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	<title>Robin van der Merwe &#187; Success</title>
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		<title>Proud to announce my new partnership with Yoli</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, I can share!  I&#8217;ve joined the new company, Yoli, as an independent distributor and am in the process of assembling an incredible team of entrepreneurs.  It seems I&#8217;m not the only one who sees how different Yoli will be. 
Backed by five incredible founders with experience in the distributor field, Yoli will bring to market [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Finally, I can share!  I&#8217;ve joined the new company, Yoli, as an independent distributor and am in the process of assembling an incredible team of entrepreneurs.  It seems I&#8217;m not the only one who sees how different Yoli will be. </p>
<p>Backed by five incredible founders with experience in the distributor field, Yoli will bring to market a line of products unique to the market place.</p>
<p>For more information, feel free to view the video at <a href="http://www.JoinRobinToday.com">http://www.JoinRobinToday.com</a></p>
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		<title>Success at Any Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 14:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever caught yourself saying &#8220;I&#8217;m to old to&#8230;.&#8221;  or &#8220;I&#8217;m too young to&#8230; &#8221; then here&#8217;s two words for you:  &#8220;STOP THAT!&#8221;
When it comes to being a successful entrepreneur, age is not relevant.  Never has been, never will be.  So, take that excuse out of your list.
Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises were started when [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;ve ever caught yourself saying &#8220;I&#8217;m to old to&#8230;.&#8221;  or &#8220;I&#8217;m too young to&#8230; &#8221; then here&#8217;s two words for you:  &#8220;STOP THAT!&#8221;</p>
<p>When it comes to being a successful entrepreneur, age is not relevant.  Never has been, never will be.  So, take that excuse out of your list.</p>
<p>Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises were started when Harland Sanders was 65.  Michael Dell founded Dell when he was 19 (and with only $1,000).  At age 80, T.Boone Pickens is developing wind energy.</p>
<p>There is no age limit on dreams or vision&#8230;Or, on life&#8217;s possibilities. </p>
<p>No matter where you are right now, this minute, you can make a decision to change your life.  You CAN become successful as an entrepreneur and go on to change the lives of people around the world.</p>
<p>So, what are you waiting for?  The world is waiting for a leader like you!</p>
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		<title>Watering the Seeds of Greatness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody has within them a seed of greatness, the potential to accomplish amazing things in the world.  Not just some people, not just a few, but everybody.
If you feel that your seeds haven&#8217;t yet sprouted, take a quick look at the people who are closest to you, your friends, your family, your co-workers.  Are they [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everybody has within them a seed of greatness, the potential to accomplish amazing things in the world.  Not just some people, not just a few, but everybody.</p>
<p>If you feel that your seeds haven&#8217;t yet sprouted, take a quick look at the people who are closest to you, your friends, your family, your co-workers.  Are they energetic, outgoing, supportive, upbeat, positive-thinking people?  Or, are they negative, apathetic, complaining and otherwise dissatisfied with life?</p>
<p> If your environment consists of more negative people than positive, your seeds will find it difficult to grow.</p>
<p>To be more than we&#8217;ve been and to do more than we&#8217;ve done requires surrounding ourselves with people whose messages encourage us, teach us and uplift us.  If your current friends and co-workers are not people you would consider to be good mentors, then seek out and surround yourself with new, positive people.</p>
<p>What messages you feed your mind is as important as what food you feed your body.  Seek the wisdom of people like Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar, Anthony Robbins, Les Brown, Dennis Waitley, Steven Covey and others like them.  Read their books, listen to their audios and make it a daily habit to feed your mind with knowledge that will change your life and increase your income.</p>
<p>Begin to water your seeds of greatness and open yourself up to a life of unimaginable possibilities.</p>
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		<title>Success is 85% Psychological</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s a great quote from Brian Tracy, filled with truth.  We often have the tendency to look at successful people and make the assumption that they must be smarter or luckier than we are.
