Network Marketing: The Abundance Factor - HeartLink Insights, May 2008Daily I meet people who either have a career they are less than 110% passionate about, often stressed and unfulfilled because of the time taken away from their families or doing what they love most, OR they are passionate about their profession, yet not earning the income potential that would provide the Financial and Time Freedom desired. I have found a way to continue doing the work I love, while growing an escalating monthly residual income for years to come. It’s a home-based business opportunity with one of the Fastest Growing companies in North America, growing faster than e-Bay, marketing a highly consumable, highly emotional product that is truly changing lives in a reputable and exciting industry called Network Marketing. I invite you to view my website: www.colleenwynia.mymangosteen.com My purpose in writing this is not to recruit or sell you anything. My purpose is to EDUCATE you on Network Marketing, a vehicle that is positively enhancing my life, the people I care about, and thousands of individuals worldwide – healthwise and financially too! Many of you are already involved in Network Marketing to some degree or learning about this natural and effective means of people sharing a good product, word-of-mouth marketing, while others have a disbelief this industry is reputable, much less a viable way to earn a living. Or better yet, create a fortune enabling you to do what you TRULY LOVE. I was first introduced to this industry at 18 years of age. I saw an incredible opportunity to change my life through marketing water purification filters. I knew the world needed this product, I knew word-of-mouth marketing was effective, yet I didn’t believe deep enough in myself to have the confidence to maintain the course it would take to introduce people to this fabulous product and business opportunity. I was scared to talk to people, look them in the eye and stand up for my belief. I took out a loan to purchase inventory, dabbled a bit, received some “No’s”, and then gave up. Although I feel discomfort at times, I’m no longer scared to share what I absolutely believe will make a difference in your life and people you care about, if you wish to make a difference. If you are happy doing what you are doing and earning what you are earning, then awesome! If you want more time freedom to do what you love….more money to give back in a bigger way….a desire to reach more people and impact their lives healthwise and financially…then I invite you to read on! Network Marketing is the best kept secret in the business world today. It is quickly being embraced by leaders like Warren Buffett, the richest man in the world (I believe he still is today), who purchased The Pampered Chef, a Network Marketing company because he saw the power in Networks. Two of the world’s largest cosmetic companies, Avon and Mary Kay, are Network Marketing companies. Do you recognize products like Aloe Vera, Grape Seed Extract, Ginseng, and Ginkgo Biloba? All of these powerful botanicals were introduced to the world through Network Marketing.
“Network marketing has proven itself to be a viable and rewarding source of income….there have been some remarkable examples of success.” – Donald Trump, Why We Want You to be Rich “If you really want to learn how to be rich, you must begin to know and understand the power found in networks. The richest people in the world build networks.” – Robert Kiyosaki, speaking about network marketing “People need network marketing…It has carved out the essence or best part of retailing-educating people about products and services that will improve their lives and that they don’t yet know exist. That’s what network marketing is really about.” – Paul Zane Pilzer, economist and author of Unlimited Wealth What is unique about having a home-based business in Network Marketing is the residual nature of the income. In my client practice, I charge money for each consultation. In a Network Marketing business, you get paid on product sold as well as repeat sales the following month. Plus, you earn a percentage on products sold to people they refer. Because I understand the nature of employment and working for wages, and because I have experienced the struggles of establishing a business, working for an hourly rate or consultation fee, or getting paid on the completion of a project only to begin looking for the next, I feel strongly in my heart to dispel any beliefs that Networking Marketing, also known as Direct Marketing or Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) is anything but FABULOUS, DYNAMIC & the REAL DEAL!
In simplicity, Network Marketing is word-of-mouth marketing, people talking to people. In the same way you would recommend a great movie or excellent restaurant to a friend, with Network Marketing the company pays you a ‘thank you’ commission for every referral that purchases the product. How often do you receive cheques in the mail from a film production company or restaurant owner? Instead of paying thousands or millions of dollars in traditional distribution and advertising (ads, radio, magazines, newspapers, commercials, internet) to put a product on the store shelves and hope it’s the best decision to attract customers, a Network Marketing company has independent distributors to educate people about an innovative product new to market. In essence, the company’s advertising budget is paid out to the people who educate and spread the news.
