100 Days Of Fire

Have you ever felt like you needed to just burn some things out of your life?

Rael Kalley my habits coach in April was encouraging me to do a 100 Day Challenge. To me it seemed a bit extreme. I had to ask myself how badly do I really want change? Maybe I like the pain of not changing better than the pain of disciplining myself to change.

Slow and steady wins the race, right?

Good things come to those who wait.

Or is it only the things that are left behind by those who hustle?

I don't know, there has to be some good excuse for being non-committal.

Inside I know he is right. I just don't like it. I want to fight it.

Who wants to light fire to the way that they are and purge out all of the ugly at one time? That sounds painful.

I was in the army. It was about 100 years ago. Right after we all got off the ark. Things were different then. The grass was greener. The sky was more blue. It was easy to leap into the flame and get shot at, and swim the river, and get gassed with tear gas. That was then. This is now. I have a different body now. Invasion of the body snatchers came and stole that old body away. I could do 100 push ups back then. I could hang upside down on monkey bars and do 50 crunches. I could take a punch to the stomach and punch back. I could run 10 km before breakfast. Now I couldn't do one push up. Literally, not one. There would be much moaning and groaning and weeping and wailing and nashing of teeth if I tried. If you hit me in the stomach your fist would sink in about 2 feet and I would double over and die. I wouldn't leap into anything accept maybe bed, or perhaps the buffet line at a Chinese Restaurant.

100 days of discipline. 100 days of fire. Hmmmmm I think that I hear a pizza calling my name...

100 days of sticking to the program. I get to pick the program, but then I have to stick to it.

100 days of committed exercise. I have to decide. Is it 3 times a week? Is it 5 days a week? Is it 7 days a week? I get to decide but then I have to stick to it.

At military boot camp, I did not get to decide. I had to do it. They literally threw us out of the beds at 4:35 am if we did not respond to the 4:30 wake up call. We had to run 10 km even if we only felt like running 1 km. We had to keep up. If we puked, they did not care. If we cried they did not care. If we quit, they dragged us along. Then they punished our entire group for the one who was lagging. That was a great way to make friends.

I used to have that girls body in the photo above. That was me. Except I had dark hair. I carried a gun. I was in the army. I thought of myself as a superhero.

100 days of fire.

Okay I will do it.

For 100 days I committed to some business goals. I have to make 10 calls a day.

For 100 days I committed to my eating program. I went back to Fit For Life because it works for me.

For 100 days I committed to 5 days a week of exercise.

I started May 1st.

We have been walking 6 days out of 7. Sometimes more than once.

I am already down by 13 pounds.

Only 80 days of fire left. I am getting my body back!

What would you commit to for 100 days?

Changing Habits

For the last few years I have been using business coaches to help me grow my business www.cibnconnect.com

I am very blessed because as the owner of The CIBN I get introduced to the best of the best and over the years I have had some exceptional help that has given us wings even in a bad economy. In the network I also get to see who brings real results and who has practical techniques that are easy to implement. We have a few great coaches right now who specialize in different things but my main personal coach is Rael Kalley. Rael is worth his weight in gold.

Rael is primarily a habits coach. He is one of the most successful coaches that I have ever met and it is likely because he has mastered his own personal habits. He is not ruled by his habits, he actually rules his habits. As a result he makes really good money. I think that is an important quality in a coach because many of them want to give me all kinds of advice and they can't even afford a basic membership at The CIBN for only $700. If someone can't afford that little amount then I don't want to take business advice from them. I certainly would not introduce them to you either.

The first thing I noticed about Rael is that he did not blink when we told him the price for the MasterMind Program and he joined immediately. He has money. He takes his own advice. The second think that I learned about him was from one of his clients that was leaving his office one day. The man disclosed to me that he was making about 6 times the average in his industry. Rael also self-published a book a few years ago and has sold over 40,000 copies. That is unheard of. I decided last December I had to have him as my coach. I really need people like him around me.

