How Will Your Life Be Measured?

What is success?  How do you achieve it?

Well, it all depends on who you talk to.  What’s your idea of success?

You might be successful in your relationships, marriage, faith, athletics, spirituality, losing weight… there are many areas of life to strive to reach a goal that, to you, equals success.

In the MLM business world, success may be measured in numbers of customers and down line reps you have.  It may be a certain monthly volume of sales, a certain monthly commission income.  You might even base your perception of success on how successful the reps in your down line are with your assistance and coaching.

I recently re-read Napoleon Hill’s best  seller “Think And Grow Rich”, a compilation of the attributes of more than 500 of the early 20th century’s richest and most successful industry magnates.  From more than 25 years of research,  Hill puts together one of the earliest books on self help.

Hill talks often of “the secret” given to him by Andrew Carnegie, and sets out to discover the steps that make a person capable of attaining financial success.

His subjects, although financial tycoons of his era, were not just successful in respect to industry.  He chose industry leaders, politicians, and people who had overcome significant hardship or disadvantage to achieve success – financial, spiritual, emotional, or other.  All intimately knew “the secret”.

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Have you asked yourself  “what am I working toward with my MLM”?

What are your dreams worth?

Are your goals written down and frequently examined?  Are you following a plan to reach those goals?  Are you inspired every day to keep moving toward your dreams?

I recently returned to Napoleon Hill’s “Think And Grow Rich”, and again found myself staring at his works with awe and feeling the re-stoking of the flames of desire within me that make me get up each day to face new challenges.  I hadn’t lost the fire… simply I found that his book added more volatile timbers to the blaze…

As I re-read this great work – one of the first of it’s kind on self help and motivation -  I recounted what life has provided me in the form of challenges and took stock again of what are my reasons for being.

In the realm of MLM, this is often regarded as the”Why”.  Why are you doing network marketing?  What are your reasons?  Family?  Financial freedom?  Fire your boss and work for yourself?  Simply add income to your month?

Most “Why” answers are valid (most are  moral, legal and honest).  Everyone who pursues the life of an entrepreneur has a very strong “Why”.

The question then becomes… how do you value your time and effort?  Are doing what is necessary to get to your “Why”?

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