Why Things Don’t Work
So last post we discussed when people lose the right to complain, because they are not taking the actions necessary for success. But Rachel raised an interesting issue…
She wrote, “So what should we say to the guys who do what we ask for a long period of time but don’t get long term success? As much as there is a formula for success it seems to be very unpredictable from person to person and country to country no matter how inconvenient that may be.”
The first thought that comes to mind is if that is really true…
Because I believe in a lot of cases, it is not. The system we use in my company has ten core qualities to follow. Yet lots of people want to only do seven or eight of them.
The foundational element of our recruiting system is a “plug and play” presentation. It works. Everywhere, and for everyone that does it. But the guy I wrote the original post about wouldn’t do one. He just kept talking about distractions.
Ninety times out of one 100, I believe that the person in question really hasn’t been following the true system and doing what they’re supposed to. But what about the other ten percent? Why isn’t it working for them?
Please share your thoughts below. And I’ll check in with mine on the next post.
-RG
If the other 10 percent is following a proven system consistently, it will work. The key is to believe in yourself, your company/product, and be consistent and it will happen.
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” – Napoleon Hill
Like this quite implies – when you start to feel like maybe it’s not going to work for you, that’s the time to hold steadfast and keep going. That’s when you will have the breakthrough to success.
Those are my thoughts!
Dorene Pierceall
I think the one key ingredient is to have a passion for your product and what you do. I have seen people become very successful with little or no training because they had a passion for what they were doing and they reflected that passion. On the other hand I have seen the same people become “educated or trained to follow a method” and then fail. You can’t teach passion.
Not all strategies and systems will work for everybody. The system must be flexible to accommodate with the local cultural and social characteristics of that area. One of the reason why members failed despite of doing all the requirement to achieve success is because they are advised to implement the system which is not suitable to their local population/setting. Local leaders must play a role to modify the system to become more practical and duplicable. At the same time higher rank leader from other country must also understand this and not to aspect their downline in other countries or locality to follow the system rigidly. Members can only achieve success if they themselves has a quality of inovative and progressive leader . None of the passive member will do well in this business.
Network Marketing is like turning cards in a deck. Imagine every person you recruit is turning over a card and the aces are your key business builders. It is possible to find the aces in the first 4 people you recruit and your business grows fast. however the odds are that you will turn over other cards first (the ones that do nothing (and you quit saying “network marketing doesn’t work). If you turn over 52 cards you are guaranteed to find the 4 aces – just make sure when u find them, you work with them and help them build their business which will make you more successful. It is just a numbers game don’t take it personaly , you can only improve your odds by talking to more people and improving your presentation skills through practice.
It must come down to belief in yourself and your success. The rest can be obviously duplicated. If you’re doing everything, then work on your belief and your personal development, success will follow.
I have wondered the same thing about the 10%. Somebody works hard they seem to be doing all the right things as I stand and observe from a distance. But then, I get up close and personal and whoa!
It seems that in most cases I have been aware of, it is an attitudinal problem. I was with a “professional” one day who made a nice presentation and the prospect happened to be with a company that did not allow other affiliations. My professional began to tear down that company and completely turned off the prospect and me.
I had been told the professional was supposed to be quite successful and would be a good mentor for me, but he is now out of the company and hasn’t been successful in any of several other opportunities he has joined.
There may be some who work hard but are unsuccessful but I can not think of any that I have met.
For them is not working because of 3 reasons:
1. Attitude………………….
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2. Attitude
3. Attitude
The sistem is perfect, the product is perfect, the company is perfect………..but not us.
Couple things do come to mind. The first is even if they are following 8 out of the 10 (though I don’t know what the ten are for RG’s company) they are growing — personally and professionally. I’ve more seen leaders born in network marketing than any other business — all from the most diverse backgrounds. Any time someone is taking new steps in a new journey, they are growing.
The second would be how Rachel defines long term. The pros I’ve talked to is that busting your tail it takes 3 years to make a solid income, 5 years to tell your j.o.b. boss that you’re done — so, long term has to be defined. With the lottery/reality TV mindset long term can mean 6 months to some which may be realistic.
Being a lifelong learner takes commitment and a realistic horizon as does being success in any venture.
The short answer is it takes great failures … many… to have great success. I have reaped the benefit from people who quit a day earlier.
