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The art, to me, is the challenge. If I am not challenged, I have not created a work of art. The inspiration is: "What will the next piece be?". The medium is: fine and / or pure metal wire.
As a child I wrote poetry mostly, trying to awaken the inner mind of the reader. All skill grows, and as mine did with poetry I began to realize that words were not the answer. Words have a different meaning to each new observer. Therefor words cannot express ones inner awakening when coming from another person. My poetry slowly died as I realized more and more the uselessness of words to ones inner self.
In 1996 I stumbled upon my medium. In a small town in Arkansas (Eureka Springs), wire became my inspiration. Wire became life to me in a sense, as I needed money to live, and wrapping semi precious stones could give me that. I had such a nack I took to it right away. Never being taught, I was selling my items at a local shop on the first day. I soon began to realize that the metal I was using (at that time sterling silver) was an intense amplifier. It not only amplified the stones I was using but also the energy I had while creating the piece. Before I left town, the shop owner approached me with a box of different shapes and gauges of wire. She asked one question: "What can you do with these types of wires?" (Thanks Cat). That simple question set the mood for the next 11 years of my life.
I then continued traveling and along my path I would find discarded wire from electrical devices and buildings (mostly copper). Stripping the wire was quite a chore but I was able to acquire a free medium from doing so. The next 4 years were spent learning "how wire works". This time period was entirely study for me. I simply experimented with every technique I could come up with; bending, twisting, coiling, weaving, you name it. During this time of my life I had the least I ever had. No money, no place to live, no car, nothing. I lived out of a backpack. To me at the time this was comfortable as all of my energy was in my study.
In 2001 I traveled to Tuscon, AZ with a baby girl on the way, for the biggest gem and mineral show in the world. Something awoke in me at this show. I finally saw the application for what I had been blindly studying for so many years. I saw how so many people (of all types be it animal, plant, or crystal) were in need. Some in need of direction, some encouragement, some simply love. By combining my new gift with what I was already channeling on a daily basis since childhood, I could help all the peoples of the world.
I then began creating talisman, items one could wear to help awaken their inner self. Each belonging to a specific owner even during their creation. As if they were asking for them and I was answering. Each one being entirely different, they all found their ways to these perspective owners. Some pieces would take several years before their owner were present. At this time I was also experimenting with human sculpture yet keeping it locked away so I could learn from it. This never made very much money but got my family and I by, while fulfilling my ultimate goal at the same time.
In 2003 I began sculpting the images I have seen since birth. Generators, if you will, every one based on sacred geometry, every one able to spin as if to activate them. These pieces found homes quicker than anything I had created to date. They also seemed to attract a larger crowd then I was used to with my work. Not one of these pieces could have been reproduced as only the technique was skill, the rest was entirely channeled. These pieces came in the moment and no other time.
In 2004 I decided to prove fourth dimension on this 3 dimensional plane. This gave birth to Li, a work that showed a physical representation of the fourth dimension. Named after and the same way as my second child, Li produces fourth dimensional gateways creating a channel of energy I again did not understand.
I have spent the past four years trying to understand it. I now realized that I am capable of creating pieces that can help all of these peoples at once instead of individually.
My inspiration now is: "growth for all peoples in and on all planes". If the mind of the holder is open these pieces can surely bring us great things as a whole. They are teaching tools and I am not our teacher. My job now is to place them in the right hands.
My art is: "creation".
My inspiration is: "growth".
My job is: "us".
My name is: Michael David
This is a very good article written by Dr James Schleck:
"Send this to your downline. It will give them a perspective that will make you money. More enrollees, more sales and more money.
Ask the average Networker [why] they joined your company and they will respond, "because I want to help a lot of people."
Some will answer, "Because it's a solid product that everyone needs."
Rarely will you hear someone say, "TO MAKE LOTS of money!"
That is because most P/T Networkers, who are not used to making $50,000 to $100,000 annually, working from home, are afraid that what they are selling will not make their new recruits money.
(please read that again)
Now, to properly put this into perspective, here is a question:
When you walk into McDonalds, have they ever said to you, "you really should not Super-Size your meal, it's way too many calories!"
No they haven't. That's ridiculous. It's also never happened because McDonalds could give a rip what you order. For them, it's just a trade.
It's a value trade. They sell food. You give them money for it.
No emotion. It's just business.
Even when an obese man walks into McDonalds and orders way to much food, no one at McDonalds warns the man that this could worsen his health. Because no one cares.
It's just plain good ole fashion business.
It's a value for value trade.
However, in our industry, lots of people, especially the new people, say or they think to themselves?
"I will wait to make money BEFORE I recruit my friends."
"I better not recruit her, I KNOW she could never do this."
"I better not ask my new downline member for $500 to join our lead co-op, I bet she doesn't have the money."
The problem is that too many wish-they-could-be-F/T Networkers think the ONLY way for them to make money here, is if everyone succeeds.
And that just isn't how life works.
Half of the people, they say, get a divorce.
Most people who dabble in MLM fail. Any why shouldn't they? Who builds a part-time legitimate business dabbling?
Most people quit their diets. Right? (research says they even get fatter!)
So here's the "X" factor.
The "X" factor is that it's not your job to worry about who should join this and who can't. Your job, is to simply get enough people looking at your opportunity in the first place.
