Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Run A Marathon Without Gatorade?‏

A simple question right? Of course not!

Second, would you try to put on 20 pounds of muscle by just going to the gym and lifting hard? No you gotta eat right too! You've got to put fuel in the system to get the desired result.

I don't understand why so many people that get started in network marketing don'trealize this. Typically it happens like this: a person joins a new business like the Home Seller Assist program, created by John Alexander, initially fueled off the dream of creating residual income. They see their dream vividly in their mind and it excites them so they join. They go to their sponsor and they say "What do I do first?" There sponsor sends them off in one direction or another, depending on the particular marketing system that team is working with.

The new born networker gets moving in an all out sprint. Their sponsor says call 10 people a day, they call 20. Two weeks down the road they've called 240 people, spent $300 and recruited no one. They go to their sponsor and say "Why isn't this working?" The sponsor says "Just keep going and it will." The newbie, almost exhausted, gives it one last go and goes into an
exhaustive sprint. They say . . . "I called 20 people a day last time and it didn't work, I'm gonna call 40 a day this time cuase that's gotta do the trick." And they set out and do it . . . Two weeks later they come back to their sponsor after calling another 480 people who probably were not that happy to be called, and spending another $500 and the newborn networker has now taken on the negativede meanor of those she called. She provides proof of her work to her sponsor in a negative tone and with a negative mindset as if to say "You lied to me about all this." The sponsor says it's just gonna take time, but you are doing the right thing. Her immediate thought is "Yeah right." (But she doesn't say it out loud.) After the conversation she's already quit mentally, but she calls a few leads here and there for "good measure". Then a month later when nothing happens she quits and goes back to the 9-5 world. What happened?

Now you are probably thinking what happened is she wasn't taught to do the right things and for it she was not prepared properly. I agree and disagree, because there is one thing far more important that she missed. She didn't realize network marketing was a marathon. She thought is was an all outsprint. What happens when you try to sprint a marathon? 400 yards into it you gotta stop. Not only do you have to stop, but if you do make it a little further down the path and you don't refuel yourself, your body is NOT going to let you keep going. It's gonna shutdown.

So if you are going to run the network marketing marathon to success you have to fuel yourself constantly if you're gonna make it to the finish line (If there was one.)

What do I mean by fuel? What initially fuels you to success in your initial start out of the gate is your mental vision of what your success looks and feels like. Once you start getting some negativity down the road your vision quickly gets blocked. But it's that vision that fuels you. Simply,if your vision goes then so does your hope for any network marketing success. You have to ensure that no matter how much negativity you encounter (and you will) that it never smothers your dream. You have to defend that dream with all your heart's passion.

You defend your personal dream by reading and listening to the stories of other people's success. I guess personal development is what they call it, but I call it defending your dream.

In any game you must have both offense and defense to win. You actions to grow your organization are your offensive plays. Your defense is defending your dream - Ensuring it remains intact at all cost. And just like in any game there will be times when you are on offense and times when you're on defense. It's in those periods of defense that you need to be careful. That's when you need a good book with a good story of success that you can relate to.That's when you need to listen to uplifting information. That's when you need to comeback to emails like this one. Because if you let your guard down no matter how much offense you put out there, THEY will steal your vision and you WILL lose. (Just ask the Eagles!) Don't forget to drink your Gatorade you need your fuel!

On that note, you need to attend the webcasts at 8pm Eastern at http://www.fastbuyerloans.com each Tues and Wed

And to see how you get paid, head over to http://homesellerassist.synthasite.com and check out the Compensation Plan under the last box. That little system has now made me slightly over $50,000 since June. You can do it too....

Larry Potter
847-872-4047

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