When I talk with my incredible wife, we describe people to each other in terms of three descriptions:

1. DISC, or the four personality styles.
2. Commitment – people either have it or they don’t. This goes along with “Staying Power”
3. Do they have a Killer Instinct?

Aspects of a “Killer Instinct”

• People with a killer instinct are fearless closers.
• They don’t understand how to quit.
• They don’t back down, roll over, or wallow in the fetid swamp of politically correct, passive aggression.
• They are loyal soldiers, and they’ve got your back when you’re in a jam. Unlike pansy parasite posers, who will stab you in the back and steal the milk out of your tea with a permanent smile on their faces.

Trump Has Killer Instinct

Donald Trump is a real man. He said this of Revenge:

“There are a lot of bad people out there… if you have a problem with someone, you have to go after them. And it’s not necessarily to teach that person a lesson, it’s to teach all of the people that are watching a lesson, that you don’t take crap.

And if you take crap you’re just not gonna do well. So Be sharp, Be Smart.

It’s all about this (points to his head/brain) you have to have this to start off with. But you can’t take a lot of nonsense from people. You have to go after them. I have always believed it.

When a person screws you, screw them back 15 times over.”

Killer Instinct.

The Difference Between Someone with a Killer Instinct & a Pansy

Pansy: We knew someone who told us how he was going to change the world and create massive wealth. (Perhaps he thought he was his rich daddy.)

Anyway, his very first seminar was a failure because he teamed up with a loser, and he quit almost immediately. At the very first bump in the road, this pansy tucked his scrawny tail between his legs and ran for the hills!

Powerhouse: Winners don’t take “No” for an answer. They hardly even hear it!

I went on a sales call with one of my salespeople years back. We traveled for two hours to get to the prospect’s house, and at 7pm, after listening to our entire presentation, the prospect and his wife told us in no uncertain terms that they would definitely not buy our product. My salesman kept of selling. He closed the sale at 9pm.

When I got home at 11pm, my phone was ringing in my office. The customer wanted to cancel the sale. At 12.30am, and hour and a half later, I had closed him again. He stayed closed after that.

THAT, dear reader, is a Killer Instinct. No excuses, no turning back, no fear.

What kind of people do you have on your team?

The wimps will sabotage your success and undermine your efforts, while frustrating and irritating you.

The winners will make your life easy. They will motivate, encourage, and inspire you with their courage and innovation.

Losers say things like, “I couldn’t help it, it wasn’t my fault, I’ll do my best, I don’t have the time / money, people can’t afford it, times are tough, it’s the recession, my wife won’t let me, I don’t want to offend people, I need my rest…”

Winners take responsibility, seize the opportunity, and make it happen, whatever it takes, no matter how long it takes, 24/7/365.

Read “The Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand, and see an example of a powerhouse who doesn’t compromise, carp, quit, or crawl.

Think of a specific amount of money that would make a dramatic and exciting difference in your life.

Now imagine that you knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that you and your entire family would be tortured to death in a horrible manner (think of the movie, “Saw”) if you didn’t achieve that specific, exciting financial goal within exactly three months.

What would you do?

Could you achieve that goal?

Imagine your beloved kids having their podgy little paws severed, and you’ll quickly start making new choices. (Did that get your attention?)

More importantly:

• What would you do differently?
• What would you change?
• What would you stop doing?
• What would you start doing?
• Who would you call?
• What would you suddenly be prepared to do under those circumstances that you refuse to do now?

Most of us are too lazy, content, comfortable, and timid to do things outside of our comfort zone, and we allow our low self-esteem and fear of embarrassment to keep us from the wonderful achievements that we could accomplish.

It’s About Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone

Instead of sending you to a shrink (who is usually even more screwed up than we are), putting you through a motivational seminar every morning of your life, or chasing you around with a large, spiky stick, I suggest the easier route is to take the time to imagine the terrible consequences of remaining in your comfortable little molehill of mellow, yellow mediocrity.

When you play this game, you start to see all sorts of real options you might not previously have had the guts to confront.

Is It You Can’t or You Won’t?

