Florence Team Work – Insights: They Always Say

Years of owning and building businesses have provided me with the opportunity to meet and learn from some truly amazing people. You might be surprised to learn that people who achieve in sports, business, and public service have more in common than a casual observer might guess.

Q. What could a winning basketball coach, top CEOs, prime ministers and presidents have in common?

A. They tend to think differently than most people but very much like each other.

I don’t mean they vacation in Florida or order extra pepperoni on their pizza. They think alike about things that make a championship difference. What things? Things like daily habits, focus, teamwork, responsibility and integrity.

We regularly hear this phrase, “Well, you know what they always say…"

Here’s what champions always say…

The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win. Great men are not born but become great through adversity and persistence. - Fred Harteis, President Harteis International

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. - John Maxwell, Author and Consultant

Be the difference you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi, Activist

You can work miracles by having faith in others. To get the best out of people, choose to think and believe the best about them. - Billy Florence, Entrepreneur & Former President of IBOAI

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. - Abraham Lincoln, President United States

Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success. - Orrin Woodward, Co-Founder Team

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. - John Wooden, Basketball Coach

If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister

© 2007 Florence News reprint permission to Billy Florence Team Dream Chasers site.

Randy Haugen - Concept of The Second Wind

Randy Haugen is right on with this. Most people have experienced this with working out or playing sports but this can be true in other areas of life as well...

Randy Haugen, “Many people never experience the opportunity to find that they have the capacity for a second wind or a third, because of the difficulty of pushing beyond that first level of fatigue. This can happen with workout out our thinking habits, too. That’s why we thought you’d enjoy the leadership insight below.”

Randy and Val Haugen – Leadership Wisdom

“A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.”- Edward DeBono

About Randy and Valorie Haugen

Randy Haugen serves on is the 2007 board representing Quixtar Independent Business Owners (Quixtar IBO).

IBOAI’s, the official trade association of IBOs, leadership team includes Billy Florence, Randy Haugen, Don Wilson and Jim Janz. Association serves and protects the business interests of independent business owners (Quixtar IBO’s), throughout North America.

Key words: Randy Haugen, Amway Quixtar IBO

© 2007 Randy Haugen. Reprint permission to Billy Florence Team Dream Chasers site.

Joe Markiewicz - Set Short & Long Term Goals

I love what Joe Markiewicz says about not going through the motions without a goal. Great stuff here...

"Know where you are going. Don't just go through the motions without having a specific goal. This is true in working out, business and everything you do. You don't go to an airport to get on a plane without knowing your destination. So don't go through the motions of work without knowing what you want to accomplish." - Joe Markiewicz

Joe Markiewicz Favorites on Goal Setting

"I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker." - Helen Keller

"Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk." - J.C. Penney

"To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action." - Michael Hanson

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo

© 2007 Joe Markiewicz All rights reserved. Reprint approved for Billy Florence Team Dream Chasers site.

Legacy's Randy Haugen: Best Business Leaders Are Listeners

What Randy Haugen shares here is so true. Listening to others is a very important part of leadership...

Randy Haugen, “Successful businesses proactively find ways to listen and benefit from the experience of their employees who interactive with the customers. This corporate leader obviously makes listening both a habit and a priority.”

Randy Haugen Leadership Favorite: Leaders Listen

“I believe in listening-to customers, to drivers, to agents, and to our corporate staff. They know what’s best, and we need to pay attention.”

- Maureen Beal, CEO of National Van Lines

About Randy Haugen and Valorie Haugen

Investor, Randy Haugen owns Haugen Corporation. Through his background in business management and customer service, Randy Haugen’s businesses have matured fruitfully.

Randy Haugen serves on the International Business Owners Association International (IBOAI).

Randy enjoys the great outdoors and spending time with his family.

Randy Haugen and his wife Valorie Haugen live near Salt Lake City, Utah.


Key words: Randy Haugen, Don Wilson Quixtar Team.

© 2007 RANDY HAUGEN. Reprint permission to Bill Florence Team Dream Chasers site.

Billy Florence - Americans Go Online At Tax Time

Americans are online at tax time. When it comes time to file, one-half of consumers will be logging onto their computers and filing their taxes online. In addition, one in three will be using computer software to prepare their taxes. According to the IRS Commissioner, the home computer is increasingly replacing the paper tax form. All e-measures edge upward; more taxpayers are using credit cards for IRS payment and choosing electronic deposit for their refund.

Tax payers are filing early to get their “bucks back.” According to a recent study,
nearly two-thirds of consumers filed their income taxes in January and February. One in five plan to file in March. Fifteen percent will join the ranks plan to wait until April to file their taxes.
Nearly seven out of ten taxpayers are expecting to receive a tax refund this year. What are America’s plans when Uncle Sam returns some of their own money back to them? Dumping some debt is the number one priority. Nearly half are planning to pay down some of their debt. It may be a challenge as stores gear up to get their dollars and dimes by launching a new round of promotions and sales. One third plan to put some of their refund in savings and one in four will direct the refund toward their everyday expenses (groceries, rent, car payment).

