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Times are purportedly tough and folk are looking for ways to generate more cash, even large corporations, one would assume.

We are taught in marketing classes, conferences, videos, blogs and emails that the best customer to sell to is the one who has just bought, hence the concept of the backend sale or upsell.

So I was in Wal-mart today making a purchase and the problem-solving brain kicked in as I observed what went on with my purchase. 

I commented to the clerk what he and his store could do to make more money after the service sale than made by the actual service.  He agreed it was a good idea but didn’t think he had the brains (nor, bless his heart, the motivation/ambition either) to effect the upsale.

This brings up a couple of questions:

• How come Wal-mart isn’t already doing this – it is such a no-brainer even I could see it immediately?
• Why doesn’t a company like Wal-mart provide incentives for their employees to think they CAN do better and generate more cash for their store?

Guess they need a Mastermind group like we have at the business building group in which I am involved, YouCANBuild.it.  We encourage the brain power and the action needed to generate the extra cash.  Join us and see for yourself.

And for those of you who actually read this, when you go to the site avail yourselves of the FREE stuff that will help you.  Audio version of Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich is one of them.  Gotta love it!

Be thinking of ways to help your own bottom line.

Blessings,

Dr Jon

P.S. The next question is why don’t I do it myself?  Been thinking about it.  Would be about a $100 initial investment in equipment and supplies.  Since I am not standing at the actual cash register at the time of service there are some logistic problems in getting names of folk who used the service.  That will be the tough part.  And other places provide the same service – we’ll find those and offer it to them. We’ll work it out!

It’s been a month since there’s been a posting here. Changed my host and it took a while to get all the files put back in order.  But with some persistence and some learning here we are again, ready to go.

Talking about persistence, my wife and I went to see the film Julie & Julia a couple of nights ago.  I call it a “Personal Development” movie.  Maybe it’s a new genre? but it could have been called “Think and Grow Rich – the Movie.”

Let’s start with Julia.

Wife. Bored. Not sitting around doing nothing, though.  Tried a couple of things but didn’t fit with her inner self. Persistent with trying to find what would fit.

Then her husband asked, “What do you really like doing?”  Desire.  So away she went.  Cooking school, even though she wasn’t welcome, was the misfit among the men and opposed by the administrator.

Goal.  Write a cookbook in a form not yet available.  Rewrite it when it is not accepted.  Keep plugging.

Sexual energy.  The love and encouragement of a spouse who, in spite of his own issues and life questions, helped keep his wife’s attention and focus on her goal.  And in spite of not being able to have children, she used that sexual/mothering instinct and applied it to the completion of her goal.

Mastermind.  Two other ladies who understood the importance of the project and applied their time and talent to help get it done.

Napoleon Hill would have been proud!

Then look at Julie.

Feeling helpless, useless, ineffectual in her job.  But she also discovered a desire.

She set the goal, a deadline, a beacon with which to find some guidance, likely considered unattainable by anyone who might have heard of it.

Persistence, again.  Daily.  Every day.  In spite of long hours and setbacks.

Mastermind, again, though not always so on board with her.  Her husband first encouraged her, then had second thoughts, yet finally came around again.  Eventually, due to the social interaction of the internet, encouragement came from strangers and readers and appreciative recipients of the energy expressed in her successes and failures.

Sexual energy, transmuted into productive action.

As a spellbinding thriller movie or even as a tearjerking heart tugger, this movie  would not qualify.  However, there lies within the story the bigger story of Goals and Persistence and Success, bringing Desire into Reality step by step.

It probably won’t replace Think and Grow Rich as a bestselling classic, but it makes a visual exclamation point to Mr. Hill’s lifetime work.

Blessings,

Dr Jon

Listening to my Focus 40 Personal Training System and wanted to share the “meat” that applies to anything to which you may aspire:

Six Steps to Turn any Desire into Reality

1. Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire. Be
definite and specific.

2. Determine specifically the price you will pay. That is what you
will do to get the exact amount of money you have determined
to obtain.

3. Establish a definite date as to when you will be in possession of
the money you have determined to possess.

4. Create a definite plan for carrying out your desires. Begin at
once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

5. Write out a clear and concise statement that are comprised of
steps 1 – 4.

6. Read your statement aloud two times daily, preferably in the morning before beginning your day and in the evening before laying down to sleep. As you read, see and feel and imagine yourself already in possession of that money.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, p. 39

Replace “money” with “any desire” you want/need.

Do the steps.

Know that Father will honor your belief and direct you along the path which He has placed into your heart by giving you the desire in the first place.

Blessings,

Dr Jon