I Am Pete Johnson

Anyone who tells you this industry is not about personal growth, AS MUCH AS, it’s about creating a life less encumbered by ‘need to do’ and more by “need to do because I want to do,”  is either someone that hasn’t spent much time in the industry, or hasn’t experienced trial and tribulation the way many people I’ve spoken to have.  The growth that comes, happens,  at least for me in those guarded moments when I’m alone, afraid of being vulnerable with family and friends either because I don’t want to hear, “dude stop doing that it’s making you  crazy” or I just don’t want to be judged.  Last night, the revelation came to me as I was having a conversation with someone. Read the rest of this entry

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The logo of Nuskin Enterprises is a fountain of youth and appropriately so.  As legends go, the fountain is a spring that reportedly restored youth to anyone that drank from it.  Youth is a quality that is prized by maturer members of our society who regularly chastise the young because they feel it is wasted on them.  Hindsight is 20/20 and many people younger than 30 let’s say get a bad rap.  Whereas youth today think that 30 is old.  They have no idea of good 30 is!

Nuskin has been a respected company for over 25 years and have offered an array of products during that time.  To me, the most exciting development has been the introduction of AGELOC Technology to the public. It’s no secret that lifestyle can determine many things about how a person ages but your genetics hold the key.  Nuskin and it’s reasearch partners discovered 15 years of that youth gene clusters determine HOW you age.  Ageloc technology address aging at a genetic level so genes express more youthfully.  If your genes are resetting, you will look younger! Read the rest of this entry

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Yes, I know.  This is a blog for networker marketers.  A blog to not only talk about industry related content but to provide value to those coming to this blog expecting it.  In my  experience EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE and value is where you find it.  I need to talk about something every network marketer needs: FAITH.

The word faith is a charged word depending on who you’re talking to or what you’re talking about.  And yet, without it, fear can rob us of the momentum we are capable of producing.    My beliefs, don’t require you to believe as I do but I’m going to share some of what I believe.  Accept or reject as you will.  Either way, you and I will be ok: 1. Dreams are NOT elusive;  2. They’re as close as you want them or as far as away; 3. There’s a correlation between a dream deferred and deferring yourself; 4. Acknowledging your truth will come after all your  excuses are gone; 5. Being clear about what HAS to be done, brings your path clearer into focus…but not necessarily easier to tread; 6. Everyone has a common  purpose expressed differently through each person; 7. There is no denying purpose; 8. Allowing fear to influence your purpose, defers your dream. Read the rest of this entry

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TRiBE Celebration, Power of Play

You Want A Good Mentor BUT Are You Ready To Be Mentored?

OK…If 20 years in the military taught me anything, it taught me that people follow people.  As much as a person might want to get away from this, it’s unavoidable.  Unless you can successfully win friends and influence people while also cultivating an aura of authority that screams, “I’m the WO-MAN!”, you run the risk of being relegated to social obscurity or getting crushed against the stage.  The squeaky wheel gets the grease right?

To be consistent with that analogy, why shouldn’t it get the grease?  I mean a person who works hard to acquire sufficient knowledge for the privilege of branding themselves as a subject matter expert, has earned that for themselves.  All of us are used to paying for knowledge.  I wholeheartedly agree that knowledge equals money whether through personal application of said knowledge or being paid for what you know.  In contrast, I call attention to that person or persons that endure under the weight of perception that they have nothing to offer because they don’t “squeak” enough. Read the rest of this entry

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A convergence happened this morning thinking about my next post.  I was poised to write a thoughtful, industry relevant article and then I got an email from a friend.  A forwarded  email from someone in our up line giving praise to the comments of someone he felt was an emerging leader.   The other reason I’m getting to work so late in the day is that I had to  listen to NPR this morning.  Today is the 30 year anniversary of John Lennon’s death.  It’s hard to encapsulate the complexity of anyone’s life, whether you’re John Lennon or not, in  an hour.  Yet, the email I received and the program combined touched something so I’m writing about it.

There were two things that jumped out at me listening to the program this morning.  John Lennon, apart from the sheer weight of his work, with the Beatles and on his own, he was  prone  to self-loathing.  It was the lens through which he saw himself and his environment.  Contrary to what most of the world adores him for, he was riddled with doubt, with guilt  and an encroaching dissatisfaction.  Additionally, quitting the band and breaking up of the Beatles signaled a personal renaissance for John which Yoko was the catalyst.

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