Good morning Friend,

I'm just heading out to the gym and wanted to write you a quick note to re-emphasize what I was trying to get across in yesterday's podcast episode.

The real magic sauce for success in network marketing, affiliate marketing or any other business for that matter, seems to me to be, belief. < - - - -

Affirmations are one tool in our belief building tool belt. A powerful tool, for sure, but still just a tool.

Just like a hammer is used to accomplish certain tasks, the important part about the task is that the job gets done in the best way - not the fact that we used a hammer (or something else).

If you swing the hammer of affirmations to help build belief in the morning or the evening, but then allow people or ideas or experiences all throughout the rest of the day to tear down what you've started to build, It's easy to see why it can be so easy for the bull dozers of mental bullies to quickly undo what you've done with your affirmation hammer.

Building belief is like organizing a symphony in your mind, and if you want the music to be beautiful, you have to guard diligently against anything that wants to strike a sour note for the audience of your soul.

And sometimes, these sour notes can be played by ourselves.

And that leads us to the other critical belief builder i wanted to highlight.

Personal experience.

When I was asked to speak on stage for the first time at my network marketing convention, I was so terrified I stayed up for hours in my hotel room the night before sweating and filled with mental anguish.

But the next morning, I walked out on stage and delivered my message in the best way I knew how.

This gave me an experience to back up the belief 'I have courage.'

In other words, my personal action verified and gave me proof that what I was 'affirming' to myself was true.

Now, I had evidence.

Tony Robbins describes belief as an idea represented as table top, with legs (reference points) to support it.

A table top with no legs, is not a table at all because it kisses the ground.

And just like like that, affirmations that never get any reference points, will also kiss the ground.

If you want to build powerful belief (as expressed in affirmations), you have to give your beliefs as many strong and powerful reference points as possible to support the temple you're building in your mind.

Perhaps this is why the Bible says 'Faith without works, is dead.'

Dead on the ground, like a table with no legs.

Anyway, I want to challenge you to use today, to build belief in yourself, your business and your future, by choosing to give yourself some great reference points.

A simple way to do this is to set a daily action goal for yourself, and then follow through.

Action goals are great because they are 100% within your control.

We may not be able to choose how others respond to us, but we can definitely choose how many and of what quality of actions we take.

The more you control this, the stronger your belief will become that YOU are an action taker and a mover and a driver of your life.

It may not always be easy, but like Jim Rohn said, all good things in life are located upstream from us.

And that, to me means, it's worth it.

To our better futures Friend.

Paul