The marketing Guru Seth Godin says

"You're either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice".

What does this mean to you and me?

For me it means that we each choose what we want to be in the world. We choose by our actions and inactions whether we want to be remarkable or invisible. When we search the web it seems full of people offering us get rich quick schemes and ways of beating the competitors by following their model rather than anyone else's. Or a way of avoiding all the hard work and cut straight to the chase and win easily. But in our experience there is no easy way.

In the 1990's Julie and I went down the multi level marketing route. We had a great product and a really good company that looked after us, provided great training and paid out well and on time. But we quickly learnt the buck stops at us. As we are two people who don't like to be invisible but want to be remarkable at everything we do, we had to put hours and hours in learning the skills and using them.

The skills?

We had to learn to invest in ourselves and take responsibility for the results.

We had to treat ourselves like a bank account and ensure we invested a sizeable sum every day.

We quickly learned from watching others that: