There Were Positives

I am often critical of my time in quixtar and I must say that not everything about it was bad. Actually I will admit that most of it wasn't. Quixtar actually got me to thinking more about the future and do I really want to be doing what I am doing now 5 years down the road. Also it got me to start reading books that were not fiction. I used to hate reading non-fiction books they used to all ways remind me of text books from school. But Quixtar showed me that not all of them were bad. John Maxwell's books had to be my favorite. Quixtar also got me to actually get out of my house and talk to people. Something I hadn't really done since school. Just plan getting to hang out with friends all the time and hanging out at Wal-mart in the middle of the night because they were the only place open, even though we shouldn't go there as we were told by are upline. Though we like never bought anything we there just because we wanted to go somewhere other than home. And there were many other positives of the business.

Mainly my biggest beef is with the systems. I just don't think that I need to buy 3 tapes a week and go to like half a dozen meetings and seminars every month in order to be successful. The reason I believe this is because I cant think of anytime coming from a meeting or a seminar where I felt I learned something that could take my business further or helped my business in any way shape or form. I felt that they were just stringing me along to keep me in the business just a little bit longer. And with that I had a few so called leaders or uplines that had hit certain pin levels that just left me with a bad view of the business. They seemed to talk the talk but not walk the walk.

Dilbert

I just love the Dilbert comic strip. I came across this one today that just seemed to strike a cord with me. Maybe it will with some of you also.

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Being Thankful

When I used to go to meetings, it used to really bother me how the speaker would bash our lives. Like they were so horrible and we should be ashamed of them. I'm not ashamed of my life I'm thankful for it. When I would look around at the meeting and see all these people agreeing with the speaker I thought to my self, don't you people realize that 3/4 of the population of the world would kill to have a life like ours. We enjoy so many things that a lot of people in this world don't get to. We have clean water, cars, houses, electricity, food, schools. That just names a small few of the things we have. And here is this guy speaking about our horrible lives. I thank god every day for the wonderful life I have. Is it perfect, no. But it could be a whole lot worse. Now I'm not saying we shouldn't strive to make our lives even better. But lets stop bashing this wonderful life we were granted. I feel lucky that I get to go to work every day. Hey we get to choose where we work for the most part. In a lot of places in the world you don't get a choice. I have a job, a car with payments, a small apartment, lots of bills, good friends, wonderful family members, and a girl friend I love, and I'm thankful everyday that I get to have all those things and I don't have to live some place where I don't know where my next meal is coming from or if I'm going to get murdered by someone because I don't agree with them.

eStar Network?

Ok so every once in a while I throw quixtar into a search engine and see what pops up. This time I came across this website off the first page list of results. It was 2 down from good ole quixtar. This looks like a new MLM called eStar Network. http://www.globalxl.addr.com/michelmanuel.htm?OVRAW=quixtar&OVKEY=quixtar&OVMTC=standard They seem to be comparing them selves to quixtar and other MLM's on this page saying that they have eliminated this and that. They also say it is free to join but if you find there main page which is here http://www.groupestar.com/ The free part seems to be just a lure to get you in then to get you signed up for there quick start program. From the looks of things I would never join this thing but I don't think I will ever join another MLM again. Anybody out there got any info on these guys or are a part of this group? Id be interested to learn a little more about them.