If you have ever played any team sport then you will be fully aware of the benefits of teamwork. Teamwork is an essential component

Teamwork to make the dream work

of any-one’s success whether it be on the playing field, in business or in relationships. It really does take team work to make the dream work. When working with a team you always have someone on your side, you have other strengths you can use and weaknesses you can overcome and your commitment levels will be much higher as you have someone else relying on you.

Let’s first define teamwork. YourDictionary defines teamwork as the actions of individuals, brought together for a common purpose or goal, which subordinate the needs of the individual to the needs of the group. In essence, each person on the team puts aside his or her individual needs to work towards the larger group objective. The interactions among the members and the work they complete is called teamwork.

Here lies the power and value of teamwork and is where the saying “There is no ‘i’ in team” comes from. There’s real power in having  a unified team working towards a common goal or purpose. Whenever we set out to achieve anything in life there are always going to be wins, losses and moments when you feel the hurdles are just too great and you just can’t go on anymore, . If you are working on your own, your more likely to quit. It’s just too easy to do so. When you win, there’s no one to share in your triumph and there’s no one there to encourage you and pick you up through your losses. The losses are easier and the victories are sweeter when you work as a team.

The importance of teamwork also lies in the ability to mastermind with others. Napoleon Hill talks about how this is the most important factor of success:

The  cooperative alliance between 3 or more people working for the attainment of a definite purpose has been the basis for nearly every great fortune made.

Everyone has their own particular strengths and weaknesses and their particular way of viewing and creating. Relying on just yourself to foster your growth and creativity is really going to limit your success. Jean Paul Getty says

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

When you work as part of a team there will always be someone you can rely on who has strengths in areas where you have a big weakness. You will also be able to overpower someone else’s weakness with your strength. You will therefore always have a strong powerful team working together to attain your common goal or purpose, plugging up all the weak holes. On Team Makepeace, Craig is the details person, whereas I am the big picture person. What a great team we make then. A big picture person can’t put the details together to make it happen. Craig is great at doing this. Each of our strengths override the other’s weakness.

Working as part of a team forces you to bring a higher level of commitment to what you are doing. You have to because the team’s success is dependent on you showing up and what you bring to the common purpose. Craig played professional rugby for several years. If he didn’t show up for training he would be on the bench for the game as he couldn’t benefit the team. He wouldn’t know the plays they had practiced and would have missed building the essential team unity. Even though his individual skills brought incredible value to the team, these still remained subordinate to the needs of the team.  There is no ‘i’ in team. You have a part to play in the eventual success of the team’s goal. If you don’t show up or do your part you let down the team.

Craig and I understand the value, importance and benefits of teamwork having played sport for many years.  ‘It takes teamwork to make the dream work’ has always been the motto of our marriage. And that is why our marriage is so happy and successful; we are a unified team, working toward the same goal. We know how to work as a team and our results have been exceptional because of it. Team Makepeace is building our own global team of successful entrepreneurs. On our team you will always have someone to encourage and motivate you, someone to mastermind with and someone to hold you accountable to the achievement of your goals. Our success is dependent on yours and yours is dependent on ours. It really does take teamwork to make the dream work.

Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist , observed that 20% of the people in Italy had 80% of the wealth and so was formed the concept of the Pareto principle or the 80 20 rule. You can apply this rule to any aspect of your personal or business life. The 80 2o rule is a rule that states 20% of the people do 80% of the work and are rewarded as such. Whereas 80% of the population receive 20% of the world’s wealth as a result of their inability to make decisions and take actions that will launch themselves into the top 20%

How and why does this happen? 20% of people receive 80% of the wealth because they put up their hand to accept it, no matter what, and in return provide service and value to others.

What are the differences between an 80%  and 20% thinker?

Problem Versus Opportunity

80% thinkers see everything as being a problem. If they even take time to remove themselves from the comfy couch to think of a unique and creative idea they will see all the reasons why it won’t work and how life is too unfair to them to allow it to work. An 80% thinker often says “It’s too expensive”,  “I don’t have enough time”,  “I don’t know how to do it, nothing ever works for me.”  “I tried it and they said no.” or “It’s just too hard!”

