YOU, Inc.

If you’re on Facebook, Twitter … basically the internet, at ALL, you have heard this before … but I’m going to tell you again because it is SO important! I’ve been around this block of NWM a time or two and I’ve SEEN it … it WORKS … Social Media Marketing is all about YOU … who ARE you, what do YOU do, why do you do IT?!!

I could not agree more! The PROS agree! Why fight it?

The more I am involved in SMM the more I’m getting tired of links being thrown around like a wet noodle because it’s easy to do. They’re FLASHING in my face, telling me to BUY this or do THAT! Sorry ... NOT INTERESTED!!!

Me, Lorri … I am out here to not only make Friends, but create and offer VALUE to those new friends! Do I make Mike Dillard money? Not yet. Will I? Not sure, truthfully, I don’t NEED Mike Dillard money, and I’m okay with that! I DO however, want to support my family in a fashion that I never had growing up. I want to be able to buy my girls what ever prom dress they want … get my daughter’s their first car … build up my retirement stash!! This, to me, is very real!! Isn’t that what most people are searching for? Something REAL?

Is it possible to make LOTS of money? YES!! Is that my goal? NO! My goal is to help you become successful … success means something different to every person! Just establishing what that is for you is a victory in itself! This is ME, Inc.!

So, ME, Inc. is Lorri. Lorri is … meeting new people using the World Wide Web. I love passing around ideas and great information, helping people discover how great they REALLY are and help develop their hidden talent! I love helping people build confidence in themselves. I LOVE to make people laugh!

This is ME, Inc.

If you’d like to learn more about Lorri, please check out my business card, where I can always be reached, http://www.hubze.com/lorrilou.

“I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue or reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards.” - Jim Rohn

Turn Automoatic Negative Self-Talk....To Positive

Negative self-talk happens without us even realizing it! Unless we do something to CHANGE this, it can become the number 1 killer of our business! This was VERY powerful for me! I hope you find value in it as well!!



I work personally with Ryan Yokome, and he has helped me in so many ways!! Please feel free to learn more about Ryan here!

Foursquare, The Next Social Up-And-Comer

It’s funny how early adoption works and how you start to see recurring patterns. When I started using Twitter there were numerous people who questioned what it was, why it was useful, and mocked it. A couple of years later, Twitter is still on a tear.

I’m seeing the same thing with Foursquare today. Early adopters are using it, it’s starting to spread, and once again people I know are confused by it, think it’s useless, and that it has no real business.

However, in some ways it may even have a brighter future than Twitter based on creating the location to local business connection. They’ve started to roll out some very interesting partnerships which I assume have revenue implications. If they don’t now, they will in the future as Foursquare’s user base takes off.

Check out this quote for example:

“Being able to drive foot traffic into our restaurant partners and our retail partners is a huge opportunity, because that’s where our product is sold,” said B. Bonin Bough, director of social and emerging media for PepsiCo.
There are going to be some very interesting things that can be done with this, and it’s going to drive Yelp, Facebook, Yahoo!, Google, and others after checking in and driving local traffic to businesses.

I had my first real example of this when I checked into my hotel for Ad Tech San Francisco, and Foursquare alerted me that I could get half off appetizers in the hotel bar. I had already settled in my room, but it made me think about actually taking advantage of the deal which would have driven more revenue to the hotel. That is worth something to the hotel, something worth paying Foursquare to drive to them. Foursquare also doesn’t appear to be waiting until they’re huge to make this happen, which seems like a wise move to get established as the early player working with businesses.

http://www.foursquare.com

The Power of Effective Websites

Excellent content and value ... thank you John Assaraf!!

Who IS my customer? What value can I OFFER to them?

Websites are the key to any business today, but not just ANY website ... watch, and discover some great keys to an effective website!

Body Language Speaks VOLUMES!

Friend and mentor Ryan Yokome on the importance of Body Language! Did you know that over 60% of how we communicate is through body language??

There is some GREAT content here!! Enjoy ... and Thank You Ryan!

NETWORK MARKETING TRUTH - "Rich Dad" Robert Kiyosaki Debunks the Myths A...

Excellent insight from one of the worlds leaders in business and finance!

Tips for Success ~ Inspired by Lorri

"The Optimism Option"

An article I wanted to share with you ... enjoy!

If you’re happy and you know it, you just might live longer.

