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· Connections and Introductions By Jason Horsley in AdvoCare Team Freedom

Friend Suggestions and Short Group FB Inbox Messages Make a World of Difference

As our AdvoCare Teams grow, it obviously becomes harder and harder to stay connected with everyone and "meet" every new Member, but the good news is...we have FACEBOOK!

Yes, I am very serious! I am taking a minute to share this with everyone due to three conversations I have had with Team Members in the last 48 hours on this very subject, so I wanted to make sure eveyrone understood why connecting and introducing not only YOUR Leadership, but myself, and many of your peers, is a VERY good idea to each and every new Member who joins the Team!

Simply put, when a new Member joins the Team, you the very first thing you should WANT to do, immediately after adding them to the Team Freedom (our Team group is Aim2Dream) Group and Welcoming them via an intro post, is connect them to your Leadership, myself and any other fellow Team Members with whom you think they can benefit, learn or simply might connect well with!

Trust me when I tell you, there is absolutely a power in this process, if used! Reason? Easy...the same reason events, calls, meetings work so well...they make AdvoCare bigger and more real, than any one of us can do alone.

Additionally, and in my opinion, more importantly, following this process increases the comfort level and support system of the new Team Member faster than anything else will!

1. Friend Suggestion done right....Let your new Team Member know you will be sending them some "friend suggestions" to a part of their Support System, people you absolutely KNOW they should be connected to! After doing so, go to THEIR (the new Member) Wall, click the Friends tab on the top right, followed by Suggest Friends! Select all those you want to connect them to.
2. Introductions made easy...After making these suggestions, you might want to "introduce" your new Member, in a very unintrusive, comfortable manner, to your Leadership or myself, via a Facebook Inbox message. This is quite easy and very painless for all parties...but VERY effective! Simply go to your messages tab on the upper left, start a new message, add the names of the individuals you want to introduce in the To: box and than simply make a short introduction in the message itself... "Jessie/Bob...Bob/Jessie! I just wanted to introduce the two of you real quick! Bob, Jessie is a new Member to the Team who has a real desire to learn more about the business side. Jessie, Bob is a great friend and a vault of knowledge when it comes to building an AdvoCare business! I thought this would be a very useful introduction!"
Simple right? Very, very effective! Failure to do these two simple things will absolutely SLOW your growth...not only your business growth, but most likely your personal grwoth and AdvoCare education as well! You will see what I mean, once a handful of these introductions and messages start to take shape! You will be amazed at how much you will learn from your Leadership and peers through this simple step!

Folks, I beleive we are truly built unlike any other organization in AdvoCare for very simple reasons...our communication and TEAMWORK!

As almost all of you have heard me say at some point in the past, this is NOT a Lone Ranger business! If you have any desire to truly be successful here...you will willingly leave your pride and ego at the door and ask for every ounce of help and support you can find!

Nothing will increase your AdvoCare education faster than simply being willing to listen and learn! You have my word!

Remember, the only ones who fail here are those who know it all, are uncoachable or GIVE UP!

Make the connections and introductions...things will begin to move at light speed!

EXCUSES or RESULTS, Never BOTH!

Courage

The Power of Prayer

When God takes something from your grasp, he's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better. Concentrate on this sentence. "The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you." Something good will happen to you today, something that you have been waiting to hear. Please do not break. Just 27 Words, 'God our Father, walk through my house and take away all my worries and illnesses and please watch over and heal my family in your name, Amen.' This prayer is so powerful. Pass this to 12 people including me. A blessing is coming to you in form of a new job, a house, marriage or financially. Do not break or ask questions. This is a test. Does God come first in your life? If so, stop what you’re doing and send it to 12 people now. Watch what He does.

What do you choose?

Integrity

True Success...

Struggling and Succeeding vs Settling and Suffering

Many times over the last several yeas I have taught some distinctions I see between struggling and suffering.

I believe struggling is an inevitable part of our lives and it is good for us.  It makes us stronger, better and
wiser if we embrace it.  Like the chick struggles to get out of the egg and the butterfly struggles to get out
of the cacoon, you and I do indeed struggle to become the people we were created to be.  Suffering, on the
other hand, is often optional.  Very often suffering is a result of our own arrogance or ignorance.  Most of you
have probably heard the two scriptures..... pride comes before a fall, and people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge.
Much of the sufering that people create in their lives can be greatly diminished or even eliminated if they would just
humble themselves and educate themselves.

