… To give you the full understanding, I’m going to share with you some history into our industry of Network Marketing. It was in the late 1950’s (when unemployment was at its highest since the Great Depression) that networking really began to flourish with the opening of such pioneering companies as Shaklee and Amway. This continued into the early 1960’s with companies such as Mary Kay, Avon, Tupperware and Fuller Brush all gaining momentum. Then in the late 60’s when the economy improved and unemployment dropped, the growth of direct selling and the home based business actually slowed.

Again during the 1980’s we saw the Network Marketing industry really flourish in the first half of the decade when the unemployment rate had reached its highest level in 40 years at 9.7%. The second half of the decade saw a downturn in Network Marketing as the economy rose and unemployment went back down. This cycle continued into the 1990’s. In the early 90’s (1990 – 1994) the industry experienced huge momentum. In fact, “there was more wealth created by way of MLM from 1990 to 1994 than any other time in history.” (Network Marketing Lifestyles, May 2000)

At the core of all of us lies the one factor that controls virtually everything in our lives. Regardless of what your conscious mind may wish for, this one element completely overrides those conscious desires. The most powerful element controlling your outcome in life boils down to your identity. The most diffi cult thing in the world for people to change is their identity because it’s WHO THEY ARE. There’s an important law of human nature called consistency which states that we have a natural urge and tendency to remain consistent with who we believe we are at our core. When you’ve programmed your identity to be overweight, consciously you may want to get thin, but subconsciously you’ve programmed your mind to believe you’re an overweight person. Because your subconscious mind is so much more powerful than your conscious mind, it does everything it can to keep you consistent with the identity of an overweight person.

If you’ve been on all kinds of diets, but nothing’s worked, my suggestion is to look at the root cause as to WHY you’re overweight. I can promise you that it’s not that the “diet” didn’t work. Losing weight is actually an incredibly simple formula; when you burn more calories than you consume, you lose weight. When you consume more calories than you burn, you gain weight. What keeps you overweight, more than anything else, is your mental process and identity about being overweight. Sometimes people claim they just don’t have the WILL power to lose weight. By simply speaking the words “I don’t have the willpower” you make yourself believe it’s true. Because you have an identity of being overweight, OF COURSE you’re going to have these “irresistible” cravings because your subconscious mind constantly looks for ways to KEEP you overweight to maintain your identity of being overweight.

What you must concentrate on is changing your vision and belief about yourself. Every time you start to think or say to yourself that you’re fat, flip it and say, “I’m perfectly fi t, healthy and sexy!” Please don’t get discouraged. You’ve formed your identity over years and years of subconscious programming, so you may not be able to change any negative identity overnight.

Just focus on overriding any negative belief with a new positive belief and you’ll gradually change into the healthy, positive person you truly want to become.

Here’s an internal programming example I had created for myself for becoming wealthy. For most of my childhood, I grew up poor. Mom was working her way through school so we lived on food stamps. I was the kid who had the free lunch pass at school. We even lived in a little apartment above a garage that was so small when you sat on the toilet, your knees touched the shower!

Even though we were broke, my mom worked her way through school to become an attorney. However, her starting salary was so low that she had to work two jobs just to take care of me. That taught me two important lessons. First, it’s important to work extremely hard to get what you want out of life. Second, no matter how hard you work, money is always hard to come by. Because that’s what I experienced, that’s what I believed. So it was no surprise that when I become an entrepreneur at age 18, I had a ton of discipline and an intense work ethic. But no matter how hard I worked, I never had enough money. I kept getting farther and farther in debt and was constantly telling myself and other people in my life how broke I was.

You see, every time I said “I’m broke” I was programming my subconscious mind that it was my identity. No matter how many goals I set to make money, what I truly expected for myself, my vision and belief about myself, was that I was always broke. My subconscious cheerfully did everything in its power to keep me broke. Even when I started making some money, I would always end up being broke and in debt because I never believed that I could  ever be someone who was anything but broke. What turned my life around was when I started to change that identity for myself. When I started refusing to say that I was broke, when I started refusing to say that I was in debt, when I started refusing to say or even to think about myself as anything but a complete and total success; that is when my life started to turn around. I started declaring to myself that I was wealthy and that money was easy to come by. I started declaring what I wanted, not what I was currently experiencing. Before you can reach the goals you set in your life, you must fi rst believe you are the type of person who can achieve them. I had to start declaring that I was a millionaire to myself LONG before I could actually become one. You don’t gain confi dence in yourself after you have success. You gain confi dence in yourself before you ever achieve any type of success.

You absolutely must believe you are capable of achieving success long before you will ever succeed. Belief is that leap of faith that can take you from where you’re at right now to where you really want to go. So take a look at what you want to improve in your own life, and then honestly look at how you’ve created your identity through your words, thoughts and actions. To change, you must fi rst become conscious of your disempowering words and thoughts and then flip them around to declare what you do want. If you’re late all the time, you’ve simply built that as your identity. If you’re bad at time management and can’t get anything done during the day, you’ve simply built into your identity that you’re bad at time management. If you’re a terrible public speaker, you’ve simply made that your identity. The good news is that everything you are right now is only because you believe them to be true.

Here’s how to turn your life in a positive direction. First, STOP DECLARING ANYTHING NEGATIVE TO BE TRUE! I hear people say, “There’s just not enough time in the day.” Guess what? Every time you say that, you make it truer in your life. When you profess weakness, you become weak. When you profess cowardice, you become a coward. When you profess hatred, you get hatred. Starting right now, declare wealth, declare health, declare happiness, declare love… Start declaring everything you want for your life and you’ll start to build the identity that allows you to become the person you wish to be. Don’t let your life wallow in mediocrity one second longer. The reason average people are average is because they walk around their entire lives being miserable saying things like, “If I can just find the right man or woman, then I’ll be happy.” Unfortunately, life doesn’t work that way. Whatever you want to attract, you have to become that type of person before you will get any results. Your dream spouse is probably someone who wants to be with someone who’s already happy and completely excited about life, so until you become the kind of person who will attract them, you will never have that person. Remember, you can never have and then be; you must be and then you will have.

Watch your thoughts because they will become your words.

Watch your words because they will become your actions.

Watch your actions because they will become your habits.

Watch your habits because they will become your character.

Watch your character because that will become your destiny.

To Your Success!

Matt Morris

Founder and CEO

http://www.rhart3.successuniversity.com

Success University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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