Monthly Archive for: ‘November, 2008’

Rainmaking … More Cash Flow NOW Comments Off on Rainmaking … More Cash Flow NOW

More Rain in Your Game, More Cash in Your Flow

Download Rainmaking… Cash Flow NOW clinic:

Part 1 – Win the Inner Game of Rainmaking

Part 2 – Win the Outer Game – Cash Flow NOW

In Rainmaking – Cash Flow Now, we discuss how to
win the inner game of Rainmaking, and 6 ways to
cash flow now in the outer game of Rainmaking.

In short, how to actualize your potential!

Part 1 is all about you, and how to be worth more
in the marketplace, whether you make rain or not.

Winning the inner game is essential, whatever work
you do. You want to rise above your job description
to contribute as much as you have to give to the
company your work for, whether you own it or not.

Redundant workers are vulnerable and expendable.
Results workers are valuable and in demand.

Here are TWO ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS to ask yourself
every day you go to work:

“Am I an expense, or am I an investment?”

“Do I consume more than I produce, or do
I produce more than I consume?”

How can you reframe your game from expense to
investment, then from investment to Rainmaker?

Rainmaking is a verb – it’s something you do.
There’s nothing theoretical about rainmaking.

Rainmaking is more than a high value business skill.
Rainmaking is conscious business in action.

Creating abundance in any realm is spiritual work.
Expanding the pie is a pious act.

Winning the outer game is easier when you master
your inner game. Whatever you do for a living you
will get real value from Part 1 of this conversation.

Part 2 is a MUST if you are in business, run a company
or your work has a connection to revenue or profit.

We discuss 6 leverage points that boost cash flow.
Pressing one or more of these “profit buttons” can
make rain and create cash flow now.

You will see why…

YOU DON’T HAVE TO HAVE THE ANSWER.

YOU JUST HAVE TO KNOW WHICH BUTTON TO PUSH.
THEN FIND SOMEONE WHO KNOWS HOW TO PUSH IT.

This is a crucial distinction for Rainmaking.
It’s also true for almost everything in life.

You don’t have to know all the answers.

YOU DO HAVE TO KNOW WHAT YOU WANT DONE.

Then you find someone who can do it.
Or, you can learn how to do it yourself.

Everything you know now, you learned.
You decided to learn it, and you did.

Rainmaking is no different.
Rainmaking is a skill.

You’re not born a rainmaker.
That doesn’t make you defective.

You can add this skill to your toolbox, provided
you are WILLING and COMMITTED.

If you are not WILLING and COMMITTED?
Find someone who is already capable.

Call me. I can help you.
We have a team of Rainmakers who can help you.

** INVITATION TO THE RAINMAKERS CRASH COURSE**

At about 1:09:00 (one hour nine minutes) into Part 2,
I explain our partnership called Rainmakers for Hire?.
http://rainmakersforhire.com

At 1:12:30 into Part 2, I invite you to a private
Mastermind to make rain over the next 60 days,

“Rainmakers Crash Course…
Make Rain and Pour Abundance into Your Life!”

In the Rainmakers Crash Course, you get in
6 hours what I invested 60,000 hours to master.

If you want to enhance your ability to make rain,
create cash flow, and own a business skill that
will pay off for the rest of your life,

LISTEN TO THE SPECIFICS AT 1:09:00 OF PART 2
THEN CALL ME AT 973-736-1304 TO JOIN.

Only 10 spots that include personal mentoring.

If you want to more cash in your pocket and abundance
in your life in the next 60 days, join me in the?

RAINMAKERS CRASH COURSE

It’s important to have Rainmaking skills, whether
you own the company or just work there.

If you are self employed, you must be a Rainmaker
or have a Rainmaker on your team.

NO RAIN, NO GAME!

If you are employed, you are worth more when you
contribute to profit. If you can’t, you’re vulnerable.

Listen to Rainmaking… Cash Flow NOW.

Part 1 is here
Part 2 is here
I promise it will be time well invested.

You’re a player.

You can make rain and pour abundance into
your life.

I’ll meet you on the field.

Mitch, CEO — Chief Encouragement Officer™
“Rainmaking – How to Boost Cash Flow NOW!”

P/S — Go to 1:09:00 into Part 2 to find out
about Rainmakers for Hire and starting at 1:12:30
for specifics about a private mastermind to make
rain over the next 60 days,

RAINMAKERS CRASH COURSE
THEN CALL ME AT 973-736-1304 TO JOIN.

I promise you this investment will pay off
multiplied for the rest of your lifetime.

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Posted on: 11-24-2008
Posted in: NEW Business, NEW Marketing, Sales, Service, NEW Money, NEW Skills

NEW Leadership… Optimism, Pragmatism, Humanism Comments Off on NEW Leadership… Optimism, Pragmatism, Humanism

“Hope is a great thing to have and to feel. ‘I hope’ is not a good thing to say. The hardest commitment is to lead your life from the inside out, not from hope but from trust, willingness and commitment in the spirit of optimism, pragmatism and humanism.”