After a recent conversation that my wife and I had with another successful couple that are much more
experienced than we are, I began seeing more clearly the relationship between struggling and succeeding and settling
and suffering.  I think you can accurately say that many times struggling leads to succeeding and settling leads to suffering.
During the course of our converstation, the husband made this statement about some of their accomplishments, he said...
We could have settled but it was worth it.  Meaning it was a struggle to succeed, it was hard at times to succeed, but they
were glad they had decided to go for it and didn't have any regrets for some of the sacrifices they had made.  Sacrifice could
be one of the S's but it,s a part of Struggling.  The 5th S is surrender.  Surrender to the struggle. 

Zig Ziglar wrote a book a couple years ago called Embrace the Struggle, I recommend it.  Surrendering and embracing
are very similar on the path of success.  You must learn to embrace the hard times and surrender to the struggling in order
to achieve the success you desire.  If you resist struggling and try to avoid the tough times you will not grow and get stronger
and succeed, you will get weaker and worse which leads to suffering.

So choose to surrender to the lessons life is trying to teach you through tough times and succeed.  The power to prosper is the power of choice.
You can make a choice to create success or you can make a choice to settle for less.  Don't settle!  Choose to succeed.

Faith, Hope and Love,

Keith Cameron Smith

How do you ACT?

Who believes in you?

How to Build Your Dream Team

If you want to build a successful team for your business, you need to avoid the five causes of team dysfunction. Patrick Lencioni, a leadership expert and organizational consultant, shares the five team dysfunctions and what you should do about each.

1.     Absence of trust. “Team members need to be able to admit their weaknesses and mistakes, to acknowledge the strengths of others, and to apologize when they do something wrong.”

2.     Fear of conflict. “Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.” Avoiding conflict only leads to mediocrity.

3.     Lack of commitment. “When team members openly share opinions on a decision, they don’t wonder whether anyone is holding back. When the leader has to step in and make a decision, team members will accept that decision because they know their ideas were heard and considered.”

4.     Avoidance of accountability. “The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining and having them stop what they are doing to intervene. Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn’t serving the team.”

5.     Inattention to results. “Team members have to be focused on the collective good of the team. Too often, they focus their attention on their department, their budget, their career aspirations, their egos. Great teams put the tangible results of the team ahead of their individual needs.”

All the GLORY to God

Thank you Jesus......

The Great Challenge of Life by Jim Rohn

Here's the great challenge of life - You can have more than you've got because you can become more than you are.

I have found that income seldom will exceed your own personal development. Once in a while income takes a lucky jump, but unless you grow out to where it is, it will go back to where you are. Somebody once said if you took all the money in the world and divided it among everyone equally; it would soon be back in the same pockets. However, you can have more because you can become more. You see, here is how the other side of the coin reads - unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got. The marketing plan won't do it. It 's a good plan but it won't work without you. You've got to work it. It is the human effort that counts. If you could send a sales manual out to recruit - wouldn't that be lovely? The major thing that makes the difference is what YOU do.

In order to have more, you need to become more. The guy says "If I had a good job I would really pour it on, but I have this lousy job so I just goof off." If that is your philosophy, you are destined to stay there. Some people say if I had a lot of money I would be really generous, but I don't have much so I'm not generous. See, you've got to change that philosophy or you will never have "the lots of money." Unless YOU change, IT won't change. Amazingly, however, when we throw out our blame list and start becoming more ourselves - the difference is everything else will begin to change around us.

How hydrated are you?

If anyone believes in me, rivers of living water will flow out from that person's heart. John 7:38

Drink with me from his bottomless WELL. You don't have to live with a DEHYDRATED heart.

Receive Christ's work on the Cross, the ENERGY of his Spirit, his Lordship over your life, his unending, unfailing LOVE.

DRINK deeply and often. And out of you will FLOW rivers of living water.

Have you needed to drink from Gods bottomless well lately?

How do you define Success?

Never Give Up...

EVER