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The Home Business Freak Show

August 16, 2016 By Larry Hochman 8 Comments

Welcome to the aftermath of the Home Business Freak Show!

This was taken the morning after My Lead System Pro’s LIVE THE DREAM event in Austin, Texas.

Some will stay in the afterglow of the event until life catches up with them.

Some will see it as a freak show and say, “what was I doing there?”

Some will implement what they’ve learned and cross the stage next year. They’ll get awards, applause and giant checks.

I got my ass out of bed and immediately started implementing. Before we left the hotel and flew home to Connecticut.

It’s not judgement of someone being good or bad. Right or wrong.

It IS an assessment of how much desire someone has to make things happen.

And how big a sense of self worth they have to step into that success.

Who do you want to be?

YOUR TURN

When was the last time you went to a big home business conference or training?

Did you implement what you learned right away? Did you turn the “Freak Show” into your reality show?

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“Sudden Success.” Building The Foundation

July 9, 2016 By Larry Hochman 6 Comments

One of my favorite success stories to tell is about watching the construction of the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square.

I was working as a college helper for New York City’s electrician’s union that summer, I believe it was 1986. I would walk each morning from Penn Station to a condominium renovation on Seventh Avenue, and then back in the afternoon.

That summer, the Marquis was under construction. For the eight or so weeks I worked, it didn’t look as if much was going on. Just a lot of stuff in the foundation. Everything was at ground level.

Then about six weeks in a story of the building went up.

The next day, another went up.

By the end of the summer at least fifteen stories were completed.

And a couple of months after that, a fully functioning hotel was born. It looked like it had been there forever!

If you weren’t really paying attention, you would have thought the success was sudden. Nothing one day…a building the next.

Of course you know where this is going…

All the “sudden success” we experience only happens when we’ve built the foundation for it.

All that important infrastructure. The concrete, the electricity, the plumbing.

Your business…the same thing is true.

You can put up all the bright and shiny facades you’d like.

If the foundation isn’t strong, it won’t matter. It’ll only be a matter of time before they collapse.

Real success happens slowly and carefully.

You don’t often see the real work. And it takes longer than the visible, public success.

But it’s what makes everything strong and stable.

YOUR TURN

What success have you had the seemed like it happened overnight, but had a foundation was built slowly and carefully?

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It’s Time To Feel Good

March 17, 2016 By Larry Hochman 5 Comments

I like preparing my videos carefully…sometimes.

But the truth often comes in out of breath, unguarded moments like this.

It doesn’t matter what else you try to do in your career, your network marketing business, your marriage, your weight loss.

Before anything else, give yourself permission to feel good.

And that is a lot harder for most people than they would like to admit.

But when they do, the hard work becomes a labor of love.

A Second Life

November 12, 2015 By Larry Hochman Leave a Comment

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No, not really a second life.

But I’m typing this out about two hours before I turn 50.

You know how you have those moments in your life you can kinda sorta imagine, but they’re so far in the future, it’s hard to really know?

This birthday is one of them for me.

So was turning 40.

So was getting married. So was having kids.

And I suppose turning 60, and having grandkids will be similar.

And some other less pleasant ones as well.

But here it is…two hours from the half century mark.

It’s been a pretty remarkable year. Far and away the most successful year in business Diane and I have had as a couple, and I’ve had as an individual.

Part of the reason for that is learning some new skills and creating some stuff that people want.

Most of the reason is I’ve never lost sight of this fact…

I am in business to serve.

Not to line my own pockets.

To serve.

And in the process of serving, the receiving comes naturally…so long as we’re willing to let it in.

So yeah, I wondered what turning 50 would be like.

And I’m sure it’s different for every person.

Turns out, so far it’s a whole lot of fun!

Yeah, the celebration part was amazing. Lunch at Le Bernadin in NYC, which has been a fantasy of mine for years.

And lots more “stuff” over the next few days.

And of course lots of birthday wishes from friends.

And two daughters who love and honor their dad, even if they refer to him as “old” an awful lot.

Two parents in good health who get to watch their “boy” hit the half century mark. I am not taking that for granted. Not for a second.

A second life. One that blends seamlessly into the first.

A hundred thousand mistakes. And I’m still around to tell the tale.

Humor. Grace. Forgiveness.

For others. And for myself.

Dissatisfaction with the parts that don’t work, and a desire to make them better.

And if you think that’s nothing, look around at the people who’ve given up…who are phoning their lives in instead of living them.

Maturity. At least I think so!

Because in many respects, I still see the world like a kid.

But I see some of the landmines coming ahead of time, partially because I’ve already stepped on them.

We get better. We get stronger.

And yes, we decline. It’s inevitable.

But when we do it right, we keep our dignity and our peace along the way.

Over the next few days I’ll be mapping out what I’d like my second life to look and feel like.

Because I figured out along the way…that’s one of the most important steps in making things happen…

Knowing what you want them to be.

You can wait for a special life occasion to start your second life.

Or you can start today. Now.

Hey, we can do it together.

Either way, thanks for keeping me company on this part of the journey.

I’ll be rolling out more stuff, and partnering with some amazing people in my fifties.

You’re invited.

The Difference Between Success And Self-Delusion

November 6, 2015 By Larry Hochman Leave a Comment

That’s the question I posted last night to Facebook, and as an Instagram meme.

Some good answers…not coincidentally from the folks who are playing along in Mind Flip.

Which is good…because not knowing the difference between the two has been the cause of many people’s failure.

So let’s keep this simple.

Positive thinking sounds great. And it can be.

Problem is, most people who say they’re into positive thinking have it ass backward.

Positive thinking by itself means you tend to look at the world with optimism, and hope and happiness.

But…most people who say they’re into “Positive Thinking” are spewing platitudes.

They’re reciting the same old slogans that have been around since The Secret and Law Of Attraction took hold about ten years ago.

Nothing wrong with The Secret or Law of Attraction. They’re both correct concepts.

It’s just that they got hijacked by people who decided it was easier to jump up and down and “manifest” than face down the things that hold them back.

Then they sit in a corner and “stay positive” while their world crumbles around them.

For many, if not most, “Positive Thinking” is giving yourself permission to stay broke and unhealthy.

Yeah, that’s a strong statement. And I’m not taking it back.

People who engage in Possibility Thinking tell themselves the truth.

They don’t oversell the bad parts to themselves.

But they don’t run away from them either.

They see the good parts and the bad parts of their life situation.

And because of that vision, they learn to see things they didn’t see before.

That’s the person who gets the skills to take that vision and turn it into reality.

Not wishful thinking.

See bigger.

Do bigger.

Be bigger.

Get it in gear.

YOUR TURN

How much have you allowed “Positive Thinking” (the bad kind) to keep you stuck where you are?

How have you let yourself see bigger and better things than what you’ve been living?

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