You see, our biggest barrier isn’t the fact that we can’t accomplish something, but rather the fact that we won’t, because of our fear of other people’s opinions. Scary, I know, but true. We don’t fear failure per se; we fear the reactions of others if we were to fail. “What would they say? I would feel so embarrassed!”

How much more embarrassed would you feel if you learned that you had six months to live (watch “Breaking Bad”), and you had been too bashful, self-absorbed, and apathetic to provide adequately for your family when you had the opportunity?

Try this one: Imagine you get hit by a heavy truck while meandering across a busy street in the rain, so you’re confined to a wheelchair and can’t speak, and your fifty-something, arthritic wife has to work as a shelf packer at Safeway in the day and a cleaner at MacDonald’s at night to support your pathetic asset? (Problem is, there are so many useless men already living off their wives…)

Consider Your Real Alternatives

Playing head games frees us up to consider our real alternatives, to weigh up our present use of time and resources, and to think outside the box. We need to mentally exceed our pain threshold in order to imagine the unimaginable.

Playing this “torturous consequences” game allows us to peek out from under our moldy old security blanket and realize that we’re using around 4% of our potential, and that the lies we’ve been telling ourselves about what we can’t do are really just self delusion.

Think of Ricky Bobby in “Talladega Nights”, when he convinced himself he was paralyzed – a hilarious hospital scene that has a serious ring of truth to it. We all suffer from self-deception. When he stuck a real knife into his thigh to prove his point to his friends, he had a painful awakening.

Make Your Excuse Irrelevant

Yes, you can achieve magnificent goals, and all the barriers are just in your head. DollarMakers teaches how you can achieve any financial goals with no cost or risk, so all those weak excuses are no longer relevant. If only you can believe it to be so. Hence the dramatic imagination game.

If you have a vivid imagination and take the time to really get yourself into this head game, you might be amazed at what you could accomplish. Suddenly, you would do things that you currently avoid like the proverbial plague, not because you can’t do them, but because you fear the opinions of people who really don’t give a damn, don’t care, don’t notice, and don’t matter.

Get over yourself, get over your mental barriers, and get down to the bank to cash in on your grossly underutilized potential. Some once said. “THINK and grow rich…”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery said:

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”

A few weeks back, I bought a wonderful, new bicycle. I love riding it along the river and around the lake, and I’m getting fit and losing weight.

I get excellent service from the store I bought the bike at. This store specializes in bikes and has a splendid reputation. I invested about $700 in the bike, and I will buy more stuff as time goes by.

Under Utilized Resources are Everywhere

I took it in yesterday for a complimentary service. While waiting, I chatted to the friendly owner of the store. I suggested that she must have a huge database of satisfied customers, and that she could seriously increase her sales by using a good referral system. I know she does no follow-up at all with her customers, and I wasn’t asking her for any money.

Small Business Arrogance

Her response reminded me why I started the DollarMakers Club. She immediately got a distant look in her eyes, and dismissed me with:

“My family has been running this business for seventy years.”

Her arrogance was typical of the ignorance of most small business owners – they really think they know everything there is to be known about their business.

Opportunity Abounds for the JV Broker

From my limited exposure to this bike store, I assure you that a DollarMakers Certified Business Mentor could easily double the profits in that business. To a Joint Venture expert, there are a number of glaringly obvious opportunities to dramatically ramp up this store’s profits, as well as sales.

Don’t Look Back on Those Who say “No.”

But a closed mind is a sad thing, and I smiled and thanked her for her service and pedaled off into the sunset. She will never know how much money she lost by succumbing to her conceit.

By looking beyond the doors of her store and her inflated ego, and considering the leverage and access she has available to her, she would have discovered a treasure trove of easily accessible profit at no cost or risk.

Taking Advantage of the Recession

The good news is that there are a number of business owners out there who realize that they have to adjust their sails in order to accommodate the new winds of business, and their precarious predicament makes them approachable for and amenable to win/win Joint Venture proposals.

Don’t deal with desperate or cash-strapped businesses, but rather with those who are doing well but have the intelligence to perceive the change in business and the need to consider alternatives to conventional and outmoded, risky, and costly sales and marketing approached that worked in the past (PR- Pre-Recession).