Another slice is network marketing, MLM, is seriously different than sales. I LOVE sales. Much of my failure the last couple years has been being a salesman instead of a networker. Marketing is similar to driving for example. Driving on the right side of the road could be sales and driving on the left side would be network marketing. If you attempt to use what you know as at right side driver and act on it while driving on the left… huge accidents happen. OF COURSE you know how to drive but some of your right side driving skills are not appropriate reactions in a left side driving country.
The other slice I am working on myself is I am like a smart rat. Once a rat knows where the cheese is they quit doing the process that had them find it initially and they instead just go to the cheese. Being smart, having a certain kind of background and experience in one area does not always translate into another. Being a great dentist is not a direct translation to being a great heart surgeon. The activities required to become great for the dentist in the beginning will have to be repeated to become a great heart surgeon. Some of us want to reduce the risk by skipping the early learning lessons that have to be re-installed.
In the beginning doing something a hundred times a day with only one positive result will, if continued eventually become doing ten to get the one result. If you quit at fifty in the beginning nothing will ever happen. If you quit at ten when that produces the one you have not learned the lesson either.
One last thought about smart rats. When the cheese is moved or runs out the rat will immediately revert to the process that had him find the first stash. We humans tend to become upset. Hey, where’d the cheese go, someone moved the cheese, there is supposed to be cheese here, I was promised cheese here…
I say the formula for success works everywhere. If you want a little, do a little. You want a lot, do a lot. If you want miracles to occur create huge breakdowns and that will generate huge breakthroughs. Stop playing it safe. Helen Keller said, “Life is either a daring adventure or NOTHING.”
My thoughts are simple. With the fear of rejection, it is easy to believe that you’re doing everything you’re SUPPOSED to be doing, but I feel there is an unwritten commitment that most of us fail to mention. The FOLLOW-UP. I’ve personally struggled with the follow-up. It paralyzed me. So I believe that most follow the commitments to an extent, but the follow-up could be the blame for someone’s failure in the business. So if you stay with it long enough, and are willing to get better then success is yours.
Casey Lawler
I believe it is possible and in fact probable that someone can follow a system exactly and not have success. And they way this could happen is a lack of belief and enthusiasm.
If you are following the system but just doing it with No belief, No dream, and No prosperity conciousness you will still fail.
If you go out everyday and take a prospect through your entire system but have it in the back of your mind that they are not going to sign up, that is exactly what is going to happen.
Your company can give you a great system but YOU as an aspiring network marketing professional need to develop your personal skills. And if you don’t have belief in what you are doing and posture, forget about it.
Live life adventurously or resort to sulking in despondency. – Arthur Tugman
-RG,
Inner-game stuff that’s not being dealt with. Which all boils down to fear. Fear of failure fear of success, blah-blah-blah.
How many times do we have to go through this stuff?
All of theses problems can be boiled down to one maybe two problems in life. It’s all the other stuff we wrap them in that make then hard to identify them.
You stay classy, San Diego.
-djm
I often hear “If you just folow the plan, it will work!” This is often followed by, “Those that succedd simply did what thoes who failed didn’t do or wouldn’t do.”
Great words, but they might not really get down to the root of the problem. Most systems are created by the top three percenters. Most of the verry successful people are also three percenters. They don’t understand why everyone doesn’t do what they are doing.
There is another line that should be added to the last statement above and that is “or simply don’t know how to do.” Not everyone has the same level of abilities. With knowladge most of those missing abilities can be learned, but someone has to teach them to the person who may not even know that they don’t have these abilities.
If you are truly in this business for the long run then you must take on the role of adviser and teacher to thoes you bring into this business. It is your job to create leaders and you do this by uplifting others.
It is also your job to discern what the abilitie level is of thoes you are teaching and then help them. Sometimes somethings can’t be learned by someone. Then you should help them find a way around this so they can still be successfull.
No not everything can learn everything. Although I have a 3.7 out of a 4.0 GPA in a science feild I can’t spell very well. I’ve been trying to learn to spell for 60 years but haven’t achieved that goal yet! I’ve got a shortcircuit that makes a lot of things difficult. I can say my name and even spell my name out load but sometimes I can’t make the letters to simply sign my name.