By Dr. Gregg Jacobs

Despite the stress-inducing intrusions of the modern world, some people cope far better with stress than others, and as a result, stay far healthier. That’s because these individuals have managed to maintain an instinctive connection to optimism. Optimism is more akin to a feeling, not a thought, which motivates us toward thoughts and behaviors that improve our well-being.

Take a moment to consider the following questions:

1. When you think about the past, do you recall successes more easily than failures?
2. Do you usually attribute positive outcomes to yourself or to luck?
3. When you think about the future, do you expect the best?
4. Do you believe that something positive can be found in most negative situations?
5. Do you feel that things usually don't work out for the best for you?
6. Do you find it hard to count on good things to happen to you?

If you answered yes to the first four questions and no to the last two, you are likely an optimist. If you said no to the first four questions and yes to the last two, you are likely a pessimist. Being either an optimist or a pessimist can have a significant effect on your mental and physical health.

Optimism is the feeling that, despite frustrations and setbacks, things will turn out okay. Optimists, by nature, feel secure about themselves, the world and the future. They focus on and expect positive experiences, are more likely to attribute positive outcomes to themselves and believe they can influence events through their actions. Optimists also expect the best when faced with uncertainty, view setbacks as temporary, count on good things to happen and remember successes better than failures.

Happy and Healthy
While optimists certainly experience the full range of thoughts and emotions, their positive attitudes and beliefs create a mental filter that lets in primarily positive thoughts while blocking negative ones. Optimists do not experience as many negative thoughts and they can change from negative to positive thinking more easily. They also experience more positive mood and greater feelings of self-esteem and well-being than pessimists.

In contrast, pessimists hold persistent negative beliefs about themselves, events and the future and are more likely to see negative events in the worst possible light. They interpret negative events:

• personally (they blame themselves for the events);
• permanently (they see bad events as never-ending and think in terms of "always" and “never"); and
• pervasively (they believe negative events will undermine everything).

Pessimists experience more illness because negative beliefs induce stress, which impairs health. Pessimists also have weaker social support systems, which is a further risk factor for increased morbidity and mortality. Pessimists may encounter more slips, fender benders and household mishaps because the bad moods that characterize pessimism may distract them or lead to more risky behaviors. This is a double whammy, because such negative events can then trigger even more unhealthy stress reactions.

Optimism is linked to happiness and achievement, and may actually increase life expectancy. It improves health and health behaviors, reduces susceptibility to disease and enhances recovery from disease. One study found that a pessimistic personality style predicted which college students would report more sick days and visits to a physician. Another study found that, of men who suffered their first heart attack, optimists were significantly more likely to be alive almost ten years later than pessimists. And in a major study involving members of the Harvard University classes of 1939 through 1944, men were rated on levels of optimism and pessimism at age 25, then tracked for 30 years. Overall, the men who were pessimistic at age 25 were less healthy and had more chronic illness later in life than the men who were optimistic. Other studies show that optimistic people recover faster from surgery, have fewer medical complications during and after surgery and exhibit stronger measures of immune functioning than pessimists.

Turn that Frown Upside Down
The good news is that you can learn to become more optimistic. One technique for promoting optimistic thinking is the use of a mental checklist involving the Three Ps when you encounter adversity or negative situations: Personal, Permanent, Pervasive.

Personal means to avoid blaming yourself for negative events, particularly those that are beyond your control. Accepting personal responsibility for something is logical only when you’re dealing with something that you can truly influence; things like the actions of others are not realistically under our control. Permanent means to avoid seeing negative events as never-ending. If you receive a poor grade on an exam, don't believe that you will perform poorly on subsequent exams. Similarly, a job interview that doesn't lead to an offer should not create the belief that you will never land a job. See the future in terms of what you can do instead of what you can't do. Pervasive means to avoid generalizing a problem to your whole life. If a relationship doesn't work out, don't tell yourself that your relationships always turn sour. If you throw a party that flops, don't tell yourself, "I can’t do anything right."

You can also turn the Three Ps around to think about positive events in optimistic ways. For example, when you encounter positive events, do view them as permanent ("things tend to go well for me most of the time"), pervasive ("lots of things in my life are going well") and personal ("this happened because of my abilities"). See the Truestar Twelve Daily Success Habits for more ways to enhance a positive attitude.

