A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to squeeze its body through the tiny hole. Then it stopped, as if it couldn’t go further.
So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bits of cocoon. The butterfly emerged easily but it had a swollen body and shrivelled wings. The man continued to watch it, expecting that any minute the wings would enlarge and expand enough to support the body, Neither happened!
In fact the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around. It was never able to fly. What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand:
The restricting cocoon and the struggle required by the butterfly to get through the opening was a way of forcing the fluid from the body into the wings so that it would be ready for flight once that was achieved.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. Going through life with no obstacles would cripple us. We will not be as strong as we could have been and we would never fly. So have a nice day and struggle a little.
Colin Judson below studied singing at the Guildhall School of Music. Since leaving College in 1992 his operatic roles have included REMENDADO in Carmen for British Youth Opera, FREDERIC in The Pirates of Penzance, DON BASILIO in Le Nozze di Figaro, ISAAC in La Gazza Ladra, CONTE D?ALMAVIVA in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, MONOSTATOS, FIRST PRIEST and TAMINO in Die Zauberflöte, FERRANDO in Cosi Fan Tutte and AENEAS in Dido and Aeneas.
With English Touring Opera he sang the title rolein Werther and with Glyndebourne Festival Opera he covered the triple tenor parts of DER PRINZ, KAMMERDIENER, DER MARQUIS in Graham Vick’s production of Lulu. He has appeared in the role of GASTON (La Traviata) with Glyndebourne Touring Opera in their 1997 autumn tour. He has appeared in Carmen at the Royal Albert
Hall and in concert he performed the Verdi Requiem in Hereford Cathedral and Haydn’s Nelson Mass for the Brighton Festival.
With Glyndebourne Festival Opera he performed the role of CORYPHEE in Le Comte D’Ory and the same role with Glyndebourne Touring Opera. He returned to Glyndebourne Festival in 2001 to reprise the role of ANDREW in Birtwistle’s The Last Supper, having sung the role with Glyndebourne Touring Opera in 2000 and earlier in the year in concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Last year he sang REMENDADO (Carmen) at Glyndebourne, conducted by Philippe Jordan (including a televised performance)
Tony and Muriel just dusting up!
left a picture of Tony and Muriel which was featured in the companies annual report
and that’s an interesting question and it got me thinking about who I really am and what made me the way that I am and influenced my make up and thinking.
Where to begin, well I suppose it has to be from the beginning and that’s about 65 years ago now! I don’t feel that old but then with age comes experience and knowledge right? That apart I was born in Peterborough to a great Mum and Dad who were not well off but were honest hard working people dad was a fireman on the railway yes it was steam then and he was fortunate enough to fire the famous Flying Scotsman from Kings Cross London to Edinburgh and I can remember going down to our railway crossing with my mum to wave to dad as he flew through. Mum was a shop assistant in a local chemists and both sang in the church choir as I did as a boy. I was one of three as I have a great brother and a fab sister.
I enjoyed music and some say that it was as a result of mum letting me cry myself to sleep as a baby to classical music. If this is true then it worked because I was at my Grandma’s one day when she was clearing out her under the stairs cupboard and came across a small violin, this was to be the start of my musical career. I had lessons at school by a fantastic teacher Mr Frank Lee and although lessons were included at school I really needed some extra lessons as I was going faster than the other children in my class. Mr Lee offered me free lessons at his home which was fantastic as mum and dad could not afford to pay for extra lessons at the time and this enabled me to be able to take Royal School of music exams.
This was only the start as I joined the army as a musician and had to learn a band instrument as well as stringed,in this case it was the clarinet. After many years of practising six or seven hours a day I was fortunate enough to go to the army school of Music learning the theory of music as well as the playing side. Even at this time of my life I had a passion for learning new things and this environment may have been just the discipline that I needed to learn how to focus and work to get the job done. My intention was to become a bandmaster or even become an officer and director of music I was doing a correspondence course to help me with the understanding of how to arrange music for the military band and to return to the army school of music for a three year bandmasters course. But things don’t always work out the way you want them too and I was taken ill with pains in my back which turned out to be a kidney that had stopped working and had to be removed!
This was a great disappointment as it meant that I was not medically fit for service, as a result it meant leaving the army and not being able to pursue my planned career but once again this taught me a valuable lesson.
What had I learned so far in my life, that not everything in life is certain and that if you want something badly enough you can learn and practise it until you can do it.
If you can do it once you can do it again.
So what next?
I decided to return to my roots in Peterborough and re group so took a job with Perkins Engines working in the offices chasing parts into the factory. This was short term as it was mundane, the same thing day in day out.
Its funny sometimes how things work out as we had invited a double glazing salesman to our house for a quote as we lived next to the main railway line. It was to be the start of my new sales career as the salesman told me how much I could earn selling double glazing. So I left the day job and started my commission only job attending numerous sales training courses, more reading and yes earning plenty of money I read and studied everything I could about the selling industry.