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A 20% thinker sees everything as an opportunity. Behind every obstacle lies the opportunity to learn something new, refine your skills and grow. 20 thinkers see how the problem can be solved and create new ways to achieve this.

Michael Jordan was cut from his basketball team. An 80% thinker would instantly have quit and looked for something else to do. Jordan saw this as an opportunity for him to refine his skills. It made him so mad, that he became so determined to be the best so this would never happen again. His failure inspired him to become one of the greatest athletes of all time and reach the pinnacle of the top 20%.

Money is a Limiting Factor to growth versus Money is  a Leverage for Growth

An 80 thinker allows money to determine their choices in life. They first look at the price of something and allow that to make their decision and stop their progression forward. A 20% thinker views money as a tool to increase their abundance and lifestyle. They first look at the value that will be received upon making the investment and then use that as a decision whether to use money as a leverage for growth.
An 80% person will see the price of a business at being $3,000, will scream daylight robbery and walk away. A 20% thinker will see that an investment of $3,000 will bring in monthly residual income that will grow every month that they grow their business and so will seize the opportunity. The price will never be the determining factor.

Comfort Zone and Work Harder versus Purpose  Sacrifice and Work Smarter

An 80% thinker has no defined purpose. They don’t know what it is they want to achieve and why. They don’t take the time to ask the right questions and find the right answers. A 20% thinker is connected to their purpose and is laser focused on achieving their goals.

In order to reach their goals a 20% thinker is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve them. They will make sacrifices. They will stay up late, work on weekends, take risks, give up TV and all tasks that do not serve their ultimate 20% purpose. An 80% thinker refuses to give up their ‘time’ or anything that requires getting a little uncomfortable. A 20% works smarter, by taking advantage of available resources,opportunities and leverage. An 80% works harder, usually by way of 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet.

Inactive Fear Verses Courageous Action

A 20% thinker takes action. They get started on their attainment of their dreams and follow a blueprint of success to get there. 80% of people never start and this is why they fail and remain in the 80% of the population who work harder for only 20% of the world’s abundance. They never even start! 20 thinkers Just Do It!

How can you move from  the 80% group to the 20%

1  Recognize that there is such a distinction
2. Make a decision to live your purpose, make a difference and achieve incredible rewards as a result
3. Be willing to work smart and make sacrifices
4. Take action by starting at least and stepping into the 20% zone.
5.Follow those who are in the 20%, and allow them to mentor you to success. Learn all you can and surround yourself with positive and inspiring people.

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To be a leader of others you first must be a leader of yourself. True leaders are brave enough to stand at the front of their lives. They are not prepared to sit back and just watch the world go by: they want to be that world going by. You need to lead yourself to your desired outcome. This means getting out of your comfort zone, putting yourself out in the action and striding purposefully forward.

A leader expects to win. They expect success of themselves and of others. True leaders play Full Out! They follow Principles 1-4 confidently and consistently and know that they are guaranteed results. Every step they take is one that will move them in the direction of their goals.

You don’t have to already have a team of people in order to lead. When you start leading yourself and start ‘being’ a leader you will find that soon enough a team of people will be following you. After all, people only want to follow someone who is going somewhere. Your objective then is to bring out the best in them. You are willing to pay the price of success and so you expect others to pay the same price of success. Therefore you will be cultivating an expectation of their leadership.

A true leader is one who walks their own path and maintains that path through faith, courage and perseverance. Their eyes are fixed firmly on the goal ahead of them. They do not look back to see what the herd are doing behind them and their path is not blocked by anyone else in front of them.  A true leader is doing what the herd are too scared to do. Find any successful person and you’ll find a person who carved their own path. They did it their way and dared to do more than the average, to stick their neck out, to take the risks and be the leader of themselves first.

When becoming a leader the most important quality you can ever develop that will enhance every part of your life and help you become a leader, is the value of integrity. Integrity is the core value of a successful and happy life. Having integrity means being totally honest and truthful in every part of your life. A true leader makes a commitment to become a totally honest person and in doing so ensures that they will be doing more to create success and happiness in their life.

