Network Marketing Success - Why Some Succeed And Others Don't, Part 2
We will now discuss the positive motivating factors, and I will imagine that you have read my previous article (refer to the link below), which deals with the negative ones. The positive factors 'pull towards', while the negative factors 'push away from'. If we can get them to act in the same direction, so much better!
Lou Tice, founder of the Pacific Institute, once told the story of how he had to assist a world-class Kenyan athlete overcome a physical problem. Although this guy was Olympic material, he often developed a physical pain 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, he found that the athlete could support his family with the proceeds from his wins, and that was his main motivator. And that, according to Tice, was simply not a good enough motivation for such a lofty goal.
Nobody, but nobody on this planet has ever become good at something 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 within the duration of a single movie.
In the real world the 'instant success' is usually preceded by years, even decades, of practice, hardships and disappointments. This applies basically to any field of endeavor. So, on your way to becoming that marketing 'superhero', you are going to encounter countless distractions and obstacles. You will often ask yourself if this was a good idea in the first place, and you will consider quitting.
So it is only logical that your reasons for pursuing a specific course of action should be so good that they outweigh any negative factors. To excel at anything, be that sports, art, singing, or network marketing, you have to be passionate about it. And you require an exceptionally high 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 must be no alternative to obtaining that goal. And you create this situation by having enough magnificent 'why's. The more you have, and the more they pull you in the same direction, the better. What I mean by magnificence is that the end result must really resonate within you at a gut level. On a scale of 0 to 10 it must evoke a '10' response. Sweaty skin. Increased pulse rate. Dilated pupils.
I do not know what your motivators might be; you will have to do a lot of soul-searching. Take a piece of paper, write down your motivators, and order them in descending order of importance. Then look at the ones at the top. If they evoke that magic euphoric response, if you must achieve them whatever the cost, come hell or high water, despite all odds, you are on the right track. If they only get a nine-out-of-ten rating, you might have to re-consider.
At this point I'd like to introduce some perspective. This series of articles deals mostly with money. Money is EXTREMELY important. So is life, health, love, family and friends: to name a few. The bottom lines is this: 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, however, not the ultimate goal. It is some of the magificent things we can do with that money. So when (not 'if') you become that network marketing success story, and you do break through the million-dollar-a-year ceiling - what will your life look like? Your lifestyle? Your associates? Your boats and planes? Your appearance? The hospital in Uganda you are sponsoring? This is the time to get super-creative!
Join me in my next article where I'll show you how I re-program my own mind to pursue my goals. And no, it's not the boring goal setting nonsense.
Deon H Reynders is the CEO of Visionary Marketers and lives, with his wife Marijana and an assortment of four-legged and feathered friends, near Toodyay in the Western Australian wheatbelt. Deon is an accomplished marketer, electronics engineer, coach, trainer and published author. You can read more of his articles on network marketing success factors here.
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