 The truth is, everybody has the capacity to be excellent!  It&#8217;s when people begin to think differently about themselves and their potential [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s a great quote from Brian Tracy, filled with truth.  We often have the tendency to look at successful people and make the assumption that they must be smarter or luckier than we are.</p>
<p> The truth is, everybody has the capacity to be excellent!  It&#8217;s when people begin to think differently about themselves and their potential that the possibilities rise to the surface.</p>
<p> See yourself with the capacity to learn to be the best you can be in your business.  Know that everybody in the top 10% of your business started in the bottom 10% !</p>
<p> It isn&#8217;t about luck&#8230;.. it isn&#8217;t about I.Q.  It&#8217;s about mindset&#8230;and belief&#8230;.and unshakable faith in yourself.</p>
<p> What you believe on the inside will be reflected on what happens on the outside.  Make a change today&#8230;</p>
<p>Choose to believe you CAN be as successful as you choose to be&#8230;..</p>
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		<title>Failure Is a Major Contributor to Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the great things about failure is that it can teach us so much.  In fact, I believe the word itself should be removed from the dictionary and replaced with &#8220;temporary bump in the road.&#8221;
 Just because something didn&#8217;t work out as planned does not constitute a failure in my book.  Instead, it should be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the great things about failure is that it can teach us so much.  In fact, I believe the word itself should be removed from the dictionary and replaced with &#8220;temporary bump in the road.&#8221;</p>
<p> Just because something didn&#8217;t work out as planned does not constitute a failure in my book.  Instead, it should be as Thomas Edison described, simply a notation as to what won&#8217;t work.</p>
<p>So many people, though, give up after one or two tries.  Or, worse, they continue to do the same thing the same way until they&#8217;ve accumulated a frustrated history of stalled ambitions.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the good news for those open to learning;  Anyone can be successful who is willing to learn from those willing to teach.  So many would-be-success stories are snuffed out too soon because they thought they had to do it all on their own.  We call that the Lone Ranger method and it is responsible for the death of millions of dreams.</p>
<p>Today, there are literally hundreds of ways to build a successful business online or offline.  All that is required is to select those that fit your personality, your comfort zone, your budget and your schedule, and then be willing to be mentored on how to master the techniques.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t give up your dreams&#8230;&#8230;. Simply be willing to learn from others!   Those &#8220;failures&#8221; you may have experienced are simply your stepping stones to success!!</p>
<p> Go out and make it an extraordinary day!</p>
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		<title>Do You Have a Little Black Book?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s just one of the questions Jeffrey Gitomer asks in his book &#8220;Little Black Book of Connections: 6.5 Assets for Networking Your Way to Rich Relationships.&#8221;
In his usual humorous style, Gitomer explores the &#8220;how to&#8217;s&#8221; of networking and connecting with people.  &#8220;To climb the ladder of success, you don&#8217;t need more techniques and strategies, you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s just one of the questions Jeffrey Gitomer asks in his book &#8220;Little Black Book of Connections: 6.5 Assets for Networking Your Way to Rich Relationships.&#8221;</p>
<p>In his usual humorous style, Gitomer explores the &#8220;how to&#8217;s&#8221; of networking and connecting with people.  &#8220;To climb the ladder of success, you don&#8217;t need more techniques and strategies, you need more friends,&#8221; says Gitomer.</p>
<p>Regardless of whether you still use a paper version of the black book, or you&#8217;ve moved up to the PDA, laptop or cellphone to track your connections, you know your most important people are in there.</p>
<p>But, is it just a database or is it really a success tool?</p>
<p> Gitomer&#8217;s book is a great lesson on how to earn the respect of powerful mentors; how to build stronger relationships with bosses, co-workers, customers, friends and family; how to connect with powerful people; and how to maximize your connections so they benefit from you and vice versa.</p>
<p>This is a great read with valuable nuggets for anyone interested in learning the power of networking.</p>
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		<title>Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Too!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes in life, there comes a thought that just is seemingly so obvious, you can&#8217;t help but wonder why you never thought of it before.  For some people, it&#8217;s a &#8220;Wow!&#8221; moment, while for others, it&#8217;s more like a &#8220;Duh!&#8221; moment.