There is a wealth of reasons to start a home-based business in Network Marketing versus traditional business. Too numerous to list them all, I’m highlighting a few key reasons: No risk, Low start-up cost, No inventory Network Marketing is a recession-proof industry, a way to create financial & time freedom to do more of what you love – time with family, take longer vacations, give back more time or money to your favourite organization, or whatever your heart will dream up. An interesting fact, The Direct Selling Association (DSA) reported that the Network Marketing industry generated $30 Billion in annual sales during 2005 in the United States alone. Love it or not, Network Marketing is a viable economic choice that’s here to stay.
Anybody! A Networking Marketing business is not for everyone, though anyone can build it! Stay-at-home parents, lawyers, doctors, retired couples, students, ages 18 – 108. Begin part-time, continuing your current profession as your residual income increases each month, until it replaces and exceeds your current wages. An extra $500 - $1000 can make a difference in most family’s life. If you treat it like a business, you can change your family’s life in 3-5 years earning an extra $5,000, $10,000, $20,000 per month or more. The great thing is YOU decide how much you want to earn and if you want to go full-time. Remember, this is escalating residual income and it’s absolutely different than wages.
Not all Network Marketing companies are equal. To succeed, you need to have solid factors in place including proven integral leadership, a highly consumable and highly emotional innovative product, and a lucrative compensation plan that works for everyone and is easy to understand. There are additional factors to consider too. The company I am working with is one of the Fastest Growing companies in North America of both traditional and Network Marketing companies, growing faster than e-Bay, projected to be in the top ten of all companies in the history of the world. The company sold in their first year more than Pepsi Cola did in their 34th year, and more in their 2nd year than it took IBM 30 years to reach. To succeed in the business aspect, you truly need to care about other people and discover what is best for them. I honestly believe long term success is in relationship building and as such is Number One on my list. I love this company and am extremely thankful to Jen Plaza, my client and friend who introduced this life-enhancing opportunity to me. Joy, Love & Abundance! Colleen Wynia |
Self Care: Essential for the Development of Your Craft - HeartLink Insights, October 2007
In researching this belief system with my mentors, friends and family, I learned that many individuals grew up in the same paradigm or belief structure. In talking with private clients for more than 6 years now, I’ve heard a common theme with them as well. As a result of this belief, there are countless times I have sacrificed my health and well-being, my state of peace and balance, by ignoring my body’s signals for rest, rejuvenation and self care. In a desire to develop our craft, be successful in business, improve our talents, or simply keep ourselves from what feels like drowning at times, we often neglect our heart’s calling to rest, nurture, and restore ourselves. Because we are a direct reflection of our craft and what we express to the world, self care is essential for the development of our craft.
If you desire a wonderful new relationship, visualize this person in your life right now and FEEL how you would feel in your body with them present. If you want your relationship to improve, FEEL it. If you desire a new vehicle, select a photo of this vehicle, picture it often, and FEEL yourself driving. This is the same approach for developing your craft – whether an actor, director, writer, singer, performer, lawyer, doctor, health professional, business owner, parent – you must FEEL THE ENERGY, a feel good vibration, in your body. For years, we’ve heard about the importance of affirmations and visualizations, yet these approaches do not work alone. We must breathe in and feel ourselves already in the experience of our desire. You are the expression of your craft, for it is through you the craft, and what you convey to the world, exists.