A person of high integrity always carries out the highest quality of work in everything they do. They are totally honest with themselves and strive to excellence on every occasion. They realize everything they do is a statement about who they are as a person. A person of high integrity leads their own life. They live on purpose and in doing so inspire others to do the same.

As you act with integrity in everything you do, you will find that every part of your life will improve. You will begin to attract the best people and situations into your life. You will become an outstanding person as well as a success in everything you do. You attract into your life who and what you are being. If you are being a leader you will then attract leaders.

Whatever it is you want to achieve in your life you need to ask yourself ‘What do I have to do to play full out?’ Do you need to invest at the highest level of your business so that you can be rewarded at the highest level? Do you need to volunteer to run the meetings, so your worth in your company grows and alongside that the roles you play?

Being a leader means figuring it out and knowing for yourself. It means playing full out, having integrity, being the best you can be and expecting the same of all those who cross your path.

If you are looking to join a strong leadership team, we are looking for leaders to join us. We are leaders of our own life and we inspire others to do the same. We’ve always walked our own path ahead of the herd. We can show you how. Find out more about how we inspire others , you’ll see we make things happen, fill out your details in the form and we’ll get back to you.

Network Marketing can be a challenging business and one of the major reasons many people don’t survive is because it forces you to look deeply inside yourself. This can be a frightening place to look and some people just aren’t prepared to make the necessary changes to themselves in order to be a success. Remember that your outer world will always reflect your inner world, so if you want your outer world to reflect wealth then you must build wealth from the inside first.

To be a success in network marketing you must be a student of personal development.Personal development will enable you to know for yourself who you are, why you are here and where are you going. It will uplift and inspire you, motivate and encourage you and develop in you qualities of a successful and decent human being.Being a student of personal development will help you to keep on track with your goals, provide you with strategies to use to correct yourself when you make mistakes and to pick yourself up when you fall.

Ask any successful person and they’ll tell you that their bookshelves are lined with personal development products. Personal development is a booming billion dollar industry. People are beginning to understand that the answers lie
within themselves, and if they take the time to learn how to find them their lives will improve dramatically. It is very important to be self-reliant, after all if you can’t rely on yourself, who can you rely on?

There is plenty of opportunity for you to become a student of Personal Development. Most network marketing companies provide plenty of resources or training in this area as they understand it’s effectiveness. Be a participant of any teleseminars or webinars they do, listen to their training programs, attend any seminars, which is always a place of inspiration and encouragement. Your local library will be stocked with plenty of books and material as will your book stores and online you will find tons of free resources to get you started.

No matter what it is you choose to study you must make sure you are filling your mind with positive news and information as this will have a positive influence on your growth and success. Start a media fast by abstaining from watching the news, TV, newspapers, radio etc. Use this time instead to working on yourself in a positive manner. You’ll be amazed in your attitude and being simply by eliminating negative influences and replacing them with positive, empowering influences.

You should also be careful of the conversations you have with people. Always keep it on a positive and upbeat note and change the subject if it turns to a negative subject. The negative energy produced from negative conversations and people is something you do not want around you!

We understand what a disastrous impact negativity can have on your life. On the other hand, we also understand the magical results that come from being in a positive, uplifting and empowering environment. We have created a concept to help people live an inspired life. Wake Up With Caz and Craig is all about providing you with 3 min video messages each day to help build your momentum and remind you of how wonderful you are. Come and join us and fill your mind with positive information to help you grow as a person and achieve results in your business accordingly.

Becoming a student of Personal Development is an essential principle for success. You must make sure make a consistent commitment to do this daily. This will make a dramatic impact on your network marketing success.

In principle 1, we learned that knowing where you are going is vital to your success and visualization and gratitude will help bring it to you. However, meditating on a mountain top is not going to be enough. You also have to take action which leads us to principle number 2: Income Producing Activities

Let’s start by looking at the word ‘in-come’. Think of it terms of your goal in-coming to you. In order for your goal to
come-in there are certain activities you need to do to help produce that goal into your reality. Now usually when we talk about business, income producing activities means doing what brings the money in. But we can use this action step for any goal we set for ourselves. Income producing activities basically means performing the vital tasks each day that puts money on the table or takes weight of the hips. Prioritize your time so that each day you spend a couple of hours doing only these things.

