Bonjour and welcome to the MLM Trigger, I am your host Corine Arnaud and this PODCAST is to help you LEVERAGE Your Network Marketing Skills using the internet to grow your MLM downline.
We are going to dive into [The ONE thing we can't AFFORD to lose] and we'll talk about ONE resource that CAN never be replenished or gained back your TIME.
Don’t we live in a remarkable time? We have an infinite wealth of information, connections and resources at our fingertips, because of the internet and smartphones. But what we don’t have, is an abundance of time and attention. They are both extremely valuable to you and to the marketers out there.
If you ASK an entrepreneur what their most precious resource is, they will usually answer. MONEY is the most common, while others will say TIME. Think about it, once you waste your time with something, you can never get it back again. You can always get more money through different avenues but ONCE your time is gone, it’s gone forever. You can’t buy more or borrow more, so time is a LIMITED resource that EXPIRES each day.
As an entrepreneur, you have to be very careful and GUARD this precious resource. When you start treating your attention, your time as your most valuable resource, you will protect it. Learning how to budget your time is an essential skill in the world we live in. Other people are more than willing to take your time. We all experienced getting stuck on a phone call or having someone drop by without an appointment.
Some people think that because you are working for yourself that you have more control over your time, you have more availability. They don’t realize they are wasting precious minutes and cannot understand why you’re unable to give them some attention at inconvenient times. Your phone, the apps you use and every website you visit are designed to capture and hold your attention and waste your time.
Media companies write scary headlines on purpose. Everyone says they want more positive news, but they know from decades of data that you pay attention only when there is uncertainty or TRAGEDY. The media knows this and uses it to their advantage. Headlines that trigger feelings of uncertainty make you look. That’s why they write them that way. And when they have your attention, they make money. If you want to take back control of your time, learn the critical SKILL of eliminating what you don’t want.
Start by asking yourself a simple question: Do you use your phone or computer as a tool to advance your goals and bring values to your clients or is your phone or device using you? Every time you catch yourself mindlessly scrolling through FB, remind yourself that you are the product and your attention is being sold. YES, remember that FB makes money on all of the ads you see. And it goes beyond social media platforms. Every moment of your day there is something begging for your attention: emails to reply, texts to send, zoom meeting to attend.
My favorite way to make my attention valuable is to protect the first couple hours of my day at all costs. When I wake up, I don’t look at my phone, log on to my computer and I don’t have a TV. I refuse to give these devices my attention, because these first couple hours are precious time when I rise up. Instead, I turn my attention to the things that matter to me most: exercising and getting my mind feed with positive input. This one habit has created so much control in my life. In today’s world, your attention is being sold and stolen all DAY LONG and it’s making a lot of companies a lot of money.
If you want to create abundance in your life, GUARD your attention as your most precious resource. We realize the value of our time the MORE mature we get, perhaps because we become aware that the time we have left is growing less and less. The irony is that our time right now IS, and always HAS the very same value, a minute HAS always been worth a minute, and an hour HAS always been worth an hour, but often we don’t see that because we tend to look at time as this future that we take for granted we will have loads of time ahead of us. Each of us is given the same amount of time each day 24 hours. The richest people, the most successful people, the most influential people all have the same 24 hours a day that you and I have.
But the question is what do you do with your time? Are you living in the NOW ? If you don’t value your time by telling yourself that you will have more time later, it’s a trap and one that takes a lot of effort not to get caught into. Time is a precious commodity and one that none of us actually know if we are going to get more of. There are no guarantees in life and we shouldn’t take for granted that there will be. Value your time right now because it’s the only time you are guaranteed to have left.
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