Steve Larsen: What's going on, everyone? This is Steve Larsen and you're listening to Secret MLM Hacks Radio.
So here’s the big mystery, how do real MLMers like us who didn’t cheat and only bug family members and friends, who want to grow a profitable home business, how do we recruit A players into our downlines and create extra incomes, yet, still have plenty of time for the rest of our lives? That's the blaring question and this podcast will give you the answer. My name is Steve Larsen and welcome to Secret MLM Hacks Radio.
First off, I want to apologize to everybody. It has been I think two weeks since I have published on here. The reason why is kind of funny actually. I'm tired. That's the biggest reason. Not of podcasting. I actually really missing doing this. There's a lot of stuff going on right now. I just finished my application funnel where people apply to join my downline. It's cool to see the applications already coming in. There's a live feed where you can watch the people who are trying to apply to come in. It just shows their first name that's all, but so everyone else can see it as well so they know it's not dead or anything like that. It's been kind of fun.
The other thing that's been going on besides a lot of building, and a lot of things like that is that you know what? I'm actually just trying to take care of myself more. On my dad side, there's a huge history of high blood pressure and me dad's almost died a couple times just from having a hard time taking care of himself while sitting at a desk job. I'm like, "Dang it. I have a desk job." There's a little diabetes issues that go on. I was like, "You know, I don't want any of that." On my mom's side, like every guy has had prostate cancer, and I'm like, "Holy crap." Like I feel like I'm held under a gun and holding a ticking time bomb. Gosh. What I did is I went on YouTube, and I found the buffest dude that I could, and I hired him.
He is now my health coach. It's kind of a funny conversation. It was like, "Hey, you're ripped. Why don't I hire you?" Anyway, I went and I hired him. He created a plan, and I have been lifting like a beast everyday. I'm about to go do it again. I'm exhausted. Today's legs day. I don't want to do legs day. I have been sleeping extra. That's been part of it. For the last year, I've only been sleeping sometimes just a few hours a night because we've been building all these thing and putting all these things in place, and it's been awesome, and it's been a lot of fun, but totally neglecting like just taking care of my own self. You know what I mean? As far as exercise, stuff like that.
That's what's been going on is I realized that for me to get to the next level that I'm trying to get to because I mean as far as recruiting, check. Got that. It's been running for a year and a half. It's been automatically recruiting people. It's been great. I love it. Everyone who joins my downline, I give them the same system. That's awesome, and it's been a lot of fun. As far as like different areas, got it, but as far as like my routine, I'm realizing that I have got to change my routine if I want to get to the next level. Does that make sense? That's basically what I've been doing is recreating me. That's pretty much it. I'm trying to recreate who I am, the time that I spend, the things that I go and do.
That's totally what's been going on. I got a question from somebody the other day. They said, "Hey, should I invest in Bitcoin?" Now I actually am into that a lot, and I said ... A lot of the stuff you guys might ask is like, "What does this have to do anything with MLMs or entrepreneurship?" It has a lot to do with it, but this person asked me the other day, "Should I invest in Bitcoin?" I do. I love it. It's fun. It's exciting. It's made a lot of money, but here's the thing, you have to have a lot of money to put in in order to really make a dent in your wallet, right? I think I put like six grand in, and it's doubled since then and that's awesome, and it's really cool, but what I did is if you go back, and you look at like okay, it doubled. That's great. That's awesome.
I take that out, that means I've made six grand. That's awesome. It's been in there for what? Like four months. I mean okay. We made like what? An average of ... I'm not good at math on spotlight this year, but what? Made like let's say $1,500 in the month. Can you live on that? That's under really, really rare Bitcoin circumstances. You know what I mean? I told her, it was a girl, I told her, "No. I wouldn't. I wouldn't get distracted with that. I wouldn't get distracted." Because here's what ends up happening is ... It's kind of a rage right now, right? I'm not saying to not go do it or if you want to put something in or go do another investment. The point is just to not have a distraction in general.
If you go, and you have just one thing you're trying to go conquer, like this for me right now, that's it. I want to go, and I want to change the MLM industry. I'm very passionate about it. No one's asked me to do it. I mean I've been doing it and I see all these people doing it in a weird way, and I wanted to help, right? That's the problem that I'm trying to solve. Literally this morning, just this morning, as I woke up, rolled over, I saw an email from someone begging to give me a paid position in some other thing. It happened again yesterday. They're mad at me that I said no. Here's the thing guys, if you put more than one thing in your life, you're not going to do all of them very well.