Where to Find Hundreds of Educated JV Partners

DollarMakers has hundreds of Members in nineteen countries, and we continue to grow.

Instead of trying to persuade the unaware, save time and money by working with those who understand the power of Joint Ventures by joining the DollarMakers JV Broker Club. (Or the DollarMakers Women’s Club.)

Those important, turbulent, emotional, exciting, scary, formative years between twelve and twenty – so much changes in those years, and yet it can be easier if you maintain perspective.

This eight-year portion of your life is small in comparison with the rest of your adult life – about 60 years – and here are a few things that will help you cope with the hard times.

Things Will Matter Differently In the Future

In the years from age twelve to twenty, things seem to be magnified, and much more important than they really are. Relatively small things that a mature adult would hardly notice are attributed major significance. A bully or a jock, a rejection or a victory or failure seem mountainous, even though they will be forgotten very soon.

Coping with Bullies

The fact is that 97% of the people you know will never amount to much.

Most of the school bullies will end up in jail, on drugs, working in dead-end jobs, and dead. The reason why they are bullies is that they have emotional and mental problems – it really has nothing to do with you, except that you are a threat to them – they are jealous of something about you, so they attack you. Most bullies have low intelligence and problems at home, and you can use your mind to outwit them.

Things Will be Forgotten… And What to Do in the Mean Time

The key is to try and remain rational and objective about the things in your life.

This is very hard, I know – our emotions are pretty extreme in those years – but it helps a lot to be able to sit down with a wise adult, preferably not a teacher – and discuss your issues, fears, concerns, and dreams with them. They have a mature perspective.

In a few short years, hard as this is to believe, those incidents and people will be forgotten. Most of the things that seem huge right now are in fact insignificant compared to the bright future waiting for you.

Glean the Benefit & Leave the Rest Behind

The trials and tribulations of these years come with great benefits – youth, energy, strength, opportunities, optimism, and an open mind.

By focusing on building an exciting future and realizing that most of the things that upset you are really just barking dogs, life gets easier.

• That teacher that gives to you a hard time – a man amongst boys, but a boy amongst men – will be a joke to you in a few short years. You can easily earn more money than him and put him in his place quite soon.
• That pretty girl that rejected and shamed you in public will soon be fat, pregnant, and married to an unemployed jock.
• And your mistakes will be forgotten.

Do you think Bill Gates was teased at school? Probably. Where are the people who teased him now?

It’s YOUR Life

The only person whose opinion is important is YOU. It’s YOUR life.

Success in life is a choice. We choose how to interpret the circumstances presented to us. We choose how to react. And our choices will determine where we end up.

Your Philosophy is Your Compass

The most important factor in your life is your PHILOSOPHY. With the right philosophy, or world view, life gets a lot easier.

Look at successful people whom you admire, and ask yourself what their philosophy is.

The most powerful philosophy I have found, the one that gives you the most freedom, opportunity, and fun, is that of Objectivism. You can find out more about it here and here, but in a nutshell, it says that you own your life, and you are not answerable to others or responsible for others.

• Read “The Fountainhead” and the “The Virtue of Selfishness” by Ayn Rand.
• Get yourself some good role models.
• Stay away from people who want to manipulate and control the way you think.
• Don’t be a victim, don’t blame others or make excuses.  Take responsibility for your choices now, and life will be good.

Understand Money & Create Value to Make It

Finally, by now you know that 97% of your problems in life will be solved or diminished by money. The good life costs money.

If you understand money and value and how to create wealth, you have control and you can choose any life you want. Your age and circumstances won’t prevent you from making money. You can get rich fast, no matter how old you are, when you know how. Money doesn’t care how old you are!

Learn about how you can do that, starting right away, at www.JVWisdom.com.

Scouts say their motto is “Be Prepared“, and we know that success occurs when preparation meets opportunity. Yet too many Joint Venture Brokers wing it and fail – very predictably.

General Orlando Ward said:

“One of the biggest reasons for failure on the battlefield is not knowing what to do next. This is the result of not having been trained thoroughly in what to expect on the battlefield.”

