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Network Marketing Success – Motivators, Part 2
By admin | December 23, 2009
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 unison, it’s an ideal situation!
Lou Tice, founder of the Pacific Institute, once related the story of how he had to help a top African athlete to overcome a physical problem. Although this guy was Olympic material, he often developed a physical pain so severe that he had to stop running. After listening to the athlete’s story, Tice advised him to quit running altogether. You see, it transpired 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.
There is no such thing as a person who gets good at anything overnight. I think the media are guilty of creating the wrong impression here. They present an incorrect timeline by (inadvertently) depicting the change from loser to winner, from obscurity to stardom, in a few episodes on TV or in less than two hours in a movie.
In the real world the ‘overnight 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 ‘rock star’, you are going to encounter numerous distractions and obstacles. There will be days when you wonder if it’s worth all the effort, and you will consider quitting on many occasions.
So it is only logical that your reasons for pursuing a specific course of action should be so good that they are more important than any setbacks. To excel at anything, be that athletics, painting, gardening, or network marketing, you have to be hang in there for as long as it takes to be successful. And for that you need an intense level of motivation, preferably of the positive kind! How do you acquire 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 more you have, and the more congruent they are, the better. Magnificent means that you must desire it with your ‘heart of hearts’. On a scale of 0 to 10 it must be able to evoke a ’10′ response. Sweaty skin. Heart beating faster. Dilated pupils.
I do not know what your motivators might be; you will have to do a fair amount of introspection. 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 VERY 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’s not important to you. So if someone tries to tell you money is not important, don’t believe her – she’s broke.
Success in network marketing, and the cash flow it brings, is not the ultimate goal. But some of the things you can do with that money – wow! So when (not ‘if’) you become that network marketing success story, and you do break through the 0,000/month ceiling – what’s your life gonna look like? Your lifestyle? Your friends? Your boats and planes? Your appearance? The hospital in Africa you will be sponsoring? This is the time to get super-creative!
Join me in my next article where I’ll show you how you can program your subconscious mind to pursue your goals. No, it is not the boring goal setting nonsense.
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