The grass may be greener but...

Something I have been thinking about for awhile so I have decided to share this with you. I was actually having a discussion with a friend of mine recently and he said that I should write a blog post on this. So I am taking his advice.



This is about distractions and the way people allow themselves to get distracted. It comes down to a loss of focus and what I believe is misplacing their focus. This most often occurs either after someone has had a period of success or when they get frustrated because success has not come to them as fast as they wanted with their current home business.

So here's what happens people start looking around at other business and it's like the 80/20 rule. They say, "My business is to inexpensive for people to get started so there is no commitment and they don't seem to ever go to work."

Or they say...

"It's too expensive to get started in my business, if it was cheaper then I could get more people started"

So they spend time looking at the 20% they don't have and never realize the 80% they do have. Someone told me once, "The grass may be greener on the other side but, you still have to mow it". When I was first looking at the home based business industry I use to get all excited by each new oppurtunity that came my way. I would look at a new product or company or compensation plan and I would start dreaming of the big paychecks coming in. However, shortly after that reality set in and the truth is I had to go to work to make anything happen. So when I started working I would often look at that particular business I was wanting to build and I would think, "Hey, if this was less expensive I could probably sell more and make more money." ( I am using that as an example) and off I would go getting excited about a totally different business. I would totally lose focus. I even see this happen to people after they have had success in business. I will give you an example of my friend I mentioned earlier. This guy was at one time ( and soon will be again ) a superstar with Coastal Travel. However, after a while he got distracted and decided to give a couple other companies his time and resources. He eventually landed with a company that he was hoping to eventually build up a large residual income stream.

With Coastal Travel, we can make alot of money fast. I don't know of any where you can earn this much money this fast. I know of no other company that pays better. However, with our product we don't charge people for using our products each and over month so there is no traditional residual income. This particular friend was saying, "Look there are people in XYZ company earning $1,000,000 a year in residual income with a customer base of over 300,000".



I responded this way, "With Coastal John (not his real name) if you brought in just 3,000 customers with our middle package you would earn $9,000,000. If you put that towards rental properties you would have a much more solid income stream, that would be a much more stable residual, and much more valuable because you could resell the properties in the future".



The bottom line is, do you want it to be a residual income that you control or one that you are dependent on a company to continue to pay you? There are pros and cons to each for certain. John said that was exactly what he had been realizing that's why he had decided to go back and build a Coastal Travel business. "Bottom line, there is nothing that I am aware of that can pay me any better." he said.


However, I have heard similar conversations before. People just forget what they do have and start focusing on what they don't have. It's funny how that happens. I will give you another example. I helped set a young woman up in her Coastal business once... and her reason for getting started was because she worked with a different company marketing a very low ticket item and she would sale about 5 of these items each month and she told me. If I just sold 5 of your bottom packages in a month, I would earn $5,000 and if I sale just one of your top packages I will earn over $9,000. She was correct the probably was she assumed she could sale just as many of our products which are at a much higher price point than she had previously been accustomed to. She got frustrated when she didn't make money as fast as she initially had expected. Truthfully she would have been better off to stick with the company she had her previous success with and just go to work!

Instead, she thought she saw a way to make more money with Coastal. She could have made more money probably but it would required a new skill set that she had not learned yet. She left a company that she had learned how to make money with only to end up getting frustrated when those same skills didn't allow her to make money with a new company.

This post is really just a cautionary tale. Remember: The grass may be greener on the other side but you still have to mow it!

Coastal Travel and MyDFILive is a scam

Someone told me a long time ago, you will always have your critics and the bigger you become the more critics you will have. However, the most constructive thing you can do is simply answer your critics with brand new success. Last week we had a 3 day Blitz. Below are some of the people who reported having success during our 3 day Blitz. These are only the ones that told us, I wonder how many more are out there having success and not telling anyone?