An interesting thing happens when you hire Rael Kalley to be your business coach. You lose weight. No kidding.

The reason is because he is a habits coach and habits affect every part of our lives. Many of Rael's clients over the years have lost weight and more importantly they kept it off after they lost it. Some of his clients lost more than 100 pounds. That is not a common thing. Most people gain back what they lose.

When I hired Rael I was topping the scales at 244. It is the heaviest that I have ever been. I hired him in December of 2017 and by the end of February I was down to 230. I had not even changed much. I was not exercising yet at all. I was just changing the way I was thinking. After a few months, I had not lost more, but I had not gained it back either.

Because of Rael I was examining my habits. Mostly I was doing it to see gains in my business, which went up by $20,000 in monthly revenue in January of 2018.

By examining my habits I realized that I had set myself up for failure in business, in life, and definitely in weight-loss. Click Here to review my bad habits.

The first thing that I needed to change to get better results was how I was thinking about things. I had to change the way I thought to make permanent changes to my habits. I would like to tell you that those changes came overnight, but they did not. They took some time. In December 2017 on Rael's advice I started writing out affirmations and saying them 6 times a day minimum. Mostly they were about things I wanted to change for business, but Rael insisted that I look at healthier living choices as well. I did not want to. I did not care if I was fat. I like myself just fine. I was not motivated to be any different. He did raise a valid point though that I would not live to see the empire I built if I gave my body no further consideration. That was a good point.

I really, really, really had to start by changing the way I thought; especially about exercise. I had a lot of stuff in my head about how I hated exercise. I did not like it when:

• It was too hot
• It was too windy
• It was too cold
• It was too hard

I did not like to bike or walk, I really hated it a lot!

So the affirmations that I told myself went like this:

• I love to exercise (cringe).
• I love to go outside (groan).
• I only desire foods that drive me towards my goal (sigh).
• I enjoy walking every day (moan).

Most people would probably start a program a lot faster than me. I first had to defeat the demons in my head and my personal bad attitude.By January I was eating more salad and on a program for eating better. By February I stopped cringing when I said the statements about exercising. By April I was planning to actually go outside. It wasn't until May 1 that I started doing it. Now I am going outside for a brisk walk and even a little jog 6 out of 7 days in the week. I am making progress. Don't judge me.

Tell me how are you progressing? I won't judge you either.

Go ahead and click up on the top right hand of the page to get updates so you will see my next blog, and don't forget to write your comments at the bottom of the page.

Quick Fixes And Other Bad Habits

If you have been following my story you will know that 2 years ago I tried laser therapy weight-loss. Just so you know, it did work. It was a quick fix. It is however costly. I paid over $2000 at the time and it does reduce inches.

I wanted a quick, easy, painless solution. I wanted to beam it off my body like having a sci-fi experience of some type. Seriously, who wouldn't want that? That is why people go get their stomachs stapled and others opt for sucking out their fat. It seams easier than the alternative which is hard work. Nobody wants that program. Yuck. Exercise? Stop eating food I love? Stop drinking my calories? Who is signing up for that?

I guess people do sign up for that. Weight-loss centers around the world make money off us as we come in to buy the pills, buy the food, take the programs, and so on. The reality is, we do take it off if we use some of these things. We also can do it ourselves if we apply some hard work and actually exercise. The thing is though, we are not keeping it off.

I took off more than 20 pounds back in 2015 but I gained it back. I also gained an extra 30 just to be sure it stuck.

Recently I started examining why.

Apparently it is my habits. I have many of them. Most of them are bad.

I have had the habit of not exercising. I did not like it actually. I would even cringe at the mere thought of it. It seemed more distasteful than anything, except maybe eating properly. That was also distasteful... quite literally.