In your daily life, stored memory in the cells may show up as pain or discomfort in the physical body (neck, back, hips, anywhere) or heartache in the emotional body. The mental body may be distraught with intense dreams and frightful visions, or spiritually you may feel empty, alone, and unsure about your life and reasons for being here. At times it can be a niggling feeling that you may not be able to place your finger on. It can be helpful to become aware of what the cellular memory relates to, however, it is not essential to KNOW it to release, or rather transform it. The only requirement is to FEEL – which invites you to surrender and embrace the present emotion. Can you imagine: nothing TO DO, simply TO BE? Though challenging for many of us, myself included, when I do give myself permission to slow down, go inside and allow my experience to unfold, wow, I’m blessed EVERYTIME. I feel better, more energized! My business perks up, the phone rings more often. Incredible people show up in my life to support me and my craft in ways I could never imagine. This is the result of me choosing to love myself, gifting myself more self care. Methods of Self Care First, by ensuring clients are aware of the amazing health prevention benefits of Mangosteen Juice, an effective anti-oxidant and the most powerful, natural anti-inflammatory in the marketplace today. There are more than 40 years of scientific studies and thousands and thousands of happy people around the world. Second, in private consultation. Each session integrates ESM (Energetic Self Manifestation), drawing from a unique combination of: Deep Tissue Massage – sports & active bodies, whole body rejuvenation As a Spiritual counsellor and Intuitive Massage practitioner, Colleen Wynia draws upon her more than 10 years’ experience in Spiritual Guidance and Bodywork to support you in connecting to your Body and Heart for living joyously, particularly in the development and expansion of your craft. To enquire how Mangosteen Juice or ESM with Massage/Bodywork and Spiritual Guidance may enhance your health and improve your craft, contact Colleen for a complementary 15-minute phone consultation.
Blessings & Love! Colleen Wynia |
What is Love? - HeartLink Insights, July 2007
It was a sincere question, yet one I could not easily define in that moment. I realize that love is much bigger, broader, and deeper than I could explain in words. Love is who we are and all that we connect with. Love is our true nature. Love is genuine. In absolute simplicity, LOVE IS TRUTH. I am drawn to share with you a “glimmer” of how love, in its most genuine way, presents itself through aspects of my life. It is my wish for you to receive from this message a reminder that will awaken or deepen your natural state of love for self and others.
Love is about sharing the message and allowing an individual the freedom to decide if our message fits or aligns with them. It is about trusting there is indeed room for each of us to prosper. This level of trust takes belief in our self and faith that we reside in an abundant universe. As we align ourselves with work that inspires and even ignites us, we, as energy beings, resonate at a particular energetic level that naturally attracts a like vibration – a continuous flow of sales, new customers, fun-loving business associates, completing tasks with ease, increased profits, and inspirational ideas!!! In my business, I communicate from the heart and guide others in doing the same. I interface with the Energy, which is love, to support my clients in healing their mind, body, and heart. Each of us is innately whole and well, we need only to remember this and step out of our own way. The next time you are speaking with a client or business associate, focus every ounce of your attention on that person. Watch how people blossom like flowers, responding to your genuine interest. Ask questions about their life and listen intently to their reply. Most of us do this already, yet we can each improve the degree in which we listen. Our attention and time is the GREATEST GIFT we can give another.
My intention is to experience a loving relationship that flourishes and deepens for a life-time. That is my truth. To embrace this possibility, I must be true to the expression of LOVE and believe in my partner to do the same. Being honest, compassionate, an incredible listener, and extending forgiveness, each moment of every day, as best I can, permits growth, movement and positive change in both people. Love is honesty. Love is sharing what is important even when you think your words will impact or hurt another. Not for the purpose of inflicting pain, yet rather for instilling a deeper connection and trust. By enabling authentic communication, we drop our armor; lower our bridges, allowing positive transformation through a heart-felt exchange. In authentic love, there is no room for fear. FEAR does not exist. Fear exists rather in the mind, as a result of a future imposed question like ‘what if’? We’ve each experienced a feeling of fear in our bodies, and that emotion is absolutely real, yet fear is derived from our mind’s concern about the future. Being in a state-of-fear, cancels out love, while feeling the fear and moving forward transforms fear and replaces it with LOVE – our natural state-of-being.
As Spiritual energy beings, we are each inter-connected. When we change form, this does not change the love we have for another, or their love for us. I read from Marianne Williamson’s book titled “The Gift of Change”, a symbolic expression of our interconnectivity. Marianne writes the following: "Look at the spokes on a bicycle wheel. At the rim, each spoke is separated from all the others. At the hub, each spoke is one with all the others. Each of us is like one of those spokes, connected with all others at the center, at our spiritual hub. What we do to others, is what we do to ourselves. Loving another is an extension of loving ourselves. The reverse is also true.