After a few years I met someone in the office equipment business who needed a salesman to sell his products and once again learned everything I could about selling business to business. I enjoyed the industry so much and was given a directorship by the then owner Sir Montague Pritchard who appointed me Managing Director after a few months.The business took off and we became one of the leading dealers for Sharp Electronics selling photo copiers and fax machines and it was at this point that I was head hunted to train as a dealer manager for Sharp copiers selling to the dealers all over the south east of England. Things continued to improve as I was asked by Sharp to start a training school for dealers sales people in the head office in Manchester, wow what a turn around in just a few years one career had ended suddenly and new one had been developed.
Helping the dealers sales people to sell more was great and this lead to yet another opportunity when visiting a dealer in Birmingham who asked me why I was working as an employee for Sharp when I could be running my own Sharp Dealership and earning a lot more money? The question had not entered my head before as I was enjoying training people to succeed in the industry, but it did make me think I was already training other peoples people to sell why not my own sales team? Whats stopping you he asked and I knew the answer, capital to invest in the business I replied. What if I put the money up to help you to get started he said. You would get your copiers from me and you can pay me when you sell them,I didn’t give it a second thought my own office equipment dealership.
We opened our doors just a few weeks later trained some sales people and started selling immediately. With the help of the bank we bought an old house and converted it into offices and workshop ,we were in business. This taught me another lesson if you work hard and make yourself valuable people will want to be involved and help you, this had happened several times already and continues today.
First comes work and then the opportunities , the income and lifestyle will follow you! Its called the law of attraction.
We made the decision to concentrate on selling to major accounts such as Thomas Cook , VAG Volkswagen , EMAP, R & S components etc which is where I met some top business people and joined the chamber of commerce where I was asked to be a director promoting the chamber to increase membership which we did very successfully, as a result I met some interesting people from Peterborough United and started to do some commercial work for them putting together the first business plan to promote sponsorship and sales of advertising around the ground this was very successful and I was later invited into the boardroom as an associate director.
I was in my element as I had been a supporter since I was in short trousers once again the law of attraction was at work and here was another lesson “Success breads Success”
But disappointment was just around the corner once again as the major leasing company that we were working with to finance our sales went out of business owing us £80,000!! and we were out of business over night.
Once again it was time to dig deep and start again from scratch. A friend of ours had been to see us when we had the business as he had started his own network marketing business in home shopping and invited us to join his team, at the time it was of no interest to us but now it was time to take a closer look.
Yet another new career then.The experience of my other interest in business did come in useful but once again a learning programme was put into place to learn about The Network Marketing Industry once again a lot of reading attending trainings all over the country to find out how to succeed in our new industry from the people who had already done it. What became obvious was the need for a system for others to follow making the whole business duplicatable. So my first job was to take the best of everything that I had learned from the people who had traveled the road so far and add my own experiences from my previous businesses and come up with a success plan that we could all duplicate. The system to me is the no one reason for success in the network marketing industry everyone should if asked understand and be able to say what their system is and does. Its a bit like a football team playing to a system without a system its every man for himself and that will never win you games.
The second most important aspect is training the people in your team who want to succeed and are prepared to take action and here I am very comfortable helping people to develop good strong businesses and incomes with no upper limit for life. Not only is it important to train you team but you need to train them to train others to train others to duplicate a simple system that anyone can follow. Don’t worry your sponsor and there sponsor will work with you and help you to do this until you can do it yourself.
THE INVESTMENT IN TIME AND MONEY WAS INVALUALBLE. We now earn more in a month than most people earn in a year, traveled the world with our team a lot of the time FREE with our fabulous company and have the freedom to do what we want when we want because we have no boss, in network market you are the boss! We were awarded our companies Distributor Of The Year award in 2003 out of over 10,000 distributors and have had 3 of our leaders receive this converted award over the last 6 years which means more to use than winning it our selves. We only succeed when they succeed, the power of duplication.
Seeing our group earning well above average incomes and many of them are earning as much as the Prime Minister or more gives us a good feeling inside, even people who are earning just an extra £500 to a £1000 per month part time is something to celebrate. Everyone from all walks of life and from any background can succeed in network marketing, all they have to do is learn a simple system and take action.
I believe that you can do anything if you are prepared to do the reading and training necessary to be at the top of your chosen field and be coach-able. How about you?
We are now ready to pass on our knowledge and experience to anyone interested in making a success with their lives and who are prepared to do the reading and learning necessary to make it big in The Network Marketing Industry.
So who is Tony Judson? A combination of all of the above and the influence of many successful people who I have had the privilege of learning from.
Take control of your life and your actions and you will take control of your life.
Remember! If it is to be its up to me.
If You are ready to do what it takes to help yourself and others contact me.
Whats next I hear you say more of the same and to dominate the Internet Network Marketing world in the UK . Its just a matter of time.
We will continue to follow the proven system that we have already operated successfully to date but will integrate the internet marketing side of the business, you have to move with the times and you can’t ignore the growth of Internet marketing unless you want to stand still!
Want to join us on the next part of the journey? You know what to do.
Contact me! but only if you have the drive and determination to succeed , what ever it takes!
To your success
Tony Judson
Network Marketing for Network Marketers by UK. Network Marketers
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