About a week ago the DSWA closed its doors on the 2008 Education Celebration.  This was the first one that I have had the chance to attend and mind boggling clumps of gold could be found everywhere.  Here are the ones that caught my eye:

Abundance thinking was made manifest.  The common attitude was one of “ask and you shall receive.”  We were all there to learn from each other. 

• If you can give me an idea that makes my business better, than I can do the same for someone else.
• You can be my fresh eyes and I can be yours. 
• If I can help you get better, than I get better in the process. 
• There’s enough business to go around. 

The direct sales profession is rife with scarcity thinking.  Not that it’s deliberate.  Direct sales people are highly competitive and one “edge” in the competition comes from secrecy.  Information is money and if I have it and you don’t, then I win.  Scarcity thinking like that was turned on its head. 

Glass ceilings disappeared.  I watched novices sit and raptly listen to million dollar mavens talking about the ups and downs of their life before they took control.  When you hear somebody talk about how out of control they felt when they were feeding their children on gas station hotdogs, you realize how far “out of my control” can reach.  You also get to experience their first steps to taking control and know that the mental step you took listening to them was the life changing one for you.

Three hours from Jack Canfield is not enough.  Watching Jack Canfield in action is seeing a man living his principles.  It’s easy to get caught up in positive thinking and goal visualization.  While those are cornerstones to success, productive action is just as important.

Marcia Weider is America’s Dream Coach.  She wears her heart where it’s seen.  Always.  Genuine is not and adequate word to describe her.  I wanted to follow her around just to see who she would hug next. 

Direct Sellers are creating community on-line.  The social web for direct sellers is growing into the virtual community that it can be.  Direct Selling Live is just getting off the ground as a gathering place for ideas.  MLMBlackWoman.com is another.  Dana and I did a training session on prospecting and lead generation and included a brief look at several of the new on-line approaches.  The consistent feedback was that we needed to get into more details.  There is a hunger for technical knowledge among a group of people that haven’t tapped into electronic channels.

Were you there?  What was your take-away from the event?