Comments on: Success & Motivation – Dont Lie to Yourself http://blogmaverick.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/ the mark cuban weblog Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:04:09 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Knee Walker http://blogmaverick.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/#comment-14670 Knee Walker Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:01:41 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/#comment-14670 Great Post. It\'s really crazy the blinders we have on when we analyze ourselves. Great Post. It\’s really crazy the blinders we have on when we analyze ourselves.

]]> By: Dave Siegel http://blogmaverick.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/#comment-14657 Dave Siegel Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:04:52 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/#comment-14657 Wow. You kept receipts? In my first business I had trouble even finding the bank statements! Wow. You kept receipts?

In my first business I had trouble even finding the bank statements!

]]> By: Don Lapre http://blogmaverick.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/#comment-14658 Don Lapre Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:04:52 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/#comment-14658 Lying to yourself about your lack of ability and personal limitations isn't the only way someone can waste away a lot of time and money and create disaster in their lives. You see, I know a certain person (identity kept private just in case he reads this even though he's never read book in his life.) that makes over $100,000 a year but poor-mouths like he makes $5.50 an hour mopping floors at Grapevine Mills Mall, that seems to fall for every MLM, Network, Relationship marketing, crap that hits the street. He thinks that's the only way a poor guy like himself could ever get ahead. He has convinced himself that because he got in early he's going to make millions because the people that got into Amway and Excel (bankrupt) and Mary Kay on the first 20 levels, are all millionaires. He seems to be in love with the fact that it's a "low-cost business", meaning that if you pay someone $329 + $20 a month for a website, and you pay another $200 a year to stay active, you can have "15,000 people in your downline" like the people giving the presentation. The way this normally works is my friend finds the "thing" that's going to change it all, then randomly calls people he hasn't talked to since the last time he discovered all of the answers, and invites them out to dinner or over to someones house so they can watch a Mavs game (just want to catch up with an old buddy), then they happen to mention that they have discovered this new wafer, drink, telecom company, electric company, earthworm growing company, etc. that is positioned to take over the world and is just starting out, making it the prime time to just step in and make millions. (Get in early, man!) What happens next is this person and a few other strategically invited "friends" repeatedly mention certain names of people that are at certain upper levels in the organization that have X amount of people in their downline and they've only been doing "this" for four months. While all of this is going on the salesman of the group is getting geared up to tell you how many thousands of people they'll have by the end of the year, how you only have to sign up three people that each sign up three people because "that's the industry average and anybody can do it", how they've told their co-workers they'll be rich in the next six months, how sad it is that everyone isn't going to understand the genius in all of this and make millions too but they don't care because they'll be relaxing in the Bahamas, and basically yammer on for two hours without taking a breath and letting you ask any questions that may disrupt their master plan. If you are lucky to get past this part, you have at least another week before this person starts really hounding you about being the second of the three sign-ups they need in order to make a $100 bonus. They then tell you how many people a certain person in the organization has under them, a certain person that no one knows personally that seems to spend a lot of time, money, and effort renting country clubs, aisles in Home Depot because "that's only place big enough to hold everyone", and convention rooms at expensive hotels, and then they try to get you in on the "monthly special". After a few months have passed and this person has only brought in an income of $50 in bonus money for signing up three people in two months and $7.50 in residuals (That's where you make your money, man, residuals.) but seems to over look the fact that they paid over $300 to get started, $20 a month for a website, gas and dinner money for all of their friends they haven't talked to since the last time they discovered all of the answers, and the fact that they will have to pay another $200 to keep everything active after they've made 2 or 3 million dollars the first year, this person starts talking about how they've been working so many hours at their job they just haven't been able to "get out there and get it goin'". Why would anyone keep a $100,000 a year job if they could just shed some light and make 3 or 4 million dollars. Sensing people are avoiding them because they already have enough wafers to last them till next week, the person that has seen the light gets with their friends that have also seen the light and they start telling each other about how bad the company is treating so-and-so and how they're trying to undercut their members. The next thing you know someone in their upline that has 1,600 people in their downline has decided to resign from this opportunity and go back to their old job because they're not going to sacrifice their morals to make it. Needless to say, my friend and all of his buddies decide to pull-out in protest because any number of things the company is doing that "just ain't right, man!" All the while I'm thinking about how I can start me up one of these MLM, Network, Relationship Marketing companies. Imagine. Just sign up three people that sign up three people that sign up three people and before you know it 50,000 people would have paid you $300 apiece not counting all of the earthworms they bought. Man Oh Man. http://www.ecologytek.com/ Lying to yourself about your lack of ability and personal limitations isn’t the only way someone can waste away a lot of time and money and create disaster in their lives. You see, I know a certain person (identity kept private just in case he reads this even though he’s never read book in his life.) that makes over $100,000 a year but poor-mouths like he makes $5.50 an hour mopping floors at Grapevine Mills Mall, that seems to fall for every MLM, Network, Relationship marketing, crap that hits the street. He thinks that’s the only way a poor guy like himself could ever get ahead. He has convinced himself that because he got in early he’s going to make millions because the people that got into Amway and Excel (bankrupt) and Mary Kay on the first 20 levels, are all millionaires. He seems to be in love with the fact that it’s a “low-cost business”, meaning that if you pay someone $329 + $20 a month for a website, and you pay another $200 a year to stay active, you can have “15,000 people in your downline” like the people giving the presentation.

