First check in hand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you mind sharing where you outsource that kind of ranking for just $50?

Nice! Looking forward to it.. keep us posted!

Hey Roll Tide!!!

Im sure the cold calling wasnt easy either... but here's the bottom line... If you were still waiting around for business to fall out of the sky instead of doing what you did "Taking the bull by the horns..." you wouldn't have those two sales right now!

I hope you look in the mirror today and bow to yourself and say "well done", and dont doubt for a second that this happened because you were able to master yourself to taking consistent action! That is rare.

You owe every bit of this to the fact that you are that 1 in 100 person who has the audacity to stand up and fight for their dreams, even if it isnt easy at first!

There's a part inside that might say "Its a fluke" or "I just got lucky"... but dont believe it. You did every bit of this.

You did it intentionally, on purpose, deliberately, at your will... and you will do it again as many times as you want to, the same way!

Good job taking freakin CONTROL of your Biz and deciding that YOU will be the person who decides your numbers, not some algorithm!

You are an inspiration to us all.

Sorry man, didnt meant to rant, I just admire courage alot!

Alabama is proud of you for representing like a Champion!

..and eventually once you have momentum you tweak it to be systems dependent instead of being dependent on YOU... and your mind gets a little free'er.

Abraham Maslow defines it best with the pyramid of hierarchy here:

The more we succeed, the free'r we become as humans... there are two operation systems "survival mode" and "Creative mode".

At first we are 90% survival and only 10% creative mode. By achieving a modicum of success, we are able to turn that number around and ultimately become more of a contributor to life.

In a more in depth study of Maslows teaching here, (not illustrated below) you learn that once all of our needs are met, we have a tendency to move toward a need for "contribution", and we generally move on to become more "contributors".




Physiological needs

For the most part, physiological needs are obvious — they are the literal requirements for human survival. If these requirements are not met, the human body simply cannot continue to function.
Air, water, and food are metabolic requirements for survival in all animals, including humans. Clothing and shelter provide necessary protection from the elements. The intensity of the human sexual instinct is shaped more by sexual competition than maintaining a birth rate adequate to survival of the species.
Safety needs

With their physical needs relatively satisfied, the individual's safety needs take precedence and dominate behavior. These needs have to do with people's yearning for a predictable orderly world in which perceived unfairness and inconsistency are under control, the familiar frequent and the unfamiliar rare. In the world of work, these safety needs manifest themselves in such things as a preference for job security, grievance procedures for protecting the individual from unilateral authority, savings accounts, insurance policies, reasonable disability accommodations, and the like.
Safety and Security needs include:

• Personal security
• Financial security
• Health and well-being
• Safety net against accidents/illness and their adverse impacts

Love and belonging

After physiological and safety needs are fulfilled, the third layer of human needs are social and involve feelings of belongingness. This aspect of Maslow's hierarchy involves emotionally based relationships in general, such as:

• Friendship
• Intimacy
• Family

Humans need to feel a sense of belonging and acceptance, whether it comes from a large social group, such as clubs, office culture, religious groups, professional organizations, sports teams, gangs, or small social connections (family members, intimate partners, mentors, close colleagues, confidants). They need to love and be loved (sexually and non-sexually) by others. In the absence of these elements, many people become susceptible to loneliness, social anxiety, and clinical depression. This need for belonging can often overcome the physiological and security needs, depending on the strength of the peer pressure; an anorexic, for example, may ignore the need to eat and the security of health for a feeling of control and belonging.[citation needed]
Esteem

All humans have a need to be respected and to have self-esteem and self-respect. Also known as the belonging need, esteem presents the normal human desire to be accepted and valued by others. People need to engage themselves to gain recognition and have an activity or activities that give the person a sense of contribution, to feel accepted and self-valued, be it in a profession or hobby. Imbalances at this level can result in low self-esteem or an inferiority complex. People with low self-esteem need respect from others. They may seek fame or glory, which again depends on others. Note, however, that many people with low self-esteem will not be able to improve their view of themselves simply by receiving fame, respect, and glory externally, but must first accept themselves internally. Psychological imbalances such as depression can also prevent one from obtaining self-esteem on both levels.
Most people have a need for a stable self-respect and self-esteem. Maslow noted two versions of esteem needs, a lower one and a higher one. The lower one is the need for the respect of others, the need for status, recognition, fame, prestige, and attention. The higher one is the need for self-respect, the need for strength, competence, mastery, self-confidence, independence and freedom. The latter one ranks higher because it rests more on inner competence won through experience. Deprivation of these needs can lead to an inferiority complex, weakness and helplessness.
Maslow also states that even though these are examples of how the quest for knowledge is separate from basic needs he warns that these “two hierarchies are interrelated rather than sharply separated” (Maslow 97). This means that this level of need, as well as the next and highest level, are not strict, separate levels but closely related to others, and this is possibly the reason that these two levels of need are left out of most textbooks.
Self-actualization

“What a man can be, he must be.”[8] This forms the basis of the perceived need for self-actualization. This level of need pertains to what a person's full potential is and realizing that potential. Maslow describes this desire as the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.[9] This is a broad definition of the need for self-actualization, but when applied to individuals the need is specific. For example one individual may have the strong desire to become an ideal parent, in another it may be expressed athletically, and in another it may be expressed in painting, pictures, or inventions.[10] As mentioned before, in order to reach a clear understanding of this level of need one must first not only achieve the previous needs, physiological, safety, love, and esteem, but master these needs.


- Wiki

Holy crap.... That was a lot to digest... but explains a lot of what I have been going through as of late and why I am doing what I am in the process of doing.

Lol. Me too. It reminds you of times when you have felt that gut level strength within, and makes you crave feeling it again. This has got to be the greatest motivational clip of all time.

Hi John,

Thanks for reminding me about Og Mandino. Through his books, he was a guru to me back in the early 80's. I was so inspired by Og that I once sent him a gushing letter of appreciation. He was kind enough to write back with a message of encouragement and of course, inspiration!

John, I will print out the quote that you included in your post and keep it with me as I go about my business this week.

All the Best!

Randy