In network marketing, income producing activities usually entails talking to people on the phone about your business opportunity, getting them on three ways and signing new associates up. It’s also going to mean performing your marketing tasks, which is an essential component of your business. It is also important for you to lead your team members and assist them do the same -all working together to build overall success.

When it comes time to take action, go to a quiet place so you can’t be disturbed. Forget about the filing of papers, the desk organizing, doing research or any of those ‘filler’ activities; which although may be useful, are not the powerhouse activities that will have you surging toward the completion of your goal.

Schedule a time each day to do your income producing activities and be consistent with it. Ask yourself ‘What am I willing to sacrifice in order to get my income producing activities done? This is a vital question for you to ask. If you want to achieve real results you have to sacrifice something. That is true for any goal you are working on. It might mean an hour less of TV or Facebook a day, getting up an hour earlier or losing some social time with family and friends.

Making the sacrifice shows that you are committed to being a network marketing success story. For any goal you want to achieve you must give up something in return in order to bring that to fruition. If you are not willing to make a sacrifice then you will never be a success in this business. It all comes back to what is your WHY? If your WHY is big enough you will easily make the sacrifice and you will commit to doing income producing activities daily in order to achieve your goals and become a network marketing success story.

If there is anything in this world that is important to you and is unique then you can guarantee that in your pursuit of it you are going to experience rejection by other people. This is a fact of life and even though we all know this we will do anything to avoid hearing that rejection.

This is where the majority of people on the planet go wrong. The most successful people are those that have managed rejection on a major scale. They don’t run from it or avoid it, they embrace it and understand that it is all a part of achieving massive results. Frustration is the biggest killer of dreams, rejection is the second biggest killer. Successful people have learned how to manage both.

Fred Smith is the originator of FED Ex. He first submitted the idea for Fed Ex to his Yale University College Professor who returned it with a C minus and the comment ‘Stupid idea! It will never work, why would anyone ever want to pay for overnight service?’

Fred Smith experienced massive amounts of frustration and rejection in getting FED EX up and running. It wasn’t easy for him and he nearly failed multiple times but he learned to thrive on frustration and overcoming rejection. He used this as the fuel to drive him forward. FED Ex is now a billion dollar a year enterprise. There is little that can stop you when you learn how to deal with rejection.

IF you look at any success story or successful person you will find they have overcome massive amounts of rejection. J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter was rejected 12 times before being taken on by a small publishing house and she is now richer than the Queen of England. Sylvester Stallone was told over 1,000 times that he looked stupid and sounded stupid and would never make it in the industry.

All these people and more knew that the key to success in life and the key to wealth and happiness is achieving massive amounts of rejection. The more rejection you’ll get, the more you’ll get acceptance and success. It’s a numbers game. The more people you talk to the more success you’ll get. Rejection is just part of the numbers.Until you learn to thirve on it and know that rejection is part of success you’ll never experience the success you desire.

So how do you best deal with rejection?

No matter what you are doing in life, the Law of Averages is going to work for you. If you do enough of what you are doing you’ll develop an average rate of success. Ask yourself ‘How many nos do you have to hear to get a yes? Then work out how much each no is worth to you. How do you do this? Find out how much your yes is worth and divide that by the number of nos you have to hear before you get to the yes.

For example let’s say your yes is worth $1,000. The Law of Averages tells you that you need to speak to 100 people to get a yes. $1,000 divided by 100= $10. So each no is $10 in the bank for you. Now when a person tells you no you can say ‘Great! I just earned $10!.’ This will help you to overcome the rejection and move forward. If you don’t do this then those small feelings of rejection will carry with you to the next person, they will sense that in you and will be more likely to reject you also.