Rael Kalley is my habits coach and he started getting me to look at my habits. This is what they look like:

• I like to sleep until it is time to rush in the morning.
• I don't like to exercise at all. I hate all exercise equally. I don't even enjoy watching others do it. I don't watch sports. I think it is a waste of time and money.
• I like to eat no breakfast at all and then when I am starving for lunch I like to overeat heavy calorie foods with lots of fat. My favorite is sour cream. I prefer to smother most of my food in it.
• I eat in a restaurant several times a week. I like to put whatever I want into my mouth and savor the delicious food that my tongue wants and I don't usually care what my body has to deal with later.
• Fruit seems cold to me. I don't like it.
• Veggies seem too good for me. I don't like them.
• I don't like to drink water. It is too wet.
• I do like to drink coffee. I obviously need something to keep me going. I particularly love to drink Starbucks lattes. Especially pumpkin spice and other decadent 400+ calorie drinks.
• I don't like pop or sugary drinks. Thank God, I have one good thing going for me.
• I don't take the stairs. Those are for skinny people. I secretly am suspicious of skinny people. They are just way too skinny.
• My days are spent in restaurants and coffee shops.
• I come home and spend a few hours on the computer in a sitting position doing the marketing that I did not get done while at work.
• I like to overwork at work and then at the end of the day I lay around.
• I eat a home cooked meal twice a week. It is usually something delicious and high-calorie. I have several favorites like perogies smothered in sour cream or pasta with cream sauce. Mmmm mmm
• I like to watch TV at night and it is even better if I am eating chips with onion dip and a yummy craft beer.

How could I possibly gain weight on those habits?

I just want a quick fix, I don't want a long-term commitment. Apparently I have to change the way I think.

Life is not fair.

Go ahead and vent below. Tell me why life is not fair, and it is not your fault. We can agree together and support one another in our bad habits just for right now. Later I will tell you how I am overcoming these habits but for now, go ahead and wallow in it and get it off your chest.

If you want to come back for more, you can sign up for updates in the top right hand corner with your email address.

A New Plan

I have not written a blog here in about two years. I have been writing, just not here on my personal page. My business has been growing and I have had a lot of things to contribute to the blog on my website www.cibnconnect.com as well as on my LinkedIn profile.

I am going to start writing here again to talk more about personal matters as well as to track my ongoing weight-loss program and then weight-maintenance. I have discovered that weight-maintenance is actually even more important than weight-loss. I am making a new plan to take me forward to May 2019 one year from now.

Did you know that television programs like The Biggest Loser have a hard time planning reunion shows because the people gain the weight back? In fact, many weight-loss programs and dieting centers have the same problem. People do lose weight. Then they gain it back.

I too, have had some of these challenges, so I have been on the hunt to find out why and make some positive changes. I think I have learned a few things. I want to share them with you and maybe you can join me on this journey for a healthier life-style.

A pretty accurate picture of what I look like

Let's start with a recap. I gained weight for the first time as a newly wed. I was 25. I put on 30 pounds trying to impress my new husband with Ukrainian food and fresh baked bread. My aunt gave me a book that was popular at the time called Fit For Life. I applied the principles increasing fresh fruit and fresh vegetables and I lost the weight. Irritable Bowel Syndrome also vanished. I was back on track for several years. I also got rid of the husband. He was bad for my figure, my financial figures, and for me in general.

I was slender until my third child came into my life in my early thirties. That was my first real challenge. I think many women experience weight gain with having more children. After a few years of unhappy struggle I had a couple of girlfriends help me out by encouraging me to go back on the dietary plan I followed before and they got me out walking. I lost the weight and kept if off for about 10 years.

Many people talk about yo-yoing. I never really seen it as yo-yoing. I knew when I worked at it, I lost weight. When I stayed focused I kept it off. When I stopped eating healthy and stopped exercising, bad things happened. There was no real mystery about it. I knew what I was doing. I was making choices.

Lately I have realized most people are not thinking about it like that. They are not seeing daily small choices as being the leading cause of where they are at now. They seem to not see the correlation. Whenever I gained weight, I knew exactly what I was doing. Every time I put food in my mouth I knew if it was a good idea or a bad idea. Every day I opted for no exercise I understood I was adopting a Body By Pizza Hut attitude. Maybe that was even worse than not knowing.

