Grass is alwasy Greener...(you know the rest)

I wanted to share this old saying. It strikes me that someone can actually think it will be easier doing the same thing, but in a different place.
I had a gentleman today who wanted to "switch teams". He was telling me how much better it would be if he was with team X as opposed to team Y. I just can't imagine the lack of forward thinking in this situation.
Make sure that if you are excited about something, that you stick to it right where you are, and you will be glad you did.

Commitment and Leverage 30 Days to Success

I was asked to do a training call for about 100 people this past Monday. The topic was: 30 Days to Success.

I did my training that takes each letter of the 2 words and gives some specifics that people need to really focus on for the next 30 days.
Example:
C= Clarify your Why
O= Organize your Goals

I did that for each letter in each word, I love this training because it takes the 2 key words that people really want to understand and it gives them an action plan.

I hope the next 30 days for you bring your tremendous Success and Joy.

Your friend and student,
Sean

Keeping up...

The challenge with most tools that can bring you value, is understanding the need to develop the habit of use. My goal is to get posts out each day to use this to my advantage. I have accomplished so many new things since my last post, I have just missed sharing it with you. I will do better. Thanks
Your friend and student,
Sean

Independence

With July 4th just around the corner, I started thinking about what it really means to be independent. I don't think we can ever get a real solid understanding and here is my though why.

Right now, you are reading this, you are dependent on your computer, how about the chair your sitting in, or the shoes you are wearing.

Even if we are all by ourselves, we are still dependent on the air we breath, or the food we eat. So when I hear people say, I want to be free, I want my own Independence, I kind of chuckle.

Its my opinion that the world is so much more fun when you can learn to live knowing that those around you bring you joy, they bring you value, they give you something to look forward to.

As the 4th of July comes to us here today, remember that our Independence was arrived at by a small group of people being dependent upon each other. Who do you depend on to help you make your dreams come true?

Have a great day, thanks for the smiles you have been sharing, for they showed up today.

Your friend and student,

Sean G Murphy

Getting Clear

Its my perception that most of the challenge that people are facing these days, is the ability to focus. Let me see if I can explain it so it makes sense. 

Stress, Concern, Anxiety, Frustration... all these and many more have us moving between 3 worlds very rapidly and by doing so creates a tremendous amount of confusion. 

What are the 3 Worlds? I knew you might ask. Each one is a unique time in space, the Old World, is the Past... The Current World is the Present, and the Future World is, well, the Future. 

If you do not stay focused on the tasks you have right in front of you, the activities that are building your future right now, you may miss out on something great.

Here is what happens. When in a less the truly happy place, we think about the things we could have done, or maybe what we might do different if the opportunity presents it self. You have moved from the past to the future, and while in both those mindsets, you skipped over the present, and are choosing not to be in the present.

I recommend that you do what you can to say in the Now, the here of this moment. It is there that you can influence the possible future outcomes. 

Get clear on what you want and make sure that what you are doing now will bring value to that goal.

Take the next 63 seconds and focus right now.. on a goal you want, then take action on what you can do starting on the 64th second to move towards it. 

Your friend and student, 

Sean G Murphy

Pinging Your Site for Added Traffic

Now that you have gone through all the trouble of creating your site, and getting your information together, you want to make sure people actually see it right?

Well you can send out emails, or tweet it out, put it on face book or a million other ways to do it.
What you really want is for people that are looking for your information to find it, right? Yes!

The quickest way to get your site into many of the major search engines it to use "Ping Services".

I have listed some of the ones that I have used with great results. If you did a search for Sean G Murphy, you will see that I take up most of the first 2 pages of Google.

Here is the list.

Ping-o-matic http://pingomatic.com/
Auto Pinger http://autopinger.com
Ping My Blog http://www.pingmyblog.com/
Feed Shark http://feedshark.brainbliss.com/
Ping http://ping.in/
Pingates http://pingates.com
Feed Ping http://www.feedping.com/
Pingler http://www.pingler.com/

When you go to these sites, you will learn how to use each of them and they will also give you options to where you want your blog ping sent to.
Hope this helps, gt your story out, and create your own success.