Superstars are willing to handle massive amounts of frustration and massive amounts of rejection and that’s why so few people ever make it as they can’t manage these emotions. If you be one of these people that manage frustration and rejection then you’ll be a superstar in anything you do.


Trust is an issue that so many of us battle with in many different areas of our life. I’ve always found it difficult to trust in the Universe to help bring me what I want due to my limiting beliefs. Anthony Robbins is one of my favourite mentors. My inspirational blog and website Enjoy Wealth and Happpiness was named after what he says are the two things people want most in their lives.

Listening to a recording of his the other day, I discovered a brilliant analogy to help you deal with any difficulty you may have trusting yourself, the Universe or others you have relationships with. We usually allow trust to stop us in our tracks as an excuse to not move forward. Of course this is connected to fear, always the underlying motive. Watch the video above and use this analogy to help you just let go and trust.

Here is a video I posted on my personal development/inspirational blog Enjoy Wealth and Happiness I thought it would be very beneficial to share with my readers on this blog.

Time management is key in our network marketing business. We need to be effective managers of time if we want true and long lasting success. It all comes back to your level of commitment. How committed are you to your dreams and success? If you are committed you will find the time to do what it is you need to get down to progress to the realization of your goals.

Life is extremely busy and we have a lot we need to fit in to our daily schedules and routines. An effective manager of time will utilize pockets of time throughout the day doing the daily routines to fit in tasks they need to get accomplished for their business.

I am a full time working mother but I am totally committed to my success. I’m committed to submitting one piece of content a day for the next 100 days. It is extremely time consuming but I’m committed so I find the time each day. As you’ll see in the video 5 minutes here and there such as travelling in the car can make a huge difference to your business.

Effective time management is the key to your success. Yossi Ghinsberg says it best:

‘Dreams are not meant for sleeping, they are there to keep you awake at night.’

Decisions are shaping your destiny every second. They are a cause being set in motion. From the moment you wake until you sleep you are making decisions. Everything that happens in life both the thrilling and the challenging began somewhere with a decision. Anthony Robbins says it best:

‘It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped’

How are you shaping your destiny today? What decisions have you made to get you where you are today and what decisions are you making today to give you a better tomorrow?

You may be thinking but I didn’t make any decisions to get me to where I am now. I didn’t decide this for myself.  Not making a decision is a decision. And through that somebody else ends up making the decision for you, so ultimately that comes back to your original decision not to make one,

It is the decisions not the conditions of your life that determine your destiny. What are you deciding to do about your future? What are you deciding to do about the frustrations and tragedies of your past and present? An inspiring speaker, Neal Peterson, who I had the pleasure of hearing speak recently looked at his disadvantages and turned them into advantages. His decision was that just because he was black in apartheid South Africa, poor and disabled didn’t mean he could not achieve his dream. He decided these things would not limit him but would in fact be an advantage in his life. What happened as a result? He sailed solo around the world in a rich man’s sport in a homemade boat against all odds.

There is a big difference in being interested in something and being committed to it. Statements such as “I’d really like to make more money” or “I’d like to make a difference” or “I’d like to be closer to my kids,” or “I’d like to give up smoking” is just stating a preference. These statements are very weak and hold no power. The power comes when you decide to be committed.

For years I stated that I would like to be a vegetarian and nothing happened as there was no commitment there. And then one day for me something triggered and I made a decision. It was “That’s it from this day forward I am a vegetarian.” There was the decision, the commitment and for 4 years now I have not eaten meat. And it was so easy. I don’t miss it a bit and never did from the moment I took the power back and made a committed decision. The power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

The word ‘decision actually comes for the Latin roots meaning to cut off from’ Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility. This kind of clarity gives you such power. You can stop smoking, drinking, overeating, gambling or whatever it is that needs to change in an instant with one simple decision.

Right now you can make a decision. If you truly decide to you can do almost anything. Start by proclaiming ‘This is who I am and what my life is all about. Nothing will stop me from achieving my destiny. This is what I am going to do and I won’t be denied.” That there is a committed decision.

Caz and Craig are committed to changing the destiny of many people. Make the committed decision today to join our growing team and change your destiny.