All that personil stuff just meens that I had, and still have, a lot of basic abilities to learn. I’ve also noticed that about 80% of my downline is also missing bits and peicies of some of the basic abilities that the three percenters take as natural knowledge. Knowledge is not natural, it’s aquired!
If your downline isn’t doing “it” what is it that they don’t know? More importantly what is it that you haven’t descerned about them and what haven’t you helped them with?
OK! Some people are just lazy or don’t really want to change anything. You should be able to descern that too and let those go. Anything less then giving them your best effort is just short sighted on your part. Once some finally gets it they will usually take off like a rocket! So ask yourself this. How many rockets did you let go stagnent?
A trully round pearl is less than one-tenth of one persent. Does that mean that they should stop culturring pearls? To get one carrot of diamond you have to process, on average, 41 tons of dirt! Should they stop digging for diaminds. After they find a diamond it takes about 80 yours to fashon a 1ct. diamond. Does that mean that it’s just a big waste of time?
Leaders are made not born. Your true job is creating leaders!!!
Guestion is, “ARE YOU UP TO THE CHALLANGE OF CREATING LEADERS?”
Some that succedes simlpy did what thoes who didn’t succeded didn’t do or wouldn’t do or didn’t know how to do.
It all starts with the verry verry basic abilities, now go create leaders.
I agree it all boils down to belief. I have to work VERY hard at this and I’m filled with gratitude for JMF’s Belief Buster system (www.beliefbusters.com) – I love that man!
So if we feel like we are doing it all right and saying everything we were taught to say…and after months or even years, still don’t have success – we must look inward for the secret to success.
The other day I had an ah-ha moment around this very thing: I was at a very nice restaurant for lunch and the waitress explained the specials to my table. Each one sounded delightful except for the last one that nearly turned our stomachs – she described it as a MEAT PIE with KIDNEYS! It was obvious that she did not BELIEVE this dish was worth ordering and her own beliefs came screaming through her presentation. However, a few minutes later I overheard another waiter explain the same specials to his table. He read from the same list of special entries and eloquently described the Kidney Pie to make it sound amazingly appetizing – even though I was still hung up with the whole kidney thing and was glad I ordered a very delightful soba noodle salad!
So – bottom line, if we don’t BELIEVE in our product, our company, our profession or our self – we cannot expect to have the same success as one who has strong positive beliefs. The good news – we can recreate ourselves so we can believe and have success. I’m on the path!
Success is defined by your doing. Are you willing to make the sacrifice? There are no short cuts. It seems people want the easy road traveled instead of the road of learning and growing. It takes a few years to get established in anything that you do. Why are they only following 8 of the steps instead of all ten? Your question was answer by that statement. Have they given up on their dreams, goals or aspirations? Once you give up on these things; you have given up on yourself. Talk to them again and give them inspiration to be enthused in what their WHY was in the first place. Maybe then they will be more successful.
If the law of averages is true (and I believe it is) and it applies to success (which I believe it does), then it has to be true that a certain percentage of people will not be successful even if they follow the system exactly.
Randy is correct that if a “plug and play ” presentation is done every time then it “works”. The presentation works. Not necessarily the distributor. What about skills? How was the invitation done? How was the presentation set up? How were any objections handled? Are lessons being learned from less than desired results?
I would have to say (in my personal experience) that success has been elusive because of the need to develop skills. The desire is there. The enthusiasm is there. The belief is there. Skills not so much.
Ask your downline and you might be surprised by that answer too.
Hi everyone,
Here in Latin americas there is an issue, it seems that almost 90% of peoples who say, that system doesn´t work for them, have only tried the system a couple of times, and everybody knows, that you have to try at least 10 times for it to work on you and your team.
If someone keeps trying, the rigth way, eventually succes will follow.
Everybody knows that, but only a few follow the recipe.
Rob.
Hi Rand!
Things dont work to some people because they loose hope. Hope is the most important healing force. Never say there is no hope. With hope your mental attitude and personality will develop a better life and destiny. with hope you can gain anything.
Can you believe that? ok thank you very much.
I’m very leary of saying any system works all the time & if it doesn’t the person has an attitude or belief problem. Very arrogant & self-serving of the system developer.
I understand most people who complain aren’t doing it all and lack of belief can be a problem but there are other reasons & things that can intrude that cause failure in this and any business.
