Prerequisites for Network Marketing Success
We will now discuss the positive motivating factors, and I will assume that you have read my previous article (‘Part 1′), which deals with the negative motivational issues. The positive factors ‘attract’, while the negative ones ‘push away from’. If we can get them to act in the same direction, it’s an ideal situation!
Lou Tice, founder of the Pacific Institute, once told the story of how he had to help a top Kenyan athlete to overcome a physical problem. Although this guy was a candidate for the Olympic Games, he often developed a pain in his side so severe that he had to quit the race. After listening to the athlete’s story, Tice advised him to quit running altogether. You see, Tice found that the athlete could support his family with the proceeds from his wins, and that was his main motivator. According to Tice it was simply not enough for gold medal status at the Games.
Nobody, but nobody on this planet has ever become good at anything overnight. I think the media are guilty of creating misconceptions here. They present a distorted timeline by (inadvertently) showing the transition from loser to winner, from obscurity to stardom, in a few episodes on TV or within the duration of a single movie.
In the real world the ‘instant success’ is more often than not preceded by years, even decades, of practice, hardships and disappointments. This is applicable equally well to marketers, musicians, artists and sports stars. So, on your way to becoming that marketing ‘superhero’, you are going to meet with numerous distractions and disappointments. There will be days when you wonder if it’s worth all the effort, and you will consider throwing in the towel on many occasions.
In view of this, you should ensure that your reasons for doing someting are so good that they are more important than any opposing forces. To excel at anything, be that athletics, painting, singing, or network marketing, you have to be hang in there for as long as it takes to be successful. And for that you require an intense level of motivation, preferably of the positive kind! So how do you get this?
The pieces of the puzzle will come together if you can get yourself to a position of ‘must’ have. There simply should be no alternative to achieving that goal. And to get to this magical point, you have to find yourself some magnificent ‘why’s. The better the ‘why’s you have, and the more they pull you in the same direction, the better. Magnificent means that you must desire it with your ‘heart of hearts’. It must be able evoke an intense emotional response. Sweaty skin. Increased pulse rate. Pupils dilated.
I do not know what your motivators might be; you will have to do a lot of soul-searching. Draw up a ‘wish list’, and order the items with the most desirable one at the top. Then look at the ones at the top. If they evoke that magic euphoric response, if you must realize them at all cost, come hell or high water, despite all odds, you’re doing good. Only 9/10? Hmm – not so good.
At this point I’d like to introduce some perspective. This series of articles deals mostly with money. Money is EXTREMELY important. But so is life, health, love, family and friends: to name but a few. In the final analysis you cannot have anything if it is not important to you. So if someone tries to tell you money is not important, don’t believe him – he’s broke.
Network marketing success and the money associated with it is not the ultimate goal. It is some of the magnificent things you can do with that money. So when (not ‘if’) you become that marketing superstar, and you do break through the million-dollar-a-year ceiling – what will your life look like? Your lifestyle? Your friends? Your boats and planes? Your appearance? The hospital in Africa you will be sponsoring? Now you need to become super-creative!
Stay tuned, in my next article I’ll show you how you can program your subconscious mind to pursue your goals. And no, it’s not the re-hashed old ‘goal setting and affirmation’ story.
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