How is your network marketing business doing? Are you accomplishing what you set out to do? Taking some little steps every day toward your goal?
Or are you getting discouraged and just about to the point where you want to give it all up and just stop?
I would like to share a story I read by Ramin Mesgarlou in a magazine that I subscribe to. A network marketer was being asked about his success.
Here's the story:
“And you did really well right off the bat?”
“Not exactly. Three months after I joined, my sponsor quit. Soon after that, his sponsor quit, and I didn’t even know the guy above him. Now I had no upline support, and was trying to figure this thing out on my own.
“I finally said, “That’s it - I’m going to stick to the restaurant business. I quit!”
“Right around then some hotshot was coming in from Alberta to give a meeting, and he asked my upline if I would pick him up at his hotel to bring him to the meeting venue.
When I picked him up, he said, “So, I hear you want to quit?”
I said, “Yeah.”
“Why?” he asked.
“I don’t know.” I replied. “It’s just not working.”
“Okay,” he said, “let me ask you something. Is this business holding you back from your current business?”
“I had to admit, it wasn’t; I was still running my restaurant.
“So do you have a better alternative?” he continued. “Do you have something else as a backup plan?”
I didn’t.
“If this isn’t holding you back, and you have no other plan, then why quit?”
This made sense to me. I went back to my restaurant and told my family, “I don’t care what I have to do, we’re going to make this happen.”
Three-quarters of success in this business is commitment. This was the moment I decided I was going to do this.
So....what about you? Do you have an alternative? If not network marketing, what? If your network marketing business is not holding you back, why not keep doing it?
It is worth thinking about.
-- Roger Cox