The way this normally works is my friend finds the “thing” that’s going to change it all, then randomly calls people he hasn’t talked to since the last time he discovered all of the answers, and invites them out to dinner or over to someones house so they can watch a Mavs game (just want to catch up with an old buddy), then they happen to mention that they have discovered this new wafer, drink, telecom company, electric company, earthworm growing company, etc. that is positioned to take over the world and is just starting out, making it the prime time to just step in and make millions. (Get in early, man!) What happens next is this person and a few other strategically invited “friends” repeatedly mention certain names of people that are at certain upper levels in the organization that have X amount of people in their downline and they’ve only been doing “this” for four months. While all of this is going on the salesman of the group is getting geared up to tell you how many thousands of people they’ll have by the end of the year, how you only have to sign up three people that each sign up three people because “that’s the industry average and anybody can do it”, how they’ve told their co-workers they’ll be rich in the next six months, how sad it is that everyone isn’t going to understand the genius in all of this and make millions too but they don’t care because they’ll be relaxing in the Bahamas, and basically yammer on for two hours without taking a breath and letting you ask any questions that may disrupt their master plan.

If you are lucky to get past this part, you have at least another week before this person starts really hounding you about being the second of the three sign-ups they need in order to make a $100 bonus. They then tell you how many people a certain person in the organization has under them, a certain person that no one knows personally that seems to spend a lot of time, money, and effort renting country clubs, aisles in Home Depot because “that’s only place big enough to hold everyone”, and convention rooms at expensive hotels, and then they try to get you in on the “monthly special”.

After a few months have passed and this person has only brought in an income of $50 in bonus money for signing up three people in two months and $7.50 in residuals (That’s where you make your money, man, residuals.) but seems to over look the fact that they paid over $300 to get started, $20 a month for a website, gas and dinner money for all of their friends they haven’t talked to since the last time they discovered all of the answers, and the fact that they will have to pay another $200 to keep everything active after they’ve made 2 or 3 million dollars the first year, this person starts talking about how they’ve been working so many hours at their job they just haven’t been able to “get out there and get it goin’”. Why would anyone keep a $100,000 a year job if they could just shed some light and make 3 or 4 million dollars.

Sensing people are avoiding them because they already have enough wafers to last them till next week, the person that has seen the light gets with their friends that have also seen the light and they start telling each other about how bad the company is treating so-and-so and how they’re trying to undercut their members. The next thing you know someone in their upline that has 1,600 people in their downline has decided to resign from this opportunity and go back to their old job because they’re not going to sacrifice their morals to make it. Needless to say, my friend and all of his buddies decide to pull-out in protest because any number of things the company is doing that “just ain’t right, man!” All the while I’m thinking about how I can start me up one of these MLM, Network, Relationship Marketing companies. Imagine. Just sign up three people that sign up three people that sign up three people and before you know it 50,000 people would have paid you $300 apiece not counting all of the earthworms they bought. Man Oh Man.

http://www.ecologytek.com/

]]> By: Bland Response http://blogmaverick.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/#comment-14659 Bland Response Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:04:52 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/#comment-14659 I've worked in accounting departments in tech companies for decades and I find this to be a classic scenario. The software engineers are creative folk, and then you have one or two people like me who make sure the bills get paid. [Not an area where creative is necessary] Each group serves an important function. I would go so far as to say that I've seen very few software people who are at all cut out to be accounting people. AND vice versa. It seems this is frequently a mutually exclusive thing. Either you are a money guy or a software guy. I couldn't write a program if my life depended on it, (programming = greek) so I have to admire people who can program, and I hope they appreciate me, when their paycheck doesn't bounce. I’ve worked in accounting departments in tech companies for decades and I find this to be a classic scenario. The software engineers are creative folk, and then you have one or two people like me who make sure the bills get paid. [Not an area where creative is necessary] Each group serves an important function. I would go so far as to say that I’ve seen very few software people who are at all cut out to be accounting people. AND vice versa. It seems this is frequently a mutually exclusive thing. Either you are a money guy or a software guy. I couldn’t write a program if my life depended on it, (programming = greek) so I have to admire people who can program, and I hope they appreciate me, when their paycheck doesn’t bounce.