The truth is, the heavy-hitters in this industry understand "free will" and could care less who wins or who loses. And it is THAT way of thinking that allows them to siphon through MORE people.
The Proper Thinking is:
The thinking is, "some will, some won't, so what [?], who cares?"
It's not about becoming a cold hearted person.
It's not.
It's not about abandoning your core values.
It's about, how can you truly help people if you are broke?
You can't. Not if you're broke.
There's an old saying and it goes like this, "you can't save the whales if you can't afford to fish."
What that means is this.
Do you want to help a lot of other people?
Then you be the model. You be their inspiration.
You be the one who recruited 100 people in a year.
You be the one who earns the serious money.
Some will. Some won't. So what. Next.
Heavy-hitters get to a place whereby emotions are left at home.
We are all adults. This is business. And we are all here to make money.
And that can't happen if you are pre-judging people, worrying about who might succeed or fail, or if you are not asking everyone you know to work your program.
Consider this.
Big name MLM Guru's think nothing of asking folks to invest $3,000 to $5,000 for them to be your personal coach.
Apparently, they are not looking for broke people who can only afford a few hundred.
McDonalds could care less about your health. If they did, they would not try to SUPER-SIZE every meal they sell.
If all of this is true, and it is, why are some people wishy-washy and afraid to get other people to invest $2,000 to $5,000 in a home business?
Why?
The answer is because falsely, they feel that they would be responsible if their new recruits failed.
And that's the "X" factor.
KEY-LESSON:
Whether people win or fail is not your business.
Your business is to show your business to the entire world or at least to a few thousand people. In the next 90 days.
And when you stop worrying about who might fail, you will start to explore more avenues and begin showing MORE people.
Network Marketing is a selling business. Make no bones about it.
We are sales people.
We sell opportunity and we sell the good news of American capitalism.
And to play costs money.
Some will. Some won't. So what. Next.
This industry is really a personal development business.
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The art, to me, is the challenge. If I am not challenged, I have not created a work of art. The inspiration is: "What will the next piece be?". The medium is: fine and / or pure metal wire.
As a child I wrote poetry mostly, trying to awaken the inner mind of the reader. All skill grows, and as mine did with poetry I began to realize that words were not the answer. Words have a different meaning to each new observer. Therefor words cannot express ones inner awakening when coming from another person. My poetry slowly died as I realized more and more the uselessness of words to ones inner self.
In 1996 I stumbled upon my medium. In a small town in Arkansas (Eureka Springs), wire became my inspiration. Wire became life to me in a sense, as I needed money to live, and wrapping semi precious stones could give me that. I had such a nack I took to it right away. Never being taught, I was selling my items at a local shop on the first day. I soon began to realize that the metal I was using (at that time sterling silver) was an intense amplifier. It not only amplified the stones I was using but also the energy I had while creating the piece. Before I left town, the shop owner approached me with a box of different shapes and gauges of wire. She asked one question: "What can you do with these types of wires?" (Thanks Cat). That simple question set the mood for the next 11 years of my life.
I then continued traveling and along my path I would find discarded wire from electrical devices and buildings (mostly copper). Stripping the wire was quite a chore but I was able to acquire a free medium from doing so. The next 4 years were spent learning "how wire works". This time period was entirely study for me. I simply experimented with every technique I could come up with; bending, twisting, coiling, weaving, you name it. During this time of my life I had the least I ever had. No money, no place to live, no car, nothing. I lived out of a backpack. To me at the time this was comfortable as all of my energy was in my study.
In 2001 I traveled to Tuscon, AZ with a baby girl on the way, for the biggest gem and mineral show in the world. Something awoke in me at this show. I finally saw the application for what I had been blindly studying for so many years. I saw how so many people (of all types be it animal, plant, or crystal) were in need. Some in need of direction, some encouragement, some simply love. By combining my new gift with what I was already channeling on a daily basis since childhood, I could help all the peoples of the world.
I then began creating talisman, items one could wear to help awaken their inner self. Each belonging to a specific owner even during their creation. As if they were asking for them and I was answering. Each one being entirely different, they all found their ways to these perspective owners. Some pieces would take several years before their owner were present. At this time I was also experimenting with human sculpture yet keeping it locked away so I could learn from it. This never made very much money but got my family and I by, while fulfilling my ultimate goal at the same time.
In 2003 I began sculpting the images I have seen since birth. Generators, if you will, every one based on sacred geometry, every one able to spin as if to activate them. These pieces found homes quicker than anything I had created to date. They also seemed to attract a larger crowd then I was used to with my work. Not one of these pieces could have been reproduced as only the technique was skill, the rest was entirely channeled. These pieces came in the moment and no other time.
In 2004 I decided to prove fourth dimension on this 3 dimensional plane. This gave birth to Li, a work that showed a physical representation of the fourth dimension. Named after and the same way as my second child, Li produces fourth dimensional gateways creating a channel of energy I again did not understand.
I have spent the past four years trying to understand it. I now realized that I am capable of creating pieces that can help all of these peoples at once instead of individually.
My inspiration now is: "growth for all peoples in and on all planes". If the mind of the holder is open these pieces can surely bring us great things as a whole. They are teaching tools and I am not our teacher. My job now is to place them in the right hands.
My art is: "creation".
My inspiration is: "growth".
My job is: "us".
My name is: Michael David
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