No one would dispute McDonalds has a great system but they can’t locate a store just anywhere and even profitable locations have closed when outside forces have changed.
You realise every MLM or sales company says what you are saying and they all have distributors earning checks but you know there are many that are not viable for most people – bad products, bad pricing, poor marketing program, etc.–all the way to just rip-off companies. This points to the fact that doing all the “right” things & believing and having the proper attitude can not overcome all circumstances.
It may be rare but a person could be doing & being all you ask and still fail due
to other very realistic forces from bad companys to poor location to a talent/personality mismatch etc.
Hi again.
I forgot to say something ells before.
If people are suspicious when they involves with this profession, why even do the entrance in it?
Can we talk about something fun instead? What do you do for yourselves when you succeed, for e g. I buy me a cake and celebrate how good I am. 🙂
I’m not a good baker. I think it is funnier to eat. 😀
// Viktoria
People let distractions get in the way! They are not doing the necessary steps they are just making excuses! The other 10% are just making excuses, systems work, people fail! ITS THAT SIMPLE…
MLM’s best system to > > Start Branding You
Follow the system exact & success is assured – but remember Monkey See/Monkey Do
So if you are doing something outside of your company system make sure it is on top of the system & not instead of it – your team will only do what they see you do.
In my company system there is not a big focus on internet/attraction marketing if you follow the plan to success – but many people are doing that anyway & some instead of using the system. Guess what their team will do & they will believe they are doing exactly what you told/showed them to do.
But will they have success if they don’t follow the system 100% – unfortunately not likely.
Great question. I generally find it is often the little things that keep people from having success. The person may be putting consistent and persistent effort in their business and may be doing the correct actions but not finding success. A few things we see most often, is they don’t believe they can, don’t believe in the product or the company.
In our team training and coaching we work on their belief . They must believe that it is their business and that it can be a multi-million dollar venture and they must treat it as such.
Next area we cover is attitude, body language and authority. When a person knows what they have, know what it can produce, their attitude changes, their body language speaks of success and they are the president of their company. They know they can do it.
An example I use is: If Bill Gates was looking for some partners, would he beg people to come to a meeting with him? Would he pick them up? Would he put fliers on cars at the market? Of course not. He knows what he has to offer, he knows where he is going, he will be professional and treats his business like a multi-million dollar business.
Craig
where they fail is in that burning desire. they will quit if it is not strong enough … our business is tough, really tough … people forget that in the beginning you only have to be good at inviting … then promoting … then presenting … then training … taken in steps, like any new skill one learns, one will be successful
A lot of people say they are working their network marketing business but many are doing busy work, or engaging in avoidance activities and not the right kind of work, or as Randy points out they will do 80% of the things you are teaching but not 100%. Hence the old analogy that if an aeroplane is even .001 of a degree off course and continues on that path it ends up nowhere near it’s destination.
I know what that feels like, to fool oneself and trying to fool others because that’s what I did for a long long time, I even convinced myself that what I was doing would eventually help me succeed. One day I decided that I had to try and do it ‘their way’, letting myself be coached, and that meant doing all 100% of what was taught (and that was REALLY hard for me).
So Rachel, are they doing all and not just 80% of what you teach. If they are then are they doing it consistently enough. I bet it’s one or the other that is causing them to plateau.
I find that those who follow the steps exactly with BELIEF it works. Those who don’t believe find “other” activities to do.
I think they should counsel with the upline!!
As a Leader in another business, I have to say it is true, since I see it time and time again.
Reason: Human Nature
It doesn’t matter how much you ‘believe’ the person or coach or mentor or the company arranged training, it is simply human nature to do it your way or at least ‘try’.
When people realise their way doesn’t in fact work and have the guts to admit it publicly, then their attitude suddenly changes and the results improve.
Will we ever eradicate human nature? Hopefully not, since that is what makes life interesting.
I agree it all boils down to belief. I have to work VERY hard at this and I’m filled with gratitude for JMF’s Belief Buster system!
So if we feel like we are doing it all right and saying everything we were taught to say…and after months or even years, still don’t have success – we must look inward for the secret to success.