Stephen Smothers, brand new to the team, just started dialing last Friday. He has 2 brand new people in training in his first week. Participated in the Blitz and works a full time job! Congrats Stephen.

Crystal Weber made her first Premier sale! Congratulations Crystal!

Lorraine Rodman generated $9705 in profit on day 1 of the Blitz!

Mike Cowan broke his personal record for dialing during this blitz!

Jerry and Pam Mercer stepped it up and accomplished twice the number of dials they normally do! Way to go!

Scott Harter is brand new to the business and not only participated in the blitz, but he turned in his numbers and held himself accountable! Way to go!

Cynthia Della Pietro just got started, received her script books on Monday, got leads on Tuesday, participated in the Blitz on Wednesday and closed her VERY first sale!

Jolynn Skarin and Keri Skarin just learned a new skill this week from Dani Johnson’s training and implemented it for the first time. They made a decision to not worry about being perfect, they just focused on results and did an amazing job during this blitz!

Nike Roach and Bonnie Clark presented Coastal to 5500 people at a job fair during the Blitz and as a result have 70 new HOT prospects a piece! Great job exposing your business you 2!!

William Piechocki just finished his boot camp on Tuesday and sent an update to Announcements on his progress! Way to take initiative. A brand new person could just not participate at all, but William is holding himself accountable from DAY 1 in his business!

Lynn Hardy is brand new and participated in the blitz. She has a brand new person getting started as a result of the blitz. She was sick as a dog, but didn’t let ANYTHING stop her! Way to go Lynn!

Jackie O’Quinn made a Platinum sale during this Blitz! (That's $9,705 in profit).

I love this business and thank God everyday for allowing me to do this for a living!

Thanks for reading,
Jackie O'Quinn
1-888-309-5759

I earned a residual $10,000 this week!

Email I sent to my database:

Just keeping you up to date. I understand when you are nervous about a new venture it is normal to watch from the sidelines. So let me give you a quick update.

Lorraine from WV, joined Coastal Travel the end of last year. She worked for Rolls Royce as a corporate events planner and really liked the job. However, she worked lots of hours and wanted to find away to have flexibility. She found Coastal Travel online and got started at the Platinum position. Her first month she made $2,000 her second month she earned $4,200. Today she brought me her first Platinum Training sale. Congratulations to Lorraine!

That brings us to Betty from NY. That is a single mom who was very nervous about getting in at the Platinum position but said she did not have anytime to mess around. She needs to earn a serious level of income to get her and her two daughters out of debt. I assured her if she remained coachable and teachable and was willing to do her part, then I promised her that she would succeed and I would help her ever step of the way. I made no promises that it would be easy but she will succeed and it will be lucrative for her.

Betty purchased her Platinum package today using her Discover card at a retail price of $11,000 that netted me a profit of $9,705 (ok so it's not quite $10,000). For those of you keeping track that is a total of $10,705 profit so far for me this month!

Congratulations to Lorraine once again way to go girl! If you are ready to start earning some serious income then do your research, visit my website http://www.jackie.mydfilive.com , and then give me a call at 1-888-309-5759.

Hope you had a great Easter,
Jackie O'Quinn
International Coastal Director
1-888-309-5759

Our conference call DID NOT go according to plan

Below is an email I received last night after our LIVE conference call. The call really was nuts!

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Unbelievable Jackie,

We had a special annoucement call scheduled tonight but something very unexpected happened. Not everyone was able to make it on the call because the line MAXED OUT. Our conference call company would not allow anyone else to get on the line because we had too many people on the call.

If you were one of the unforunate ones that hung up and was unable to call back in because the line was full. Then you can listen to the recording below:
This recording will only be available for the next 24 hours so be sure to listen and take notes.
http://www.mydfilive.com/replay/AF-ABC-ABBCHGIC-CIHBE

Let's succeed together,
MyDFILive.com Support Team

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If you want to join the madness check us out >>> Here

All the best,
Jackie O'Quinn
1-888-309-5759