Hey friends, I want to intersperse some Personal Development posts with my posts on marketing techniques and strategies.  That’s because I don’t want you to get bored. 

Also, we know that between two persons with the same strategies, it is the one who has the superior mindset, better communication and more motivated by an inner core desire who will have the greater chance to succeed.

I would like to start with an extract from Empower Magazine, referring to our Success University Founder and President Matt Morris who turned his life around through the power of personal development.  Here goes…

We all go to school for reading, writing and arithmetic, but the traditional education system never really teaches you how to succeed in life.

That was the case for Success University Founder and President Matt Morris.  When he walked out of a college classroom to pursue his entrepreneurial spirit, it landed him completely broke and on the streets.  But through the power of personal development, Matt found the key to success and, in turn, created one of the largest personal development companies in the world.

If you meet Matt Morris in person, you’ll never believe he had his share of hardship.  A handsome, well-spoken young man, Matt appears as if he’s spent his entire life within the protective walls of success in the corporate world.  But early on, he chose the path to entrepreneurship rather than climbing the corporate ladder.

Matt entered the entreprenerial world at the age of 18.  By 21, he had failed in three business ventures and found himself homeless, living out of this car.  By age 24, after making a commitment to educate himself in personal development, he was earning a six-figure income in the network marketing industry and living a dream lifestyle.  Two years later he became the CEO of his own multimillion-dollar Internet marketing company.  Now, at 31, Matt is the Founder and President of Dallas-based Success University, an international direct marketing company that specializes in delivering personal development education.

Personal History

Matt’s journey to success began with two polar-opposite influences.  His mother, divorced and raising Matt on her own, sold the family restaurant to pursue her dream to becoming an attorney.  She worked two jobs to put herself through college and law school.  She became an attorney and eventually worked her way to the bench as a judge in Texas.

“My mother has always been my role model.  As a child I watched her go after her dreams despite a lot of challenges and hardships,” Matt says.  “She really is my hero.”

Matt’s father took a more troublesome path.  “When I was about 6 years old, I watched my father go to prison for murder.” he says.  “When he got out of prison he essentially drowned himself in alcohol.  When I was 13, he committed suicide.  While it’s something I don’t talk about very often, I never shy away from it because its part of my history.”

Years later, Matt was sitting in a business class at the University of Texas when he had an epiphany.  “I remember one day listening to a new professor who had a Ph.D. but had never actually been in the real business world,” Matt says.  “He was telling us that if you want a good job you need a degree.  But if you really want to move up the corporate ladder, you need a master’s degree or even better, a Ph.D.  I instantly realized that I had absolutely no desire whatsoever to have a job working for someone else.”

Matt’s foray into network marketing was difficult at first.  “After my first year and a half I enrolled only three people-two of whom I paid for myself,” Matt says with a laugh.  After failing in three network marketing companies, Matt was forced to take a job to make ends meet.  He answered an ad for a company that offered a travelling salesperson position selling above-ground swimming pools.

“I didn’t have enough money to pay rent and couldn’t make the minimum payments on my credit cards so I took the job, which landed me in Southern Louisiana,” Matt says.  “I couldn’t afford to stay in a motel, so I bathed at gas station bathrooms and slept in my little red Honda Civic five to six nights a week.  I’m 6 foot 3 and definitely did not fit comfortably in the car!” Matt says.

Personal Development

Living in a car, selling above-ground pools door-to-door was the point in Matt’s life where he felt he had hit rock bottom.  He was desperately seeking a way out of this situation when his answer came through the personal development industry.  “Late one night, I listened to a tape that told the story of a man who went from an average income to more than $1 million a year,” Matt says.  He attributed his success to two things: No. 1, immersing himself in the personal development industry; and No. 2, finding others who had achieved massive success, modeling them and creating the same results.

“I took that as a clue and made a commitment to do the same thing,” Matt says.  He started reading personal development books about eight hours a day, finishing a book every two or three days.  “I basically lived in bookstores,” he says.  “I spent every spare minute devouring books and audio programs.  That was the turning point for my life, where my life started to shift-I basically reinvented myself.  Within four years I was a top earner in a network marketing company, traveling around the world and earning a high-six-figure income.  I just kept studying ultra-successful people, learning and investing in my mind.  My philosophy is that if you invest in your mind, you’ll always get the biggest returns.”

Matt remembers attending a seminar where he heard speaker after speaker talk about empowering principles, mindsets and strategies.  “I remember being so filled up with inspiration and asking myself, ‘What if my father had been exposed to this kind of information?’  I believe he would be alive today,” Matt says.

Naturally, what sparked his interest in founding Success University was his success with personal development and the stories of countless others who have attributed their success to the personal development industry.  “Every long-standing network marketing company for the last 50 years has been built on the shoulders of personal development,” Matt says.  “It made sense for me to create a network marketing company with personal development as the product, because it’s something that almost every leader has promoted without earning an income from it.”

“The personal development industry has also become mainstream in our society, with movies and books such as The Secret selling millions of copies based solely on word-of-mouth,” Matt says.

“So we’ve taken something millions of people are already doing and providing an opportunity whereby they can earn a good income from home simply by referring others to empowering information people are hungry for.”

That’s it for A Success Story-Part 1.  In Part 2 we shall cover “The Pillars of Success University” and “Benchmarks for the Future”.

Till then…

May Success Embrace You!

The above was taken from an article written by:
K. Shelby Skrhak for Empower Magazine Volume1 Issue 4.

p.s. Empower is a magazine that highlights successful companies and individuals in the hope that the stories in the magazine will inspire and empower you to find your path to success, be it fortune, family or personal fulfillment.

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