The other day I had an ah-ha moment around this very thing: I was at a very nice restaurant for lunch and the waitress explained the specials to my table. Each one sounded delightful except for the last one that nearly turned our stomachs – she described it as a MEAT PIE with KIDNEYS! It was obvious that she did not BELIEVE this dish was worth ordering and her own beliefs came screaming through her presentation. However, a few minutes later I overheard another waiter explain the same specials to his table. He read from the same list of special entries and eloquently described the Kidney Pie to make it sound amazingly appetizing – even though I was still hung up with the whole kidney thing and was glad I ordered a very delightful soba noodle salad!
So – bottom line, if we don’t BELIEVE in our product, our company, our profession or our self – we cannot expect to have the same success as one who has strong positive beliefs. The good news – we can recreate ourselves so we can believe and have success. I’m on the path!
Hi Guys
There’s doing things and doing things properly. If you had a job you would have to get results or no pay! The problem with most people is that they accept poor results and look for someone else to blame.
Fact is that we have to be realistic aboiut what we are engaged in, we get paid on results. If you are not getting results – change what you do. There is “training people” and “working with them” to get results. The second option is harder but it gets results one way or another!
Hey Randy and friends,
This is a question of belief. If you are really convinced that you have found the very best way to make your dreams come true, then you let nothing stop you. Then you really don´t care if it takes 1 – 2 – or 5 years to reach – you just do it.
I have begun the journey and have set my mind on my goals. One step is to be where I have decided to be in january 2010.
It is a matter of doing – and learning the same thing to others. Keep it simple!
It is all about discipline and patience, and who am I becoming into. The real question is, I am really consciuos about it???
Why does it not work for some??
It’s their mindset. It is what they think about. They are not present in the moment. They are worried about the dollars and not creating value/solving problems. They are internally designed to failure based on their past programming. They aren’t thinking BIG enough. They don’t have clarity or a mission/cause. This business is so simple that they complicate it so they have an excuse to fail, because this is their way of thinking. I wish it were legal to start a MLM company with a group of 10 yr olds…or 10 Forrest Gumps…. remember, simple is usable, complication is interesting…
When I first started in the company I was involved with, I did everything I was supposed to do. On autoship, Major Blast, PBR’s, meetings, conventions, calling everyone I ever knew etc. I had very poor results and then ran out of resources. Maybe network marketing can work but you need a descent circle of influence then you need the resources to keep you in Autoships, tools etc.
The reason I mention having a good ‘circle of inflluence’ is because if everyone you know is either blase’ about the opportunity your showing them or they can’t be bothered then you get nowhere. The people in my ‘circle’ won’t even take my calls anymore. They include relatives and old friends. The only way you can build a new circle is to get out and live life out loud as Randy says. That takes money that many of us who get involved with Network Marketing just don’t have. Yes I could meet quality people at the Symphony or the Opera but I can’t afford the tickets to go. Yes I could possibly meet people at the hair salon or the dry cleaners but I can’t afford those luxuries either.
Network Marketing is not for those with little or no resources. It is not an escape route out of complete poverty. Maybe it could be done but with a lot of help from the leadership of the company. Like any business, you need to have working capitol or you go under quickly. Everyone I know in Network Marketing kind of side steps that issue.
It is easy for local leadership to say ” you just make a decision to do it” referring to finding a way to get to expensive conventions etc. I skipped the last two conventions with my company because most of the time I can’t even find enough money to put gas in my car let alone pay for a trip.
After I exhausted my sorry ‘circle of influence’ list, I started cold calling. That went absolutely nowhere.
Maybe Network Marketing is good but you can’t be broke to start, especially with $1000 sign ups and then another $200-300 per month costs plus the costs of traveling to conventions.
I know the FEW successful people will have a lot to say on this but it is what it is. I have been doing personal developement for about three years now. I am seeing possitive results. Just not in Network Marketing. I am working hard to change what I don’t like about myself and my life. Right now I’m trying to find another job. Maybe if I find one I might have some limited resources to work with to give it another try.
We’ll see. I am very jaded now about the industry.
Lucinda
Hi Lucinda,
Yes it takes money to do it the way most of the top people do it. They are not average people or average in their resources. So what do you do!
You have something that you do all of the time that you have to afford. You go grocery shopping. Most people do this as littal as possible. Why not do it three times a week and do it at different stores. Learn how to start non-commital conversations with people. Just general talk. If you listen to them instead of talking a lot you will start to hear lots of reasons for them to want to do something else.
