To Succeed In Network Marketing, First You Must Fail!

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.

In his famous book “Think and Grow Rich”, Napoleon Hill writes of several highly successful businessmen, all of whom had huge failures before they made their fortunes.

One of them was a man named R. U. Darby, whom Hill writes about in Chapter 1.

Darby discovered what he thought was a very rich gold deposit. So he spent a large fortune buying heavy machinery to mine the site. The first few cars of ore delivered to the smelters proved they had found one of the richest deposits of gold in the country. But then all of a sudden, the rich vein of gold disappeared.

Darby kept drilling and drilling, but there was no more gold to be found. So he quit. He sold the equipment for pennies on the dollar to a junk man, who consulted an engineer and found out that Darby had stopped drilling just 3 feet from gold. The junk man went on to make millions of dollars.

It proved to be the biggest failures of Darby’s life. He owed massive amounts of money to his friends, family and neighbors, who helped him buy the mining equipment. He spent many years paying back every cent he owed.

Years later, that “failure” proved to be the most valuable experience in his life. The millions of dollars he lost to that gold mine was recouped many times over in another business venture.

Darby learned to harness the power of his desire to break through the obstacles that would have caused other people to quit. Hill writes…

“When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is QUIT. That is exactly what the majority of men do.”

Hill goes on to write that all of the 500 or more of the most successful men that he interviewed told him that their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.

You’re going to struggle on your success journey and fail at a few things. It’s inevitable. Only a strong desire to succeed will keep you going. Most people don’t have that desire – that’s why the smallest of obstacles will scare them away. So work on your “Why”. Why are you doing this business?

If you have a strong reason and a high level of desire, you’ll realize that your failures aren’t “failures” at all, because you’ll learn valuable lessons from each one.

To your MLM success,

Wayne Wu
Founder, The Profitable Networker

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