…That is the truth!  A lot of people have always thought I’ve always been successful working from home but the truth is I haven’t.  I made a little bit here and a little bit there but never massive success like I’m having now.  It’s because of Jesus Christ blessing me with the phenomenal team I have, the simple system we have when it comes to promoting The Challenge and the CHOICE I MADE because I took action.

I haven’t always been successful
I just changed my mind, I really hope you get what I just said…I JUST CHANGED MY MIND!  I was broke financially I literally haven’t had my own car for years until April 21st 2012.  One of my cars broke down and I had a guy fixing it but I left it over there and never picked it up, my other car I was gonna have a guy fix it and I left it over by his house, well I didn’t have money to get it fixed and left it on the street, then it got an orange slip from the county and then it got towed away because I didn’t handle my business…that my friends is not very successful, matter fact it was stupidity but it was also because I was broke financially.  But the key is I was broke financially, but I wasn’t broke mentally because of a choice I made and this whole car incident was just 3 or 4 years ago.

So why did people always think I was successful?
Because I made a choice 6 years ago to grow my mind personally and work on me and I surrounded myself with different people.  I had thoughts become things, which is what happened.  I became a product of my environment with what I was listening to and also what I was reading and watching, I wasn’t sitting around watching Jerry Springer or whoever the new drama talk show hosts are…REALLY, check yourself on this last one I mentioned because thoughts are things!   I don’t know all I know is, it is really true that whatever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve.

What you see now…
…was a mess that fortunately was able to get cleaned up because I made a choice.  I made the same choice that you can make and choice is what you can or can’t control by your choice and that choice is CHANGE.  Because you see my friends change is constant so you either choose to change for the better by living your life by design or you change for the worst by living your life by default.  What I do know is I was broke 17 months ago, what I do know is even growing this business I had my own team members like my Mom Eva Corbin, Crystal Areal and even Janelle Skalla picking me up or dropping me off to Challenge Parties and now…I live in a dream world.  A world where finances are great now and they’re on there way to being unlimited because the sky is not even the limit when you change your mind.  All I know is my kids and I will get to do things this summer most parents can’t even dream of anymore and even worst than that they can’t believe for it.  The GOOD THING IS all that can change by making a choice!

I LOVE WHAT WE DO
I haven’t always been successful financially and now because of a choice I made to enhance, enrich and change peoples lives my life will never be the same.  I don’t say anything above to brag I say it to give you a REALITY CHECK.  Check one I was broke and in a bad spot as a single father of four kids that couldn’t even give my kids the things I wanted on birthdays and Christmas and believe me they are GREAT KIDS and deserved the best, now that’s all changed.  Check two all I did is made a simple choice the same one you can make and if you do make that choice HERE IS MY BIG TIP, you have to FOLLOW DIRECTIONS!  I HAVEN’T ALWAYS BEEN SUCCESSFUL FINANCIALLY but…I MADE SURE I WAS SUCCESSFUL MENTALLY AND THEN THE FINANCES SHOWED UP.

CHOOSE WISELY, GET UNCOMFORTABLE AND YOU WILL BE CHOSEN, THE KEY IS IT’S YOUR CHOICE!

Some people choose to stay stuck and unfortunately there is nothing we can really do to help some people, no matter how bad we want it for people we care about the only thing you can do is keep moving forward. Not to bring back maybe a terrible memory but just think about a major separation or a break up that you went through before. You had your differences and that’s just a part of life, but lets get into the nitty gritty or the meat and potatoes of what this post is about and how it can help you.

They Will Give It Their Best Shot To Stop You
When you are dealing with the type of business that we are in personal growth is the most important part of it all. As you are changing your mindset the people that you’ve hung around your whole life if not connected directly with what you are doing, those friends and family aren’t changing for the better like you are. They are still watching the same tv shows they’ve been watching for years and truthfully doing the same non productive things that won’t help move their lives forward with improvement. What’s unfortunate is your friends may start to make fun of you because instead of your car bumping music 24/7 you may have some John C Maxwell in or some Jim Rohn or some Dani Johnson when they get inside and they may not be with that. What is the hardest part is the people that supposedly care about you don’t want you to grow they don’t want you to change they want you to stay the same. My friends let me just tell you that if you want to grow, if you want significance for your family you can not remain the same. You WILL start to make more money, you WILL start to live in different neighborhoods, you WILL start to drive a different car, you WILL start to travel and this WILL start to be normal in your life. As that happens people will start to think oh he or she thinks there too good now when in fact your life is just allowing you to do more then they can and jealousy and envy can start to creep in.

