Dealing with Distractions
Let me guess: You’d like to be building your business more, but you have some distractions you need to get out of the way.
No, you need to get your own bad thinking out of your way.
My sponsor is starting his divorce trial today. One of my Diamond Directors is going through a messy partnership breakup. Another of my Directors was rushed to the hospital for an emergency operation. Let me tell you a secret…
EVERYONE has distractions. The most successful people in our business are the ones that overcome their distractions and make time for the business anyway. Period.
Not when the kids get out of (or go back to) school, not when the in-laws leave town, and not when they finish that big project at work. Professionals find the 10 to 15 hours a week and work their business consistently.
So how you doing on that?
-RG
Wow that was so well said!
That is so true
Great post! Yes, consistence is important in our industry. I met a lot of people who wanted to change their lives but never willing to change the way they use their 24 hours. They get into MLM, work for one week, then take a week off, and so on. Up and down. No wonder they hardly recruit a new downline. Some of them then justify and even blame the sponsor! Kids, success is no excuse. Wake up!
Thanks Randy.
This is such a great message, and a problem that crops up so often in our industry. What I find funny is that many people who claim they can not be at an event or meeting because of something cropping up, always seem to have no problem in being at their job for 9 or 10 hours of the day. I always wonder “if this issue was so important to resolve, why didn’t you take time off your job to do it?”
It always comes back to priorities I guess. If the urgency and desire to build it is not there, even one red traffic light will keep you at home.
To get really good in any field, an extra 10-15 hours a week is necessary. In Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers it is found that even legends in their fields practiced 10 000 hours before they became that good. 10 000 hours. That’s about 3 hours a day for 10 years… They really weren’t better, they basically just practiced more… Big wake-up call!
A focussed professional would see an opportunity…
Your sponsor will meet a lawyer, his/her secretary, the taxi driver on the way to court. The other guy will meet nurses, doctors and other patients.
Now, I don’t mean you should pitch the judge while your on the witness stand. Or pass out a product sample to your surgeon while your on the operation table…
But you can add those names to your candidate list. And invite them to look at your opportunity two weeks or two months later. Whenever it feels appropriate.