I say no to so many things. That has become so much more of the secret of how I've been successful than anything else. I've learned how to say no. What was funny is I didn't think that would be something that I'd had to learn for a long time. The moment I got out of college, for whatever reason there was this massive influx of deals that started coming to me. I was like that's very fascinating. I got excited and I'm not going to lie. I got really the wrong kind of ambitious. You know what I mean? I was like I'm going to do it all. I'm going to take it all on. You know what's funny? I didn't get any of it done.
After like six months of work, not one thing actually got finished because there were so many things and so many new things coming at such a regular basis that none of it actually got done. When I actually got really serious though and I started saying no to things very quickly, very quickly, I was very fast to say no. It's kind of like when people say like, "Hire slow and fire fast." I kind of do it the other way around where it's like, "Look, I'm going to just say no really, really fast and say yes really slow." That's been great and it's been my guiding principle for a while now. What's been neat is my focus has gone through the roof. It'd be the same thing. How does this apply to your MLM? Well, a lot of ways.
When we talk about health and routines and whatever it is that you're doing, but if you can build your routine about whatever one thing it is that you're trying to accomplish, holy crap, welcome success because you can't not be. When your brain, and disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer, when your brain is solely focused though on just one problem, one thing you're trying to get fixed, it's awesome. You'll fix things. You'll figure things out. It could take some time. You might need other people's help, whatever it is, but you are much more likely to figure it out than for you to go try and figure out like six problems at once. You know what I mean? I was trying to tell this lady that like, "Look, with Bitcoin it's exciting.
Yes. If you have a lot of money sitting on the side and kind of in a reserve, sure. Sure. Awesome. I'm not telling you to. I'm not telling you not to." I was like, "You know at that same time though ..." You guys know if you've ever listened to any of these episodes at all, I believe in a concept called paid prospecting, which is where I get paid regardless if someone joins my downline or my MLM or buys anyone of my products. That's amazing. Last year it made 50 grand on its own. $50,000. That's incredible with no ad spend. Okay? I know I hit the nail on the head last year on that one. That was really, really cool. Now that meant I was making at least $100 a day. You know what I mean? It was pulling at least a grand a weekend.
Okay. Let's see Bitcoin do that. You know what I mean? That's what I was trying to show to her. I was like, "Look, if you go make one of these paid prospecting things, it not only will get you paid, but it can blow out of the water any part-time job, any other thing you might be picking up, whatever it is." That's what Secret MLM Hacks is. That's what I've been putting together is teaching people how to do that. Anyway, I wouldn't have more than one thing in your life. I wouldn't go and say, "Hey, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that." Just choose one thing. There's another podcast show that I have. I interviewed this lady on it towards the beginning of the show's existence and I still don't totally know what she does and I don't think she does either.
Because she's so allusive on like "hey, shiny objects, shiny objects, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit," she doesn't get any of them done very well. It's the same thing when you see someone switching opportunities like a beast. Like I'm in this now. I'm in this now. I was doing door-to-door sales for two summers because I want to learn how to sell in hardest environments. That's the reason I did it, which sucked, but it was great though. I learned a lot and I learned a lot about selling and persuasion and things like that. It was fun. There was this other couple that was there besides my wife and I. Oh, I remember. I shouldn't say it though. Anyway, whatever. They had Shakeology I think it was. Then like three months later they were in ...
Crap. I can't remember what it was. Anyway, that was like four, five years ago. I think they've switched probably five or six times. I mean they're in so many different MLMs right now. It's ridiculous. That's part of the issue is that people blame the vehicle. Now the vehicle might be wrong. You may need to get out of the vehicle, but most the time it's the person driving it. They don't give it enough time to even work. They don't give it enough time to get things. I'm not going to lie. I don't want to go do this workout right now. Man, I turned down this deal to build an internet sales funnel for somebody for $50,000. Why? Because I'm focusing on my one thing, which is you guys. Does that make sense?
There's some pain behind it, but oh my gosh, there is so much more success in just having one thing that you're focusing on, one project, that's it, that's all you're allowed to focus on. Don't focus on anything else to make a million bucks. You understand? When you do that, it's amazing the resources that will come into your life. It'll amaze you how far you'll be able to take that problem that no one else would be able to because it's very hard for the whole human race to focus on one thing at a time. Does that make sense? Each individual person has struggles with this. If you can master it and learn to say no, learn to say no like crazy, I mean you're going to take it in places that you did not imagine.