]]> By: Peter http://blogmaverick.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/#comment-14660 Peter Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:04:52 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/#comment-14660 Just say "no" to MLMs. I have yet to meet "distributors" personally who made any money in these scams. From over three decades of observing MLM types, it's always a case of someone who has a neighbor, who has a cousin in a distant city, who once met a man in a pub who claimed to be making the big "residuals." Listen if you think MLM is a real business opportunity, I have some ocean-front property in Kansas, I can give you a real bargoon on. Most MLMs mix in religion to create a cult-like organization for the acutely gullible. Just say “no” to MLMs. I have yet to meet “distributors” personally who made any money in these scams. From over three decades of observing MLM types, it’s always a case of someone who has a neighbor, who has a cousin in a distant city, who once met a man in a pub who claimed to be making the big “residuals.”

Listen if you think MLM is a real business opportunity, I have some ocean-front property in Kansas, I can give you a real bargoon on.

Most MLMs mix in religion to create a cult-like organization for the acutely gullible.

]]> By: Peter http://blogmaverick.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/#comment-14661 Peter Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:04:52 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/#comment-14661 Mark, I am not sure if you will ready this but I am going to post my comments anyway. Regarding your business success, imagine if the government will not allow you to own or be a partner of any business until you are 35, do you think you will still be today's Mark Cuban? The reason that I say this is, many (or most) foreigners have to wait until they receive the Green Card to own or be a partner of any form of business. Imagine yourself, who wanted to start Micro solutions so badly at 23, but you do not have a green card and have to wait for another 10 years or so (you can not be a partner too), would you still be sitting where you are and writing this blog? I am not trying to denounce what you have accomplished, but simply asking if you lost 10 years, what would have changed? Mark,

I am not sure if you will ready this but I am going to post my comments anyway.

Regarding your business success, imagine if the government will not allow you to own or be a partner of any business until you are 35, do you think you will still be today’s Mark Cuban?

The reason that I say this is, many (or most) foreigners have to wait until they receive the Green Card to own or be a partner of any form of business.

Imagine yourself, who wanted to start Micro solutions so badly at 23, but you do not have a green card and have to wait for another 10 years or so (you can not be a partner too), would you still be sitting where you are and writing this blog?

I am not trying to denounce what you have accomplished, but simply asking if you lost 10 years, what would have changed?

]]> By: Chris Neville http://blogmaverick.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/#comment-14662 Chris Neville Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:04:52 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/#comment-14662 Hi Mark, This blog has been so relevant to my current situation I could literally feel the light bulb go on as I'm reading this. I actually have the shoe box and i'm experiencing growth with my net portals that is uncontrolable. I thank you for taking time to share your life experiences with the world. This is not the only blog that is hit a strong cord with me Chris www.lifeofsports.com Hi Mark,

This blog has been so relevant to my current situation I could literally feel the light bulb go on as I’m reading this. I actually have the shoe box and i’m experiencing growth with my net portals that is uncontrolable.

I thank you for taking time to share your life experiences with the world. This is not the only blog that is hit a strong cord with me

Chris

http://www.lifeofsports.com

]]> By: Paul Lambert http://blogmaverick.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/#comment-14663 Paul Lambert Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:04:52 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/#comment-14663 Mark: You > Ready, Fire, Aim Martin > Ready, Aim, Aim, Aim, Aim... It was a good match for you guys. I've come to believe that the strongest organization is one with a leader that is a visionary and a #2 who is a pragmatist IF the two of them can respect and trust the other. The tension and conflict is a good thing -- better to work out that kind of stuff in the boardroom than in the marketplace. PL... Paul.... CompuServe alumnus Mark:

You > Ready, Fire, Aim
Martin > Ready, Aim, Aim, Aim, Aim…

It was a good match for you guys. I’ve come to believe that the strongest organization is one with a leader that is a visionary and a #2 who is a pragmatist IF the two of them can respect and trust the other. The tension and conflict is a good thing — better to work out that kind of stuff in the boardroom than in the marketplace.

PL…

Paul…. CompuServe alumnus

]]> By: Jon Payne http://blogmaverick.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/#comment-14664 Jon Payne Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:04:52 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/#comment-14664 Awesome post Mark. I feel the same way. I'm 25 now and have had my business - http://www.ephricon.com - running for about 3 years now. The biggest thing I've learned is that focus is essential. Perhaps just as important as deciding what your business will do is what it won't do. If you spend time doing the things you aren't so good at you have less time to really build value - whether its as a person within a business or the focus/scope of the business as a whole. Awesome post Mark. I feel the same way. I’m 25 now and have had my business – http://www.ephricon.com – running for about 3 years now. The biggest thing I’ve learned is that focus is essential. Perhaps just as important as deciding what your business will do is what it won’t do. If you spend time doing the things you aren’t so good at you have less time to really build value – whether its as a person within a business or the focus/scope of the business as a whole.

]]> By: Scgo http://blogmaverick.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/#comment-14665 Scgo Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:04:52 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/03/18/success-amp-motivation-dont-lie-to-yourself/#comment-14665 Yes, While all of this is going on the salesman of the group is getting geared up to tell you how many thousands of people they'll have by the end of the year. Yes, While all of this is going on the salesman of the group is getting geared up to tell you how many thousands of people they’ll have by the end of the year.

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