Your friend and student,
Sean G Muprhy

Mother's Day - Has come and gone...

I can tell you from experience that peoples dreams many times are just like Holidays or special days for recognition.
Let me see if I can explain it enough to make sense.
I have a 5 year old son, Mason, and he is such a great teacher for me, it is the understanding that he has that makes this example work.

He really wants it to be his birthday, and almost everyday he asks, or even says that "tomorrow is my birthday, I have waited long enough." We have to explain to him that his b-day is not for a few months.

What does this have to do with peoples dreams? Its about always looking forward to a future event, the excitement, all the "what if" kind of thoughts and suddenly it shows up! And we come to find out that its over so quick, that we may feel we missed out on some of the event.

I have witnessed people talking about what they will do when... and if they only had this or that it would make such a big difference. Only to eventually get the "this or that" they were wanting... and nothing changes.

Make sure that you are keeping your targets in focus, that you have moved everyday closer to your destination and that you keep checking your compass to make sure that you continue on the right track.
If you do that, they you will know when you are getting closer, you will know what to look for when it gets there, and you will be able to leverage that day more then you ever thought possible.
Don't let your dreams come and go.

Your friend and student,
Sean
Don't let your thoughts talk you out of your dreams.

Twitter - Follow Friday's

Once again Twitter takes the ordinary and makes it extraordinary.

Each Friday on Twitter is Follow Friday. It the opportunity to recommend other Twitterer's people you feel make good people to follow. The basis on how this is determined is completely personal.
Meaning you may find someone funny, or great info how ever you make that choice. Then you can send out a tweet in your "update" area with the suggestions.

Its Twitterquet (twitter etiquette) to put the @ symbol in front of each suggestion. This allows those that see the tweet to be able to click on them and follow them right from your update.

So if your on Twitter- Suggest some great follows for others.

If your not on twitter, then get on it, and see who gets recommended to you. Don't be surprised to see your own name tweeted out.

Till the next event
Your friend and student,
Sean
Follow Me on Twitter

The Power of Focus

Can you remember the last time that you were so focused that you did not even remember the time, or even to eat? I would guess for most of you, it was not within the last 24 hours. Here is why I say that.

We have a tendency to just walk through life, and there are moments that require us to sprint. Then there are those moments that cause us to stop and make a decision to muscle all our energy to complete a task and nothing else matters. It appears as if everything else in the world has stopped.

We all know it has not stopped, in fact the world has continued to move along like it always has. The only difference is that we were not distracted by outside influences. We maintained a focus we are always capable of, but don't always use.

I would suggest that you spend more time getting completely focused on tasks and you will be amazed at how you move forward towards you goals faster then you ever have in the past.

If I can share some ways to begin to train your brain to allow you to focus, I will put some here.

1. Put your hand out in front of you and look at the back of it. See how long you can take in the picture of your hand until you get a "thought" other then your hand.

2. Think of one of your short term goals. Pay attention to the distracting thoughts that come into your mind. Recognize it, then see yourself pushing it away with your hand, get back to the thought of your goal and begin to see the moment in time, when the goal is complete. What will if feel like, who else is excited about it, what is the next thing you do after you know you have completed it.

3. Focus on your breath, but picture you are looking at your breath just as it is entering and exiting your nose. Your right there on edge of your nose and you can see each inhale and exhale.

These seem strange at first, as Dr Wayne Dyer says:

"Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change."

Change the way you look at Focus, and Focus will become a power part of your everyday tasks.

Thanks for being here, do me a favor. Smile as much as you can, because they will all show up in my life.

Your friend and student,
Sean

EzineArticles being published

The power of building your brand. its key to build your profile across multiple outlets. Getting this done as soon as possible will allow you to build your success. The key is being able to do it with minimal cost and FREE is even better.

