Early in my network marketing career I was easily derailed. I spent thousands of dollars on buying so called MLM gurus’ next “Biggest Secret” that only the top 1% knew. I was looking for a magic bullet that would be my breakthrough to success.
I could feel the magic buzz of being where I wanted to be as the credit card transaction took place for that course that would give me the million dollar answer, that quantum leap.
I could see my new blog post at the top of Google search results, generating me a flood of traffic just because I has purchased an SEO training course. I could see myself being able to sponsor 10 new recruits a month into my deal just because I bought a heavy hitter’s training CD on how to do it. [click to continue…]
Do you know the reason why most people don’t own their lives? The reason why they just mindlessly go to their day jobs every morning and park themselves in front of the mind-numbing television every evening? It’s because they’ve never made a decision to own their lives.
Some people go to work because they have to. They have mortgages and bills to pay. Others just go because heaps of other people are doing it. Very few do it because they love it. Most people just don’t make the important life decisions and because of that, the most important decisions are made for them.
Rarely do people work at careers truly of their own choosing. Most people work at their jobs because it was the first place hiring! They say “Oh well, it’s not really the job I want but they’re offering me a good package with benefits, so I’ll take it until I find my ideal career” They rarely do, such is their lack of self worth. [click to continue…]
Recently I received an email from a visitor to my blog. He asked me about my opinion on his company, especially its compensation plan. I sent him some training material provided by Mentoring For Free that allowed him to do his own assessments of his company.
Here is part of his letter to me after he had gone through the training materials and saw for himself what he was in for…
Hi Wayne,
Thank you so much for your assistance. What an eye opener! Here I am wondering if the company has a good compensation plan when I should have been more concerned with how the company could discard me. Although I believe in the product, and the need for the product, I no longer believe in the company. Especially with clause X on page 2 of their “Terms and Conditions” policy, that’s about as straight forward and simple an “out clause” as you can get.
The information you are providing should be mandatory for anyone considering investing their time and money into any MLM offering. Hopefully as your word grows it will become increasingly difficult for crappy companies to con people into joining them. The public (myself definitely included) are way to trusting, or (like me) looking at the wrong thing. As you covered with your first recorded call, if the foundation is sand – my house will always be in trouble.
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iLearningGlobal is the second major MLM company to terminate it’s pay plan in 2010, and therefore all of its distributors. It follows XELR8′s painful decision to go direct sales in February. It was announced on March 17 that iLG will cease distributing it’s products via MLM and go to a more traditional retail sales model.
This decision will be hugely detrimental to the many distributors who have put their belief, faith, trust and energy into the company for their future. It will be especially so for the top distributors who will bear the responsibility of emotions from their entire downline team. It’s also bad for the entire MLM industry as many will lose confidence in it as a vehicle.
iLearningGlobal began in early 2008 with Brian Tracy, a global leader in personal development, as one of its founders. It was in pre-launch for about year before it officially launched in March 2009. Come March 2010, the company has failed its hard working distributors. [click to continue…]
In my last post, I mentioned that a friend of mine once said to me: “For you to have more, other people must have less. If you want to be rich, you HAVE TO rip other people off”. Sadly, a lot of people will carry this self limiting belief on their network marketing journey and it stops them from becoming successful, until they change their beliefs.
If that statement was true, “If you want to be rich, you HAVE TO rip other people off…”, then the world that we live in would be a whole lot different. We’d have a world where the vast majority are poor and uneducated, slaving away for the very few elite. That is clearly not the case.
Most people who are rich deserve to be rich because they have created tremendous value for others. Poor people have very little value to offer to anybody. Poor people are not just materially poor, they are mentally poor. And it’s that mentality that keeps them poor. [click to continue…]
To be highly successful in network marketing, we must develop the belief and courage that it’s possible and that we can do it. Changing our beliefs is more important than any technique or skill we can ever learn. It’s a process that requires time, dedication and persistence.
When we start our network marketing journey, we often come “programmed” with beliefs that won’t serve us. They are more likely to hinder us. We need to get rid of self limiting beliefs in order to achieve the goals that we set for ourselves. We need to develop the belief that we deserve to be rich.
Back when I was working as an engineer in Sydney, I shared flat with a young colleague who was just beginning his career. Highly opinionated, had a vast bank of useless general knowledge, but a great, kind and friendly person.
One day we were having a discussion about the differences between the rich and the poor and I’ll never forget what he said to me. He spoke with absolute certainty and said “For you to have more, other people must have less. If you want to be rich, you HAVE TO rip other people off.” [click to continue…]
When you were a kid, did you endlessly ask “Why”? Do you have kids that never stop doing that to you? You tell them to clean their room and they keep asking “Why?”. They just keep asking “Why?”, “Why?” and “Why?” until you get really annoyed and snap “JUST GO TO YOUR ROOM AND CLEAN IT NOW!” If you’re not guilty of this yourself, I’m sure you know someone who is.
That was just one example of how we are taught to stop asking “Why?” every single day. And it’s a real tragedy because it conditions us to stop questioning and being inquisitive. It conditions us to just accept the status quo and things cannot be changed.
As most people grow into adults, they tend to lose the visions of their dreams, they lose hope, they lose their sense of freedom, they become apathetic, and they get into comfort zones because they’ve been conditioned to accept that this is “their lot” in life and there’s no way to change it. There is no sense of self-worth. [click to continue…]
So many people do not succeed because they are crippled by the fear of failure and the worry that comes with it. Some people want to find every avenue that can go wrong and are crippled by analysis paralysis. Others are afraid to embarrass themselves in front of their friends. While some (myself included) are so emotionally attached to the money they make from their hard work that they can’t bear the thought of losing it.
Before I go on, I have a couple of quotes from two famous sports stars which I think is very appropriate.
Wayne Gretzky, the famous Canadian Ice Hockey player once said: “You miss 100% of the shots that you don’t take in life.”
Michael Jordan once said: “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve most almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been entrusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over, and over, and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
These two famous sports people realised something that most people don’t. And that is, to be successful in business and life, you just have to stop worrying about everything and just go for it. [click to continue…]
A lot of people have a fear of failure, and they are crippled by the thought of their venture not working out and suffering the humiliation that comes with it. A fear of failure, while not easy to overcome, can be conquered through persistent effort and learning from experience.
However there’s another fear that for most people, is even more limiting than the fear of failure. And that is the fear of success. It’s very counter intuitive to think that a person could be afraid of success, but if they get caught up in worrying about becoming successful, then it’s a downward spiral to self sabotage.
“What if I just make it?”… Some people can become petrified thinking about it. The fear of success really has more to do with the fear of change rather than anything else. [click to continue…]
Fear is one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful of negative emotions that will corrupt our success journey. We can literally psych ourselves out with fear and never achieve anything. And if we don’t learn to consciously control fear, it will subconsciously control us.
Fear is a primal instinct that is actually designed to serve us, rather than hinder us. We come wired with two fear mechanisms. One of them is designed to make us take massive action. The other is designed to make us think before we act.
We are essentially the same hunter gatherer human beings that roamed the world millions of years ago. Back then there big animals and predators that we needed to be on the look out for. If a sabre-tooth tiger came charging at us, our fear mechanism would jump into overdrive, giving us an adrenaline rush and make us run in order to not get harmed by the beast that was chasing us. [click to continue…]
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