Anyway, that's all I got for you guys. I'm sorry that it's been a little while. Just my own capacity has been a little bit capped lately. Anyway, I'm excited to keep going on this though. I'm excited. If you do want to check it out, I just finished ... You know what? I'll do a whole episode about it. It's really, really exciting and I can't believe it's working. Anyways, I have been very hard at work getting all these things together, doing tons. I have a beta group right now. About 20 people who've been going through everything before all of you to make sure there's no kinks in it. Make sure everything's worked out. It's been great. They're going nuts over it. Anyways, the launch itself for this whole thing will probably be in another few weeks.
I keep saying that, but there's a few things I got to finish. I'll do a whole episode telling you guys where I really am on everything. Anyways, appreciate you guys listening. Hope you guys go just focus on one thing. If you got like, "I'm in MLM and I'm focusing on this business over here and I got this over here," in our minds we convince ourselves that that's awesome and we should be worth much or I'm sorry, that we should be worth more because I've got this going and I've got this going. This person over here said, "This is about what I'm doing, but they over here said this." It's like we get into these games where we want to ... It's about status. Not in an evil way.
Not in a bad way, but it's about status where we feel like the more projects we're a part of, the more status we have as a person. We feel more important and that's okay. It's not a crazy thing to think that or want to feel that. That kind of status protection does not equal income. Okay? That's not where it comes from. Just kill every other project you're doing and just choose one. If that means you get out of MLM, great. Whatever it is that you feel like you need to be focusing on and doing only, those are the things to do. Don't worry about anything else. Kill everything else. Get rid of it. It doesn't matter. You'll never get ... What's that? It's actually in the book "The One Thing." It's a great book.
It's a Russian proverb. I'm not going to be able to say it correctly, but it basically says, "Look, if there's two rabbits, you can't catch both by chasing both." Does that make sense? You can't catch both by chasing both. You got to chase just one. It's the exact same thing with this whole thing. You're not going to catch multiple opportunities, guys. You're going to catch one. You're going to master it. If you are going to expand, you're going to hire other people to help you do the job you were doing and then you're going to go get the next thing. That's how this happens. It doesn't happen the other way around. Anyway, just remember what this whole thing like ... That the obstacle is the way.
You know what I mean? Whatever the obstacle is, it's in front of your head. That's exactly what you should be focusing on and pushing through. Wherever the grit is, the thing you're looking least forward to doing is probably the thing you should be doing. Does that make sense? If there's one where it's like, "Oh, I love to do this and it's this looming thing," what ends up happening is we start to distract ourselves from what we should be doing by taking on a new opportunity whether that's an MLM or another business or something. Does that make sense? Start looking at your activities. Start to figure out am I distracting myself right now?
Am I trying to keep myself away from what I know I should be doing by fooling myself into thinking that I'm being productive because I'm working on something else? That's like the easiest progress lie ever. Okay? Start thinking about yourself instead. What do I want? What do I want? What's the thing that I'm going to go for? Is it do I want to build a huge downline? Awesome. I've got a cool system for you. Do you want to build something else? Cool. Whatever it is, choose. Get real passionate about it. If you're not already, maybe that's not the right thing. Does that make sense? Then when you get that thing, say no to everything else. Don't be fooled about progress. Don't confuse progress with achievement.
You know what I mean? I've said that several times on this thing, but anyway, that's the whole point of this. Should you do Bitcoin? If you want to be a pro Bitcoiner, sure, or if you got crap tons of money sitting on the side and you want to do something with it and just kind of sit and hold and invest with it, sure. As like an income, no. Are you serious? No. No. No. No. No. Think about this, when there's a huge swing in the Bitcoin market or stock market or whatever it is, any investing, that means they've made like 10% that day. Well, you better have a lot of money in there to make a difference with 10% and they're excited on that day? You know what I mean? Anyway, that's the whole point of it.
That's all I'm trying to say. Focus on your one thing. Don't get distracted. Figure out what that is. Anyway, I got to go do this work leg workout, which I'm not looking forward to. This guy's a bully, man. All right, guys. You're all awesome and I'll talk to you later. Bye.
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