The Power of Level 4

You do the task effortlessly without even thinking about it

So, you know what you know, you do what you know, and you breathe what you know... You are at level 4:  Unconscious Competence.  You finally understand what you know and you've become the 'go to' person in your field.  You are proudly wearing the Mr. or Miss "Together" sign very well.

At this stage, you have learned from your mistakes and have trainings and blueprints written to help others not go through what you have.  But this is not the last trial; there is still more to do.

WHAT IS A SUCCESSFUL PERSON?  IT IS ONE WHO HAS LEARNED A SKILL, BEHAVIOR, ABILITY, OR TECHNIQUE SO WELL THEY JUST FLOW IN IT WITH EASE.

Don’t settle. Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

At level 4, it is important not to get used to your surroundings!  Soon you'll need a challenge...That is how you got to this level in the first place.  You'll need something new like improving on what you know, making it better. The worst thing to do is get bored and never grow.  Don't get too comfortable being at this level.  You need to be mindfully aware that although you are the master of what you know, those around you do not know what you know so it can be hard to relate. 

Don't get me wrong, there is power in this model.  Regardless of experience, most people who are ready for change will find that they will go through levels 2-4 over and over again in theirs lives especially when they try to change some ingrained habits.  Each stage of learning had something to reveal to you when you are trying to successfully change habits and master what you know.  So RELAX!  Get good at recognizing those levels that get you stuck so you can release them as unnatural skills.Some things are not for you to master but to hire those who have mastered it.

So where do you go from here?  There is a suggested fifth state of this model: Conscious competence of being unconsciously competent- which describes a person's ability to recognize being in stage 4.  For now, let's just stick to the 4 stages and if you uncover level 5 in your life, please share it!

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From Incompetence to Competence

Last week we asked two questions:
1)  Are you a level 4 individual or group in whatever you do?
2)  What Level do you think you are at right now in your business and/or life?

Are you able to answer these questions or do you need a moment? 

Practice Makes Perfect
Before we get into breaking down level 3:  Conscious Competence, lets refresh on the 4 levels:

Level 1- Unconscious Incompetent: You don't know what you don't know (no clue)
Level 2 - Conscious Incompetent: You know that you don't know (clue)
Level 3 - Conscious Competent: You know that you know
Level 4 - Unconscious Competent: You don't know that you know, it is easy

So we are at Level 3 and you now recognize that whatever the task is, you are doing it focused on the functionality of it but it takes some effort mentally.  Basically, you know the basic functions of performance but you still rely on an instruction manual and spend a great deal of time preparing.  In this level you continue to practice...Practice Makes Perfect!

IDEALLY-YO!

Ideally, most entrepreneurs think that their passion is going to get them profit but it takes some passion, competency, and the practice of the process in order to make a profit in whatever business model you are in.  Competency starts with realizing that you don't know what you don't know. So you'd better start asking questions to learn what it is that you don't know, so you'll then know it.Once you have an idea of what you need to fulfill the void of what you don't know, you'll need to either get a process or develop one to keep the business flowing.  Your process should include how you sell and market your products and services. 

PASSION + COMPETENCY + PROCESS = PROFIT!

Here's a chuckle for you from Key and Peele to get you thinking about what it takes to get to the next level.  Is it who you know or what you know?  ENJOY!
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Level 4...Why Does It Matter To Us Mere Human Beings?

Are you a level 4 individual or group in whatever you do?

As promised, we will be talking about how to get to and start living at a LEVEL 4 in every part of your life. This will be an important piece to make your 2014 the best year that you have ever had. We are putting together tools for you to utilize on a daily base as well as simple ways to implement this into your already lifestyle as you help others do the same.

Most of you that are with Team Pure Intent are hear because of your affiliation with Send Out Cards. Well this is still the core belief of who we are and why we are. Send Out Cards is nothing more than a vehicle that includes positive attraction, outcomes and tools to help you on an everyday base. Some have been out of touch for awhile, while new members are catching the wave and taking their business to the next level. Wherever you fit, you matter!  With this said, let's journey together and refresh our steps to how a theory called Conscious Competence can help you master skills in you business, relationships, and everyday life.

The Conscious Competence Model helps us understand the stages we go through when we are learning something.  This model gives us an awareness to how we process our learning and can assist us in our career development, our personal lives, and helps us to train others more effectively.

Stages of The Conscious Competence
Back in June, we broke down each stage of the Conscious Competence.  Stage 1, "You don't know that you don't know"; Stage 2, "You know that you don't know"; Stage 3, You know that you know"; and Stage 4, "You don't know that you know."

James Dyson: A Level 4 (Quite Possible Level 5 Human Being)
Yesterday, James Dyson, engineer and inventor of the Dyson Vacuum and other helpful products, was on CBS This Morning News sharing the newest product in his line of vacuum cleaners.  His interview was quite interesting.  Here's a glimpse of what he talked about.

James Dyson has mastered what he set out to do and that was to improve those things that have been invented that no one pays attention to but use on a daily basis and make it better.  He didn't invent the vacuum, but he used his design skills to make it better.