— Mitch Axelrod, 30 Years, 30 Lessons

Optimism is positive expectancy.
Pragmatism is practical reality.
Humanism is personal spirituality.

Optimism is a state of mind.
Pragmatism is a state of body.
Humanism is a state of soul.

Optimism is an idea.
Pragmatism is an outcome.
Humanism is a connection.

Leadership is connecting people to produce an outcome in a state of optimism.

Like optimism, hope is a state of mind.
It’s a wish, a desire, a something as yet unfulfilled.

You cannot touch, see, hear, smell or taste hope.
It’s not real in a concrete, tangible or practical sense.

It’s very real in the mental, magical, illusory sense.

Hope is a great thing to have and to feel.
It’s just not a good thing to SAY.

Saying, “I hope” is like saying “I wish.”
“Que sera, sera” – what will be, will be.
It’s let go and let, well, you know.

“I hope” disconnects me with any responsibility for the outcome.

It’s a divine event, and whether or when the divine intervenes, it’s “out of my hands.”

I wrote the essay, “Stop Hoping, Start Trusting” as a way to make conscious the deep unconscious conditioning that communicates, “I hope.”

Hope is not a game plan.
Hope is not a playbook.
Hope is not a play to run.

Hope alone changes nothing.
Stop hoping; start trusting.

Don’t ask for permission; ask for courage.
Instead of wishing and wanting, be willing.

Trust + Courage + Willingness = Commitment

Commitment + Compassion + Connection = Leadership

Add trust, courage, and willingness to hope, and you get commitment.

Add compassion and connection to commitment, you get leadership.

Leadership commits.
Leadership has compassion.
Leadership connects.

Leadership creates and re-creates.

Without commitment, you cannot lead.
Without compassion, connection and creation, you cannot inspire others to lead.

The hardest choice I make is to lead my life from the inside out.

Authenticity is not a new marketing tactic.
It’s the measure of integrity and wholeness.
It’s being integrated.

We get virtually no training in leadership, an essential life skill.

Much of what we get encourages and reinforces follower-ship.

Be led by your inner compass.
Be guided by true north.

Hope is good.
Hope is healthy.
Hope can get you through the night.

Hope is not trust.
Hope is not willingness.
Hope is not commitment.

We need trust, willingness and commitment to carry us forward.

Optimism gets us in the game.
Pragmatism keeps us in the game.
Humanism IS the game.

Optimism is a healthy state of thinking.
Pragmatism is a practical state of doing.
Humanism is a unique experience of being.

Optimism is the fuel.
Pragmatism is the engine.
Humanism is the passenger.

The NEW Game of Leadership matches the fuel to the engine so the passenger can drive the bus.

Leadership works best with the right blend of optimism, pragmatism and humanism.
A NEW Game leader maintains a healthy balance of all three.

Whether you lead an organization of thousands, or you are a Virtual Entrepreneur™, look at the current mix of optimism, pragmatism and humanism you bring to the game.

Challenge yourself to create a better blend of optimism, pragmatism and humanism to lead more efficiently, effectively and empathetically.

The world is starved for leadership.
We need you.

The people you serve are waiting for you to step out of the line and lead from the front.

You’re a player.
You CAN change the leadership game.

I’ll meet you on the field.

Mitch, CEO — Chief Encouragement Officer™
The NEW Game of Leadership™

Posted on: 11-8-2008
Posted in: NEW Business, NEW Thinking, NEW Values

30 Lessons Is Mesmerizing, Transformational Comments Off on 30 Lessons Is Mesmerizing, Transformational

“Totally, totally mesmerizing. Absolutely fabulous.
I could have stayed with you for another six hours.
It wasn’t just informational. It was transformational.
You are incredibly sharing. It was one of the best
lectures of any type I have ever heard in my life.
Thank you so much.” — Dr. Rob Gilbert

Listen to “30 Years, 30 Lessons” as soon as you can.
You can listen here to Part 1:

You can listen here to Part 2:

OR… download Part 1 and Part 2 at the PLAYER FOR LIFE™ page

I’m not an advocate of superlative language.

Words like the best, greatest, fantastic, awesome,
life-changing and world’s leading make people
think or say,

“Yea, sure” or “Prove it” or “Just more hype.”

Superlatives can cause a negative impression.

Specific language is more credible and believable.
It’s also more palatable, potent and persuasive.

During the “30 Years, 30 Lessons” teleconference…

I explained exactly how I built millions of dollars
of intellectual and educational assets, how I sold
hundreds of thousands of dollars of them BEFORE I
even created them, and how I used OPM….

Other People’s $ — to develop, package and pay for
EVERY PRODUCT I EVER PRODUCED.

I shared three levels of listening and how deep
“soulful” listening transforms relationships in
minutes.

