You hear so many successful people say, “I always knew I’d make it. I ALWAYS believed.”
Not me.
I NEVER thought I’d “make it” in network marketing or any other business. Not in this lifetime, anyway.
By 1993, I was in my 16th year in a government job - driving a bus in Miami & Miami Beach. I had good insurance, paid holidays, vacation leave, sick leave, enough benefits to choke a horse.
But what I really wanted was to "fire my boss". And I thought I'd never be able to do it.
It was tough to remember all the MLMs and other businesses I’d tried and failed. I couldn’t sell a lick. I did one dumb thing after another. I was married with 4 children, and my network marketing dreams had cost our family tens of thousands of dollars.
But a funny thing happened along the way – I discovered writing was fun. I bought tapes, went to seminars by the top people in marketing. My writing got better. I studied ads written by masters. I modelled their techniques in my own ads.
Still no money. But I couldn’t quit, because it was fun. I wrote a script for an audiotape and recorded the tape. In June of 1993, I placed a twenty-dollar classified ad offering free information. When people called, I sent out a flyer about my tape.
And people ordered. They bought audiotapes, and they joined my MLM business like crazy. That ad was profitable the first week and every week after. In a year, I was spending thousands on full-page ads in national publications.
So all of a sudden, I was successful ...
... even though I never believed it was possible. I only kept going because ... what else could I do? If I quit, that would be admitting I was a total failure. That may have been what I thought, but I just couldn't admit that to the world.
I retired from bus driving in August, ’94, because we were deluged with orders.
Do I believe now? Yes. I do. But I never believed back then. And if you don’t believe you can be successful, so what? Just find something that’s a joy – and do it. Something you’d do for fun, even if you never got paid.
For sure, it’s out there. And you deserve that joy. Not to mention the money that comes with it. Once you start focusing on something you really love to do, you'll begin to get a lot of ideas on how to leverage your "niche" into a very nice income.
So don't listen to those network marketing "experts" who tell you that first, you have to believe in yourself. It's not true. You can be successful even if you think you're a loser. And once you have success, THEN you will believe in yourself.
