36: The ONE Thing To MLM Success...

Steve Larsen: What's going on, everyone? This is Steve Larsen and you're listening to Secret MLM Hacks Radio. So here’s the big mystery, how do real MLMers like us who didn’t cheat and only bug family members and friends, who want to grow a profitable home business, how do we recruit A players into our downlines and create extra incomes, yet, still have plenty of time for the rest of our lives? That's the blaring question and this podcast will give you the answer. My name is Steve Larsen and welcome to Secret MLM Hacks Radio. First off, I want to apologize to everybody. It has been I think two weeks since I have published on here. The reason why is kind of funny actually. I'm tired. That's the biggest reason. Not of podcasting. I actually really missing doing this. There's a lot of stuff going on right now. I just finished my application funnel where people apply to join my downline. It's cool to see the applications already coming in. There's a live feed where you can watch the people who are trying to apply to come in. It just shows their first name that's all, but so everyone else can see it as well so they know it's not dead or anything like that. It's been kind of fun. The other thing that's been going on besides a lot of building, and a lot of things like that is that you know what? I'm actually just trying to take care of myself more. On my dad side, there's a huge history of high blood pressure and me dad's almost died a couple times just from having a hard time taking care of himself while sitting at a desk job. I'm like, "Dang it. I have a desk job." There's a little diabetes issues that go on. I was like, "You know, I don't want any of that." On my mom's side, like every guy has had prostate cancer, and I'm like, "Holy crap." Like I feel like I'm held under a gun and holding a ticking time bomb. Gosh. What I did is I went on YouTube, and I found the buffest dude that I could, and I hired him. He is now my health coach. It's kind of a funny conversation. It was like, "Hey, you're ripped. Why don't I hire you?" Anyway, I went and I hired him. He created a plan, and I have been lifting like a beast everyday. I'm about to go do it again. I'm exhausted. Today's legs day. I don't want to do legs day. I have been sleeping extra. That's been part of it. For the last year, I've only been sleeping sometimes just a few hours a night because we've been building all these thing and putting all these things in place, and it's been awesome, and it's been a lot of fun, but totally neglecting like just taking care of my own self. You know what I mean? As far as exercise, stuff like that. That's what's been going on is I realized that for me to get to the next level that I'm trying to get to because I mean as far as recruiting, check. Got that. It's been running for a year and a half. It's been automatically recruiting people. It's been great. I love it. Everyone who joins my downline, I give them the same system. That's awesome, and it's been a lot of fun. As far as like different areas, got it, but as far as like my routine, I'm realizing that I have got to change my routine if I want to get to the next level. Does that make sense? That's basically what I've been doing is recreating me. That's pretty much it. I'm trying to recreate who I am, the time that I spend, the things that I go and do. That's totally what's been going on. I got a question from somebody the other day. They said, "Hey, should I invest in Bitcoin?" Now I actually am into that a lot, and I said ... A lot of the stuff you guys might ask is like, "What does this have to do anything with MLMs or entrepreneurship?" It has a lot to do with it, but this person asked me the other day, "Should I invest in Bitcoin?" I do. I love it. It's fun. It's exciting. It's made a lot of money, but here's the thing, you have to have a lot of money to put in in order to really make a dent in your wallet, right? I think I put like six grand in, and it's doubled since then and that's awesome, and it's really cool, but what I did is if you go back, and you look at like okay, it doubled. That's great. That's awesome. I take that out, that means I've made six grand. That's awesome. It's been in there for what? Like four months. I mean okay. We made like what? An average of ... I'm not good at math on spotlight this year, but what? Made like let's say $1,500 in the month. Can you live on that? That's under really, really rare Bitcoin circumstances. You know what I mean? I told her, it was a girl, I told her, "No. I wouldn't. I wouldn't get distracted with that. I wouldn't get distracted." Because here's what ends up happening is ... It's kind of a rage right now, right? I'm not saying to not go do it or if you want to put something in or go do another investment. The point is just to not have a distraction in general. If you go, and you have just one thing you're trying to go conquer, like this for me right now, that's it. I want to go, and I want to change the MLM industry. I'm very passionate about it. No one's asked me to do it. I mean I've been doing it and I see all these people doing it in a weird way, and I wanted to help, right? That's the problem that I'm trying to solve. Literally this morning, just this morning, as I woke up, rolled over, I saw an email from someone begging to give me a paid position in some other thing. It happened again yesterday. They're mad at me that I said no. Here's the thing guys, if you put more than one thing in your life, you're not going to do all of them very well. I say no to so many things. That has become so much more of the secret of how I've been successful than anything else. I've learned how to say no. What was funny is I didn't think that would be something that I'd had to learn for a long time. The moment I got out of college, for whatever reason there was this massive influx of deals that started coming to me. I was like that's very fascinating. I got excited and I'm not going to lie. I got really the wrong kind of ambitious. You know what I mean? I was like I'm going to do it all. I'm going to take it all on. You know what's funny? I didn't get any of it done. After like six months of work, not one thing actually got finished because there were so many things and so many new things coming at such a regular basis that none of it actually got done. When I actually got really serious though and I started saying no to things very quickly, very quickly, I was very fast to say no. It's kind of like when people say like, "Hire slow and fire fast." I kind of do it the other way around where it's like, "Look, I'm going to just say no really, really fast and say yes really slow." That's been great and it's been my guiding principle for a while now. What's been neat is my focus has gone through the roof. It'd be the same thing. How does this apply to your MLM? Well, a lot of ways. When we talk about health and routines and whatever it is that you're doing, but if you can build your routine about whatever one thing it is that you're trying to accomplish, holy crap, welcome success because you can't not be. When your brain, and disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer, when your brain is solely focused though on just one problem, one thing you're trying to get fixed, it's awesome. You'll fix things. You'll figure things out. It could take some time. You might need other people's help, whatever it is, but you are much more likely to figure it out than for you to go try and figure out like six problems at once. You know what I mean? I was trying to tell this lady that like, "Look, with Bitcoin it's exciting. Yes. If you have a lot of money sitting on the side and kind of in a reserve, sure. Sure. Awesome. I'm not telling you to. I'm not telling you not to." I was like, "You know at that same time though ..." You guys know if you've ever listened to any of these episodes at all, I believe in a concept called paid pro...