What I&#8217;m hoping, is that as you read this, the thought will seem more like [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes in life, there comes a thought that just is seemingly so obvious, you can&#8217;t help but wonder why you never thought of it before.  For some people, it&#8217;s a &#8220;Wow!&#8221; moment, while for others, it&#8217;s more like a &#8220;Duh!&#8221; moment.</p>
<p>What I&#8217;m hoping, is that as you read this, the thought will seem more like a &#8220;YES!&#8221; moment.</p>
<p> Here&#8217;s the thought;  If one entrepreneur has been able to earn six or seven figures in a business, you can, too.</p>
<p>Okay, so right about now I think you may be having more of a &#8220;HUH?&#8221; moment&#8230;. but stay with me.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s really true.  If there is at least one successful person in the business of your choice, you, too, can be just as successful.  Why?  Because success isn&#8217;t about luck, it isn&#8217;t about experience, it isn&#8217;t about previous education.</p>
<p>Success is a matter of applied knowledge.  We&#8217;re all equipped with the ability to learn whatever we need to know.  We can learn the skills required to be successful in business.</p>
<p>If one person has done it, we can learn how they did it and then do it ourselves.  It isn&#8217;t rocket science, really.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s where most people let themselves down:  Most people take a quick inventory of their current situation, their background, their education, their experiences, the complete list of all their imagined shortcomings and failures and they then conclude that they probably don&#8217;t have what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the part that I find heart-breaking, because the reality is this:  (a) We were all created with the capacity to learn and (b) everything required to be successful as an entrepreneur can be learned.</p>
<p>Successful entrepreneurs often have a bigger dose of self-confidence and belief in themselves, but, again, the good news is that a positive attitude can also be learned!</p>
<p>Find a good mentor who is where you want to be and find out what they did to get to where they are.  Feed your mind with daily audios from leadership greats like Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Tony Robbins, etc.  Associate with positive people and other entrepreneurs.</p>
<p>You CAN be wildly successful as an entrepreneur no matter who you are or where you&#8217;ve been.  You were born with everything you need to be able to learn the skills successful entrepreneurs have.</p>
<p>We can learn new languages, learn to play musical instruments, we learned to ride a bike, drive a car, we can learn to dance, we can learn to draw, and we can learn anything we want to learn, including how to do the same things successful people before us have done.</p>
<p>So, what are you waiting for?  Go find a mentor and change your world.</p>
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		<title>The Case Against Talk Radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I&#8217;ll say it up front;  I&#8217;ve never been a fan of talk radio.  Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m a woman.  I&#8217;ve always had the perception that more men than women enjoy talk radio&#8230;. which is an interesting concept in itself, given that I always thought men didn&#8217;t enjoy listening to someone talk for an hour [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, I&#8217;ll say it up front;  I&#8217;ve never been a fan of talk radio.  Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m a woman.  I&#8217;ve always had the perception that more men than women enjoy talk radio&#8230;. which is an interesting concept in itself, given that I always thought men didn&#8217;t enjoy listening to someone talk for an hour on end&#8230;&#8230;but that is a topic for another day&#8230;. <img src='http://robinvdm.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p> Maybe I don&#8217;t enjoy talk radio because I&#8217;m really into time management, and for the life of me, I can&#8217;t appreciate spending one hour listening to people debate current events when they could be listening to something that engages the millionaire mindset.</p>
<p>Given an hour of spare time alone in a vehicle, I&#8217;d much rather listen to something that teaches me how to become a better person, a better businesswoman, a better listener, a better coach, a better mentor, a better friend, a better speaker, a better writer&#8230;..</p>
<p>Okay, I do listen to music CD&#8217;s, but only to help me become a better singer, much to the chagrin of other passengers in the vehicle who are forced to listen to me pretend to be Sheryl Crow or Shakira or a backup singer for CCR.</p>
<p>But, talk radio?  Never.  I&#8217;ve tried.  I&#8217;ve listened to Rush Limbaugh and Bill O&#8217;Reilly and Dr. Laura and a list of talk radio show hosts who loved debating with their call-in guests.  While I&#8217;ve picked up an interesting thought or two, I&#8217;ve never felt that those conversations added anything of value to my life.</p>
<p>Now, a CD on the Seven Qualities of Master Achievers, or Success and Self-Motivation, or Leadership Skills leaves me feeling I have learned something of value that can translate literally to income earned.</p>
<p>If talk radio could help increase my net worth, I&#8217;d be a fan for life.</p>
<p>I need my daily dose of business mentors who challenge me to be the best I can be, so I can then go out into the world and do something that matters.</p>
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		<title>Which Three Would You Choose?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I watched an old time favorite movie from 1960, &#8220;The Time Machine.&#8221;  I like this version even better than the newest version, but perhaps it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve seen the older version so many times, it&#8217;s almost like an old friend.