EzineArticles.com is one of the best places to start. Fill our your profile and send in an article. You can then begin to use this as part of your success credibility.

Here is an article I had published just recently. Clarify, Qualify and Create Expectation.

Keep the articles on point and do your best to keep this around 500 words. The more specific and the more exact steps someone can take, the more words you can have. Again 500 is the a target.

Happy writing, and until our next event,
Your friend and student,
Sean

Home Business

This is a topic that generate over 2,700,000 searches just last month. With the economy the way it is, and the 70+ year history of the Network Marketing arena, there are going to be some companies that explode their business. That is the good news.

What to know the bad news? There are going to be some companies that explode their business.
Why would I say that's a bad thing, let me see if I can do a good enough job to explain it here in this blog.

The good news is simple, people are looking for an extra way to generate income, and this is the most effective way of doing that, meaning finding a Network Marketing company that makes sense to you and being apart of it.

Why it could be a bad thing is this. Many people will join and not have the right mind set, or the best training to help make sure they succeed. Its easy to get started, its easy to talk about, at least for the 1st month. Then it gets more difficult, and the pressures of the not producing like you thought you could start to become a reality no one really wants to see.

So then its the challenge of having to re-commit yourself to the project and start again. That's not always easy or truthfully, what you really want to do.

So how do you avoid the pitfalls.. make you you have someone holding you accountable, make sure you have a system that you can you to track your progress. This is critical. Just like you step onto a scale to monitor your weight if your are dieting, you want to have something as simple to ensure your success in your new business.

I hear it said once at an event I was speaking at, "Don't treat your Million Dollar business like a hobby, and you'll have an income to pay for all your hobbies."

If you would like a simple review of your business plan, or would like to learn how to best put an accountability plan in place, feel free to contact me at sean@seangmurphy.com make sure you put "plan review" in the email subject line.

Or you can go to my website, www.SeanGMurphy.com and learn more there, and request your No-Fee Mentorship call.

Thanks for making a difference, I look forward to seeing you at the next event.

Your friend and student,
Sean

Twitter - Bringing value

What a phenomenon!

This is becoming a not only a household name, but a business tool as well. The challenge is that there are so many people that don't know how to use this as an effective tool, without sounding like a pitch man, or woman!

I hope I can share with you thoughts as I see them, and not as hard and fast rules. Twitter is a way for you to hear, be heard, and learn what is happening inside of a group of minds you choose to follow. That is it in a nut shell.

You begin with an account, then you have to 'update' what you are doing. The challenge is, what to say in the beginning. Well, say whatever your doing, "setting up my account, hello twitterland".

There are so many ways to find a segment of people that you feel you can connect with, "find people" in the tool bar on your page. Go there, and type in a word you might want to find. Lets see you could put, -success, meditation, money, opportunity, technical, military... get the idea?

Now you find some folks, and you can review their info, and choose to follow them. You will now begin to get their tweets as they are called.

Usually they will also follow you back, and then when you give an Update, they will be receivers of your info.

The key is to bring value. Think of it this way... they are following you, make sure you lead them with valuable information, so they continue to follow you. Its a volunteer army that is following, they can leave at any time.

Wishing you the best, and know that you are special to me, and those that love you. Make a difference.

Your friend and student,

Sean

Building your personal Brand

So what is it that you are known for? How do you want others to know you. No matter who you are, or what you do, you have a brand you are creating. Its who you are when you are in your home, in your business, at your grocery store... your brand is the expression others have of you.

So do what you can to define your brand.

What you read, what you eat, what you believe, who you say hello... all these are part of the brand that people will remember you by.

If you would like to work on your brand, I would be happy to give you some ideas.

Looking forward to bringing value, and until then,

Your friend and student,

Sean

Heading to St. Louis from Atlanta, the trees along Route 24







We arrived at our Hotel in St. Louse for at few days, Harrahs Casino Hotel.





