Procrastination: Worst enemy of MLM

I’m usually a morning person.  I love getting up and watching the sun rise, listening to the stillness of dawn, enjoying the sound of the birds as first one then two then a whole chorus wakes up and greets the morning.

There’s peace in the early hours.  The kids are still sleeping, the phone isn’t ringing.  You don’t have to get going for awhile yet.  You can drink in the quietness.

So here I sit, at my computer, at the end of a busy, hectic day.  Interruptions, emergencies in the wee hours, scheduled errands done and taken care of.  My body longs for the comfort of my bed.  To just lie down and drift off to sleep.

And I almost set my blog aside.  It was on my list today.  The one thing that isn’t stroked off.  I argued with myself.  I’m tired.  I deserve to go to bed.  I got a lot done today.  Tomorrow is another busy day.  I need my sleep.  The list went on and on.

But if I give in to those voices I will only be procrastinating.  If I don’t write this today I may get it done tomorrow but then there’s everything else I do once the writing is done which won’t get done !  I know it.  It’s happened to me before.

Life got in the way.

Procrastination is one of the worst enemies of anyone involved in the network marketing industry.  There is nobody to hold you accountable.  There is nobody watching the clock to make sure you “work when you are at work”.  So it’s easy to procrastinate.  To put it off till tomorrow.  I work for myself so I don’t have to report to anyone !

Ouch, but therein lies the rub.  If you don’t push yourself nobody else will.  If your income isn’t as high as you would like it to be, it’s nobodies fault but your own.  Chances are you procrastinated.  Just like I was tempted to do.

STOP !!  The very fact you are working for yourself should be all the motivating power you need to get’r done.   You’re working for your family, your lifestyle choices, whatever your dream is.  That’s important.  Important enough that you chose to start a business.

I know it feels like you are working hard and you haven’t gotten any results yet.  You may think that it’s not worth it.  You haven’t made any money yet or not much.  You’re on this hamster wheel perpetually spinning like a top. Take heart, you’re not alone.  Tons of people are in the same situation you are.  Getting stuck and getting nowhere.

 

I hear you !  I’ve been there, done that !!!

Just over a year ago I started looking for “the” mentor I could learn from, work directly with and get out of that rut of learning more and even more because buying one more course wasn’t going to do it !

A couple of months went by and more people got on my list but I had no place to take them.  Everything I was familiar with just didn’t sit right in my gut.  My conscious wouldn’t allow me to enthusiastically direct them here or there.  More searching, following and observing what “my” potential mentors were doing, what they were saying, questioning myself:  do these people think the way I do, do they have integrity and honesty and more importantly do they care about people.

A couple more months went by and “my” mentor list got smaller and it was time to pick up the phone and connect, personally, with them.  One man rose to the top of my list:  Richard Bravo.  Intelligent yet humble, compassionate, an excellent grasp of the problems and issues most network marketers were facing, a techie kind of guy who had the patience to explain the nuances nobody else shared in their various courses.

I liked what  he was doing with his funnel, what the end result was going to do for big, small and inbetween people.  I liked what his company was doing, where it was going, their philosophy, the products, the comp plan was unbelievable and within days I had joined him in Life Force International.

Today, the funnel is very close to being completed.  Techie issues are holding up the full launch but I can share with you, if you are tired of spinning around in circles, getting nowhere, Team Inc Pro is going to address every single issue you have ever experienced and then some.

You can get a sneak peak at the beta version of the beginning of the funnel on the top right hand corner of my blog.  Fill out your name, best email address and phone number and I’ll send you the link.  Course if you’re married to your current company, don’t waste your time.  That sneak peak is only for those who want to seriously help others AND make money at the same time.

I’m off to sleep now.  I’m glad I didn’t put this off and give into the ugly procrastination trap we often fall into.  I will sleep easy now.  I’m stroking it off my list and I’m done.

Sweet dreams.

 

 

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