Beware The J.o.b. And It's Not What You Think . . .
- Date: 2007-07-23 - Word Count: 782
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This is NOT another message about what makes network marketing so great. It's not about how the everyday average ex bike courier with asthma can start a business before going to work and a few years later be financial independent due to network marketing and the Internet.
You already know that. This message is about something much more subtle and it's probably at work negatively effecting your business right now and you don't even know it.
It's this . . .
Most network marketers tend to take the j.o.b. mentality to their business and it kills everything dead.
You have a split second of thinking like an entrepreneur, just long enough to join, and then you slip back into the job comfort zone. You look for someone to GIVE you a task to do that they say will grow your business.
Dangerous at the least, but more than that it's lazy.
In the job you get paid for hours worked and so you tend to log the amount of time you put into your business correlating it to the amount you should be earning which is wrong.
This is a lazy and a weak path of thinking when it comes to your business because it's not about hours logged it's about how effectively you use the time you do work.
Why should you work 10 hours when 1 get's the job done?
To be busy for the sake of being busy is an old hold over habit from the job. You can quickly fool yourself into thinking you're getting somewhere in your business by looking at the hours logged, when really you're doing nothing but busy work for the sake of doing busy work.
Not lazy in the sense of action, but lazy in the mind is what I'm talking about here. To do things just to do them because they make you FEEL like you're getting somewhere is not going to get you anywhere.
I promise. I tried.
Businesses don't work like this, but before I labour that point I want to tell you a misconception I had about network marketing that I've never seen anyone speak to or about.
A change in perspective that is priceless if understood.
Most get into network marketing for the dream of money and time freedom. They hold, and I held this belief as well, that at some point they can just quit and retire.
That's why they got into the business anyways right?
Wrong!
Again another hold over mental habit from the job . . .
Retiring is a work related concept that is built on the idea that you're spend most of your time doing something you don't want to be doing and if you just save up enough you'll be able to free yourself from that boring and uninteresting existence.
Well, if you carry this idea over to your network marketing business, and I did for a while, you start to think about your network marketing business like a job in the deepest sense.
Sure there are tasks to be done, but it ain't a job for sure.
What's wrong with carrying this into your network marketing business is that in holding this notion the very essence of what your doing in your business is aimed at trying to get OUT of the business eventually because it's NOT what you want to be doing.
Do you both see how subtle and how destructive this can be for you and the long-term survival of your business?
You thinking in a framework of going from a job you don't want and want freedom from to a business you don't necessarily want and want freedom from is not solving the problem.
You're always trying to escape your current situation.
That's not where success lives. It lives in the place where you love what you do and don't count down the days until you can quit. It lives in the place where you're your moving towards the thing you do, not constantly trying to escape it.
This took me a while to see in myself and maybe it's a thought enough for pause in you.
Do you see yourself in your business 10 years from now, loving every minute of it because it doesn't hold you back it breaths life into your days instead of taking your breath away?
I do.
Why? My business takes very little active time, I can go away for a while and relax, the money keeps flowing regardless and every action I take in my business is doing something I love to do and brings results without limits (except my own of course).
Pull yourself away from doing drudging work and put yourself into a situation where you love sitting right in the thick of it and that my friend is where you will find your greatest success, not only in business, but in life.
You already know that. This message is about something much more subtle and it's probably at work negatively effecting your business right now and you don't even know it.
It's this . . .
Most network marketers tend to take the j.o.b. mentality to their business and it kills everything dead.
You have a split second of thinking like an entrepreneur, just long enough to join, and then you slip back into the job comfort zone. You look for someone to GIVE you a task to do that they say will grow your business.
Dangerous at the least, but more than that it's lazy.
In the job you get paid for hours worked and so you tend to log the amount of time you put into your business correlating it to the amount you should be earning which is wrong.
This is a lazy and a weak path of thinking when it comes to your business because it's not about hours logged it's about how effectively you use the time you do work.
Why should you work 10 hours when 1 get's the job done?
To be busy for the sake of being busy is an old hold over habit from the job. You can quickly fool yourself into thinking you're getting somewhere in your business by looking at the hours logged, when really you're doing nothing but busy work for the sake of doing busy work.
Not lazy in the sense of action, but lazy in the mind is what I'm talking about here. To do things just to do them because they make you FEEL like you're getting somewhere is not going to get you anywhere.
I promise. I tried.
Businesses don't work like this, but before I labour that point I want to tell you a misconception I had about network marketing that I've never seen anyone speak to or about.
A change in perspective that is priceless if understood.
Most get into network marketing for the dream of money and time freedom. They hold, and I held this belief as well, that at some point they can just quit and retire.
That's why they got into the business anyways right?
Wrong!
Again another hold over mental habit from the job . . .
Retiring is a work related concept that is built on the idea that you're spend most of your time doing something you don't want to be doing and if you just save up enough you'll be able to free yourself from that boring and uninteresting existence.
Well, if you carry this idea over to your network marketing business, and I did for a while, you start to think about your network marketing business like a job in the deepest sense.
Sure there are tasks to be done, but it ain't a job for sure.
What's wrong with carrying this into your network marketing business is that in holding this notion the very essence of what your doing in your business is aimed at trying to get OUT of the business eventually because it's NOT what you want to be doing.
Do you both see how subtle and how destructive this can be for you and the long-term survival of your business?
You thinking in a framework of going from a job you don't want and want freedom from to a business you don't necessarily want and want freedom from is not solving the problem.
You're always trying to escape your current situation.
That's not where success lives. It lives in the place where you love what you do and don't count down the days until you can quit. It lives in the place where you're your moving towards the thing you do, not constantly trying to escape it.
This took me a while to see in myself and maybe it's a thought enough for pause in you.
Do you see yourself in your business 10 years from now, loving every minute of it because it doesn't hold you back it breaths life into your days instead of taking your breath away?
I do.
Why? My business takes very little active time, I can go away for a while and relax, the money keeps flowing regardless and every action I take in my business is doing something I love to do and brings results without limits (except my own of course).
Pull yourself away from doing drudging work and put yourself into a situation where you love sitting right in the thick of it and that my friend is where you will find your greatest success, not only in business, but in life.
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