Treat It Like A J.O.B.
I called a woman who owns a Network Marketing Company that is spread throughout
"I know you don't usually wake up until about
I told her that I went to bed early the night before and my eyes just opened naturally at
She replied, "I wake up at about
"That's it!" I said.
"What's it?" she asked.
I went on to tell her that people all over the world are waking up to an alarm clock in order to fight traffic, to breathe in the exhaust pipe fumes coming in from other cars, to spend the day hanging around people they really don't like in order to make an amount of money that can barely pay the bills. I told her that if people were to put the same type of energy and discipline into their Network Marketing business as they do into their jobs, then they would be rich.
She asked me to explain it a little bit more.
I continued to tell her that most people do not succeed in Network Marketing not because they don't know what to do, but because they don't consistently and persistently put into action what they know. In a J.O.B., people have a daily method of operation. There are some basic things that they will do every day and they will do it even if they don't feel like doing it. There's a certain amount of time every day that they devote to their job. There's a time they get up; there's a time they show up at work; there's a time they take their lunch breaks; there's a time they leave; and so on.
In other words, they have a routine and they stick to that routine every day. It doesn't matter if they wake up and are not excited; it doesn't matter if they really don't like the routine they are doing; it doesn't matter if they would rather be relaxing on the beach somewhere; it doesn't matter if the people at work are negative; it doesn't matter if they feel as if they are not adequately compensated. None of that stuff matters. They still show up to work, give up their time and energy, and put up with the mediocre results.
We spend so much time telling people to treat their Network Marketing opportunity like a business, but most people who get started in Network Marketing have never had a business, so they really can't relate to that. They may think that everyone who has their own business truly loves everything they do in that business. So when they get started and they find out that there are some things in Network Marketing that they don't like, they think something is wrong and they quit. Or they may keep looking for a different way of doing it every month even though they may already be on the right track.
What would happen if instead of telling people to treat it like a business, we started to tell them to treat it like a job?
She sparked up over the phone and said, "That's great. You definitely have to teach this concept at the upcoming training in
"No problem," I told her. "And I'm going to treat the opportunity like a J.O.B."