Let Me Save You Some Frustration

Joint Venture Brokers look for clues and use their experience to detect warning signals and red flags in order to avoid sticky situations. After 21 years in this business, I have developed a sixth sense that usually works, however not in every case. Yet the better prepared I am, the less likely I am to get ripped off or taken advantage of.

Soldiers who are rushed through their basic training and pushed onto the battlefield prematurely are naive and vulnerable to an established, hardened enemy.

While honing your skills and your understanding of JV’s is very important, let me save you a few years of frustration with some pointers right away.

Tip #1 – Watch for Those with No Intent of Reciprocation

One of the things to look out for is people pretending to be loyal, open, and committed to a clean, reciprocal JV, when their true motive is simply to push their own product or business into your organization and database. They’re simply leeches who have smelled some juicy blood, and they hug, promise, smile, and joke their way right into your sleeping camp where they reveal their real agenda of rape and pillage.

The clue here is:

• the fact that they do very little due diligence on your business,
• ask few questions,
• and talk a lot about themselves and their business.
• They’ll tell you anything you want to hear, because they never intend to reciprocate.

We had one like this last year – he ended up spamming our database for ages, and never delivered on his promises. We warn others about you, Larry. Once bitten, twice shy.

Tip #2 – Do You Due Diligence EVEN on Those Who Are Recommended

Another situation that inexperienced or inadequately trained JV Brokers face is people who have no success record, no database, no ability to produce what they promise, and no integrity, yet they have have been recommended by someone you trust. Instead of doing your proper due diligence, you skim over it, touch on a few points, and overlook some important warning signs, to your regret. I did this with two people whom I shouldn’t have touched with a twenty foot pole.

Now, no matter who recommends people to me, I still do my own full due diligence, and the character that recommended these two fools will never get close to my database again. Learn from my mistakes!

Tip #3 – Downsize Those Who Consistently Fall Short

And we all know that people who consistently don’t produce what they promise on time and offer ever weaker excuses are headed for the proverbial scrap heap.

Reduce the business you send them, and replace them as soon as possible. They’re losers pretending to be winners.

Tip #4 – Look Closely for “Contaminated” Partners

Also, look out for contamination.

• A bad home life will affect people’s choices and actions in the workplace.
• Financial stress will skew their business decisions and can cause erratic and unreasonable responses.
• Certain religious affiliations will impact their values and can trigger situational ethics and justify unethical behavior.

Their levels of desperation, confusion, and conflict will impact your JV’s in irrational and sometimes dangerous ways.

Tip #5 – Be Leary of “All Hat – No Cattle” Men

And the worst of all red flags, dear Reader, is the egotistic, pushy, conceited type:

• snappy dresser
• runs his mouth
• lots of flash and show
• bad listener
• usually single
• interrupts you and talks over you
• makes big promises
• talks on his cell phone during meetings
• spends a lot of money on himself
• usually makes little eye contact
• pushes you to make decisions, as well – always a bad sign.

This is not the type of person you want to JV with. If you sit back and let him talk, he will talk about himself and his business for hours, at the end of which he will have forgotten your name. Usually, they’re all hat and no cattle, but conmen have never let that stop them. Voltaire said:

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

DollarMakers:  Where Preparation Meets Opportunity

DollarMakers Members are encouraged to continue to learn, practice, hone their skills, and select only legitimate JV partners. William Shakespeare said:

“All things are ready, if our minds be so.”

When you’re well prepared, you’re far more likely to succeed. Abraham Lincoln said:

“If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first hour sharpening the ax.”

• How many times have you heard employees complain that they don’t get paid enough, while their bosses drive smart cars and get perks?
• Haven’t we all heard the complaints about company CEO’s receiving large bonuses?
• How about salespeople who complain they don’t get enough commission, or people who whine that they’re not paid what they are worth?

Why do you earn what you earn?