What Level do you think you are at right now in your business and/or life?

Get plugged in, get reignited and start this new year off with finding out how you can take your business to the next level while helping others do the same or helping a young adult get started in something very tangible. I am not naive to the fact that money is not important, however I do know that when you have something that everyone can identify with and its not challenging. If you stay focus and willing for this year you will see why I am so passionate about using this vehicle as a means of helping hundreds to thousands of people see the reality in owning their own successful home base business! If I can do it you can too!

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Let's Support one of our own TPI Family!

Byron Talbert with Director Mark Harris

Let's Support One Of Our Own!!

For those of you that are in Chicago, Atlanta, Baltimore, DC and most everywhere else. Please support one of our own by going to an AMC theater for the new release of Black Coffee!

Our own Alisha Inez is the songwriter for this movie. Her songs were chosen for mostly all the scenes of this great love story.

Lead actor Darrin Dwight Henson, Lemman Rucker among others.

Some good movies always slip through the cracks, so take a family member or friend and go check it out and know that the beautiful songs are coming from Alisha playing the strings and singing.

See you at the movies!
Byron Talbert 

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Good Stuff for You in 2014

Most of you know that I've been a business owner for 20 years, I have seen quite a bit in the industry both good and bad, however one thing is for certain out of anything I have done this is by far the most rewarding and income earning industry out here. While it does take a little accountability, drive, persistence, trail blazing at times, but most importantly real faith in yourself to know you can do it regardless of what is against you. It will happen! We have a stove full of GOOD STUFF for you....

For those of you that don't know... Send Out Cards has a contest going on for the month of January. It's called Sponsor Ten Win a Ben. This simply means that for every 10 customers, distributors in any combination that you sign up you will receive $100. I don't know about you but for a person to try your product for only $9.80 for the month, you sign up 10 of those you receive $100, $200, $300 or more for a product that everyone enjoys anyway! If your a distributor send your family and friends to your personal website. If you are not a distributor and need a link, visit www.printstuffstamp.com and click on "ways to get started" and click on the selection of your choice. If you need help getting started reply to this email or info@teampureintent.com for more information. Find out how easy it is to send real cards and gifts and gift cards right from the comfort of your laptop or phone.

Tax season is upon us! Yes family this happens once a year, however why are you so happy in getting a "tax return"? Do you know what that really means? It simply is an overpayment in taxes. Yes you basically are getting a little bit of your money back that you overpaid in the last tax year. So tell me why are you so excited about that when you could be allowing more of your money to work for you during the year, spending less and saving more. There is nothing happy about this time if you really know the reason behind it. I will be sending out a series of questions about what you may or may not know about paying your just do not a penny more or less.

Prepare yourself this tax season by equipping yourself with more information. Challenge yourself to learn more and pay what you are suppose to and not be led down the wrong path of what is owed to you as a w-2 wage earner. This easy to read book at www.howmuchdoyoukeep.com will give you some very key ingredients to helping you maximize your returns this season and beyond. Ron Muller is a gentleman that has now a 7th edition book on how to become more knowledgeable in something that either some people are scared of or they are happy for all the wrong reasons. We are building a page that will have information on how to become more of an asset to yourself using key methods. These will save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars!

Are you a level 4 individual or group in whatever you do? 

We will be talking about how to get to and start living at a LEVEL 4 in every part of your life. This will be an important piece to make your 2014 the best year that you have ever had. We are putting together tools for you to utilize on a daily base as well as simple ways to implement this into your already lifestyle as you help others do the same.

One more thing, please engage more in our post whether it be on Facebook's fan page or even the team site. We need your help because this valuable information needs to get in someones hands and you can be that person to make the delivery by having them sign up for our newsletters, posting remarks, questions or even answers. Get involved after all its all about you. Help us to spread the word!

Have a great rest of the week and know that you matter whether you like it or not! You have a purpose and destiny that must be fulfilled, let's all work together to make that happen!

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Reach Your Niche Digitally

For the month we have been chatting about creating niches for your business with your products and services. So once you have identified your niche and have narrowed in on who your target market is; is there a need that can be filled with your products and services? I’m sure there is! Hopefully you have built some stronger relationships by positioning the right products and services to those customers that need your specified products and services. If you have done all the above, now it’s time to engage with your audience. You can do this successfully by building relationships with online groups and/or forums.

Provide your targeted audience with a place where they can share both the ‘Highs’ and ‘Lows’ of their product/service experience as well as give you feedback on what other needs they may have. Providing this platform gives your group an interaction with you as the “expert” and keeps you connected to your clients and potential customers.

Groups are easy to form online through social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin. Create a forum where you can have more input into the conversation. A great social network for this is Facebook groups. A Facebook Group is a great place to provide valuable information to your targeted niche market as well as provide a forum for conversation about topics that interest your niche. Be strategic in how you build your group and let those who are joining know the terms of how you plan to communicate with them. Your goal should be to build a “two-way” communication with all of your members and provide value so that they will listen and act on what you have to share. Build your niche and create multiple streams of income for your business!

