I got my car at 6:00am this Friday morning after a long
night of partying at the club.
No just kidding . . .
But I was up at 6 am this morning to get to answering emails
and get things set up for the team and it is dark and
foggy out.
I looked out my window and I could barely see across the
street. Looking out the window I started to think.
I thought . . .
How does a ship trying to get to port ever find its way in
the dark fog?
Well the answer is simple.
The ship’s captain even if he has never gone to his
designated final port of entry finds his or her way to port
with a few simple tools; a map and a compass.
I thought this was good analogy to how he all entered into
your internet network marketing businesses.
None of us knew exactly how to get to our final destination
with our business when we started, but we were given the tools
to navigate our way to our final port.
Your ship is your marketing system and your compass and map
are your team's tools and sponsors guidance. These tools guide
us to our final destinations.
The only difference between a ships captain and us is that
the ship’s captain knows he will get to port as soon as he
sets of on his journey while we, on the other hand,
sometimes don’t carry this same level of faith going into
our business.
We hope that the tools that have been given to us will get
us to our final destination, but we don’t know as a matter
of fact that we will get there.
The reason for this is most of us in netowrk marketing, me
included, have never set sail in such a business before, so
rather than knowing we will reach our desired level of
success, as the ships captain does, we hope we will.
I understand why there is a difference in mindset, so let me
expound on it.
If the ship’s captain had never seen the sea before he
started his voyage or met any captains that had successfully
gotten to port he would be left with the same hope we hold.
He wouldn’t know for sure that would get to port, he would
have to trust in his tools and have faith that he would get
to port.
After successfully arriving at his destination for the first
time, the ship’s captain, would then have full faith in his
tools and his ship and their ability to get him to wherever
in the world he was called to go.
But in that first voyage he would be riddled with fear and
trepidation at every turn in his journey. Little storms or
detours that would normally be of no consequence would be
magnified his mind as an almost insurmountable obstacles.
Well the same thing happens to us all when we set off to
create a thriving and large organization in oue businesses
if we have never done it before.
When little obstacle come our way we tend to magnify them.
For instance . . .
Say you started your business a month ago and after hard
studying and testing you finally carried out your first
successful marketing campaign which brought in 4
new people into your team and then two days later 2 of those
people that you brought in went inactive.
What would you think?
You would most likely immediately think, what’s going on?
Why are people quitting on me? I worked so hard to get them
and now there gone. Does this “thing” really work?
A small storm in your path and your first test.
What happens at this point is a litmus test for the rest of
your business. I’ve seen it happen. Some people come in all
excited and call me every 3 hours asking for help and advice
and I give it.
Then they have their first small success and then they sit
back and wait to see what happens next. They want to see if
they’re done - if their new downline will just take over and
do all the work for them.
Then 2 out of their first 4 sign ups go inactive on them and
they call me and say Daegan what’s happening my downline is
“going away”. How do I stop it? I say, don’t worry about it
go out and market your business some more and support your
people that are still there.
Some will do this and some won’t. Those that won’t have lost
faith in their map and compass.
They don’t think that they work.
In their minds, they’ve used their tools effectively and now
their done. It’s time for their downline to take over and do
the same. Then when nothing happens for them they say the
system didn’t work.
You see they had only understood part of the system.
They thought that once they had set their original heading
and flipped on the autopilot switch then they would just
float into port without any further effort.
That’s not how it works.
You have to use the tools that you have been given to guide
your way all the way to port, not just set a heading and sit
back.
So all I mean to say is, if you have used the tools in our
in your business or in Internet MLM Success
to generate even one sign up you have used these tools
successfully, but your not done yet.
You have to keep going, keep using these tools, changing and
correcting your path when obstacles are put fourth all the
way until you get to port.
That’s how you create success in network marketing or
anything else in life.
I hope this little rant of mine has helped a few of you
recalibrate your path to success and see through the
dark fog that’s been put in front of you.