I&#8217;m sure you know the storyline; Rod Taylor&#8217;s character builds a time machine, travels [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last night I watched an old time favorite movie from 1960, &#8220;The Time Machine.&#8221;  I like this version even better than the newest version, but perhaps it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve seen the older version so many times, it&#8217;s almost like an old friend.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure you know the storyline; Rod Taylor&#8217;s character builds a time machine, travels into the future, discovers a future race of people, the Eloi, who know nothing of the past.  Without going into great detail here, he discovers that the Eloi are controlled by another race of people, the Warlocks, who are the &#8216;bad guys&#8217; of this science fiction story.</p>
<p>The Eloi have no knowledge of the world, of government, of anything more than swimming and playing.  They also don&#8217;t realize that the Warlocks use the Eloi as a food source&#8230;literally.</p>
<p>Rod Taylor leads a revolt against the Warlocks, and succeeds in getting the Eloi to fight back. Oh, and he falls in love with an Eloi while he&#8217;s at it.  He also narrowly escapes being killed by the Warlocks when he jumps into the time machine again and makes his way back to his own time, albeit five days after he first left.</p>
<p>His friends, however, fail to believe his wild story about time travel.  One friend, returns to Rod Taylor&#8217;s house just in time to hear the whir of the time machine and discovers his friend has apparently decided to return to the land of the Eloi.</p>
<p>In conversation with Rod Taylor&#8217;s housekeeper, the friend discovers that three books are missing from the shelf, presumably taken by Taylor back to the Eloi, but it can&#8217;t be determined which three books are missing.</p>
<p>His friend turns to the housekeeper and with a smile he asks, &#8220;What three books would you have taken?&#8221;</p>
<p>Hmmmmm&#8230;&#8230; That made me start to think.  If I was to head off into the future to help a race of people become self-sufficient and develop a new society, what three books would I take with me?</p>
<p>A day later, I&#8217;m still pondering that question.  I immediately knew which book I would choose first, but I&#8217;m still trying to choose the other two.</p>
<p>If you could leave only three books for all of mankind to find thousands of years from now, which three books would you choose?</p>
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		<title>The Voices in Your Head</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody has them.  Everybody has heard them.  We all choose which ones get our attention.  Some help us, some of them distract us, and some of them change our lives forever.
I&#8217;m talking about those voices in our heads, those thoughts we have that seem to pop in whenever we least expect them.
What most people don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everybody has them.  Everybody has heard them.  We all choose which ones get our attention.  Some help us, some of them distract us, and some of them change our lives forever.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m talking about those voices in our heads, those thoughts we have that seem to pop in whenever we least expect them.</p>
<p>What most people don&#8217;t realize, however, is just how much control we have over our thoughts and how much choice we have as to  which ones we believe.</p>
<p>When it comes to success, especially for entrepreneurs, which voice we listen to the most will determine if we are successful or, at the least, how successful we become.</p>
<p>For all too many entrepreneurs, their lack of success can easily be traced back to what they believed, which thoughts garnered the most attention.  For those who do not have strong convictions when they start their new business venture, the thoughts they choose can easily defeat them.</p>
<p> For example, when a new entrepreneur hits their first speed bump in business, when things do not go as planned or the income doesn&#8217;t roll in as fast as desired, a parade of thoughts begins.</p>
<p>&#8220;I knew this would happen.  I knew it couldn&#8217;t be done.  I can&#8217;t be successful because I live in a small town, because I live in a big town, because I&#8217;m married, because I&#8217;m not married, because I have kids, because I don&#8217;t have kids, because I work, because I don&#8217;t have work, because I don&#8217;t have money, because I don&#8217;t need more money, because my business partners won&#8217;t help, because my business partners help too much, because I&#8217;m too old, because I&#8217;m too young, because I&#8217;m not lucky, because I&#8217;m not smart, because of my past, because of my education, because my family doesn&#8217;t support me, because I&#8217;m too busy, because I&#8217;m shy, because&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>In all the years I&#8217;ve talked with people about being or becoming entrepreneurs, I&#8217;ve heard just about every reason on the planet for why someone thought they could not be what they wanted to be.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the facts:  Any human being can learn to do whatever it is he or she wants to do.  We are designed to do amazing things, to overcome and conquer incredible feats, to learn anything we want to learn.</p>
<p>We also have the capacity to control our thoughts, to decide what we will believe about ourselves.</p>
<p>The cure for negative thinking is to feed our minds with positive information.  Whether your choice is Tony Robbins, Jim Rohn, Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy, or any of the fabulous motivational and informational mentors, a daily dose of positive messaging will give you the mental strength to overcome your negative thinking.</p>
<p>Regardless of why you think you can&#8217;t be successful, I can promise you that you are mistaken&#8230;.unless of course, you don&#8217;t want to be successful, but, that&#8217;s a topic for another day&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p>Make it an awesome week!</p>
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