Another technique for strengthening optimistic thinking is optimistic affirmations—positive beliefs that you repeat to yourself regularly: "I expect the best when faced with uncertainty." "For every obstacle, there is a solution." "I can handle this." Repeat optimistic affirmations to yourself when encountering adversity, thinking about the future, or before going to sleep. Over time, these affirmations will become more automatic and unconscious than the pessimistic beliefs you’ve become accustomed to.

Here are three more ideas for strengthening optimistic thinking. Monitor your progress toward optimism with the Truestar Daily Life Improvement Checklist:

Practice an "attitude of gratitude." Optimists amplify positive thinking through appreciation. If you focus on what you have and on positive events in daily life, the negatives in life don't loom so large. Instead of thinking about what you lack and your shortcomings and difficulties, consider those things that you appreciate: good health, family, friends, work, something you look forward to, or something as simple as what someone did for you today. We can all find many positives in the course of the day if we look for them.

Limit your exposure to the media. The media saturates our minds with pessimistic stories about the dangers that lurk around every corner.

Avoid pessimists and seek out optimists. Optimism and pessimism are contagious. The next time you’re thinking negatively, spend time with a young child. Children's boundless optimism is inspiring and infectious; their excitement fuel for positive thinking. Just the laughter of a child can make the most pessimistic person smile.

Optimism is not only about healthier thinking; it is about the power to choose one's attitudes. Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. You can choose to be an optimist, and with enough determination, you can make that choice a reality. Explore the Truestar Attitude section for more information on cultivating positivity.

The Hawk and the Crow

I encountered something that I thought was quite remarkable on a drive the other day, and just had to share! As usual, I try and reflect on what I see, and somehow make it relevant to my life, and this was very relevant for me, so I hope it will be for you as well!

Driving along the freeway I saw a bird frantically dive-bombing towards something on the ground. It looked very comical at first, fluttering and flapping around in the air. As I got closer, I realized the object of this crow's, the one doing the flapping, anger or frustration was a rather large hawk. This hawk was NOT about to move or be bullied anywhere! She was calmly and firmly planted on the ground, hovering over what I can only imagine was its prey! Clearly, the prey was the object of the crow's desire as well, but that dang hawk ... like an iron clad gate!

This got me to thinking about my life ... am I the crow frantically flapping and dive-bombing my way through life trying to grasp at, and maybe even steal, what I need and want, only to end up with blades of grass (aka nothing) as my reward?

Or am I the strong and noble hawk, proud and firm in her beliefs and the knowledge of what she needs, and going after it with charisma, ability and grace?

I believe that I AM that hawk! Not the mean cranky kind, but the kind and generous kind ... I am a Lorri hawk!


As usual, I've put some humour into my story, because that's just what I do ... I love to laugh!

The end result though, is that I AM that proud strong and noble hawk! Although that particular bird did not want to share in the treasure she had found, this is where I differ. I am here to HELP and SHARE the treasures I have found!

Allow me to help you stop dive-bombing at the random opportunities of social marketing, and focus on the JUICY, fulfilling prey ... the ones that help the most people, including yourself! Stop being that flighty crow and learn to soar!

What Is This REALLY About?

Referral Marketing, also known as Network Marketing, requires individuals that are open to growth, development, and changing their present state of mind to allow success to become part of them. We are individuals that want to change our own life, and in that process help others enrich theirs.

This is not a competition; we don’t succeed when others fail, that’s a win/lose mentality! With a win/win mentality we succeed when we understand that abundance is ours, it’s waiting for us to claim it, but so many of us keep looking outside of ourselves for the answers. We develop relationships, teach others, we understand that we all have different goals and dreams and they are all different; there is plenty for all.

So what’s in Network Marketing for you? The opportunity to claim your “Why” in life, this industry is just a means to an end. It’s allowing you to take your place in life and be the person that loves, cares, shares and understands that we all have what we want and need in life. The problem is so few of us know how to claim it!

If you get what I am saying in this message ... Cogratulations! ... you are on the path; you see the big picture. Keep growing and developing your Gratitude, Faith, Belief and be open to Receive. Your “Why” is moving in your direction.

My “Why” is about giving back. So many have helped me, lead me, directed me, to the place I'm at today. Please join me in helping to make a difference.


If you’re serious about changing your life and learning how this process takes place, your future may be just around the corner!