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As US citizens cast our ballots during this historical election… keep in mind what this act represents, and what it means to you.
Your Right to Choose?
Freedom of Decision?
Influence of the Media?
Faith in the Future?
The Lesser of Two Evils?
What choices do you make everyday to set in motion the next phase of your life? What is the intention behind your decisions?
When you chose to start your business, was it just a choice influenced by persuasion or fear of loss?
Or was it a decision to set your life in a new direction?
Regardless of who you are voting for today… Obama, Mcain, Nader, Barr, Keyes
– I hope that you can keep in mind the power that your place in Democracy represents.
As a marketer, you can learn a lot from politics.
As small as it may seem, your vote counts.
Your every day decisions count.
Your purpose… Your vision… Your story… counts.
Anticipated, personal and relevant messages will always outperform spam.
Telling a story
Your challenge is to tell a story that is interesting enough that we’ll choose to listen to it and choose to share it with others.
Building communities has long been lead by story telling and leadership. Before the written language, before the printing press, before direct mail, before the internet, before blogs, before google adwords…
…there were stories.
Stories that are meaningful… that resonate with people… long after those who experienced them and told them for the first time.
He (or she) who tells the best story of the future, wins the election.
Thanks to MLM Trainer Dale Calvert for this story…
Two Choices
What would you do?….you make the choice. Don’t look for a punch
line, there isn’t one. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have
made the same choice?
At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves children with
learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a
speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended.
After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question:
‘When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does, is done with perfection.
Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do.
He cannot understand things as other children do.
Where is the natural order of things in my son?’
The audience was stilled by the query.
The father continued. ‘I believe that when a child like Shay, who
was mentally and physically disabled comes into the world, an
opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes
in the way other people treat that child.’
Then he told the following story:
Shay and I had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball.
Shay asked, ‘Do you think they’ll let me play?’
I knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on
their team, but as a father I also understood that if my son were
allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and
some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps.
I approached one of the boys on the field and asked (not expecting much) if Shay could play.
The boy looked around for guidance and said, ‘We’re losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning.
I guess he can be on our team and we’ll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning.’
Shay struggled over to the team’s bench and, with a broad smile, put on a team shirt.
I watched with a small tear in my eye and warmth in my heart.
The boys saw my joy at my son being accepted.
In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay’s team scored a few runs but was still behind by three.
In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in
the right field. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously
ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to
ear as I waved to him from the stands.
In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay’s team scored again.
Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat.
At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game?
Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was
all but impossible because Shay didn’t even know how to hold the bat
properly, much less connect with the ball.
However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher, recognizing
that the other team was putting winning aside for this moment in Shay’s
life, moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at
least make contact.
The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed.
The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay.
As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher.
The game would now be over.
The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman.
Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game.
Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the first baseman’s head, out of reach of all team mates.
Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, ‘Shay, run to first!
Run to first!’
Never in his life had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base.
He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.
Everyone yelled, ‘Run to second, run to second!’
Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to the base.
By the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had
the ball … the smallest guy on their team who now had his first chance
to be the hero for his team.
He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but
he understood the pitcher’s intentions so he, too, intentionally threw
the ball high and far over the third-baseman’s head.
Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home.
All were screaming, ‘Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay’
Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help
him by turning him in the direction of third base, and shouted, ‘Run to
third!
Shay, run to third!’
As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were on their feet screaming, ‘Shay, run home! Run home!’
Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam and won the game for his team
‘That day’, said the father softly with tears now rolling down his
face, ‘the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and
humanity into this world’.
Shay didn’t make it to another summer. He died that winter, having
never forgotten being the hero and making me so happy, and coming home
and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!
AND NOW A LITTLE FOOT NOTE TO THIS STORY:
We all send thousands of jokes through the e-mail without a second
thought, but when it comes to sending messages about life choices,
people hesitate.
The crude, vulgar, and often obscene pass freely through cyberspace,
but public discussion about decency is too often suppressed in our
schools and workplaces.
If you’re thinking about forwarding this message, chances are that
you’re probably sorting out the people in your address book who aren’t
the ‘appropriate’ ones to receive this type of message.
Well, the person who sent you this believes that we all can make a difference.
We all have thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the ‘natural order of things.’
So many seemingly trivial interactions between two people present us with a choice:
Do we pass along a little spark of love and humanity or do we pass
up those opportunities and leave the world a little bit colder in the
process?
A wise man once said every society is judged by how it treats it’s least fortunate amongst them.
You now have two choices:
1. Delete
2. Forward
May your day, be a Shay Day!
From Dale Calvert, please don’t send me an email and ask me what this
has to do with MLM, or MLM Training (Oh yes they do).
Sometimes people can become so deterimined on winning the marketing
games they become self-destructive. Becoming great in any area of
life while losing your humanity in the process is not a good trade off!
Tags: networkmarketing, recognition, decency
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