When I hit 40 I suddenly found it harder to take weight off and keep it off. The metabolism was changing. It was even easier to gain weight. To make matters even more challenging I started a new business that was very demanding. It was hard to think about meal planning and even harder to plan exercise as part of a daily or even weekly routine. That was enough to start packing on the pounds but I had an even bigger problem. My business took place every day in restaurants. Suddenly I was eating in a way that was very different to my regiment. There was lots of salt, lots of sugar, and some places didn't even serve a proper salad. So I gave in to eating what my tongue desired, when it desired it. To top it off, I also began to enjoy more beer and wine. Yum. My taste buds were ecstatic. The rest of my body was screaming.

Fast forward to 6 years later. I have gained about 70 lbs. No joke.

My knees hurt. It is hard to exercise. My grandson who is 2 is outrunning me. I think it is time to make a change.

My business is no longer in a learning curve. We've got this. I don't have to be in a restaurant 5 days a week anymore, nor am I too weak-minded to create new strategies. So I have run out of excuses. I am making a change.

Over the next days and weeks and months and years I am going to be blogging here, because this is a life-long project. If you want to join me in the journey make a comment below. I will be sharing what is working and what is helpful. You can share your tips too. Let's do this together!

By the way, if you like this blog you can sign up for updates in the top right hand corner.

Cooking Joe Canadian #CASL

In 2010 I am a happy little frog named Joe Canadian who sits in a nice pan of cool water when bill C-28 begins it’s early progress through the House Of Commons. CASL sounds like a wonderful little piece of legislation to Joe Canadian the happy little frog. It is a law to protect Joe from spammers. It sounds so sweet. The government must have his best interest at heart. Joe does not ask who brings this law to the House. He does not ask how it will affect him. After all, Joe is not a spammer. Joe is a realtor.

Joe happily goes on his way and does not notice when the legislation gets a little more intense on January 1^st, 2014. The water is getting warmer in his little pan of water but he does not know it. It was so gradual and besides now it is quite comfortable. Surely the government is looking after his interests. He continues to do business like he has always done business. He has open houses, he shows houses, he has this nice sheet that he leaves out at the entrance where the guests can sign in and leave their email addresses. Later he will add them to his email list and send them updates about houses going on the market.

Joe learned all about content and adding value at a seminar last year. So his newsletter gives great tips. He shows people how to prepare their existing homes for the market. There are renovation tips. There are home decorating tips. There is information about the best areas in which to live and articles about the best schools. He has been getting great reviews from people who get it. Some even repost it to their social media sites. Joe has been very clever and used a system where he can actually see who opened his emails, who clicked on his articles, and he can measure their interest. Overall it has helped him to increase his sales by 15% last year and he can attribute a few of his latest deals to this process. He is quite happy.

Poor Joe does not know that the water is heating up in his little pan of water and that he is about to get cooked!

The Canadian Anti Spam Legislation is about to steal his hard earned list. Joe Canadian who is a realtor is about to be very effected by something that is way outside of his control. His sister who owns a spa is also about to be effected. His mother-in-law who owns a flower shop is also about to be effected.

CASL puts them all in very hot water indeed. Now they must prove consent. July 1, 2014 the water just went into a boil. The lists that they built from long term customer interaction, and adding value to content are just as “at risk” as the real spammers lists. They are told that they have 36 months to turn that verbal consent into a double opt-in, but what if one unhappy customer, or one devious competitor reports them in the meantime? The onus is on them to prove their innocence. Once they are in court being boiled away to nothing, they will have their chance to prove that they did indeed comply. It will only cost them thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of lost time, so why should they complain?

Joe found out about this just days before July 1^st. He should have been paying attention of course, so it is his fault. After all, everyone in Canada should watch every piece of legislation going through the House Of Commons daily because one never knows when someone with an agenda wants to boil you. So now Joe will get rid of several really good prospects from his list and comply with the theft of his hard work. He will hire a social media management team to keep compliant in the future. He will take extra insurance on, just in case of lawsuits or fines. One needs to be prepared, and it is only a few thousand extra money a year to do all of this. So Joe Canadian should just accept his fate and his little pan of boiling water and let himself get cooked.