4 More Reasons To Start An Online Group For Your Niche 

1. Find out exactly what your niche is looking for 
2. Encourage your niche to invite like-minded friends, increasing your reach 
3. Plant information via Q and A into your discussion board in your group with topics that will get 
4. Get your clients and prospects talking with you and amongst each other all-in-all giving you access to GIVE MORE valuable information and provide an OPEN market for product and service sales

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Catching the Big Niche Fish

Think of a niche market as a hook that will help you reel in the potential customers that you have identified as the most profitable and likely prospects for your business. Niches are described as either Operational Niches or Customer Niches.

Both approaches are effective but the differences between the two are that operational niches focus on specialized products and services that will ultimately appeal to a narrow customer segment (they are designed for that particular niche market). A customer niche focuses on one or more specific and profitable customer bases. The business centers its attention on tailoring its marketing efforts to a specific audience.

Catch and Release

It would be to your benefit if you can find a way to incorporate both approaches but you’ll need to do some “catch and release” first. As most entrepreneurs know, you may not always reel in the “big fish” on the first try. It takes awhile to get consistent income from your niche. Sure, immediately maximizing the income from your niche sounds great, you may want to explore around it a little. Consider ‘catching’ your niche customer slowly by devoting an hour or so a day to putting your new business model together and letting it take off. A niche is all about learning and experimentation, so don’t get frustrated by initial failure. A successful niche business will rely heavily on the contacts you will make, and this takes time.

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Holiday Giving Inspiration

Hope you are enjoying your holiday preparations! All week we have been spotlighting some of the best holiday gifts Send Out Cards has to offer this year! Checkout our holiday gift look-book too!

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Make a ‘Niche’ For your Products and Services

As we move into the last month of the year, are you considering what your goals for positioning your business will be for 2014?  You may want to consider creating a niche for your business to attract new customers and set yourself as the "expert in your field" of expertise.

A niche serves the critical function of distinguishing your products and services from your competitors. A niche market is a narrow but specialized market. For example, if you have a law firm that gets about 80% of the clientele that are immigrants needing law assistance, you may want to create a niche within your business to serve immigration cases.

Focusing on a niche can be effective and profitable especially for a small business who often is more successful to develop a specialty in an area that is not currently being served by other businesses. Small businesses are primed to fill this role because creating a niche strategy involves catering to a very broad audience. Some large companies look at this to be too difficult and costly. When a small business focuses in on a niche market using cost effective marketing strategies, that can business profit more than if they were to copy what their competitors are doing. What makes niche marketing appealing to small businesses is that you provide products or services that are customized to a group of consumers or potential customers in need of those products and services.

The benefits of Niche Marketing 

• There is less competition vying for those customers 
• Your business can easily match your products and services to those customers needs 
• Personalize your businesses' communications to those consumers and potential customers therefore appealing directly to your targeted audience 
• Become the expert within that need 
• Learn more about your customers and improve how your business can meet their needs 

Direct Sales Challenge

So how do you create a niche for yourself within a direct sales business? The best way to do this is to master the tips and techniques already given to you by the business you have invested in. Most direct sales businesses equip you with the best strategies to get the word out about your products and services so that there is no mystery involved with making sales. However, it can be overwhelming at times when you are trying to compete with fellow team members. A niche marketing strategy can help you create multiple streams of income by listening first to your current customers needs. I am sure if you were to put pen to paper and write down some commonalities between your current customers, you’d find a common need that has yet been met. Once you have pinpointed that common need, pair up your products and services with marketing tactics.

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Gratitude

Team Pure Intent is truly about the importance of gratitude. It is very important to understand that
without this powerful word and action the world would most likely be more chaotic than what it is
today. Whether it’s in business or family we must show how much one to another is appreciated. This sends a powerful message to the inner spirit that it is OK and that we’re fit to go the extra mile. If you know it or not we’re all in need of some sort of encouragement, mental stroking of importance and acknowledgment among other positive building blocks of edification.

We should be unconsciously thinking about what we can do for the next person. In the upcoming days, weeks and months, I will be breaking down more of why this is a necessary component to our lives. Even though it is a beautiful thing to celebrate each other around holidays, birthdays and special occasions, it is even more important to do it on a daily base. Whether you know it or not you think about many people though out the day. You’re either reminded by hearing a name from someone else speaking about a totally different person, but you know a person with the same name. Some may come across your mind in ways of remembering the good ole times.

Whatever it maybe you are always thinking about someone. We can’t afford to allow those thoughts to go unanswered, or ignored. To act on something positive or negative will be the same result that thought will come back to you regardless. So why not make it good so that you can continually find yourself in a good atmosphere or place in your life. You may say well I’m already in a good place, well now it’s time to help someone else get into the same place because we all deserve it and if there is any time in life it surely right now. Contact the person right now that comes to mind act on it by calling them, NOT TEXTING, but giving them something tangible. Remember it never has to cost much but the cost behind the giving is huge.

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