In otherwords, find their need or maybe their pain and use that to see if they are a good fit for you. Use the form system if yiou need to, just keep it casual. Your main intent is to see if you can help then not to see if you can get them.
Let me state that again. Your main intent is to help them. If you help a lot of people get what they want, you will get what you want by defalt. So start by being truly intrested in them and see if you can suggest ways to help even if it doesn’t have anything to do with your oppertunity ot products.
You won’t belive how freeing this will make you feel or how successfull you will start to become.
In the famous words of W.Churchill –
“Never, Never, Never, Never, Never – Give – Up”
Your live and dreams are too important, don’t give up, just learn different ways.
Yes talking to people at the grocery store may work but you still need working capitol. It still takes money for product and tools. That was one of the issues I was trying to make a point about. How can we be ‘products of our products’ if we can’t afford them? How can you honestly tell a potential recruit that yours is the best product if you have never used it long enough to really tell? How do you reach a large audience with no tools from your company because there is no money to buy them?
These are some of the issues that need to be addressed. If a person needs to start talking to complete strangers at the grocery store then they should be shown how it’s done successfully by already successful people in their company. Not everyone has that skill naturally. I would love to see people in leadership roles really step up and take people under their wings and really show them how it’s done. Doctors, lawyers and other already successful people don’t usually need that extensive training, but people who are at poverty level, no education but still have a burning desire to succeed do.
I am not making excuses, I’m just tired of spinning my wheels with lists, cold calling etc and still not getting anywhere.
Any thoughts?????
Lucinda
RG et all,
Ultimately, “everything works.” Some people work consistently while others work erratically and you’ll find both personalities at the top in every company. Some follow systems to the letter while others find their own way and you’ll find both at the top.
In any area of business or commerce failure is an option, success is not, some people will fail because that is their focus. MLM has nothing to do with it!
We live in Japan, the culture here is different to other countries, it is easy to overlook this and assume that one system fits all. It simply does not!
However, the basics and the MLM fundamentals are the same, human behaviour is very predictable, so when someone says they have followed the ‘plan’ completely we know this is not accurate at all. There are at best half-way doing it right or they stopped far too early.
I’ve seen many give up along the way, this is normal, most will not follow the steps, this is also normal. This cannot be changed.
What is certain is this:- The stories of triumph the stories of struggle the stories of beating the odds…these stories of human endeavour will keep us engaged in what we do. The ‘system’ is the order of play, but that alone is not enough.
The ‘system’ will lead you to the “X” on the treasure map so all you have to do is dig. You can dig how you want, just dig. There are hundreds of ways to dig, everything works when you dig in the right spot. So dig!
Russell
When is it going to be acknowledged that Network Marketing is just that, i.e. another Marketing method for the company to get their products out?
That’s it.
It’s not a “charity”, even though they often “play” on those strings. If it’s not charity for Africa you are indirectly sort of doing charity for people by telling them about your opportunity. You are “rescuing” them.
If that is the approach it’s more like working for the MLM Church.
And what is “leadership” and “personal development”? Does it really require a business at all?
People get rich in Network Marketing to the same degree people get rich in any other business, and for the same reasons.
Change your mind, change your life.
Finally a subject I can relate to 100%. I have been to 3 major events for my company in the past 2 years and got all the valuable info written down. When you get home and use all this info your back to square one because you can’t find the runners yet. The runners being the people who will join your business and go absolutely nuts with it.
I set up 3 home meetings straight after a major event and invited people from my warm market. The first meeting was in 3 days but that wasn’t enough notice for people to attend. The 2nd meeting was the same time the next week and 2 days before the meeting everyone cancelled because something had come up. The 3rd meeting was cancelled before it even began !
I have to say people in the warm market think your trying to sell them something as soon as you start to tell them about the opportunity even if you say very little. They don’t say anything to you because they’re your friends but subconsiously they’re thinking ” He’s trying to sell me something”.
I have absolute faith in my company and the product. It’s just a matter of time until my business explodes and I will be one of the 7 figure earners.
Speaking as a member of the 90%, I fail because I half-ass it. I start and stop, and wonder why it won’t go. Well, I know why it won’t go.