It’s All Relative

A relative of mine complained that she was paid a lousy salary and worked too hard while her bosses drove beamers and worked shorter hours. I asked her,

• “Were you forced to take the job, or did you apply for it and sell yourself at the interview?”
• “And did you agree to the salary you accepted, or were you forced?”
• “Can you resign any time you wish?”
• “If you were capable of doing your boss’s job, and qualified to do it, would you accept the higher salary and perks?
• “Do you think you are paid what you are worth TO the company, instead of what you WANT FROM the company?”
• “Who determines what you are paid, what qualifications you have, and what you are worth to a business? Isn’t it YOU?”
• “Are you free to work wherever you can get a job? Can you choose to start your own business?”
• “If you owned the business, would you pay people more than you had to?”
• “Is the purpose of business to pay employees whatever they want, or to make a profit?
• “What or who limits the amount of money you can earn in a free, capitalist society? Isn’t that YOU?”

The Destruction of Socialism

Karl Marx said:

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”

That’s called socialism, redistribution of wealth, collectivism, and communism.

In Cuba, people all earn an average of thirty American dollars a month. Education is free. So doctors choose to work as waiters in hotel restaurants in order to earn more money, and the black market and the underground economy is huge.

Are You Taking Advantage of Your Opportunity as a Capitalist?

Two people join the same Network Marketing business, or the same life insurance company, or start the same kind of business in the same town. One goes bankrupt and blames everybody else. The other one gets rich and take credit for his success.

97% of people fail or achieve mediocre success. 3% soar like eagle, because they have a different philosophy of life.

Why Most People Aren’t Brave Enough to Be JV Brokers

You can start your own Joint Venture Brokerage business with no cost or risk, with no earning limitations, regardless of your qualifications, background, education, age, or circumstances. No more excuses.

Why don’t people jump at the opportunity to do this?

Because suddenly, they would be responsible for the amount of money they earn, and they would be exposed for what they really are.

Business is like a nudist colony; you will be exposed.

And that’s why, when people fail as JV Brokers, they blame me. They conveniently forget that other people with the same opportunities, tools, support, training, and access, are making a lot of money. They can’t deliver on their promises, to they cast blame instead of accepting responsibility. Then they get a job and whine that they’re not being paid enough.

Create More value to make More Money

You get paid in direct proportion to the value you create.

Money is simply a scoreboard. That’s the way it works.

If you’re not making enough money, take responsibility, grow up, and make the necessary changes like an adult.

You have created what you have today, whether you want to accept that or not, and your future will be whatever you choose to create. If you’re sick and tired of being sick and tired, perhaps it’s time to join the winners who get rich, because they refuse to compromise, quit, or curl up under their beds and whine.

Why Winners Win… and You Can Too!

Winners win because they insist on success, they believe in themselves and their goals, and they take responsibility for their lives. You only get one life, so decide what you want your future to look like. Then take decisive action and persist until you get what you want.

• Gambling addicts gamble until they lose everything.
• Alcoholics drink until they pass out.
• Certain entrepreneurs feel most alive when they are in a tight financial corner.

So they subconsciously have to create that level of threat, pain, and danger in order to be forced to use their creativity to work their way out of the problem. That way, they escape boredom, and the challenge and the overcoming of that challenge puts them on a high. It tests their skills and mental strength, validates their ability, and makes life interesting. It’s the game, baby.

Usually, those entrepreneurs are not consciously aware of what they’re doing. They’re blissfully unaware of their self-sabotage and self-made cycles.

Fortitude – “Consistency Under Difficulty”

At some point in my entrepreneurial life, I recognized that I was partly subject to this insidious and subtle affliction. Success for the sake of success has its downside. Money can be very tedious.

(It can also run hand-in-hand with the avoidance of success when success would mean contribution to a hated cause or despised person, or create a situation that is more uncomfortable than the lack of success, however that is not for this discussion.)

Self-discovery takes testicular fortitude and incurs emotional pain, however the results are well worth the private confrontation.

Recognizing the root cause is one thing, however replacing it is quite another. Artificially exceeding the pain threshold by reinterpreting your circumstances and the ramifications is a smart choice.

How I Broke Free

In my case, I disciplined myself to accept the success, recalibrate and re-engineer the internal meaning and consequences thereof, and supplant the boredom with massive and intense innovation, creativity, and expansion.

The benefits of replacing the challenge in a more positive way surpassed the discomfort of recognizing a dangerous and elusive pattern that took a lot of introspection and detachment to unveil, and strict personal discipline to overcome.