It Will Get Easy If You Let It
Separation does happen in this business it’s inevitable because you start to surround yourself with a different crowd. It’s not easy at first when you start to separate yourself but it is part of this journey called life, just think about High School and how many people you don’t hang around anymore that you use to do everything with. If you are in High School now oh well you will understand that aspect later but for now just understand if you want what other successful people have, you have to be willing to do what other successful people do, FACT! How is this post supposed to help you? By knowing that this is very likely to happen and understand this, if your WHY isn’t big enough on WHY you are doing the business you are in, then the separation will be harder and remaining the same will be easier. Remember separation in life from personal growth isn’t easy but let me tell you from experience it is worth it, some of my best friends are not in my local town they are a phone call and a flight away because we have the same common wants of significance in our lives for us and our families. The people who really care about you will appreciate you wanting to have more in your life, they will not judge you, they will not condemn you for wanting to achieve greatness. Just remember some people are unaware of the massive benefit your business can do for the average person to achieve above average results. All you can do is give it your best shot to make them aware by sharing it with them, then that can’t say you didn’t let them know what you are doing. Now go make it happen big for you because no one else is going to make it happen big for you, significance is awaiting your arrival.

Dedicated To Your Success,

Madiba

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Understand This

I was on a leadership call that we were having with our team and was reminded by one of our top leaders Melissa McGarvey that I had said “some of us have stinkin thinkin that’s why our bank accounts are funky” LOL but very true though.  What you have to understand in life is that success and failure are all related to what goes in between your two ears and behind your two eyes and more important then all what goes into your heart.  When you are listening to negative data or watching negative shows and news etc… you are setting yourself up for a mindset of failure.  Right now you need to make it mandatory that you are feeding your mind things that will allow you to grow in the direction you want to go.

Recharge or Die (it’s really true)
You need to make it mandatory and not optional that daily you are infusing your mind with people that are giving you empowering thoughts that are based on results not based on theory, with that being said find out what audio books, books or videos the leaders around you are plugging into.  Get this you don’t have to spend all day listening and watching stuff, if you did that then you would never get anything productive done and action and production is what equal results.  But take just a little time out daily heck start out with 30minutes until you can move into a little more time and make sure that you either wake up earlier to get this personal growth done or you do it late at night after your business hours.  By the way speaking of plugging in like I mentioned earlier visualize this, if you are like a battery and you have no place to recharge then you will eventually become powerless and useless so you need to make it mandatory that you stay plugged into a power source daily and weekly.

If your company or team has a weekly call you need to make it mandatory that you attend and you need to lead the charge for your team.  If it’s not important to you it won’t be important to them and you will lead your team to a failure mindset.  The same thing goes with making it to company events in different states or locally, I know especially with the company ViSalus that I work with we are an event driven company that definitely make our events worth investing to attend.

You must start living your life and changing the way you think to a mandatory mindset of doing what people that are successful are doing, if you want to be successful.

Start right now which you really are already by plugging into this blog, but please do not take this lightly because you are not guaranteed tomorrow in life and especially if you have kids or if you are wanting to have a family, you are responsible to make sure your kids are set up and if you continue to do the same things expecting things to change, yeah that’s right you are insane I said it yes I’m talking to you if the shoe fit (great thing about shoes is we can get new ones LOL).

It’s Mandatory I Do What I Do
I hope you understand the only reason I take the time out of my busy schedule to post in my blog is because I truly care about others success and I really don’t care if it benefits me financially or not, I just love to know that I gave it my best shot and that I may have impacted your life or someones life that reads my posts.  All I ask of people who read my blog is pay it forward.  Comment if you have something good or bad to say about a post you read here people love comments and really I like people who keep it real, also please click one of the social media tabs below like Facebook or Twitter and send the posts that you may like here to people in your social media circle so you can help empower others and eventually lead them to a mandatory mindset of success.

P.S.  Here’s a short list of what I believe should be a part of a mandator y mindset

1. Spiritual Equipping
2. Your happiness because people want to be around happiness it is attractive.
3. Personal growth which ties into spiritual equipping as well at least 30minutes daily
4. Setting goals (daily goals make a list the night before of what you want to accomplish put the most difficult goals for the next day first and don’t stop until you accomplish what’s on that list.  Weekly Goals are good because they are the foundation for your monthly goals I would also set a Quarter goal meaning a goal for every 3 months.  TIP: When setting a goal make it something that makes you stretch a little out of your comfort zone because if you don’t get uncomfortable like in lifting weights you won’t grow but don’t make your goal to difficult.  Lastly HUGE TIP make sure you have an accountability partner that you can share your goals with.
5. Taking a little bit of action daily is like water dripping on a rock, it will eventually create a complete change in a solid structure so don’t put off tomorrow what you can do right now.
6. Success formula I was taught is put my Lord 1st spouse or significant other 2nd kids 3rd and business last.

Dedicated To Your Success

Madiba Thompson

Oh I almost forgot just kidding but hey connect with me on Facebook if we haven’t already just click the Facebook icon at the top of my blog here to shoot me a friend request and just let me know you are connecting with me from my blog.  Thank you for being here and make it a great day and I truly hope you will start developing your mandatory mindset.

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