Joe, pick up the phone and call your MP! Organize a protest. Write an article. Do something! You are getting cooked!

Always Loyal2U,

Kerry George

If you want tips on how to deal with CASL see our page at our Loyal2U site. There are also some great articles about this issue on LinkedIn.

The Power Of Passive Income

Life Without Passive Income

Most of us have been taught the 40 – 40 – 40 plan. Work for 40 hours a week, for 40 years and then retire on 40% of our income. How is that working for you?

Some realize the futility of this plan somewhere along the way when it just didn’t produce enough. Some don’t realize it soon enough and end up spending their retirement years working at Walmart. The fact is, that only 3% of the population are retiring in a state of wealth and dignity. So most are not learning their lessons at all.

More and more people are trying other kinds of projects and alternative income sources. Investment strategies can be helpful if you learn and carefully apply the principals. I have personally been reading some of Kevin O’Leary’s books and I think that is making me smarter. J

However, investments do come with risks and many people do lose money from them. Owning a business offers more tax advantages than just working a job, but many people just end up owning their job and call it a business. The best business models are franchises and other ideas where multiplication is possible. Where there is multiplication, or even duplication the opportunity for real profit does exist. One must realize though, there are risks in business. 80% of all businesses fail in the first 5 years. A successful franchise model is costly. One needs between $50,000 and $2,000,000 to just get started. They fail less often, but one needs to have the capital to start. That is an obvious disadvantage for many.

We play Cashflow 101 and Millionaire Maker
Every Monday at our office boardroom. Want to come?
Call 403-397-1909

What Is Passive Income?

Passive income is money that comes in residually. You did something that created money and then somehow it continued to come in. Writing a book that has royalties paying out, is one example of passive income. Musicians and artists may have passive income. Owning multiple real estate properties may produce passive income if you are not personally collecting the rents and managing the properties. It is only passive if you are truly not touching it and stoking it and working it to keep it going.

While playing Robert Kiyosaki’s board game Cashflow 101, I had a revelation. Most of what we think is passive income is not. It still requires some work. Most importantly though, one cannot actually get ahead in life without passive income. The fact is, we are still in the rat race of life until our passive income exceeds our expenses. That is different than how we have been trained. We think we will be on easy street when our income exceeds our expenses. That is simply not true. One life disaster can still take us out if we are relying on ANY kind of non-passive income! A job is not secure, no matter how secure that it seems. You are an expense to your company and it is in the interest of the company to reduce or eliminate expenses. The only way to be certain of financial stability is to have diversified PASSIVE income. That is a source of money that is producing more money on it’s own. The best kind is broadly based on more than one source.

Millionaire Maker Board Game

What Can The Average Person Do To Create Passive Income?

You need to think differently than you ever thought before. You need to assess what is truly passive income. I thought I could create passive income in my business by building a franchise model. Not a bad idea, but it takes a lot of time and work to get there. So what could I do to start some immediate passive income at the same time?

I chose to do it with a network marketing activity. It is something I do on the side. A few hours a week in an industry that fits alongside what I already do. So it is not a big stretch for me to accomplish. I looked around for a long time and tried a couple things but then I found one that fit my life. It is one that works with business owners. I own a business referral network, so that made sense to me. I did not have to change the products that I used. I just started getting cash back on my gasoline and groceries and teaching others to do the same while they run their regular businesses. I started showing our business owners how they could get more loyal customers coming to their existing businesses and it has been good for them and for all of us. It is a win/win situation.