Financial Options: Most of us treat a tax refund check as a gift from the government. It isn't. it represents our gift to the government.

The IRS takes a good chunk of your paycheck, and holds it until tax time the following year. If the government gives money back, it's because you gave the IRS an interest-free loan for a year. Taxpayers give an extra $220 billion to the government every year, about $2,200 per refund on average, according to the IRS. Just think of the interest that cash could generate in a high rate online savings account, a CD, or the stock market.

This approach does require planning in advance and having access to cash if your financial situation changes and you owe the government money at tax time.

Take the time to educate yourself about the potential risks and rewards of accepting more responsibility for your own money.

© 2007 Florence News reprint permission to Billy Florence Team Dream Chasers site.

Don & Nancy Wilson (Team) - Effective Meetings

"I have spent lots of time in different meetings. It is very easy for meetings to become non productive. This is valuable information from Don Wilson." - Billy Florence, Team DCI

Don Wilson, “Time is a resource to be used effectively. Regular status meetings at a company can be shortened and more relevant if a little pre-planning goes in to it.”

Don Wilson and Nancy Wilson - Leading Meetings Well:

Keep Status meetings moving along:

Many status meetings take too long because of long-windedness, but others drag on because people are working too hard.

Inevitably, important issues are raised in the updates, and the meeting comes to a halt in order to discuss them. Instead, the leader (you) should table these topics until the reports are done, and then excuse everyone except those who need to discuss these issues. Meetings will finish faster, and those that don’t will have a clear reason for going on.

- Adapted from The Secrets to Masterful Meetings

About –Don Wilson and Nancy Wilson

Don Wilson owns and operates Wilson Enterprises, Inc. Wilson is a part owner of Legacy Business Group and serves on their Board of Directors. His previous experience as a Varsity Basketball Coach has provided a foundation that has aided him in developing successful businesses of several interests. Wilson Enterprises, Inc. has always been thought of as a family company. The Wilson children, Suzanne Wilson Dawson, Jenny Wilson, and John Wilson, have all been involved in supporting this international organization.

Don Wilson and Nancy Wilson are members of IBOAI

Key words: Don Wilson, Nancy Wilson

© 2007 Don Wilson. Reprint permission to Billy Florence Team Dream Chasers site.

Randy Haugen: Take Advantage of the Roth

The Roth IRA is a great way to save and earn money tax free. Everyone should learn about them and take advantage of them as they plan for the future. There was some information on Randy Haugen's Quixtar Headlines blog site from Kiplinger.com about Roths that I thought we should share here...

Contributor Erin Burt writes, "Want to make a million dollars? You have two choices: work hard or hardly work." She goes on to say that you can build your wealth without hardly lifting a finger, by opening a Roth IRA and letting it ride.

"Roth IRAs make a great place to raise your fortune because every single dime you earn is yours -- you don't owe any taxes on it now or ever -- and you can choose the simplicity of investing in a single mutual fund or the diversity of a self-directed brokerage IRA and the full range of investment choices it offers."

To read this article for more information, click on Ride a Roth to Riches. Or to read about other financial headlines, click on Haugen Finance.

Visit Randy Haugen's site to learn other financial and business tips...

www.randyhaugen-news.com/

Bill Florence - TEAM DCI

Team's Billy Florence - Play to Win

There are important lessons to be learned when we fail at something. It is important that we learn these lessons and move forward. But we should always play to win. Give it our all. If we do win or fail, we will learn and move on. But let's play to win!

Billy Florence - Play to Win Quotes

“Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.” - Denis Waitley

"Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.” - Zig Ziglar

"A quitter never wins and a winner never quits” - Napoleon Hill

© 2007 Florence News reprint permission to Billy Florence Team Dream Chasers site.

Billy Florence - Thoughts on Leadership

Quixtar IBOs who want to build large Quixtar Teams and have a secure business should be students of great leaders. I believe that anyone can learn to be a leader if they are hungry and willing to learn and serve others.

Billy Florence - Team Leadership Favorites

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The only safe ship in a storm is leadership." - Faye Wattleton

"Inventories can be managed, but people must be led." - H. Ross Perot

© 2007 Florence News reprint permission to Billy Florence Team Dream Chasers site.

Randy Haugen: Americans Bound by Common Ideals

Randy Haugen has shared some powerful thoughts on America...

"Teaching children these principles secures America’s future." - Randy Haugen

Randy Haugen - Quick Quote Favorite

"America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these principles. Every citizen must uphold them. And every immigrant, by embracing these ideals, makes our country more, not less, American."- George W. Bush

ABOUT RANDY HAUGEN

Investor Randy Haugen owns Haugen Corporation. He is a part owner of Legacy Business Group and Haugen serves on their Board of Directors. Through his background in business management and customer service, Haugen’s businesses have matured fruitfully.

Haugen enjoys the great outdoors and spending time with his family.

Randy Haugen and Valorie Haugen are members of IBOAI



© 2007 RANDY HAUGEN. Permission to Billy Florence Team Dream Chasers site.

Dean Kosage: Belief During Adversity

Thank you Dean Kosage for this leadership information.