Entrepreneurs have the freedom to create massive wealth, however they must first create the foundational, personal freedom that will release that wealth. My book, “Break Free!” may help a bit in that regard. (More on this later.)

Live LARGE!  …or suffer deadly boredom.

Obsessive compulsive behavior, perfectionism, high expectations, extreme sensitivity, and self-destructive tendencies often point to extreme entrepreneurial potential. Finding a way to channel the creativity in real entrepreneurs is fundamental to optimal achievement, and running the local sandwich shop or selling tires will simply drive the true entrepreneur to practice the cycle mentioned here. “Let me see if I can still do this job while I’m drunk.”

That’s Why The Truly Bold Use Joint Ventures

The most effective, powerful, unlimited, creative, and synergistic business model I have found is Joint Venture Broking – that’s why I do it.

It offers total freedom, massive contribution, and the opportunity to be true to yourself.

By tying your work to your vision and values, and attaching a serious personal cause, especially one that attacks that which you hate, one can, in my opinion, create a much higher high.

Is what you’re doing now really going to make you rich? Will it truly give you the time, freedom,  and money you want? One always has options –

• you could work for a boss and never get wealthy, have all your eggs in a basket held by a skittish sociopath,
• or spend your life’s (or wife’s) savings on a franchise that will prove to be the toughest job you ever had with the lowest return on investment,
• or you can sell your time, as most self-employed, broke salespeople do,
• …or you can get smart.

Here’s why becoming a Joint Venture Broker is, in my estimation, the most lucrative, safe, and fun thing you can do. I’ll save the best till last.

#1 – Unlimited Flexibility and Creativity

First, the nature of the beast is creativity. Joint Ventures that are set up with the right people, and with no cost or risk, allow you unlimited flexibility and creativity. Oliver Wendell Holmes said:

“A mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”

Anyone who truly understands JV’s (perhaps 1% of entrepreneurs) knows that it doesn’t get better than this.

#2 -Joint Ventures are Recession Proof

Second, opportunities for Joint Ventures abound in this recession. Someone said:

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”

Right now, people are more open to JV’s than ever before.

#3 -Dynamic, Lucrative Deals

Third, true Joint Ventures are dynamic, synergistic, interchangeable, and malleable. They can mutate into different and more lucrative forms, and one can swap, trade, and reinvent them as one goes along. They’re like a virtual, giant Mecano set on steroids. Ross Perot said:

“Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.”

That applies to JV‘s as well.

#4 -Create Real Win/Wins

Fourth, reciprocation is the name of the game – the ultimate and real win/win/win. Booker T. Washington said:

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else,”

and Mom Mabley said:

“Life is like a game of poker: If you don’t put any in the pot, there won’t be any to take out.”

I recently had a woman call me (I thought it was Winston on the line, so I foolishly answered the phone) and it was like listening to a machine gun. She was such an arrogant, hard sell that I felt quite bilious when I put the phone down. She has no idea what reciprocation is. It reminded me of the saying, “I haven’t spoken to my wife in four months; she doesn’t like to be interrupted.”

#5 – Maximum Freedom and Flexibility

Fifth, Joint Ventures offer the maximum freedom and flexibility.

• Work anywhere,
• with anyone,
• any time,
• in any industry,
• with any products or services,
• with no cost, risk, or limitations.

With the Internet and social networking the way it is, JV Brokers can play the field with gay abandon.

#6 – Unlimited Opportunity

And Sixth, unlimited opportunity. Joint Venture Brokers can happily sow massively, since it takes little time, and they can remove the cost and risk from their businesses. Danny Kaye announced:

“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.”

#7 -Answer Only to Yourself

OK, and here’s the best part of all: Joint Venture Brokers answer to no one but themselves and their JV partners, and they can pick and choose whom they work with. They truly control their own lives and destinies, and they tale personal responsibility for their own success.

Suddenly, your past, your age, your education, resume, ex-wife, the weather, the government, and where you live DON’T MATTER. You can rise like the phoenix from the flames of mediocrity, fear, frustration, and limitation, and fly as high as you like.

Where do you start? Join DollarMakers, sign up for our Online Bootcamp, and commit yourself to wealth, freedom, and fun. Right now.