May you expand your depth of loving self and loving another, in business, relationship and beyond. Blessings & Love to you! Colleen Wynia |
Remembering Who We Are - HeartLink Insights, April 2007
In times of challenge, we may question ourselves – outwardly and inwardly. Am I making the best choice, choosing the right action or missing something altogether? What is my purpose, who am I and why have I chosen to experience this? When adversity strikes we find ourselves in uncomfortable and often very painful circumstances, questioning what we already know deep within to be true. We find it difficult to stay the course in what we believe. We may second guess ourselves, because of the adversarial experience, choosing doubt rather than belief. Am I enough? Wise enough, courageous enough, kind enough, intelligent enough, persistent enough, believing enough, relaxed enough, listening enough, expressing enough, aggressive enough, attractive enough, rich enough, healthy enough, fit enough, spiritual enough, educated enough, passionate enough….and the list grows on. These thoughts are essentially the beauty of our mind challenging us to connect with our true nature, that which is love. The very fact that we exist is enough. Reason enough to embrace our inheritance – our abundance – and to deeply trust ourselves, our insights and knowingness. What I am referring to is not so much choosing between the health benefits of a fresh fruit bowl or double fudge chocolate cake for dessert, than I am speaking to the deep-rooted knowingness within about our magnificence and right to be here, in body and in spirit! There is magnificence to venturing into personal discovery. It does not, however, feel so wonderful when we forget our truth.
In that moment of doubt I heard the lyrics from Avril Lavigne’s song on the radio and I knew THE TRUTH. In the sentence “There’s no other way when it comes to THE TRUTH” I knew my only business at hand was to refocus my attention back onto what I already knew deep within to be true. That I am doing enough, being enough, loving enough… We have all second guessed ourselves at one time or another. Perhaps once a day, perhaps several hundred times per day. I doubted myself because I was focused on the outward appearances of my life not looking the way “I think it should look” if I was truly on path and living my truth.
Universally connected, we share our Oneness with similar needs and requirements. We desire to love and be loved, to raise a family, to grow our businesses and career, to maintain healthy bodies, to play and laugh, and much more. Individually, we have uniqueness, a personal flavour, a way of expressing and sharing ourselves in the world. We each have a wonderful gift and it is our responsibility to discover and bring this forward. Everything we experience and all that we do assists us to connect with our unique flavour, allowing us to taste who we are more each day. It is not so much in what we DO, as much as how we choose to BE when we are doing it. In remembering who we are collectively and connecting with our unique flavour, we remember we are love and have a special way of expressing that love. In returning to this awareness and embracing the feeling behind it, we will connect more whole heartedly with our truth. We will attract to us the life we desire to live, achieve our dreams and know that we are enough! The very fact that we exist, spiritual beings in a human body, is permission for us to live in abundance and express ourselves authentically and fully to the world and everyone we share our lives with. To embrace and move beyond adversity, we must stay the course. This is where the rubber meets the road.
10 Tips for Remembering Who We Are: • Trust your intuition. Follow your heart and gut instinct when making decisions. • Celebrate yourself, the adversity you’ve overcome & successes achieved. • Appreciate yourself. Make a list of 10 things you like about yourself and read it daily. • Appreciate a loved one. Call, write or connect in-person to share a kind word. • Discover the truth. Take time to explore yourself through meditation, journaling, contemplation, prayer, professional guidance, group sharing. • Choose to believe! When doubt arises, pivot and refocus on what you know is true. • Acquaint yourself with “The Secret” DVD and all the wonderful teachings on the Law of Attraction. A particularly fascinating read is: “Ask and It is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires” with Esther and Jerry Hicks. • When adversity or loss arises, give yourself permission to feel. Allow disappointment, pain or grief to arise, embrace the emotion fully, and place your attention on THE TRUTH. • Be your own leader. Know that you are enough. When you forget, have someone remind you! • Practice, practice, practice! Retraining our minds to send loving, supportive messages to the cells of our body takes our willingness.
Wishing you and your family a beautiful Easter weekend! Blessings & Love! Colleen Wynia
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