Dean Kosage, WWDB: Rudy Giuliani has faced the test of leading during times of adversity. When asked what quality is critical to great leaders, Giuliani said, "There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader."

Abraham Lincoln led this country in a time of great adversity.

Dean Kosage Quick Quote Favorite: Lincoln Acting on His Belief

"I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views." – Abraham Lincoln

Dean Kosage leads WWDB and is a member of IBOAI.

IBOAI, the official trade association of IBO’s, serves and protects the business interests of independent business owners. Leadership team includes Jim Janz, Brad Duncan, Orrin Woodward, Don Wilson, Billy Florence, Jody Victor.

Billy Florence leads Team DCI (Team Dream Chasers) Billy Florence owns Florence Enterprises. Fred Harteis owns Harties International and Harteis is past president of IBOAI.

© 2007 Dean Kosage - eSource News. Permission to Billy Florence Team Dream Chasers site.

Jerry Harteis: On Dreams & Reflection in Life

Thank you Jerry Harteis for sharing these great quotes on Dreams and Reflections...


Jerry Harteis - DREAMS

"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born." - Dale Turner

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)

Jerry Hartie - REFLECTION

"Evaluation of the past is the first step toward vision for the future."- Chris Widener

"At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you." - Jim Rohn

"We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?"- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness." - Leland Val Vandewall

© 2007 Jerry Harteis. Permission to Billy Florence Team Dream Chasers site.

Orrin Woodward: Poor Results Consider Lack of Leadership

It is the leaders job to get results. If results aren't happening in an organization, it is up to the leader to make sure they start getting results. Read more from Orrin Woodward of Team...

Leadership Lacking Observations from Orrin Woodward

When leaders or those in a position to lead shirk their responsibilities, cut corners, or fail in their responsibilities, the results are far-reaching. Says Bill George in Authentic Leadership, “A Time/CNN poll taken in the summer of 2002 reported that per cent of those polled feel that the ‘typical CEO is less honest and ethical than the average person.’

- Adapted from Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady’s Launching Leadership Revolution


About Orrin Woodward and Laurie Woodward

Columnist Orrin Woodward has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Manufacturing Engineering from GMI, and Business Administration training from the University of Michigan. Woodward holds four United States Patents, and an exclusive National Benchmarking Award for product analysis. Woodward has also been recognized in national trade journals. Co-founder of the Team (TEAM formerly Team of Destiny) and acting Chair of the TEAM Policy Council, Orrin Woodward and Laurie Woodward are also two of the most in-demand speakers in the industry. Woodward’s highly popular Observations from Orrin appear monthly in Team News and Orrin observations are often featured in leading business news publication like Billy Florence’s (Florence Team s DCI) Equad News.

With Chris Brady, Orrin is author of the book Launching A Leadership Revolution.

© 2007 Orrin Woodward All rights reserved. Reprint approved for Billy Florence Team Dream Chasers site.

Fred Harteis & Linda Harteis: Customer Service Business Tip

Thanks to Fred Harteis and Linda Harteis for sharing this valuable wisdom on the importance of customer service in business...

Fred Harteis, “Long term taking care of the customer is what keeps a company in business. In the hospitality business one way to stand out from the crowd is making the stay at your hotel something that can’t be easily copied. This successful case study provides an excellent business service example.”

Fred Harteis and Linda Harteis Business Case Study – Customer Service

A hotel wanted to offer its guests a special experience in every aspect of their stay. So each guest room is uniquely decorated by a different designer and a virtual tour of every room is online at the front desk so guests can pick the rooms they want. The final touch is small but telling. To update the ever-present mini-bar – and encourage guests to use theirs – the hotel staff stock it with the snacks that the guests themselves request when they check in. Every detail counts.

- Adapted from the Fast Company Web site

About – Fred Harteis and Linda Harteis

Fred Harteis owns Harteis International and North American business technology firm, Biznet Productions. A background in construction and agri-business laid Hateis’ business foundation. Under Fred Harteis’ leadership and vision, his businesses have grown exponentially.

Harteis International is a family company. Harteis’ children, Tonya Harteis, Fred Harteis Jr., and Annie Harteis Brescia support the company’s worldwide operations.

Fred Harteis and Linda Harteis are members of IBOAI

IBOAI, the official trade association of IBO’s, serves and protects the business interests of independent business owners. The leadership TEAM includes Jim Janz, Randy Haugen, Brad Duncan, Don Wilson, Billy Florence, Jody Victor and Joe Markiewicz


Key words: Fred Harteis, Jerry Harteis, Polly Harteis, Linda Harties

© 2007 FRED & LINDA HARTEIS. Reprint permission to Billy Florence Team Dream Chasers site.

Billy Florence - Charlie Jones

I consider Charlie "Tremendous" Jones a dear friend. He has had a great impact on my life. Charlie is such an example for all of us to learn from. He has been a true blessing to me.

Wisdom from Charlie Jones...

"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

"No one is a failure until they blame somebody else."

"If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't."

"You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read."

© 2007 Florence News reprint permission to Billy Florence Team Dream Chasers site.