In our Platinum One Destinations business and in life, it is always good to have a destination in mind - your goals of where you want to go. Having a visual map then becomes essential to showing us the way.In P1D, We have a tagline that says… “If it’s on a map, we’ll get you there”.   And using the Vision Mapping technique, as recommended in the movie The Secret, is the same thing. 

If you have the images of your goals as already accomplished on a personal map that you look at every day - that map is going to get you there much more quicker than just simply writing your goals in words and looking at the words daily.

So, I wanted to share with my readers the training I held last Saturday, January 26, 2008 with my team and my colleagues from the Synergy Marketing Group leadership and their teams.

The training is entitled “Advanced Vision Mapping”.  I invited and collaborated with a highly sought after trainer and consultant in this area, Lore Raymond.  In this training, she provides her expert advice and wisdom from her 15 years of experience teaching this method with to up to 600 people in one session.

What is new and exciting about her training with Vision Mapping is that she is now incorporating Feng Shui into the process to provide a structure and balance for your map and to consider 9 areas of your life when constructing it. 

So, here is the intro video where I discuss my own personal map and in which you can see my completed, beautiful, personal map for 2008 and learn more about me. 

You can listen to the one-hour audio portion of the training by clicking on the podcast link directly below this video, or click on the Audio Trainings link on this site above.  Enjoy!!

Here is the entire one-hour audio portion of the training for your listening pleasure & learning!

 

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Your Partner in Prosperity!

Carol Ann Martin
Founder - Synergy Prosperity Alliance
Affiliate of Synergy Marketing Group & Platinum One Destinations
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 Well it is Christmas Morning and my children have opened all their treasures from Santa. They are now playing, fully concentrated on building their castles and race tracks (I have 2 boys), so it seemed like a great time to take a moment and share with you a reflection I had while I was making gifts for my family for Christmas.

This year I wanted to make some gifts. I bought a book on how to create jars of various mixes, and I made 4 jars of Pistachio-Lemon Shortbread Cookie mix along with a recipe card to give out to each of my family members.

I made the mistake of buying a big bag of Pistachios that WERE NOT shelled. Each jar required a full cup and a 1/4 of shelled pistachios, among other things. So last night I sat down to begin shelling the pistachios to chop and put into the jars.

I started the process picking each pistachio carefully, using both hands to tenderly open the shells and put each shelled nut in a bowl.  I looked first for the shells that were already open. The ones I could easily pry.  One by one, I put each nut in the bowl.  Plop, Plop, they clanged as each one dropped into the empty bowl.  After about 15 minutes of this I only had about a 1/4 cup of nuts in the bowl.  I realized I had a LONG way to go and way too much to do besides sitting there shucking pistachio nuts.  Thank goodness they were the white ones and not the messy pink ones that stain your fingers.  And of course the process was taking long too because for every nut I put in the bowl, I was eating two!! Ha Ha..

So, as the process began to unfold, I noticed that I started to get into a rhythm. The nuts were going into the bowl quicker and the pile was getting bigger. I was seeing some results finally! And then I realized that if I held the shell over the bowl and pried it open, they fell right into the bowl without having to pull it out. Now we’re talkin!! 

I also was coming across shells that were not open at all, and so I just passed those right by and put them in a separate pile in which I would eventually just smash with a hammer to get open.

I was reminded of how this process is much like prospecting in our business.  When we have a batch of leads we begin by simply picking up the phone and going down the list. And as we do, we begin to sort, and we build a rhythm, a natural momentum, and with each repetition of the script, with each objection we face and overcome, the next time gets easier and easier. And as we put to the side the pistachios we can’t open, we do the same with people that are not open to the possibilities of their own lives, with no attachment or emotion about it.

We can always come back to those people with a nut cracker or hammer later, but in order to effectively prospect, we simply gravitate to the ones that are easy to open and put them in “our bowl” or our “pipeline.”  When I did finally open enough shells & nuts to put into the jars, I did go back to the ones that were tough to open and took a hammer to them. But what I found was when I smashed the shells, I also smashed the nut inside, which made it impossible to put them in the jar. And that is also what it’s like when we try to convince or persuade anyone to join our business.

I am happy to say that I was successful in creating the 4 wonderful jars of Pistachio-Lemon Shortbread Cookie mixes for my family. I’m looking forward to giving them these gifts as I put my time and love and care into them, which means so much more to most people I think than a gift card from Walmart.

So the next time you sit down to prospect remember that by simply following a systematic approach, the momentum and movement will begin naturally. And don’t waste your time with the people you can’t open.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!

Carol Ann Martin
Founder - Synergy Prosperity Alliance
Coastal Synergy Group Leadership Board Member
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Well, what a weekend we had in New York City with the Coastal Synergy Group! If you didn’t make it to the event, you can experience it right here by watching these videos of none other than me! Carol Ann Martin.  I hope it hits home for you whether you are looking at the business or already in.  Enjoy! 

When you stop by, be sure to leave a nice comment too!

To Your Prosperity!

Carol Ann Martin
Founder - Synergy Prosperity Alliance

Learn more about the Coastal Synergy Group
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For those of you in Coastal Vacations, you probably know that one of the biggest challenges in network marketing is how to get the news out about yourself as a leader and about the incredible benefits of the Coastal packages.  That’s why I began an Internet Marketing Coaching teleconference series, mainly for my immediate team in Coastal Vacations, but the training is open to any Coastal reps as well as anyone in the network marketing industry interested in the new Web 2.0 technology revolution.

My series began on September 10th and future recorded coaching sessions that I do will be posted on the synergy prosperity blog - available to everyone.  This program will cover the information network marketers want and need to begin to take control of their network marketing business and transition from or supplement their reliance on purchased mlm or business opportunity leads. 

Here is what I covered in the first session, held on September 10, 2007:

1. Understanding the internet marketplace & the lead capture process
2. How to find quality, professional contacts and leads from the internet, without any cost to you 
3. How to use the Web 2.0 explosion (Youtube, MySpace) to generate Free traffic - the right way, without spamming
4. Leverage your exposure with your team and your potential business partners through blogging

Listen to the recording of this podcast now if you missed the live event:

 

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This training was inspired by the amazing trends taking place in the internet marketplace as well as the obvious need of network marketers to learn how to leverage their time and dollars in attracting quality people interested in their business opportunity.