Stephen did a Live Tv spot on the local Fox 2 News.

Orlando - The Home of Mickey Mouse

Getting some sun in Orlando, had some great times here over the past few days.  Training is incredible with Stephen Pierce, what an amzaing experience he has and whats really powerful it his desire to share with all his knowledge to learn more to have more. 

I got to spend some time with my Dad this weekend while I was here, he actually came over to the Orlando area and stayed with me. It was great to see him. 

How many times in your life have you wished you did something, something you can look at with "hindsight" and know it would have made a difference? 

What are you thinking about doing now, something that might be a reach for you, something that would, for sure, put you out of your comfort zone? All I can tell you our would like to share with you is that its about the moments that we wonder about that make up our life, its the wonderous moments that change our life that we should all live by. 

Well this weekend was one of those wonderous ones for me, being with Daddy, thats what we boys still call him.

I hope today finds you closer to your goals, closer to your dreams, and right in the middle of a moment that you will remember for the rest of your life. 

Your friend and student, 

Sean Murphy

High School Quote, If I only knew?...

Taking a break in the Lobby of the Omni Hotel here in Los Angeles, I had this urge to share some personal thoughts.

More on the Stephen Pierce Tour coming later... smiles

Over the past few weeks, there have been many additions to my life that made me realize the reality of my old High School quote in my Senior yearbook.

"You never know how important your Friends are till they are gone".

My Mom passed last month, and I have to tell you, I can't think of any better friend I had in my life, and I have heard other say the same about her... She was and is today a friend that can never be replaced, for that I'm grateful.. Love you Mom!!!

So back to the quote... I think its a pretty cool quote to know that I said that over 25 years ago, that it would have meaning today.

What would have been really cool, is if I could have been really prophetic and add this to it..

... "Or how great it feels to get your friends back"!!! Now that would have been OUTSTANDING if I said that then.

I share this because I have not had the great joy of getting to know some of my old friends again.. cousins I have not spoken to in many many years!

My Mom had much to do with this, and I love her for that to.

So what is message? What ever you think about and Thank about, you bring about!

Don't let time slip by saying you "Should have" or you "Could have".. I can tell the joy I feel getting know my family again is a powerful.

Who do you want to get to know again, maybe its yourself!!! JUST DO IT!!!

Thanks for the smiles you shared yesterday, they showed up today for me...

Your friend and student,

Sean

Just over the NEXT Mountain

I can only imagine what the early settlers would say after they crossed one of the mini mountain
ranges along thier trip. As they apporached, "its just on the other side of that range", only to find another one


on down the way.
The state line actually was in the middle of a river as we were crossing a bridge on I-10, then headed on into LA.

California here we come!!!

It has been quite some time since I have made the "drive", and for those of you that have made this DRIVE,
you know of which I speak.
Driving from Texas out to Los Angeles is an amazing trip and one to be done only once in a lifetime...





My brother Jimmy and I made this trip almost 20 years ago, but we started in Tampa Florida, and drove for 56 hours straight thru... that was more then anyone should have to do... but we did it.


This picture is of the coach sitting in the parking lot behind the hotel, its kind of hard to make out, I will take some more pictures in the day, its $100 a night to park it there... OMG
We are staying at the Omni Hotel in downtown LA, here I am in the room, I can see the bus from here, they were nice enough to give a room so I can watch my baby down there... :)

Phoenix... 37 miles, and today we are on our way to
Los Angeles... Have a great day..












Hotel Parking lot...

This stone is the size of a small house..WOW!!!

Head WEST young man, head West!!!

We drove from Dallas on thur El Paso last night, and arrived

in Las Cruces, New Mexico 

The Coach sitting in the morning sunlight of
Las Cruces, New Mexico. Leaving for Phoneix
for big event tonight. 

The mountains are beautiful in the morning!

as well.