Some People Are Afraid Of Passive Income Sources

I had to try several ideas before I found one that worked. Network marketing companies are businesses like any other businesses and some of them fail. 80% of them actually. So some people get discouraged by that because they don’t understand that all business, all investments, and all of life has challenges and failures. I have seen people try a network marketing company, fail, and then never get up again. That is sad. There are more network marketing companies producing millionaires in North America than in other industry that is legal. Someone is making that work. That someone could be you.

Usually it is fear that holds people back. They are afraid of failure. They are afraid of ponzi schemes, even though they are not even sure what a ponzi scheme is. They are afraid of pyramids, even though their government and their church use a pyramid structure, and they are clueless about what a real illegal pyramid would look like. They are afraid of being judged by friends and family who won’t be there to pay the bills when things get tough anyway. They may be afraid of success and sabotage their own efforts. Fear is never a pretty thing and one should not allow it to rule their life. Education overcomes fear. Find out more and get the facts about network marketing.

The fact is network marketing has become a respected industry. My personal opinion and yours is irrelevant. Network marketing is legal. Companies are being endorsed by famous people and legislation has been passed making them viable and credible. People are succeeding at it. It does produce passive income, with usually a low cost affordable investment. It does help wage earning employees get huge tax advantages. It does provide a learning environment for multiplication, entrepreneurship, and healthy relationship management and growth. Anyone who has ever had any success in the industry never wants to go back to anything else. That says a lot.

If you have had your dream stolen, I hope you don’t quit. If you have tried something and failed, I hope you realize that failure is the first step to success. If you are afraid of investing your time and your money into anything new, I hope you will keep looking and learning. Don’t cut yourself off from opportunities because of other people’s opinions. Warren Buffet said no good thing can come from saying “no.” And I would add that there is promise in the word “yes” and there are possibilities in those “yeses.”

Robert Kiyosaki, Darren Weeks, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump are public supporters of network marketing. You might want to think about that the next time you are considering an opportunity. 

Always Loyal2U,

Kerry George


This is a pretty funny video about someone who is not very open minded.

Life without a passive income is hard. You might want to try life with a passive income.

Loyalty In Today's World

What Does Loyalty Look Like?

I am going to say some things here that some people are not going to like. I am sure they will send me comments about how their circumstances are different. This is a huge subject and I am not sure I can do it justice in a few paragraphs, but it is a topic that has been of great interest to me for a long time.

Dogs are Loyal2U
even when you are undeserving
of loyalty...

To me it seems to be a funny world when people don’t know what loyalty looks like. I think it used to be more common. When a person got married 100 years ago, they usually stayed married to the same person for the rest of their lives. It took a death or a disaster of some kind to make people deviate from their marital course. I have read stories from the Victorian era about men who cheated on their wives and they used the rational that they were protecting their wives from the burden of additional child bearing or the suffering of sex. I am not saying they were right, but even when they cheated they had more loyalty than we see nowadays.

When I was a Pastor I did a lot of reading about a movement in Columbia and Argentina where hundreds of thousands of people were joining a church group. The common motivating factor was loyalty to a leader. Several evangelists here in Canada tried to adopt the model to bring on growth and overall it failed miserably. What was missing? Loyalty. The average Canadian would say they are loyal but in reality they don’t even understand the concept. Somewhere along the road we learned from McDonalds that things can be thrown away. We stopped valuing stuff and we also stopped valuing people. Relationships could be replaced. Leadership became a dirty word and people were afraid of domination. We forgot how to be loyal in a positive way.

Loyalty is faithfulness or a devotion to a person, country, group, or cause. Sounds simple enough but in practice, not so easy. These days we question everything. Questioning is not such a bad thing, it helps us to understand, but it has come to the point where many are rebellious against every form of authority. Sure we all want to be free, but even in freedom somebody with authority is keeping the peace. Without any loyalty to a cause, or a system, or a leader, there is anarchy. There is nothing to hold the fabric of society together any more.

