It’s easy for me to get wrapped up in the details and activities required to build my network marketing internet business, so sometimes I need a reminder to step back and reflect on my core purpose for building my business. I received one of those reminders today…
One of the most powerful things in building a network marketing business is the difference our business can make in the lives of others. I love to work with women in my business. It’s a gift and a struggle because women are intuitive and can read someone’s intentions from a mile away.
I could choose to feel like I’m imposing on someone by sharing my company’s products and opportunity. I could come from a place of scarcity, that I need people to join my business and purchase my products in order to reach my goals. But, with that kind of thinking I’m certain to struggle and turn people off when I talk to them.
However, when I choose to focus on showing others that I value them, that I believe in them, that I’m grateful for them, everything changes. When we help make a difference in the life of a woman by helping her be successful in her network marketing business (whether she builds it online or off line) or helping her to feel and look her best, we create a positive impact on her self esteem, her mood, the attitude in her home, how that affects her children, her home, her community, and ultimately the world.
I’d love to share a special video with you below that will help you shift your mindset to creating a legacy with your network marketing business. It doesn’t matter what you give; your time, your money, your love, your friendship, or your talents & knowledge. The act of giving will make an enormous impact on your business and life.
A couple of the marketers I’ve mentored under in the last few months, Carrie Wilkerson, The Barefoot Executive and Metro Mom, Kim DeYoung, have both introduced me to Paul Evans from Nicheology. I’m not sure which one of them introduced me to Paul Evans first, but I’m so thankful that they did. (Carrie & Kim are both women of “service” and if you’re interested in learning internet marketing they are women you should follow. I’ve linked their twitter id’s and Paul’s twitter id for you above.)
You see, Paul just celebrated his company’s 6 year anniversary and as part of the celebration he released several videos to help internet marketers make money online using Private Label Products. Unfortunately, as I was enjoying having company last week I missed the deadline for his 24 hour challenge, but I decided to check out his videos anyway.
I’m so glad that I took the time. Paul really shared some incredible information, but the last video in the series made the biggest impact on me. In it he talks about creating a legacy and changing someone’s life forever through your business. It was powerful and I encourage you to watch it below.
Please pay special attention to the 2 questions he asks us to ask. I’ll be setting time aside this weekend to focus on these questions for myself and my own business. I’ll share them with you in a future post and if you’d like to share your answers to these questions, please post them in the comments below.
Above all, I’d like you to remember that whether you’re building your network marketing business off line or building a network marketing internet business, you have the chance to change the life of every person you talk to, and every person they know. The legacy you have the potential to create with your business is huge. Let the impact you can make on the lives of others be the power that pushes you to the next level!
Enjoy the video below!
Love,
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
~Albert Pike (poet, attorney, soldier)
Legacy from Paul Evans on Vimeo.
But have you stopped to think about the dream stealer inside of you? Do you frequently talk yourself out of goals you’ve set? Do you talk yourself out of success when things are going well? Do you have thoughts that you don’t have what it takes to reach your goal, or that you’ll never make it?
It reminded me of something a friend and business partner told me a couple of years ago. It was a story about how lions hunted as a pack.
A big part of winning in network marketing is obtaining the right mindset through personal development. Every leader I’ve spoken with, trained under, or read about talks about the importance of continuously learning, reading for 1/2 hr a day, listening to personal development audios while in the car, and attending seminars and company training events.
Continuous learning is important, but it’s not going to move us one single space on the game board. It’s in taking action in our network marketing business that we gain clarity.
Network Marketing Tips: 3 Questions to Help You Get to Your Compelling Why
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This is the first of several network marketing tips I’ve been inspired to write after a call I listened to this morning. In my 5 years as a network marketer and my journey to discover how to combine the internet and network marketing, I have listened to thousands of calls, read hundreds of books, many of them on money mindset.
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”
~Buddhist Proverb
The call I listened to was called “Fire Up Your Finances” and was presented by Helen Kim & Kim DeYoung and it had me thinking all day about my money fears, feelings, and philosophies…both the good ones and the ones that I need to change. I took away several things that will help network marketers and business owners shift their mindsets and break through barriers in their business, so let’s start at the beginning and get to the core reason you became a network marketer.
We’ve all been taught that our “why,” which is the reason we are building our network marketing business, needs to be strong enough to help us stay focused on doing what we need to do when we’re not feeling like it, when things are not going well, when we’re discouraged, or there are other things we’d rather be doing, etc.
I know for myself, and I’ve seen it in a lot of other business builders I’ve worked with, getting to our why can be challenging. Some people just know it, but for me, it’s been something that was always a little blurry. I’ve always known that my why revolved around being able to spend time with my kids, allow my husband to not have to work so hard so it can give him more time with our kids, and being able to have choices in what-when-how we decide to spend our lives. I also wanted to do something that had meaning and could help others.
I’ve learned that our “why” is never about money. On the surface, it can be about money and what money can do for us. Money will allow us to quit a frustrating job, go to sleep at night and not worry about bills, choose how and with whom we want to spend our time, etc.
At a deeper level, our “why” is an internal desire or need that is in alignment with our core values. For most people I’ve met, their why is centered somewhere around the people that are important to them in their lives and when boiled down results in a feeling of some kind–what feeling they will have when they are able to provide security, safety, freedom, acceptance, choices, and/or time to their loved ones and themselves.
I find it helpful to separate the “money” things into a GOALS category and the “feeling” things into a WHY category, but for me it hasn’t been enough to keep me from sometimes feeling disconnected from my “why”.
Helen Kim shared on the call 3 questions we can ask ourselves to get to what we really want.
This was powerful for me and reminded me of an exercise I went through at a Klemmer & Associates Personal Mastery Training I attended several years ago. It was called First Day/Last Day and it involved exploring how you felt on the first day of an experience.
“Every day man crucifies himself between two thieves—
the regret of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow.”
~Benjamin Disraeli
The result of answering these questions will certainly help you discover your compelling why. For me, boiled down, I want to live with the feeling that I am living my life without regrets and without fear. That is my “why.”
Yes, sometimes we do what we “gotta” to do what we “wanna.” The reason I’m building my network marketing business and specifically the reason I’ve decided to build my network marketing business on the internet is so that I can know that every action I take will get me closer to my “why” of being able to live my life without regrets and fear.
Building my network marketing business helps me to help others and brings meaning to my day. And most of all, because I can do it from home, I get to be with my kids right now so that I don’t have to regret missing out on those first step milestones, or the giggles I hear from the other room, as I end this post.
Please trust me when I say that going through the activities Helen Kim and Kim DeYoung shared this morning and getting to my own compelling why has motivated me so much more than I realized it could, and I know it can do the same for you.
Don’t just read this post! How many things do we listen to, or read and think, wow that was helpful information, or I learned something from that, but because we don’t do something with them, the moment passes and no progress is made?
I beg you to take action and ask yourself the questions above. Journal them, talk them out, have discussions around them with your spouse, teammates, prospects.
You deserve it!
Your family deserves it!
Your team deserves it!
Your prospects deserve it!
If this had meaning for you, please pass it on to a friend, share it with your team, tweet it, or share your comments below.
Live your life with purpose!
Love,
p.s. If you’re interested in listening to the “Fire Up Your Finances” call it’s part of the Metro Mom Get It Done Circle. I’ve been a member of the Metro Mom Get It Done Power Circle for over 6 months now and I have received more benefits and made more progress in the internet part of my business than I ever expected. I know it was because of the support I received from Kim DeYoung and through my Get it Done membership that I finally broke through my fears & insecurity of the internet and building my network marketing business online.