Sunday, January 16, 2011

Learning from the successful; developing ourselves

What a blast of a time we had at the Unicity convention in Bangkok on 8th Jan 2011. To make sure everyone got full value from the outing, the Unipower team lined up 12 of its most successful leaders the next day to share the keys to success.

"As with all new businesses, start by learning the tricks of the trade", says Presidential Ruby Khun Nagorn Kraironnapoom (a.k.a. Khun A).

Thereafter, "to develop your income, develop yourself".

In our business today, where we are provided with a proven System that provides guaranteed results, guided by a professional world-class Team, working in the context of a time-tested Company with great products and a lucrative compensation plan, all we ever need to do is work on ourselves. As we grow, our business will grow.

We just have to make a choice, and then follow through.

As Presidential Double Diamond Khun Phawadon Nasareerat says it, "Choose, Change, Action".

Now, why might anyone not follow through?

Possibly because life is good already. "A life that is good already is the obstacle to a better life," says Khun Phawadon.

The only reason why we would step out of our comfort zone of the "good already" life is that we were shown a vision of exciting new possibilities, and we pick out something that is real and meaningful enough for us to want to strive for it. So, what is it? What is the possibility that we see for ourselves, and the possibility that would be worth working hard on ourselves for?

In The Happy Life Project, we show people the possibility for ordinary people to achieve the extraordinary result of retiring young and retiring early, in 3-5 years, with passive, massive, growing income. As Presidential Triple Diamond Khun Rasa Comeban, our "zero to hero" model for extraordinary success, puts it, our "success is not reserved for only certain types of people. Our opportunity to Make Life Better is open to all, whatever your background."

The question is, having seen the possibilities, will you let it go or will you stay focused on it till you realize it?

Consider this statement from Presidential Double Diamond Khun Phartchai Rueansit: "If you didn't know about the possibilities for passive income on the right side of the cashflow quadrant, no one can fault you. But if you knew about it and you stay poor, then you are really silly."

Khu Chairat (Mr Mam), the farmer's boy who graduated from tertiary education to get a high-status but low-paying job in a hospital, posed this question: "Why take 40 years to go from 10,000 baht a month to 50,000 baht a month, or even 7 years, when you can do it in 3-7 months?" 10,000 baht (just over S$400) is the kind of income he earned in his job as a male nurse in a hospital. And 50,000 baht (over S$2,000) is the highest potential he could have achieved if he had stuck to his job, for 40 years.

He achieved the 50,000 baht within months with The Happy Life Project. Today, just 3-5 years after he had to struggle to raise the small amount of money needed to buy a Unicity franchise (just over 30,000 baht, or about S$1,300), Khun Chairat is a Presidential Ruby with a minimum income of S$60,000, a month. He is only in his late 20s.

People with no income and little social capital can succeed in our business.

People with high income or coming from big business background would do our business, and succeed too.

Why would someone like Khun A, a third generation business owner whose family has interests in 6 different businesses, join Unicity?

"Because someone talked to me and asked me in my traditional businesses, when can I finish my work? The answer is, I cannot."

Presidential Ruby Khun Ning (Jansakorn) who used to run beauty salons and whose husband ran an aluminium products business, had this to say: "In the old business model, every time we expand, we have to put in more money. And there is no guarantee of success. In the new model, there is no need to put in more money."

So, what to do?

"Change sides. Move your ideas to those of the right side. Get serious. Take real action. Work whole-heartedly." exhorts Khun Phartchai Rueansit.

In addition, "Exercise self-management; manage your time wisely."

"Don't set conditions on your success," advise Presidential Sapphire Khun Pepsi.

She also said: "Do whatever works. Think Workability - what works and what doesn't, and you can tell that from the results. Don't think in terms of what's right and what's wrong."

Well, X = Y works, again and again. Do 10 points of the Unipower system KPI and you will earn S$4,000 a month, guaranteed. We have a growing number of success stories in Singapore and Malaysia that are validating that what has worked so well in Thailand works in Singapore and Malaysia too.

The question that we will need to ask ourselves is whether we have taken ownership and responsibility for our possibilities.

Khun Peerawat Rattanapattakul, a Presidential Sapphire in his 20s, asks: "Are you a business owner? If so, what type? A sleeping owner? After you have chosen, take ownership. Then, do the work consistently."

As a good measure of his great success, Khun Peerawat has freed his parents from the long and hard work of their autoparts business and put them in charge of a Unicity distributor service centre.

I hope this great gems of wisdom from the most successful of Unipower leaders will lift you and help you keep going, keep moving, until you too succeed like them.

I'm sharing this with you because I heed Khun Phawadon's great advice. In our business, he said: "Focus first on building people before building on your profit".

Let's all continue to develop ourselves. That's all the work that we ever need to do with the 4 Great Partners concept. That's why we go for one training after another, and several levels of training. That's why we read the recommended books, view and listen to the CDs, attend the seminars. And we keep doing that until we finish our work, and achieve the 100% Happy Life.

Remember this Jim Rohn gem? "Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom."