Dealing with Internet Network Marketing Overwhelm

Pursuing Internet Network Marketing? Feeling overwhelmed?

If you are not overwhelmed and you are successfully achieving your business and income goals, just skip over this article and start writing an article of your own for the rest of us.

I just read an article by Mark Wieser. In his BetterNetworker article, Only YOU Can Stop YOU, Mark talks about controlling your thoughts (especially negative, self defeating thoughts) and taking action, talking to people about your business every day.

I have just spent about 5 months in a giant detour away from my focus on taking action. I have been a student of overwhelm. Learn from my lessons--and deal with your own sense of overwhelm.

My Recipe for Overwhelm

1. Boot up, click on the Explorer or Firefox icon. Go to Bookmarks and click on the one that's "calling" to you: your network marketing member site, your autoresponder/contact database, your affiliate back office, your training site(s).

2. Look at lists and lists of information, data, multi-media opportunities to learn something new, contact prospects, interact with huge numbers of people, market your business with information posted at a huge variety of sites.

3. If you are like me, feel both excited AND overwhelmed. Get up stretch, get another cup of coffee, let the cat in, pick up the mail and put it down again, get caught by the TV financial news that my significant other is watching on his lunch break.

4. Optional: Plunge into activity and read and answer email, check Facebook messages, click on a link (or two or three), answer the telephone, write a message on a slip of paper, and eventually, completely lose control of your day.

5. Also optional: Start second draft of an article to post at EzineArticles.com (actually on my calendar, top priority). Deal with an article they've rejected and re-submit. Leave the new article up on the computer and get ready to leave the house. Race off to deliver product to and have breakfast with a prospective business partner, help a team member rescue her computer from a virus and get her reconnected to the Internet, stop in at the post office to mail out a letter and literature to another prospect (who has just moved and isn't connected to the Internet yet). Get home and sit down to finish article interrupted by another prospect dropping in to talk about advertising.

6. Quick! Add anti-dote to Overwhelm ingredients!

Antidote to Overwhelm
(Must be concocted day (or days) before whipping up recipe for Overwhelm.)

1. Sit down to do a marketing plan for each of your products/services with clarity about the target market for each. No more than one page!

2. At the bottom of each page (may be shorter than a page, but no longer), write a list of no more than three "next actionable items".

3. Take next actionable items to your computer or paper calendar, decide when to accomplish them and schedule time for it. It's a project if it has more than one step so you'll have to schedule time for more than one chunk of it.

4. Add at least 3 QUICK ways to deal with the physical tension/nervous energy of Overwhelm and Distraction, one of which you need to be comfortable doing in public or in a meeting.

5. Add at least 5 ways you reward yourself or relax at end of accomplishing steps and goals.

Major Network Marketing Overwhelm Caution

Failing to Keep Things Simple will result in need for increased antidote to overwhelm by you and your team.