We demonstrated how the NEW Profit Model doubles
your revenues, halves your marketing expense and
turns customer service into profit.

We discussed how to get paid what you’re worth by
doing work that’s bigger than you are, and how you
can attract the best and brightest people by expanding
the job rather than shrinking the person.

I said why it’s essential to be an “Alchemist” today,
how to enhance your “Alchemic” ability, and why you
want to partner with someone who is an Alchemist.

I told how I grew $25 into $1.2 million in seven years,
lost $3.4 million in the next two years, made another
million in the next five years, and what I learned
you can use to boost your net worth and prevent you
from losing your shirt.

We revealed the proven and predictable NEW Game
strategy that makes YOU the compelling, chosen,
pre-eminent service provider in your marketplace.

You’ll hear how you can get at no charge my
“21 Ways to Double Your Sales” course and
GIVE IT AWAY TO OTHERS to expand your audience
and build your tribe.

I can go on but I’m sure you can see:

Specifics beat superlatives.

The beauty of making the rules is breaking the rules.

When a message is authentic, credible, heartfelt,
truthful and an honest expression that comes from
someone other than you, it can be powerful.

I shared Dr. Rob’s 43-second voice mail message
above despite a superlative word or two because, it
was a heartfelt expression of his experience being
part of the “30 Years, 30 Lessons” conversation.

Rob is a nationally acclaimed speaker, a Ph.D., a
college professor and a guy whose feedback and
wisdom I respect. I know Rob for 15 years, which
enhances the meaning and value of his words.

You’ve probably heard the story of how Liza came to
another seminar of mine three days after her first,
and when I asked her why, she said because….

“I want more of you.”

Do you think I was “on” that day? :)

“I want more of you” is my performance standard.
It should be yours, too.

What kind of business or career will yours be if
the people you serve want NO more of you?

What kind of relationships will you have if people
have had enough of you?

When we got two hours into the call, I asked if we
should stop or keep going.

They said keep going.
They wanted more.

So “30 Years, 30 Lessons” went for four hours.
Rob said he could have listened for six more.

I could have gone six more because sharing
knowledge, wisdom and experience is a privilege.

Like the principle of the “rice bowl” the more you
share what you know with others the more you
empty your rice bowl and create space for new.

If you withhold what you know, you cheat everyone
who can gain from your wisdom and experience.

Sharing is a deep, soulful cleanse.
It feels good.

It’s a blessing to you for giving.
It’s a gift to those who receive.

The “30 Years, 30 Lessons” teleconference was my
gift to me, to empty my rice bowl and make room
for more.

I gift it to you to add richness to your life.

Don’t put it aside because it’s four hours.
Just start listening today. Take it in chunks.

The lessons are about 3-5 minutes, so you can
glean a lot 15 minutes at a time.

I just listened to the first two hours and wrote a
list of 30 valuable lessons. When I’m done with
Part 2 I’ll send you the complete list of lessons.

About 1 hour and 18 minutes into Part 1 we discuss
what you get as a PLAYER FOR LIFE and various ways
you can capitalize with me as your PARTNER FOR LIFE.

Even if you choose not to be a Player or Partner,
listen to the strategy and game plan, and apply a
variation off this theme to your career or business.

THERE IS SO MUCH MORE TO SHARE, SO I DECIDED…

To host a weekly conversation for 30-45 minutes to
discuss how to apply these lessons in real life.

Mark your calendar for FRIDAY at NOON Eastern.

WE START THIS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7 at NOON.

PHONE: 712-580-1100
ACCESS: 12288#

Listen to “30 Years, 30 Lessons” as soon as you can.

You can listen here…

Part 1

Part 2

OR… download Part 1 and Part 2 at the PLAYER FOR LIFE™ page

ONE MORE THING…

I’M EXTENDING THIS INVITATION FOR
THE REST OF THIS WEEK:

Become a “Player for Life” this week and we’ll
spend 15 minutes of private phone time together.

I am confident we CAN make you 15% richer in at
least one area of your life, maybe more.

Grab all the gifts, listen to “30 Years, 30 Lessons”
and become a Player for Life at 50% off here.

Thank you for your support.

Even the Chief Encouragement Officer needs encouragement.

I am excited about the next 30 years.
I’d be thrilled to travel the path with you.

You’re a player.
Thank you for elevating my game.

I’ll meet you on the field.

Mitch, CEO — Chief Encouragement Officer™
“30 Years, 30 Lessons”

P/S — As a Player for Life you get a SECOND MEMBERSHIP
to gift to someone under 25 years old.

REMEMBER… become a “Player for Life” this week and we
will get together for 15 minutes of private phone time.

Grab all the gifts, listen to “30 Years, 30 Lessons”
and become a Player for Life at 50% off here.

Posted on: 11-3-2008
Posted in: NEW Business, NEW Marketing, Sales, Service, NEW Money, NEW Skills, NEW Thinking