If we can’t tell how loyalty looks in relationships or in a cause then we certainly don’t know it in business either. Once I had a businessman invite me to talk about the kinds of social media marketing that my company Loyal2U does. We had a good conversation for over an hour and he invited me back later in the week saying that he would like to add our services to his offering and white label it. He suggested a partnership of sorts where we would each profit from the enterprise. On the next visit to his office however, I overheard him telling a client that his company would use our marketing technique and he offered it to them for a third of our price. There was a flyer on his desk with the language taken right from our website. My impression of this man was that he is a snake oil salesman. The main flaw being: He lacks loyalty.

Another gentlemen asked me for coffee one day and then wanted to know how business was going. He asked a few questions and then told me about the real reason for his inquiry. He wanted me to forfeit all of my hard work and my relationships to join him with a competitor. I have watched that individual jump from job to job, and business opportunity to business opportunity many times over the last few years. What is the real problem? He lacks loyalty.

If you have ever taken part in training with a good network marketing company they usually try to train people on loyalty. They tell their members not to poach the recruits of other members. They teach the members to honor each other and to say good things about one another, and to lift up the leadership. It is a funny thing that this needs to be taught, but it does. I was at a meeting with a reputable company only months ago when a friend that I was with noticed a mutual acquaintance of ours came in with another person we did not know. She leaned over to me and said, “Kerry, you should go get that gal on your team before they sign up with that guy.” I was shocked. I told her that would be really improper, but the point is it smarts of a lack of loyalty. If I had done that, I would be teaching everyone who seen it that poaching is fine. It is not fine. It is without integrity. It smarts of a lack of loyalty.

What Does A Lack Of Loyalty Look Like?

• You don’t like the discomfort of living with others so you can all work together to gain a better lifestyle or buy new homes for each family member. This is something we see immigrants doing, but we would never do. 
• Your young adult child is selling vacuum cleaners and you buy a vacuum cleaner from a stranger at the door instead of supporting your own child.
• Your grown child has financial struggles and needs a hand but you let them land on the street even though you are in a position to help.
• Your brother opens a gas station and you drive across town to avoid buying there.
• Your sister-in-law joins a multi-level business and you take great joy in stealing her dream by telling her how she is going to fail. No matter what she sells, you would buy it anywhere but from her.
• Talking about someone that you are supposed to love in a negative way when they are not present, or even when they are present. That is not only a lack of devotion but spiteful as well.
• No desire to look after the needs of one’s child, mother, brother, sister or relative. No pre-planning for the future.
• You have no respect for your manager at work and go over their head to tell on them. You are an adult tattle tail…

Have you ever watched the Godfather? I am not saying we should cut the heads off of horses or shoot people who disagree with us, but the Godfather had one thing right. He was loyal to a fault. He taught his family to be loyal to each other and to have each other’s back. They could count on one another to be in their corner, even when they were wrong and no matter what the cost was. They didn’t throw each other under the bus to avoid personal repercussions and they all ate together regularly even when there were family tensions.

What Does Loyalty In Business Look Like?

I have a couple of businesses so let me explain what loyalty looks like to me from that perspective. Loyal2U is a marketing company. So if have a client we are a defender of that brand. We write content for the business as though we are them. We try to understand their heart, their values and their culture and we create the message accordingly. We make sure the client sees the content and signs off on it before it goes live. We watch the responses on social media and report back promptly with both negative and positive comments. We make your clients more Loyal2U so they buy again and again.

The CIBN is a chain of networking referral clubs and we also offer educational events and mastermind sessions. We do business with the people who do business with us. People contact us every week wanting us to promote them for free. They don’t want to pay us for a membership and they have no loyalty to any member of our clubs. We on the other hand look for ways to add value to our members lives and businesses. We work tirelessly to add programs that are of benefit to our members. If we need a service we get it from one of our members. If we need a product we look at our members first. We give leads and referrals. We teach our members how to give leads and referrals. We try every day to create win/win situations and build strong and valuable relationships. We are loyal to our members and sponsors and we encourage them to be loyal to each other as well.

So is loyalty important in your business? Is it important to you in your life? What does that look like to you?

Sincerely and always,

Loyal2U

Kerry