Which leads me to why it may not work for the 10%. Perhaps they are following the system and then not following through with the most important part: helping your people do the same. You see, when I follow the system, my sponsor/mentor will assist me and keep me going, give me a kick in the pants. What I have forgotten from time to time, is to do the same. Our industry is all about helping people help people, and as Zig would say, you can have anything you want if you’ll help enough other people get what they want.
Cheers.
Is it enough to just follow the steps, or does belief play a big factor. I think that no if you do ‘what you’re supposed to do’ but don’t believe way down deep that the business, your company. your product, or the person you’re talking to won’t work – then that is transmitted to the other person. I think the one thing all really successful network marketers have in common is that at some point they committed. They comitted to themselves, the business and their company. Come hell or high water they were going to do this thing. And the people they spoke to felt it. There wasn’t one common ‘system’ or step by step plan. It was the long term commitment.
OMG for real? i am trying to stay away from this blog tired of all the showboating B.S.
Ok let me just weigh in on this real quick since you took the time to invite me along.
forget about your ten core F***ED UP qualities or anything else for that matter. forget about Hill’s 18 laws of success, and if you don’t know there are 18 i don’t want to hear about it! forget about b tracy, t robbins, d johnson jim rhon or anyone else’s B.S. when it comes to success. what determines success or failure in ANY ENDEAVOR is the individual’s belief that they deserve the success they seek.
Yes it is possible for anyone and every one to follow every damn step to success and still NOT SUCCEED. it is a HUGE FALSE HOOD that only the good or the hardest working or smartest people experience wealth and success. so all you readers get that notion out of your head.
randy gage even, has broken every damn rule their is and still brings in enough money to buy a bently, because of all reasons, peer pressure. (his words not mine) and now has his sights set on becoming a billionaire. but the ONE THING he’s got down pat is his beleif that he deserves it! all the other laws/rules/steps B.S. is just to keep what he calls “the sheep” busy thinking about what’s their next step, which of course is the next level of purchase.
you want to become successful? and i am sure most of you do. then DO IT! stop whining about it, stop crying about it, stop wishing for it, STOP TRYING TO SIMPLY ATTRACT IT. get off your ass and do it!
the fact of the matter is most (not all) but most of the people that are successful in MLM are people who have large numbers of contacts, and those key contacts are centers of influence for their contacts. don’t believe me? do the research for yourself and don’t comment back to me about it, i am NOT interested in your feed back.
most people successful in one MLM or another would have become successful at anything they do, but just so happened to be in MLM…. i am NOT talking about the exception to the rule; you know the ones who’ve never been successful at anything and then viola mlm comes along and they are rich.
read your top leaders success story, please most of it is a lie. regurgitated B.S. they are NOT a success coach, they are NOT qualified to teach you anything, they can’t even in most cases show you how they succeeded, because they don’t even know.
every tom dick and harry with 5 minutes of success and $10,000 a month residual income thinks they have the answer and willing to charge YOU top dollar to learn the secret. if their mlm is paying them so well, and your continued success means more success and bigger checks for them, then ask yourself this, why are they subsidizing their mlm income with income from coaching and training their downline? randy calls it mining the minors.
you want to become successful? i mean really? no B.S. no fluff no fancy shmancy word play? you really want to be successful?
then understand this: (condensed version)
the young monk seeking wisdom, goes from guru to guru to learn wisdom. one day hears of a great guru who lives near a mountain, so he sets out to find this guru.
upon finding this guru, the monks pleads with him to teach him the wisdom he seeks. the guru leads the monk into a nearby river and walks into the river till it is over waist deep and instructs the monk to kneel in the water. without warning the guru grabbed the monk and held hi under water.
the guru’s grip was like steel, the monk could not break the grip, and began to fight with all he had. just about out of breath thinking the guru was going to drown him the guru lifted him up out of the water and back to his feet. the young monk rushed back to shore.
the monk yelled i wanted wisdom and you almost killed me. the guru said, when you want wisdom as badly as you wanted air a moment ago you will find it.
Napoleon Hill delivers the same message in this famous books, Law of Success and Think and Grow Rich. no more reading is needed, no more study is needed, no more laws are needed. so why write a 1,700 page book or another 270 page book? because no one will pay $49.00 for a sheet of paper instructing you to strengthen your belief in you deserving it.