Starting your own network marketing business can be a lonely thing. You are introduced, in one way or another, to a company and you see the potential to make, at the very least a decent living and at the most, a substantial amount of money, that will never be possible at the job you are currently at.
So, you get excited and start to share with your family and friends and BAM!!!! You get the new network marketers worst nightmare..... the negative comments and put downs that the more seasoned veterans know are just part of the territory and growing process.
At this point, you have two choices: you can either be a pioneer, trudge forward, much like our ancestors did, or quit and prove them right. We always have a choice.
If you think about it, being a pioneer is really an extraordinary thing. One of my favorite shows of all time is "Little House on the Prairie". The idea of the pioneers, the people that were forward thinking enough, were courageous enough, okay, were BALLSY enough, to pack up themselves, their families and what few belongings they had in their covered wagon to take off to God knows where, just completely amazes and inspires me. And what they found was a whole new world and ways of doing things, that those that ridiculed them and stayed behind never found. It's thinking like a pioneer that truly makes long lasting, life changes.
How does this correlate to your network marketing career? Well, there are going to be people that tell you negative things about your business, like "It's a pyramid scheme", "The only people that make money are the people at the top" or "Who really buys that crap?". It is now that you have to decide if you are going to think like a PIONEER or choose to stay stuck where you are. If you are a pioneer, you will have just ignore those voices and move forward. Just like the original pioneers did.
Stop and think about what those pioneers that left the east and headed west found? What did they do when they first came upon the Mississippi River? Definitely an obstacle, right? They could second guess themselves, say, "I guess they were right, this was a bad idea. What was I thinking?" and turn back. Some probably did, or stayed stuck and made a home in what is now Illinois. But others found a way over the river.
Then, they make their way across the plains. Some probably thought, as they made their way across what is now Iowa and Nebraska, "Man, this is some FLAT, BORING land. If this is all there is, I should've listened and just stayed put". They may have decided to quit and plant themselves there, somewhere in the middle of flat Nebraska. But others moved forward.
Those that continued one, found the land to start to get more hilly; probably pretty tough on horses, wagon wheels and morality as a whole. The weather likely got colder. But, after they continued forward, found themselves in the beauty yet treacherous terrain of the Rocky Mountains. What would they have missed had they turned back or stopped where they were at? Anyone that has spent any time at all in the Rockies knows what I'm talking about.
They found ways to let those back home know they were okay and had found beauty and bounty beyond their dreams and soon, others follow suit and the West was gradually settled. But it all started with the pioneers that decided to venture out on their own, knowing there had to be a better life out there.
We need to think like the pioneers, knowing that many, if not most, of the people in our lives will not, at least initially, have our backs. They might think they do, telling you, "I just don't want you to make a mistake/get screwed over/ make a fool of yourself" or whatever their "concerns" might be. But you, the pioneer, need to listen to yourself, knowing that if you continue on, you will get all that you dreamed of and quite likely much, much more, and sooner or later, others will follow behind you. The choice is yours. Be a pioneer.
Your partner in success,
Rebecca Ingham
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